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Communication and Media Studies Home
Dan Chaimowitz
Naomi Chiba
Maureen Ebben
Fred Field
Paul Greene
Nat Ives
Kate Kaminski
Julie Rabinowitz
Rob Rosenthal
Kathy Slack
Julie Zink
Dan Chaimowitz
Dan Chaimowitz teaches Screenwriting I and II.
email: d_chaimowitz@hotmail.com
Naomi Chiba
Naomi Chiba teaches Japanese Film and Society and Japanese Popular Culture. Naomi works as a translator and recently completed Arthur A. Berger’s book, “Durkheim is Dead!” She graduated with a B.A. from Hosei University, Tokyo, Japan, and a M.A. in Sociology from City College of New York. She studied social policies in Japan and Japanese film in New York. Her research interests are ideological discourses on social policies and politics. She has written on the social construction of public opinion toward the reconstruction of Japanese militarism. She has researched newspaper articles on the Japanese hostage crisis in Iraq and analyzed them in order to show the mechanism of media coverage and political intentions toward militarism. She has also researched the relationship between war ideologies and the social policy of war, a homepage of a former Japanese military shrine in order to explain it.
email: naomi.chiba@maine.edu
Maureen Ebben
Maureen earned her Bachelor’s degree from Carroll College, Wisconsin in Communication, a Master’s degree in Communication from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and a Master’s degree in Sociology from Goldsmiths’ College, University of London, England. Her doctorate is from the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana. In addition, she holds certification from the International/Intercultural Centre for the Built Environment, Santa Fe, New Mexico and the Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory at the University of Illinois. Her doctoral dissertation, which focused on women and information technology, won the Outstanding Dissertation Award from the Organization for the Study of Communication, Language, and Gender.
Before joining the Communication department at USM, Maureen was an Associate Professor in the department of Communication at St. Mary’s University in San Antonio, Texas where she received the Distinguished Faculty award for excellence in teaching, scholarship and service in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences.
In addition, Maureen was the recipient of the National Communication Association Top Paper Award in the Women’s Studies Division. Her work on gender and technology resulted in the volume Women, Information Technology, and Scholarship, co-edited with Cheris Kramarae, and published by the Center for Advanced Study at the University of Illinois.
Her teaching and research interests include communication and health, cultural studies, technology, media, theory, methods, criticism, gender, film, family communication, popular culture, organizational and interpersonal communication.
Maureen’s hobbies include music, art, travel, and cooking for friends and family. She lives in Gorham with her husband, Jeff, their two children, and numerous pets.
email: maureenebben@mac.com
Fred Field
Fred Field teaches photojournalism for the Communication and Media Studies department at USM.
He has close to 30 years of experience as a newspaper, magazine, and commercial photographer. In that time he has had more than 15,000 assignments.
He currently works as a freelance photographer for several major US newspapers including The Boston Globe and The New York Times, as well as for colleges and universities in the US. He is also involved in shooting portraits of professors at Bentley University that appear in an ongoing national ad campaign in TIME Magazine. National Geographic has selected one of his images of Acadia National Park for their 2010 engagement calendar. Field is the author of Maine Places, Maine Faces. The coffee table book is a photojournalistic tribute to Maine and her people. The book has ranked as high as 6th place for hardcover non-fiction as reported by Border's Books in their weekly statistics printed in the Maine Sunday Telegram newspaper. Field is the recipient of Harvard Magazine's 2008 Photography Award. Field has been selected to photograph a series of Harvard professors through 2011 for a Harvard University website; this is
a fun project where the mission is to generate distinctive visually compelling portraits of professors associated with their unique work environments.
He graduated from Lexington High School in Lexington, Mass., and is a 1980 graduate of the SI Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University with a bachelor of science degree in Television and Radio. He is a member of the American Society of Media Photographers, National Press Photographers Association and Boston Press Photographers Association.
Please visit his website at: fredfield.com.
email: fred@fredfield.com
Paul Greene
Paul is three time Maine State Sportscaster of the Year. He was the Sports Director for Fox 51 News At
Ten in Portland from 1996 - 2002. Highlights of his
time there include covering the All-Star Game at
Fenway Park in 1999 and the Patriots march to their
first ever Super Bowl victory in 2002.
Paul has since worked as freelance sports anchor and
reporter for College Sports Television, a network
based in New York City.
Paul has taught for Media Studies since
2003 and is energized by the enthusiasm of USM
students each time he walks into the classroom.
Paul attended Brandeis University as an undergraduate
earning a BA, cum laude in 1993. He subsequently
earned a Master's Degree in History of American
Civilization from Brandeis and a Master's Degree in
Television/Radio/Film from Syracuse University's
esteemed SI Newhouse School of Public Communications. Paul earned his JD cum laude from the University Of Maine School Of Law where he served as Managing Editor of the Maine Law Review. Paul currently works as an attorney in the Portland office of Verrill Dana, LLP.
Paul teaches Broadcast Newswriting and Radio Newswriting.
email: paul.greene@maine.edu
Nat Ives
Nat Ives is the lab instructor for MES production courses. In addition, he manages the Media Studies production facility at 68 High Street. Nat has been working in the video production field since 1990, producing, directing and editing programs for the University and local non-profit agencies. Nat is a graduate of the University of Maine at Augusta, with an Associate’s Degree in Music, and a graduate of USM, with a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration.
email: ives@maine.edu, phone: 207-780-5944
Kate Kaminski
Kate Kaminski is a writer-filmmaker whose work has been screened at film festivals all over the world. Kate received her B.A. from University of Texas at Austin and her M.S. in Film Production from Boston University. She teaches Producing the Documentary, Film Genres, and Advanced Field Production.
email: gitgo_productions@yahoo.com
Julie Rabinowitz
A native of Wakefield, Massachusetts, Julie has extensive experience as an educator, writer, and non-profit program manager focused on community engagement with the humanities. She is currently a freelance editor and consultant for humanities projects. She has extensive experience in non-profit management including youth services, archives and museums, universities, and professional associations. Julie has coached nationally ranked intercollegiate debate teams in both New York and North Carolina. She holds undergraduate degrees in History and Communication Arts from Marist College in Poughkeepsie, New York, and a Master’s degree in Communication Studies from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Her research interests focus on public policy argument and presidential rhetoric. Julie Rabinowitz teaches Mass Media and Human Interaction and Introduction to Communication.
email: jdrabinowitz@yahoo.com
Rob Rosenthal
Rob teaches documentary radio at the Salt Institute for
Documentary Studies. He is an independent radio producer. He managed campus-based, community radio stations for 14 years. Rob's Masters Degree in Communication was earned at the University of Hartford. Rob teaches Audio Production I and II.
Kathy Slack
Born in NYC, raised in Baltimore, MD, Ms. Slack began her academic and performance career at Ithaca College where she received a BA in Theater and Speech Communication. 2 years later she moved to NYC to study voice and acting, and performed Off-Off Broadway, in TV and film, ending her 7 year stay with membership in the actors' union, Actors' Equity.
In 1983, she began her Graduate School track at New York University in Speech Communication. Upon receipt of a graduate teaching assistantship from UMO, Ms. Slack transferred to U. of Maine. Her MA in Communication Studies culminated in being awarded the Outstanding Achievement Award in Arts and Communication, and she continued teaching for the Communication Dept. at UMO for two years. From 1989 until the present, Ms. Slack has taught a wide variety of Communication courses for the University of Maine system (USM & UMA) throughout the state from the Rumford Center - where she received the Faculty of the Year award in the 80's - Bangor, Bath/Brunswick & Saco Centers to the Portland and Gorham campuses. Ms. Slack has also held workshops in Media Literacy, Gender Issues in Communication, Family Communication, Interpersonal Communication, and Public Speaking.
She also continues her love of voice and performance as a teacher of voice at her home studio and with the Yarmouth music school, 317 Main St. Community Music Center. She keeps the "chops" in shape by singing with the acclaimed vocal improvisational group, Improvox (www.Improvox.com).
Kathy teaches Intro to Communication, Intro to Media Studies, and Interpersonal Communication.
email: kwitslack@maine.edu
Julie Zink
Julie has been a faculty member in the Communication Department at USM since 2001. She graduated from the
In 1999, she completed her Doctorate Degree in Instructional Design and Development at the
From 1988 to 2001, Julie taught at the
Julie teaches many courses including Introduction to Communication, Interpersonal Communication Skills, Small Group Communication and Intercultural Communication.
email: jgzink@aol.com, phone: 207-228-8433