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Victor Pickard received his doctorate from the Institute of Communications Research at the University of Illinois. For the past year he has worked on media policy in Washington, D.C. as a Research Fellow at the New America Foundation, a public policy think tank. Currently he is a Senior Research Fellow at the media reform organization Free Press, and also teaches a course on the history and future of U.S. media policy at the University of Virginia. His research and teaching explore the intersections of U.S. and global media activism and politics, media history, democratic theory, and communications policy. His work has been published in a number of scholarly journals, including the Journal of Communication; Global Media and Communication; Media, Culture & Society; New Media and Society; Journal of Communication Inquiry; International Journal of Communication Law and Policy; and Critical Studies in Media Communication. In September of 2009, Dr. Pickard will join the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication in the Steinhardt School at New York University.

On this site you can learn more about his research and writings, teaching philosophy and background.

Contact:
Victor Pickard
vpickard [at] uiuc.edu