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Lea Parker is an Assistant Professor of Communication in the School of Communication at Northern Arizona University where she teaches Environmental Communication and Journalism courses. She was responsible for establishing Environmental Communication courses and programs at NAU. Environmental Communication is currently an emphasis area in the Journalism Program in NAU's School of Communication and in the Environmental Sciences Program in NAU's College of Arts and Sciences.
Affiliations include Parker's role as a Partnership Leader for Second Nature, a non-profit organization dedicated to environmental education in colleges and universities. She is a member of the leadership team for The Ponderosa Project at NAU, an interdisciplinary faculty effort to introduce environmental sustainability issues across the curriculum at NAU, and she is a member of the university's Environmental Activities Coordinating Council.
Lea Parker is the author of the textbook: ENVIRONMENTAL COMMUNICATION: MESSAGES, MEDIA & METHODS, 1995 and 1997 editions, Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co. She is also the author of many scholarly articles and has published in JOURNALISM QUARTERLY. A journalist for more than 15 years, she has authored hundreds of published newspaper articles, magazine articles, and photographs.
Degrees held by Parker include a Master of Arts in College Education with an emphasis in Journalism and Public Relations from Northern Arizona University, and a Bachelor of Arts in Secondary Education with an emphasis in Biology and General Science from Arizona State University. She has nearly 25 years of experience teaching at secondary, community and higher education levels.
Current research interests and projects include: environmental risk communication, media reporting of environmental issues, development of environmental communication curriculum and supporting materials, surveying job market needs for environmental communicators, and environmental sustainability issues.
Lea Parker can be reached at P.O. Box 5619, School of Communication,
Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ 86011. Phone: (520)
523-4661; e-mail: Lea.Parker@nau.edu
Brant Short received the BA in history and MA in speech communication from Idaho State University and the Ph.D. in speech communication from Indiana University. He taught at Trinity University, Southwest Texas State University, and Idaho State University, before joining the faculty at Northern Arizona University in 1995.
His research interests include environmental communication, rhetorical threory and criticism, and American political rhetoric.
He authored RONALD REAGAN AND THE PUBLIC LANDS: AMERICA'S CONSERVATION DEBATE 1979--1984, which was published in 1989 by the Texas A&M University Press. This book examines the wilderness and public lands debate that surrounded Ronald Reagan's first term as president and includes a rhetorical history of the Sagebrush Rebellion. Professor Short has published a number of scholarly essays, including studies of Earth First!'s agitative rhetoric; Edward Abbey's political discourse; and an evaluation of the Yellowstone National Park fire debate, co-authored with Dayle Hardy-Short of Northern Arizona University.
Professor Short is currently working on a book that examines the rhetorical aspects of presidential legacy as well as a study of Sigurd Olson's environmental rhetoric. He is also completing a study of Ronald Reagan's impact on environmental policies for 1997 Texas A&M University conference on Rhetoric and the Presidency.
Brant Short can be reached at P.O. Box 5619, School of Communication,
Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ 86011. Phone: (520)
523-2232; e-mail: Brant.Short@nau.edu
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