Penn State Harrisburg Faculty Details
Education
- Ph.D. Indiana University, 1996
- M.S. Ohio University, 1992
- B.A. University of Alaska Fairbanks, 1988
Experience
Dr. Winch has been a faculty member at Penn State Harrisburg since 2000. Before that he taught at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, and Bowling Green State University in Ohio.
His background is in photojournalism, graphic design and public relations.
Teaching
He teaches courses in photography, graphic design, media law and ethics, converging technologies and media theory.
Research and creative work
Dr. Winch has written two books: Mapping the Cultural Space of Journalism: How journalists distinguish news from entertainment (Praeger, 1996); and Handbook for Visual Journalists (BrotherMedia, 2000). His research has also been published in several scholarly journals, including Journalism Studies, Journal of Mass Media Ethics, Visual Communication Quarterly, and Journal of Computer Mediated Communication. His research interests include media ethics, visual communication, and journalism professionalism. His most recent work focuses on news media portrayals of Osama bin Laden. In addition to his research, Dr. Winch continues to produce award-winning photography. His photographs have been published in many magazines and books, and exhibited in several juried shows.
College News
Art exhibit addresses the Holocaust
A unique and powerful art exhibit addressing the Holocaust by acclaimed Israeli artist Ardyn Halter will be on public display in the Schwab Family Holocaust Reading Room of Penn State Harrisburg’s library November 15 through April 15.
Entitled The Family I Never Knew, the prints and paintings “depict the Shoah (Holocaust) from the point of view of the second generation and also those were born after (it),” Halter explains.
Heard on campus – Franklin and the Junto
Penn State Harrisburg faculty member and Benjamin Franklin scholar George Boudreau terms his recent discovery of a long-lost poem written in 1732 as “one of the greatest finds of my career.”
An associate professor of humanities and history, Boudreau’s research interests focus on Franklin and his philosophical organization called the Junto and the role it played in the cultural transformation of Philadelphia in the 1700s. Boudreau recently related his research findings during a Gallery Lounge presentation hosted by the offices of Academic Affairs and Research and Graduate Studies.
Web site profiles American emigration to Liberia
Building on years of research and two published books, a Penn State Harrisburg faculty member has created a web site dedicated to profiling the historic African American emigration to Liberia.
Associate Professor of Communications and Humanities C. Patrick Burrowes unveiled his interactive web site entitled “Like a Motherless Child: African American Emigrants to Liberia, 1820-1904” as part of a presentation to faculty, staff, and students recently in the Gallery Lounge. Taken from the title of the well-known spiritual, “Like a motherless child expresses the overriding feeling of dispossession and alienation felt by the emigrants,” Burrowes says. Many of them former slaves, “they had no mother and they had no homeland,” he adds.