Faculty
Angela Ards
Angela Ards is Director of Journalism and Associate Professor of English. She is the author of Words of Witness: Black Women’s Post-Brown Autobiography and a former editor and writer at The Village Voice and Ms. Her work has also appeared in Time, Essence, The Nation, and The Los Angeles Times Book Review, among others.
Joe Bergantino
Joe Bergantino is an award-winning investigative reporter and co-founder and executive director emeritus of the New England Center for Investigative Reporting. He led the I-Team at WBZ-TV (CBS/Boston) for 22 years and was also an ABC News correspondent covering national politics. He’s trained journalists all over the world, including in Russia, China, Vietnam, and Ukraine.
Christopher Boucher
Christopher Boucher is author of the widely praised novels Golden Delicious and How to Keep Your Volkswagen Alive. He is also editor of the literary journal Post Road and a member of the Journalism Steering Committee.
Christopher Burns
Chris Burns has worked as a photojournalist and executed corporate projects for ESPN, the Nature Conservancy, Harvard University, MIT, and many other clients. He operates a small creative agency in Boston where he focuses on commercial photography and livestream production and operation. He earned an MFA from Louisiana State University, where he produced work at the intersection of photojournalism and studio photography.
Christine Caswell
Christine Caswell is a Telly and AP award-winning broadcast journalist. Twice nominated for Emmys, she has anchored and reported for WHDH-TV, FOX25 Boston, New England Cable News, WMUR, WMTW, and WVII. She is a Lecturer, Advisor, and Director of Internships in the Communication Department. Her area of expertise is in telling difficult stories, having covered high-profile cases such as the O.J. Simpson trial, British Nanny trial, and Jeffrey Curley case.
Kevin Convey
Kevin Convey is a former editor in chief of The New York Daily News and The Boston Herald. He has taught at the City College of New York, New York University, and Quinnipiac University. His areas of expertise include newswriting and reporting, editing, mobile journalism, new journalism technology, entrepreneurial journalism, and leadership, management, and organization in the digital newsroom.
Jimmy Golen
Jimmy Golen is a sports writer for The Associated Press covering the area’s professional sports teams along with Boston College football and basketball. He was the AP’s beat writer when the Red Sox ended their 86-year World Series drought in 2004 (and again when they won the next three times). He has covered 11 Olympics and more than 25 Boston Marathons, including the 2013 race that was interrupted by a terrorist attack. He was a 1999 Knight Journalism Fellow at Yale Law School and a contributor to The Oxford Handbook of American Sports Law.
Scott Helman
Scott Helman is a distinguished senior lecturer and associate director of the Journalism program. He spent more than 23 years at The Boston Globe as an executive producer, creative leader, podcast show-runner, editor, staff writer, and live storytelling director. A two-time finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Local Reporting, he has executive produced award-winning podcasts and documentary shorts. He is co-author of the books The Real Romney and Long Mile Home: Boston Under Attack, the City's Courageous Recovery, and the Epic Hunt for Justice.
Courtney Humphries
Courtney Humphries is Visiting Assistant Professor in Environmental Studies, an award-winning journalist and science writer, and a former Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT. She's written about urban planning, environmental science, biology, neuroscience, health, and architecture for multiple publications, including The Boston Globe, Nature, Science, Technology Review, Harvard Magazine, Nautilus, and The Atlantic.
Maura Johnston
Maura Johnston is a music critic and editor who’s been published in The Boston Globe, Pitchfork, Time, and Rolling Stone, among others. A former music editor of The Village Voice, she has DJed at Fenway Park and on Boston College’s radio station, WZBC.
Jonathan Laurence
Jonathan Laurence is Professor of Political Science and Director of the Clough Center for the Study of Constitutional Democracy. He is author of the book Coping with Defeat: Sunni Islam, Roman Catholicism, and the Modern State. A lifetime member of the Council on Foreign Relations, his work has been featured on CNN and in The Washington Post, The New York Times, Le Monde, and The Wall Street Journal, among other publications. He's also a member of the Journalism Steering Committee.
Jon Marcus
Jon Marcus is a writer, author, editor, and podcaster whose work appears in The New York Times, The Washington Post, USA Today, The Boston Globe, and other media. He’s the former editor of Boston magazine, senior higher education reporter for the nonprofit newsroom The Hechinger Report, and cohost of the NPR podcast “College Uncovered.”
Jon Meterparel
A veteran Boston radio and TV sports personality, Jon Meterparel is the play-by-play voice of Boston College football and basketball on the BC IMG Sports Network. He is also the voice of arena football for CBS Sports Network and a podcast host for the Boston Podcast Network.
Janelle Nanos
Janelle Nanos is the journalism fellow at the Institute for the Liberal Arts and an award-winning business reporter at The Boston Globe, where she also serves as the assistant business editor for news innovation. She was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Feature Writing for her decade-long investigation into a woman's allegations of childhood sexual abuse, and is now working on a book, to be published by Crown, based on that reporting. She has also worked at Boston Magazine, National Geographic Traveler, and New York Magazine.
John O'Connor
John O’Connor is the author of The Secret History of Bigfoot: Field Notes on a North American Monster, which explores the obsessive world of Bigfoot believers. His essays and articles have also appeared in The New York Times, Oxford American, GQ, Financial Times Magazine, and The Boston Globe, as well as the literary journals Post Road, Open City, The Believer, Quarterly West, and Creative Nonfiction’s True Story series. For two years he was a foreign correspondent for Japan’s largest daily newspaper, The Yomiuri Shimbun.
Heather Cox Richardson
Heather Cox Richardson is Professor of History and author of the popular Substack newsletter “Letters from an American.” A specialist in the politics and economics of 19th-century America, her books include Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America; To Make Men Free: A History of the Republican Party; and West from Appomattox: The Reconstruction of America After the Civil War. She is also a member of the Journalism Steering Committee.
Carlo Rotella
Carlo Rotella is Professor of English and American Studies. His books include The World Is Always Coming to an End: Pulling Together and Apart in a Chicago Neighborhood and Playing in Time: Essays, Profiles, and Other True Stories. He is a regular contributor to The New York Times Magazine, a former columnist for The Boston Globe, and a member of the Journalism Steering Committee.
Michael Serazio
Michael Serazio is Professor of Communication and author of the books The Authenticity Industries: Keeping it 'Real' in Media, Culture, and Politics; The Power of Sports: Media and Spectacle in American Culture; and Your Ad Here: The Cool Sell of Guerrilla Marketing. He is also a member of the Journalism Steering Committee.