Kerric Harvey
Associate Professor of Media and Public Affairs

ON LEAVE 2004-2005 ACADEMIC YEAR

Phone: (202) 994-4962
Fax: (202) 994-5806
E-mail: kharvey@gwu.edu
Office: MPA 422

Expertise

Cultural Studies, especially as relate to past, present, and future media technologies (including robotics, artificial intelligence, and virtual reality); Religion, Science, and Media; Risk Assessment and Communication Strategies; the Internet and other New Media as Cultural Systems; Best and Worst Uses of E-Mail; Privacy and Security Issues in New Technologies; Anthropology and the Arts. Special interest in Celtic and Native American Cultures, and Communications Social History of the 11-18th Centuries.

Courses Taught

EMDA 100, American Electronic Media
EMDA 141, Scriptwriting
EMDA 182, Innovation in Electronic Media
EMDA 187, Cultural Theory of Mass Media
EMDA 190, Special Topics: Advanced Scriptwriting
EMDA 190, Special Topics: Advanced Radio Production
SMPA 50, Introduction to Media and Public Affairs
SMPA 51, Research Methods
SMPA 199, Senior Seminar
SMPA 250, Technology, Communication, and Culture
Documentary Center, Visual Literacy

Selected Works

Stolen Thunder: The Cultural Roots of Political Communication, Peter Lang: New York and Berlin, 1994.

Eden Online: Re-Inventing Humanity in a Technological Universe, Hampton Press, Cresskill, NJ, 2000.

The Electronic Grapevine: Rumor, Reputation, and Reporting in the New Online Environment, (with Diane Borden), Erlbaum, Mahwah, NJ 1998.

Telecommunications and Space Journal: Special Issue on Universal Service, (with Lucian Rapp), SERDI Press, Paris, France, 1999.

"Reading Aer Lingus: A Loving Satire of the Irish and their Americans," The Theatre Outlet, April 2002.

Background

Prior to joining the GW faculty in 1990, Kerric Harvey worked for 10 years in local, community, and national public television, as well as in print journalism for an American Indian newspaper. Academic achievements include her selection as the 1998 keynote speaker for the Smithsonian Institution's "Women's History Month" and her appointment under the Clinton White House as one of thirty-three faculty from a nationwide pool, chosen to work with the National Science Foundation to develop an anthropological research agenda for 21st century new media.

She has served on the National Advisory Board for the Smithsonian Institution's Curriculum Initiative and has been an active participant in the D.C.-based Telecommunications Roundtable. Deeply interested in international affairs, Harvey has been a Visiting Professor at the University of Toulouse, France, a Research Fellow at the Smithsonian's Video History Program and at the University of Hawaii's East-West Center, and a Visiting Researcher at the University of St. Andrews, in Scotland. She belongs to the Irish Anthropological Association, the American Anthropological Association, the U.S. Naval Research Institute, and the Royal Anthropological Institute in London. She is also an associate member of the Dramatists Guild of America.

Harvey has also written a number of documentary and entertainment films and eleven stage plays. "Driving in Ireland," aired September 2001 on RTE1, Ireland's premiere public radio station. Her Sept. 11-themed one-act, Palace of Weariness, world-premeiered to excellent reception at the 2002 Edinburgh Fringe Festival, while "Reading Aer Lingus" debuted in April 2002 at The Theatre Outlet in Allebtown, Pennsylvania.

Education

Ph.D., Communications, University of Washington, 1990

M.P.S., Communications, Cornell University, 1983

B.A., English: Film and Communication, First Class Honours, McGill University, 1979