Ramona R. Rush
attended Little River (KS.) Schools, Hutchinson (KS.) Community College, the
University of Kansas, and the University of Wisconsin, majoring in pre-journalism,
journalism, radio-tv-film, and mass and international communications, respectively.
At the University of Wisconsin where Rush earned her Ph.D., she emphasized international
communications and received a minor in Ibero-American Area Studies. She spent
1968-69 in Peru doing dissertation research on cognitive modernity and communication.
She has served as an administrator, teacher, and researcher in mass and international
communications at Kansas State University, The University of Florida, Tulsa
University, and The University of Kentucky, where she was the College of Communication's
first dean in 1977. Her teaching and research interests include international/intercultural
communications, mass communication and society, environmental and ecological
communications, communication and "others" (women, minorities, lesbigaytrans-sexual,
older), peace communications, and media literacy/education. Rush is currently
a faculty affiliate with UK's Women's Studies Program, Latin American Studies
Program, Social Theory group, and maintains an active faculty role in the graduate
program of the Patterson School of Diplomacy and International Commerce. She
is co-editor of and chapter author within Women Transforming Communications
(Sage 1996) and Communications at the Crossroads (Ablex 1989), and has
published in several journals in the field of communications. She is currently
working on a book that will survey the literature for the progress of women
in communications, 1969-99, and updating an initial study in the field she and
others did about three decades ago; the research is supported by three separate
grants from the Freedom Forum and the Knight Foundation. Rush has worked in
professional communications as a promotional copywriter at KMBC-TV in Kansas
City; in political communications in Kansas and Washington, D.C. as a press
secretary to a U.S. Senator; and in academic and professional mental health
mass communications.
Rush's web sites include:
www.uky.edu/Libraries/gmp.html
www.uky.edu/Libraries/vamptoc.html
www.uky.edu/~rrrush/welcome.html
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