H.
Leslie Steeves is associate professor and director of Graduate Studies and Research
at the University of Oregon, where she has taught since 1987. Prior to her appointment
at Oregon she taught for several years at the University of Iowa. Her research
focuses on two areas and their intersection: women's roles and representations
in media, and communication in developing countries, especially sub-Saharan
Africa. She has published a number of articles in both of these areas, as well
as a book: Gender Violence and the Press: The St. Kizito Story (Athens,
Ohio: Ohio University Monographs in International Studies, 1997). She also is
co-author (with Srinivas Melkote) of Communication for Development in the
Third World: Theory and Practice for Empowerment, 2nd Edition (New Delhi:
Sage, 2001). She has had two Fulbright grants for teaching and research in Africa.
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