Professor Stephen D. Reese has been on the journalism faculty of the University of Texas since 1982. His research has focused on a wide range of issues concerning media effects and press performance--and been published in numerous book chapters and articles in, among others, Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, Communication Research, Journal of Communication, Journal of Broadcasting &  Electronic Media, Public Opinion Quarterly, Harvard Journal of Press-Politics, Journalism Studies, and Critical Studies in mass Communication. Prof. Reese has lectured internationally at universities in Mexico, Spain, Germany and Finland, and was the Kurt Baschwitz Professor at the University of Amsterdam in 2004.