{"id":3440,"date":"2012-09-01T08:18:17","date_gmt":"2012-09-01T13:18:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www4.esu.edu\/insider\/?p=3440"},"modified":"2020-11-13T11:20:42","modified_gmt":"2020-11-13T16:20:42","slug":"distinguished-professor-rob-mckenzie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/distinguished-professor-rob-mckenzie\/","title":{"rendered":"Distinguished Professor &#8211; Dr. Rob McKenzie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-3443\" title=\"McKenzie\" src=\"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/McKenzie.jpg\" alt=\"Professor Rob McKenzie\" width=\"150\" height=\"199\" \/>East Stroudsburg University bestows its highest faculty honor, the Distinguished Professor Award, upon Dr. Robert (Rob) McKenzie, for excellence in teaching, service and scholarship.<\/p>\n<p>A member of the Department of Communication Studies faculty since 1992, Dr. McKenzie has served as the department\u2019s internship coordinator and has taught more than a dozen theoretical and practical communication courses, most focused in the broadcasting concentration that he launched in 1994.\u00a0 Dr. McKenzie is perhaps best known to the university community and surrounding community for his years of devoted service to WESS (90.3 FM), ESU\u2019s student-operated radio station, and for his commitment to opportunities for students to study abroad. \u00a0Since 1995, Dr. McKenzie has served as director of ESU\u2019s Vintage Radio Project, soliciting grants and donations, supervising archivists, and preserving, digitizing and broadcasting classic radio programs from the 1930s-1950s.<\/p>\n<p>Since his arrival at ESU, Dr. McKenzie has served as the University Advisor to WESS. In 1995, Dr. McKenzie wrote the grant to acquire the BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) World Service for WESS Radio.\u00a0 As host of <em>The Talk Show, <\/em>broadcast for the last twenty years, Dr. McKenzie has interviewed more than 300 guests.\u00a0 As host of WESS\u2019s weekly <em>Stones Hour<\/em>, Dr. McKenzie has offered a model for integrating a professional focus on broadcasting with his personal passion for the <em>Rolling Stones.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Since the Fall of 2011, Dr. McKenzie\u2019s newspaper column, <em>Rounding Some Corners<\/em>, has appeared weekly in <em>The Pocono Record<\/em>. \u00a0In this anchor column, Dr. McKenzie often offers thoughtful commentary on a wide range of current issues.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. McKenzie earned a B.A. in History with a minor in Business Administration from Millersville University, and a Masters and Ph.D. in Speech Communication from Penn State University. \u00a0His professional and scholarly work includes nearly two dozen journal publications and book reviews in both English and Spanish, more than fifty presentations, and essays and chapters in books. \u00a0The book that he authored, <em>Comparing Media from Around the World,<\/em> has been adopted by universities in the US and abroad.\u00a0 He has also held managing-editor positions for three academic journals.\u00a0 He has also served as a consultant to the Autonomous University of Sinaloa in Mazatlan, Mexico, the US Embassy in Mexico City and the US Consulate in Juarez City, Mexico.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>East Stroudsburg University bestows its highest faculty honor, the Distinguished Professor Award, upon Dr. Robert (Rob) McKenzie, for excellence in teaching, service and scholarship. 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