Todd Schack

Education

    * Ph.D., Media Studies, University of Colorado, 2006                
   
    * M.A., Communication Development, Colorado State University, 1996

    * B.A., English, Colorado State University, 1992
 

Research Interests
 

    * Media representations of wars on drugs and terror (in both popular culture and journalism)
    * Narrative Journalism
    * Media representation of deviance; cultural production of moral panics
    * Oppositional, Alternative or Independent media and literatures
    * Media Studies Theory
    * Youth Subcultures
    * Ethnographic documentary film production and theory
    * English and French Decadent Literatures

Curriculum Development/Teaching Interests

    * Cultural Production of the War on Terror
    * Narrative Journalism
    * History of Journalism/Mass Media
    * Media Theory/Critical Social Theory

Selected Recent Publications:

     Perpetual Media Wars: The Cultural Front in the Wars on Drugs and Terror in 9/11, The War on Terror, and American Popular Culture, Eds. Hill, Matthew, Schopp, Andrew, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2009.

     “Who Among Us is Free From Genocide? A Review of Terror’s Advocate” International Journal of Media and Cultural Politics, v4 I3, Fall, 2008.
 

Book in Progress:

The Cultural War on Drugs: The Language of Drug Discourse, 19th Century to the Present

Journal Articles in Progress:

Foundation Journalism: Truly ‘In the Public Interest?’  A Critical Research Perspective of a New Funding Paradigm

21st Century Drug Warriors: Blackwater, DynCorp, and the Billion-Dollar Drug War Marketplace

Postmortem Inquiries: Classical Social Theorists Debate Drug Use

The Ambivalent Gaze into Perverse Mirrors: 19th C. Decadent and 20th C. Rave Cultures

Against Idealist Historiography: Raymond Williams and Michel Foucault on the Possibility of Rescuing our Present from our Past

Conferences:

Schack, T. A. (2009) “21st Century Drug Warriors: Blackwater, DynCorp, and the Billion-Dollar Drug War Marketplace” Conference on Drugs, Culture and Society Conference, University of Illinois, Champagne-Urbana, April, 2009.

Schack, T. A. (2008) “Media Wars In Perpetuity: Lessons Learned in the Wars on Terror and Drugs” International Conference on War, Media and Conflict Resolution, Bowling Green State University, September, 2008.

Schack, T. A. (2007) “Perpetual Media Wars: The Cultural Front in the Wars on Drugs and Terror” Cultural Studies Association, Portland, April 2007.

Schack, T. A. (2006). “Classical Social Theory and Modern Discourses on Drugs" Association of American Geographers, Convention on Cultural Geography of Drug Use, Chicago, March, 2006.

Schack, T. A. (2005). “Perverse Mirrors: Deviance and Drugs in the Media” International Communications Association, New York, May 2005.

Schack, T. A. (2004). “The Ambivalent Gaze of 19th C. Decadent and 20th C. Rave Cultures” Mobile Boundaries/Rigid Worlds: Centre for Research on Social Inclusion, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia, September 2004.

Schack, T. A. (2004). “Where the Decadent and the Raver Meet: The Stranger” International Postgraduate Conference at Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand, August 2004.

Schack, T. A. (2001). “The Political Economy of Ecstasy” International Association for Mass Communication Research, Barcelona, Spain, July 2001.