Jessica is assistant professor of photography and has over 10 years of experience in photography, videography, graphic design, and teaching. She earned her Master of Fine Arts from the School of Visual Arts in New York and her bachelor’s degree from Lehigh University. She and her husband live in Shelby, relocating from Charlotte, N.C., where they lived for six years during his general surgery residency. They have two children: Lillian and Declan. Maloney loves to bake, eat Mexican food, and sing along to Broadway musicals.

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Educational History

• B.A., Winthrop University, 1990 cum laude
• M.A. University of South Carolina, 1994 (Received the competitive Excellence in Student Research Award for Master’s Thesis)
• Ph.D., School of Journalism/Mass Communications, University of SC (2011)

Background

Dr. Luedeman has over 30 years of professional and academic communications experience—including a long-term stint as head of university communications at USC Upstate and the management of her own communications firm, LL Communications. Her research interests include collective memory, ethics in public relations and propaganda, grounded theory, the Kennedys, the prolific influence of music in various contexts as well as media effects and the changing landscape of news delivery. Courses she has taught and/or developed include:

• Public Relations Writing (Developed)
• Media Writing (Developed)
• The Kennedys’ Use of Media and Public Relations (Developed)
• Public Relations Principles (Developed)
• Public Relations Techniques (Developed)
• Public Relations Portfolio (Developed)
• Communications in Sports (Developed)
• Media Management (Developed)
• Women in the Media (Developed)
• Communications Research Methods (Developed)
• Investigative Reporting and Ethics (Developed)
• Mass Media and Society
• Mass Media Law and Ethics
• Communication Theory
• Speech for Radio and Television
• Survey of Mass Communications
• Organizational Communication
• Sales Strategies
• Fundamentals of Supervision
• Public Speaking
• Introduction to Management
• Introduction to Marketing

Luedeman has won numerous awards for her public relations and writing efforts, is involved in professional and personal community activities, is a graduate of Leadership Spartanburg, a member of AEJMC, and has presented her research at regional and national conferences. She and husband, Eric, have a son, Daniel, and daughter, Marianne.

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Education

• Bachelor’s Degree, ¹ú²úÓ´Ó´, 1984
• Master’s Degree, University of North Carolina Charlotte, 1999

Background

Powell has over 35 years of professional communications experience working in radio, both traditional broadcasting and online. He has work for three different radio station over his broadcasting career. He began teaching at GWU as an adjunct in 1999 primarily teaching in the degree completion program. Powell began teaching in the Communications and New Media department in 2005. He joined the department as a full-time faculty member in 2017 when the campus online radio station was fully integrated into the department. 

Courses taught include:

• Technology and American Society
• Public Speaking
• Media Management
• Audio Production
• Announcing
• History of Recorded Music
• Global Understanding
• America in the Twentieth Century
• Western Civilization

Powell and wife Lydia have three children, Jacob, Sarah and Leah.

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