Christopher Hanson is an assistant professor at the Philip Merrill College of Journalism at the University of Maryland, and was a print journalist for 20 years, working for Time magazine, The Washington Star, Reuters and Hearst newspapers. He focused for much of that time on diplomatic and military affairs and wrote frequently about terrorism. Hanson was a combat correspondent in Iraq in Gulf War I and spent time in and around Rwanda covering the 1994 genocide there. A contributing editor of Columbia Journalism Review since 1981, he has published close to 90 pieces of press criticism for that journal and written also for The Washington Monthly, The New Republic and The Nation. His columns have appeared in The New York Times, The Boston Globe, The Christian Science Monitor and The Baltimore Sun, among other newspapers. He joined the Philip Merrill College of Journalism in 1999. His research interests include journalism ethics, the role of master narratives and stereotypes in shaping news content, and media-military relations. He has a Bachelor degree in history from Reed College, a Master degree in politics and political theory from Oxford, and a doctorate in mass communications from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

		(301) 405-6049
		chanson@jmail.umd.edu

Seminar speeches given by Christopher Hanson:

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