David Domke worked as a journalist in the 1980s and early 1990s, including for the Orange County Register and Atlanta Journal-Constitution, before earning a Ph.D. in Mass Communication from the University of Minnesota in 1996. He is now a Professor and Head of Journalism in the Department of Communication at the University of Washington.

His research and teaching interests focus on U.S. politics, journalism, and public opinion. This research agenda has produced more than 30 articles in leading academic journals and a 2004 book that examines the post-9/11 religious rhetoric of the Bush administration and the U.S. press’s response, God Willing?: Political Fundamentalism in the White House, the “War on Terror,” and the Echoing Press (Pluto Press: London and Ann Arbor, MI).

Domke regularly writes essays for a number of news outlets, both off- and online, and speaks about politics, communication, and religion with audiences around the country. He has been interviewed by a wide range of news organizations, including CNN, BBC, Fox News, NBC and MSNBC, NPR, The London Times, and USA Today.

In 2002 Domke received the University of Washington’s Distinguished Teaching Award, the university’s highest honor for teaching. In 2006, he received the Hillier Krieghbaum Under-40 Award, given by the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, for outstanding early career accomplishments. In 2006 he also was named the Washington state Professor of the Year by the Council for Advancement and Support of Education and the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.

Kevin Coe earned an M.A. in Communication from the University of Washington in 2004, and is now a fourth-year doctoral student in the Department of Speech Communication at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

His research and teaching focus on the interaction of U.S. politics, news media, and public opinion. This research agenda has produced multiple articles in leading academic journals and two award-winning papers at the annual meetings of the National Communication Association. In addition he has written opinion pieces in a wide range of popular news outlets, including the Chicago Tribune and Seattle Times.

During the 2007-2008 academic year Coe is serving as a Nicholson-IPRH Fellow in the Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities, a designation given to only two University of Illinois graduate students.

At Illinois, Coe teaches courses on American politics and mass media. For every semester he has been at Illinois, student evaluations of his teaching have earned him a spot on the University’s “Incomplete List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent.”

In 2007 Coe was selected to participate in the National Communication Association’s Doctoral Honors Seminar, and also received the Ruth S. and Charles H. Bowman Award recognizing the Department of Speech Communication’s most outstanding graduate student.

In fall he will join the faculty in the Department of Communication at the University of Arizona.