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Dr. John J. Pauly, who joined Marquette in July 2006, is responsible for the academic and administrative leadership of the Diederich College of Communication, which will benefit in the coming years from a gift of $28 million from alumni J. William and Mary Diederich. The gift will assist in positioning the college as a national leader in scholarly research, creative work, outreach and teaching as it prepares students for communication in the 21st century.
Pauly specializes in the history and sociology of the mass media, the theory and practice of literary journalism, and cultural approaches to communication research.
He was an assistant professor of English at East Carolina University in Greenville in 1978-79 before joining Fordham University in New York as an assistant professor of communication.
He came to the University of Wisconsin — Milwaukee as an assistant professor of mass communication in 1981 and was promoted to associate professor in 1985 before joining the University of Tulsa in Oklahoma for a year as a visiting associate professor of communication.
Pauly joined Tulsa permanently in 1987 before his appointment at St. Louis University in 1993 as professor of communication. He also served as department chair until 2002 and had a secondary appointment as professor of American Studies for five years.
Pauly received a bachelor of science in journalism with honors in 1972 and a master of science in journalism in 1974, both from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He earned his Ph.D. in communication in 1979 from the same institution.
Pauly has made numerous presentations in his fields of interest, published extensively, and served with both academic and professional organizations. He is a member of the editorial board of Journalism Theory, Practice and Criticism and was formerly a board member of Critical Studies in Mass Communication and Journalism Monographs.
He also was a director of the American Journalism Historians Association and editor of its quarterly journal. Pauly also held several capacities with the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication.
In addition to his teaching and scholarship, Pauly has served as a writing skills consultant to private businesses, was a technical writer and editor for the Construction Engineering Research Laboratory of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in Champaign, served as a press secretary for a primary mayoral candidate in Urbana, and was a drama reviewer for the The Courier in Urbana.