Dr. Ed McLuskie
 Dr. Ed McLuskie Professor
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Contact InformationOffice: C130Phone: 426-1927Office Hours: By appointment with 24-hour notice Email: emclusk@boisestate.edu Website & Syllabi: Click Here Courses – Spring 2012 COMM 475, 001 – Adv Studies COMM Theory/Phil NOTE: See Dr. McLuskie’s WebSite above for Course Descriptions
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Teaching Specialties
Critical Theory, Social Philosophy of Communication, Communication Theory, Mass Culture & Cultural Studies, Metascience & Communication Research.
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Biography:
Professor McLuskie is an internationally recognized philosopher of communication and critical theorist, teaching also at universities in the United States, Europe, and Eurasia. In 2012 (November), he’ll be Guest Professor, Faculty of Social Sciences, at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, for a graduate seminar in critical communication theory. He is also invited as Guest Professor at The University of Augsburg, Germany for the spring semester, 2013, when he will be on sabbatical conducting research. Dr. McLuskie was twice a Fulbright Professor: (1) at the Institut für Publizistik- und Kommunikationswissenschaft, University of Vienna, Austria (1997), and (2) at Tbilisi State University & the Georgia Institute for Public Affairs, Republic of Georgia (2005). At Boise State, he taught the Capstone Seminar from 2009-2011 in Bilingual Education, and teaches advanced undergraduate and graduate theory and philosophy courses for the communication department.
His research and teaching explores alternatives to prevailing perspectives on communication, whose concepts and recommendations are analyzed for their anti-democratic, a-historical and anti-intellectual dimensions and orientations. He emphasizes authentically critical sources for the idea of communication and the conduct of inquiry, sources located among philosophies and theories of society where “the political” is understood as an inevitable dimension of “the social.” Seminars and lecture courses encourage students to cultivate independent, critical, and informed assessments of the pedagogies and concepts to which they are exposed and subjected. Their information diets become subjects of critical reflection wherever “communication,” “the social,” and “the new” are codes for depoliticized practices marking conformity today, often through ideological appeals to a host of seemingly democratic “tools” for “effectiveness,” “success,” “strategies,””networking,” and “practicality.” Dr. McLuskie provides keynote speeches on these topics in Europe and the United States.
Dr. McLuskie is serving a three-year term (2010-2012) as one of three peer reviewers appointed by the national Fulbright Scholar Program, to evaluate communication research and teaching Fulbright applications from the United States. Recent and current work includes: an invited book, Jürgen Habermas: A Critical Introduction to Communication and Media Theory; book chapters in Audiences and the Arts, the International Communication Association (ICA) Communication Yearbook, Handbook of Global Communication and Media Ethics, and the International Encyclopedia of Communication Theory. Journal articles appear in the Journal of Communication, Journal of Communication Inquiry, Journalism Quarterly, Javnost/The Public, and Medien & Zeit. With German colleagues, he co-edited two special issues on “European Communication History” addressing nation-based and transnational approaches to history.
He is on the editorial boards of three European journals. A founding member of the Philosophy of Communication Division in ICA, and of the Journal of Communication Inquiry, he frequently writes and reviews manuscripts for conferences of the European Institute for Culture and Communication, the European Communication Research and Education Association, and the International Communication Association.
Many of his students earned acceptance into and have graduated from prestigious Ph.D. programs in Europe and in the United States in a variety of fields (philosophy, German studies, Italian studies, international service, and communication/media studies).