Peter Gross Joins CMDS as Fellow
We are happy to announce that Peter Gross, columnist for Transitions Online, professor emeritus and former Director of the University of Tennessee’s School of Journalism and Electronic Media has joined our Center as a Fellow.
Peter Gross, Ph.D., is professor emeritus and former Director of the University of Tennessee’s School of Journalism and Electronic Media (2006-2016). He now teaches a class in qualitative research methodologies as an adjunct at his alma mater, the School of Journalism and Mass Communication, The University of Iowa.
A columnist for Transitions Online, a Czech-based journal on East and Central European politics, economics, society, culture and media, in 2019 he was named co-editor of the Journal of Romanian Studies.
Gross’s research focus is East and Central Europe society, media and journalism and among his books, textbooks and book collections are, Entangled Evolutions. Media and Democratization in Eastern Europe (2002) and, with Karol Jakubowicz (eds.), Media Transformations in the Post-Communist World: Eastern Europe’s Tortured Path to Change (2013).
His scholarly articles appeared in U.S. and European academic journals (e.g. Georgetown Journal on Foreign Affairs, International Journal of Press/Politics, European Journal of Communication, East European Politics and Society). His journalistic writing was published in general circulation and professional publications on both sides of the Atlantic (e.g. Social Europe-England, Revista 22-Romania, Media Perspektiven-Germany, Los Angeles Times, Columbia Journalism Review).
In 1996, he was a research fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, D.C. He frequently lectured at the U.S. Department of State's National Foreign Affairs Training Center and served as consultant to the International Media Fund, The Freedom Forum, and other governmental and non-governmental organizations.
He serves/ed on the editorial boards of 15 American, British, Hungarian, Romanian and Spanish academic journals, Ratings Review Advisor for the Freedom House's Freedom of the Press Index (USA), and Grant Proposal Reviewer for the American Council of Learned Societies, and the Fulbright Awards Program (Romania).