Faculty & Staff

Faculty

Adjunct and Temporary Faculty

Staff

Faculty

Sissel McCarthy
International journalist Sissel McCarthy has spent more than a decade reporting business news from New York, London, and Atlanta. She worked for CNN International and anchored the World Business Today, World Business This Week and Business Morning programs from London. Before joining CNN International, McCarthy worked for CNBC in London for two years as a correspondent and anchor. She began her career in journalism at CNN's Moneyline in New York and most recently worked for PBS and GPTV. McCarthy holds Masters' degrees in Journalism and International Affairs from Columbia University and a bachelor's degree in Government and Romance Languages from Dartmouth College.

Office: Callaway S106E

Telephone: 404-712-8457
Email: swmccar@emory.edu

Sheila Tefft
Journalism Program Director Sheila L. Tefft was a reporter, editor and foreign correspondent for almost 25 years. Prior to joining Emory, she taught journalism and writing courses at Louisiana State University. She spent 12 years in Asia where she was a correspondent and bureau chief for The Christian Science Monitor in Beijing, Bangkok and New Delhi. She attended Marquette University and holds a bachelor's degree in journalism from the University of Wisconsin. She received a M.Sc. degree in economic history from the London School of Economics and Political Science in 1977. She has also worked for The Chicago Tribune and The Atlanta Constitution and freelanced for many other publications.

Office: Callaway S106D
Telephone: 404-727-6133
Email: stefft@emory.edu

Isabel Wilkerson
Isabel Wilkerson, a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for The New York Times and author of an upcoming book about the Great Migration of African-Americans from the American South to northern cities in the first half of the 20th century, is the James M. Cox, Jr. Professor of Journalism at Emory. Her work has been featured in many anthologies of the country's finest writers. She won the 1994 Pulitzer Prize for feature writing and is the recipient of many other awards. A graduate of Howard University, she has lectured widely on journalism storytelling. She taught at Princeton University in 1997. Her book, North by South, a work on narrative nonfiction that follows the lives of three African-American families who moved from the Jim Crow South to the North during the Great Migration, will be published in 2007.

Office: Rich 214A
Telephone: 404-727-8177
Email: iwilker@emory.edu

Dr. Kris Wilson
Kris Wilson joined the Journalism Program as a senior lecturer in 2005. He spent a decade working in television as a news director, executive producer, anchor, reporter, and weather anchor. He holds a doctorate in geography from the University of Colorado at Boulder and a master's degree from Ohio State University, where he was a Kiplinger Fellow and specialized in environmental journalism. Before Emory, he taught at the University of Texas at Austin, the University of Kansas, the University of Alaska at Fairbanks. His scholarly research analyzes press coverage of climate change, factors that influence global warming reporting, and public (mis)understanding of mediated science. His work has been published in Science Communication, Mass Communication Review, The Journal of Geography, Public Understanding of Science, National Weather Digest and in the book Environmental Risks and the Media.

Office: Rich 213
Telephone: 404-727-9244
Email: kris.wilson@emory.edu