2003/2004 Award Winners for Distinguished Teaching
William Savage, Jr. and Craig L. LaMay have been selected
to receive the 2003-4 SCS Distinguished Teaching Award. These
distinguished members of the SCS faculty stimulated intellectual
curiosity and growth, motivated students and used effective
and inspiring teaching techniques.
Craig L. LaMay
 Craig
L. LaMay is a journalist and communications researcher. He
is an assistant professor at Northwestern's Medill School
of Journalism, where he has also served as associate dean,
and he is a faculty associate at Northwestern's Institute
for Policy Research. He has also taught as an adjunct professor
at Northwestern's School of Law.
LaMay is the former editor of the Freedom Forum's Media
Studies Journal and a former newspaper reporter. His
articles have appeared in the New
York Times, the Wall Street
Journal, the Washington
Post, Los Angeles Times,
Chicago Tribune, Time,
the Federal Communications Law
Journal, Communications
and the Law and various other academic books and journals.
Most recently he is the editor of Journalism
and the Debate Over Privacy (Erlbaum, 2003) and co-author
of Democracy on the Air,
with Ellen Mickiewicz, Donald Browne and Charles Firestone
(Duke, 2000). He is also a contributor to To
Profit or Not to Profit: The Commercial Transformation of
the Nonprofit Sector (Cambridge, 1998); author of Television
Autonomy and the State (Duke, 1997); and co-author
with former FCC Chairman Newton Minow of Abandoned
in the Wasteland: Children, Television and the First Amendment
(Hill & Wang, 1995), which won the American Bar Association's
Silver Gavel Award for best legal book of the year.
LaMay's research and teaching areas are in journalism
and democratization, First Amendment history, and broadcast
regulation. He is currently at work on a book about media
assistance as a feature of U.S. foreign aid, and in 2003 he
served as a consultant to the U.S. Defense Department's
Technology and Privacy Advisory Committee (TAPAC). He holds
a B.A. in political science from Brown University and an M.A.
in journalism from the University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill.
William Savage, Jr.
 Bill
Savage earned his BA in English, summa cum laude, at Loyola
University Chicago in 1986; he continued his studies at Northwestern
with a Jacob Javits Fellowship, earning an MA in 1988 and
the PhD in 1992. His dissertation focused on how certain material
aspects of literary culture influence the process of reading
narrative and the formation of canons in post-war American
fiction. A lecturer in the English Department and a College
Adviser in the Office of Undergraduate Studies and Advising
of Northwestern's Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, Savage
has taught at SCS for over a decade, at both the graduate
and undergraduate levels. He is a Series Editor for the University
of Chicago Press's new urban studies book series, Chicago
Visions and Revisions, and his current research and writing
focuses on Chicago author Nelson Algren, Chicago writing in
general, and popular culture, especially baseball, sequential
narrative, and animation.
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