Academics
Faculty and Staff
| Marjorie Kruvand, Ph.D. | |
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| Title: | Assistant Professor |
| Office #: | School of Communication 211 |
| Phone: | 312-915-7729 |
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Marjorie Kruvand joined the Advertising and Public Relations program as an assistant professor in January 2008. Kruvand teaches Public Relations, Public Service Communication and other public relations courses. Her areas of research include health and science communication, public affairs and issues management, and the dynamics between journalists and public relations practitioners.
In a collaboration with Dr. Bastiaan Vanacker, Assistant Professor in Media Ethics, Kruvand presented a research paper "Facing the Future: Media Ethics, Bioethics and the World's First Face Transplant" at the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) in Boston in 2009. In October 2009 at the School of Communication as part of its Notes from the Field Series, Kruvand and Vanacker also presented their findings to the Loyola community.
Kruvand has more than three decades of experience in journalism, public relations, and academia. She was a reporter for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch; a senior vice president and partner at Fleishman-Hillard, one of the world’s largest public relations agencies; and an assistant professor of Journalism at Northeastern University in Boston.Kruvand completed her Ph.D. at the Missouri School of Journalism at the University of Missouri-Columbia in 2008. She has a master’s degree from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University and a bachelor’s degree in Political Science from Washington University in St. Louis.
