DeNel Rehberg Sedo (Associate Professor)BA (Granada), BA (North Dakota), MMC (Arizona State),
PhD (Simon Fraser)
DeNel Rehberg Sedo came to us from the United States via Vancouver, where she earned a PhD in Communication at Simon Fraser University (SFU). This degree, along with two undergraduate degrees--one in journalism and the other in Spanish--and her Master's degree in Mass Communication from the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University in Tempre, makes for an interdisciplinary approach to the study of communication.
Dr. Rehberg Sedo's research interest lie in the production, distribution and reception of cultural media artifacts or products--online and in print, including: books, television, newspapers and film. She is the director of the Atlantic Communication Issues Research Lab, which is a space that supports research in the broadly-defined areas of communication, cultural studies and women's studies.
Her current international collaborative research project is called Beyond the Book (www.beyondthebookproject.org). Recent publication links and information can be found on her personal blog (link to: http://denelrehbergsedo.wordpress.com/) under the page called "My Research".
Dr. Rehberg Sedo's professional experience is in agency and not-for-profit communications, volunteer and employee management, and marketing and market research. She is the owner of Inquiry Ink, a research consultancy that specializes in qualitative research services. This business, and her first-hand experience as a co-operative education co-ordinator at SFU, is foundational to her belief inand support of experiential learning for student knowledge acquisition.
Utilizing new social media, audio visual programs, popular literature and applied student projects, Dr. Rehberg Sedo is always keen to try new ways to engage students with course material. She teaches communication theory, mass media and public opinion, and research methods at the undergraduate level. At the graduate level, she teaches communication theory, and research methods. She also teaches popular culture and cultural studies theory in the Mount's Cultural Studies program. On her blog, you can find samples of her class syllabi.
As an associate professor, Dr. Rehberg Sedo is active in on-campus and community committees. At the department level, she works with colleagues on the undergraduate and masters curriculum committees. She is currently one of our Graduate Studies Co-ordinators. At the university level, she sits on various graduate studies committees, and has been a committed member to the Cultural Studies committee since her arrival at the Mount in 2001. In the past, she was a proud member of the Mount's Art Gallery Advisory Board, the Library Senate Committee, the Benefit Users Committe and was the Chair of the Mount's North American Mobility Grant Committee, which facilitates women's studies student exchanges between Canada, Mexico and the US. In addition to active membership SHARP, the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing, she sits on the editorial board of the Journal of Canadian Studies and a new journal called Journal of Professional Communication.