Robert Henry Stanley

Robert Henry Stanley has a Ph.D. in Communication and Social Psychology from Ohio University. In a similar vein, Making Sense of Movies is among his previous five published books. His professional activities have included coordinating faculty/industry seminars for the International Radio and Television Society and serving on the New York World Television Festival board of directors. He also served as a judge for the International Emmy Awards of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences and the Edward R. Murrow Brotherhood awards. He taught in the Speech and Drama Department for several years at Mount Holyoke College, a small liberal arts women’s college in South Hadley, Massachusetts. In addition to supervising the student-run campus radio station and coaching the award-winning student debate team, his course offerings included radio regulation, broadcasting, speechmaking, and rhetorical analysis. For the past several decades, he has been a Professor of Film and Media Studies at Hunter College of the City University of New York. His courses have included media law, history of broadcasting, media and society, press and the public, movies in American culture, and introductory cinema and media studies large lectures.