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Sterling is a former BEA President (1986-88) and former editor of the Journal of Broadcasting (now the Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media). Sterling has been an academic for 35 years, and has served as a member of the George Washington University faculty since 1982. He directed the university's graduate telecommunication program from 1984 to 1994, and again from 2001 to 2003. He served as associate dean for graduate affairs in the arts and sciences from 1994 to 2001. Before arriving at GWU, he served as a special assistant to one of the members of the Federal Communications Commission from 1980 to 1982. Through the 1970s he was on the communications faculty at Temple University in Philadelphia. His primary research interests focus on the history of and policy for both electronic media and telecommunications. He has authored or edited nearly 20 books since the first appeared in 1973. He is general editor of a three-volume and multi-author Encyclopedia of Radio (2004), edits Communication Booknotes Quarterly , and serves on the editorial boards of six scholarly journals. His most recent books are Stay Tuned: A History of American Broadcasting (co-author, 3 rd ed., 2002); and History of Telecommunications Technology: An Annotated Bibliography (2000). Among his earlier monographs are The Focal Guide to Electronic Media (editor of this CD-ROM, 1998), and Broadcasting in America: A Survey of Electronic Media (co-author with others, several editions). Sterling has also contributed articles to a variety of scholarly books and journals (the most recent is "U.S. Communications Industry Ownership and the 1996 Telecommunications Act: Watershed or Unintended Consequences?" in a festschrift volume honoring media sociologist Jeremy Tunstall) and numerous encyclopedia entries and essays. Sterling has enjoyed wide experience overseas, having been a part of conferences, delivered talks or courses, or undertaken consulting in (among others) Belgium, Chile, England, France, Hong Kong, Monaco, Spain, Venezuela, and Central Europe. Sterling grew up in Wisconsin, earned his B.S. (political science, 1965) and M.S. (communication, 1967) and then his Ph.D (communication, 1969) from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His recreational interests include development of commercial air transport, passenger liners, medieval castles and fortification history, pre-Columbian archeology, and works by and about Winston S. Churchill. He has published articles and reviews in several of these fields. Chris and Ellen Sterling have lived in northern Virginia since 1980. They have two married daughters, and one grandchild, all living nearby.  |
The Broadcast Education Association is pleased to have Chris Sterling as its BEA2005 Academic Keynote Speaker. The "BEA2005 50th Anniversary Plenary" session will take place on Saturday, April 23 at 10:30.