Associate Professor of Journalism; Director of Graduate Studies
B.A. 1961 (English), Central Michigan University.

Research Interests:

labor reporting, labor history, urban reporting, journalism history.

Fellowships/Honors:

Nominated for Pulitzer Prize by the New York Times for coverage of American industrial decline, 1984; Shard Pulitzer Prize, Member of Detroit Free Press team that covered 1967 Detroit Riot, 1968; Centennial Award, Central Michigan University, 1993.

Selected Works:

Homestead: The Glory and Tragedy of an American Steel Town. Times Books/Random House. 1992.
Labor and the Mainstream Press: The Vanishing Labor Beat. Chapter in The New Labor Press. ILR Press. 1992.
The Company and the Union: The 'Civilized Relationship' of the General Motors Corporation and the United Automobile Workers Union. Alfred A. Knopf. 1973.

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