Ellen Wartella

Ellen A. Wartella (born October 16, 1949 Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania) is a leading scholar of the role of media in children’s development. Executive Vice Chancellor, Provost and Distinguished Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Riverside, since 2004, Wartella was dean of the College of Communication at the University of Texas at Austin from 1993-2004, where she also held the Walter Cronkite Regents Chair, the Mary Gibbs Jones Centennial Chair, and the UNESCO Chair in International Communication.

She received a B.A. with honors from the University of Pittsburgh in 1971, and M.A. (1974) and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Minnesota. She then taught at Ohio State University and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign before assuming the Texas deanship.

The author or editor of 12 books and approximately 175 book chapters, research articles, technical reports and research papers, Wartella is a co-principal Investigator on a 5-year multi-site research project entitled: “IRADS Collaborative Research: Influence of Digital Media on Very Young Children” funded by the National Research Foundation (2006-2011). She was a co-principal Investigator on the National TV Violence Study (1995-1998) and a co-principal investigator of the Children's Digital Media Center project funded by the National Science Foundation (2001-2006).

She serves on Board of Trustees of Sesame Workshop and the National Educational Advisory Board of the Children's Advertising Review Unit of the Council of Better Business Bureaus and is a member of the National Academy of Sciences Board on Children Youth and Families. She recently served on the Institute of Medicine's Panel Study on Food Marketing and the Diets of Children and Youth (2006). During 2006-2007 she was the Inaugural Fellow of the Fred Rogers Center. She is a member of the American Psychological Association, the Society for Research in Child Development and is the past President and Fellow of the International Communication Association. She received the Steven H. Chaffee Career Productivity Award from the ICA, the Distinguished Scholar Award from the National Communication Association and the Krieghbaum Under 40 Award from the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication.

Sources

* Provost Biography, University of California, Riverside http://provost.ucr.edu/bio/how.php
* Curriculum Vitae, Ellen Wartella, University of California, Riverside http://provost.ucr.edu/bio/wartella3_07.pdf

References

* Grossberg, L., Wartella, E., Whitney. D.C., Wise, J.M, (2006) (Second Edition) "MediaMaking: Mass Media in a Popular Culture". Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.

* Pecora, N., Murray, J.P. & Wartella E (Eds.), (2006) "Children and television: 50 Years of research". Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

* Downing, J., McQuail, D., Schlesinger, P.R., & Wartella, E. (Eds.) (2004). "Handbook of Media Studies". Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.

* Grossberg, L., Wartella, E., & Whitney, D.C. (1998). "MediaMaking." Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.

* Hay, J., Grossberg, L., & Wartella, E. (Eds.). (1996). " The Audience and Its Landscape". Boulder, CO: Westview Press.

* Dennis, E. & Wartella, E. (Eds.). (1996). "American Communication Research: The Remembered History". Hillsdale, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum.

* Dervin, B., Grossberg, L., O’Keefe, B., & Wartella, E. (Eds.). (1989). "Rethinking Communication: Paradigm Dialogues". Newbury Park, CA: Sage Publications.

* Dervin, B., Grossberg, L., O’Keefe, B., & Wartella, E. (Eds.). (1989). "Rethinking Communication: Paradigm Issues", Volume II. Newbury Park, CA: Sage Publications.

* Whitney, D.C., & Wartella, E. (Eds.). (1983). "Mass Communication Review Yearbook, Volume 4." Beverly Hills, CA: Sage Publications.

* Whitney, D.C., & Wartella, E. (Eds.). (1982). " Mass Communication Review Yearbook, Volume 3". Beverly Hills, CA: Sage Publications.

* Wartella, E. (Ed.). (1979). "Children Communicating": Vol. 7, Sage Annual Review of Communication Research. Beverly Hills, CA: Sage Publications.

* Ward, S., Wackman, D.B., & Wartella, E. (1977). " How Children Learn to Buy: The Development of Consumer Information Processing Skills". Beverly Hills, CA: Sage Publications.