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Michael Williams
 Michael Williams is an associate professor of interactive media and the chair of the News-Information track of the William Allen White School of Journalism and Mass Communications at the University of Kansas.
He has been a tenured faculty member at the University of Maryland at College Park, the School of Visual Communication at Ohio University, where he was also the director of graduate studies and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has also been a visiting professor at Marquette University in Milwaukee and Ural State University in Yekaterinburg, Russia.
Williams began his professional journalism career as a staff photographer for the Salem (Ore.) Statesman-Journal where he was later promoted to Photo Director. He has also been the Graphics Director at the Albuquerque Tribune, Assistant Managing Editor at The Clarion-Ledger and Jackson Daily News in Mississippi, and Director of Internet Development for Kalmbach Publishing Company, in Milwaukee, Wisc. There he was founding editor of Trains.com, publisher of Astronomy.com and oversaw the development of web sites for other Kalmbach publications.
In addition to his teaching responsibilities, Williams has done extensive visual communication work throughout the U.S., Europe and Russia.
Email: mikewms@ku.edu
Phone: (785) 864-7638
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