Dr. Lori Bergen is the dean of the J. William and Mary Diederich College of Communication at Marquette University. Previously Dr. Bergen was the director of the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Texas State University-San Marcos. Prior to that she was associate director of the A.Q. Miller School of Journalism and Mass Communications at Kansas State University, and has served on the journalism faculty at Southwest Texas State University, and the Elliott School of Communication at Wichita State University.
Bergen received fellowships and grants from the Poynter Institute, American Society of Newspaper Editors, Kaiser Family Health Foundation, Menninger Foundation, National Association of Broadcasters and Radio TV News Directors Foundation. Her research on the interaction of auditory and visual working memory as a way to understand how visual clutter affects memory for news story facts was featured on the Discovery Channel and in The New York Times. Bergen co-authored Media Violence and Aggression: Science and Ideology, a book on children and media violence published in 2008. Her research appears in Newspaper Research Journal, Journal of Health Communication, Human Communication Research, Journal of Advertising and Mass Communication & Society.
Bergen is a leader in the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication and has been a member of the Board of Directors, head of the Professional Freedom and Responsibility Committee, and is a member of the standing committee on strategic planning.
A Kansas native, Bergen received a bachelor's degree in History and Political Science from Kansas State University and a master's degree from K-State in Journalism and Mass Communications. She worked in political communication and as a journalist in Kansas and Indiana before earning her Ph.D. from Indiana University in Mass Communication with a minor in Organizational Behavior.
UNIVERSITY LEADERSHIP COUNCIL
- Ms. Rana H. Altenburg
- Ms. Cynthia M. Bauer
- Dr. Lori Bergen
- Dr. Margaret L. Bloom
- Mr. Roby Blust
- Dr. Margaret Faut Callahan
- Dr. William E. Cullinan
- Mr. Steven J. Cottingham
- Dr. Robert J. Deahl
- Ms. Tricia Geraghty
- Dr. William A. Henk
- Dr. Jeanne Hossenlopp
- Dr. Stanley V. Jaskolski
- Mr. Joseph D. Kearney
- Mr. Greg Kliebhan
- Mr. John C. Lamb
- Dr. William K. Lobb
- Dr. L. Christopher Miller
- Ms. Anne O'Brien
- Dr. John J. Pauly
- Dr. Thomas J. "Toby" Peters
- Ms. Stephanie Russell
- Mr. Arthur F. Scheuber
- Dr. Linda Salchenberger
- Dr. Jeffrey T. Snell
- Ms. Julie Tolan
- Mrs. Janice S. Welburn
- Dr. William R. Wiener
- Rev. Robert A. Wild, S.J.
Quick Facts About Marquette
| Identity: | Catholic, Jesuit, private |
| Established: | 1881 |
| Location: | Milwaukee, Wisconsin |
| Undergraduate: | 8,048 |
| Postgraduate: | 3,500 |
| Campus: | Urban, 90 acres |
| Athletics: | 14 NCAA Division I teams (Big East) |
| Colors: | Blue and Gold |
