Department of Mass Communication

Dr. Nancy-Jo Johnson is Associate Professor of mass communication at Iona College where she teaches courses in broadcasting, television production and computer animation. Prior to joining the faculty at Iona, she taught for five years in the mass media division at Henderson State University in Arkansas, where she initiated and successfully developed a television and video art curricula and studio facility. She also taught educational television for three years as an adjunct professor at the State University of New York in Albany.

Dr. Johnson earned her Doctor of Arts in Literary Theory and Electronic Art at the State University of New York, Albany and R.P.I. Troy, NY. At graduation she received the 1995 Presidential Distinguished Doctoral Dissertation Award. She also holds an M.F.A. in Technical Design in Theater form the City University of New York at Brooklyn College, NY., and her undergraduate degree was earned in the Natural Sciences from Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio.

Dr. Johnson's eleven-year professional experience before entering a teaching career includes field and studio production at Time Warner, Inc.; film editing at Fox; news gathering, promotions and on-camera interviewing at three independent stations in the Capital District; creating corporate videos for marketing communications at General Electric Gas Turbines; and master control technician in engineering at PBS

Her research interests involve application of new technology on pedagogy.