David Ryfe

Associate Professor

• Office:  RSJ 204
• Phone:  775-784-4894
• Email:  dryfe@unr.edu

Why I teach

Teaching is one of the most honest forms of communication in which one can participate.

What I've Learned

 You get an education--no one gives it to you.

 Learning makes us satisfied, which is not the same thing as happy.

 

Experience

Teaching experience

Associate Professor, Middle Tennessee State University, 2005-2006

Assistant Professor, Middle Tennessee State University, 2000-2005

Lecturer, University of California, Berkeley and University of California, San Diego, 1997-1999

 

Research interests

Newsroom sociology and deliberative democracy

Education

Ph.D., communication, University of California, San Diego

M.A., communication, University of California, San Diego

M.A., political science, University of California, San Diego

B.A., political science (with honors) and literature/creative writing (with honors), University of California, San Diego