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David Ryfe

David Ryfe
Associate Professor

Office:
RSJ 204
Phone:
775-784-4894
E-mail:
dryfe@unr.edu

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

Courses taught
JOUR101

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.