University of Washington, Communications, 1997-present, Ph.D. program (ABD)
General exams completed, May 1999; graduate GPA, 3.95 (on a 4.00 scale)
Dissertation (near completion): "Old Media and New Identity: The New Scottish Parliament in the United Kingdom and the European Union"

University of Washington, Communications, 1995-1997, M.A.
Thesis: "Diverging Conceptions of Free Expression in the Anglo-American Judicial Tradition"

Glasgow Caledonian University, Glasgow, Scotland
Communication and Mass Media
1989-1993, B.A. (2.1 Honours)

Instructor (tenure-track), Department of Communication, State University of New York, College at Geneseo, Geneseo, NY 14454, from August 2000. Teaching the following courses in the 2000 – 2001 academic year:

Teaching assistant and instructor, School of Communications, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98105, September 1995 to June 2000. Positions included:

English and History tutor/counselor, Upward Bound college preparation program for disadvantaged high school students, Potomac State College (WVU), Keyser, West Virginia, summer 1995

Reading and writing tutor, Writing Center, Lock Haven University of Pennsylvania, autumn 1993 to spring 1995

D. Winterstein and D. Bicket, "A Frame Analysis of New York Times Coverage of Indian-Pakistani Nuclear Weapons Testing," to be published in an upcoming issue of InterSections.

D. Bicket, "Fictional Scotland: A ‘Realm of the Imagination’ in Literature and Film Drama," Journal of Communication Inquiry (January 1999) vol. 23(1):3-19.

D. Bicket, "Drifting Apart Together: Diverging Conceptions of Free Expression in the North American Judicial Tradition," Communications and the Law (December 1998), vol. 20(4):1-38.

D. Bicket, "Friends or Enemies? The British Press and the European Union," Ecquid Novi (Autumn 1997), vol. 18(1):90-114.

C. A. Giffard and D. Bicket, "IPS Coverage of the Fourth World Conference on Women," Inter Press Service (1996).

D. Bicket, "The Media, Scotland, Britain, and the EU: A Case for Further Investigation and Study," presented at National Communication Association Annual Convention, Seattle, Washington, November 2000

D. Bicket, "Political and Cultural Devolution: Scotland’s Struggle and the Lessons of Quebec and Catalonia," presented at the International Communication Division, International Association for Mass Communication Research (IAMCR), Leipzig, Germany, July 1999

D. Winterstein and D. Bicket, "A Frame Analysis of New York Times Coverage of Indian-Pakistani Nuclear Weapons Testing," presented at the International Communication Division, IAMCR, Leipzig, Germany, July 1999

D. Bicket, "Still Surprisingly Different: Why Canadian and U.S. Free Expression Law Has Not Converged in the 1990s," presented at the International Communication Association conference, Communication Law and Policy division, San Francisco, California, May 1999

D. Gromala and D. Bicket, "Not Quite Through the Looking Glass: Reconciling the Virtual-Physical Dichotomy in the New Media Classroom," presented at the International Communication Association conference, Instructional and Developmental Communication Division, San Francisco, California, May 1999

D. Bicket, "Fictional Scotland: A ‘Realm of the Imagination’ in Literature and Film Drama," presented at the International Communication Association, Philosophy of Communication Division, Jerusalem, Israel, July 1998

D. Bicket, "Philosophies, Polities, and Constitutions: Foundations of Canadian and U.S. Free Expression Law," presented at the Western Journalism Historians Conference, University of California Berkeley, February 1998

D. Bicket, "Polity and Identity: Scotland’s Struggle for Cultural Independence and the Lesson of Quebec" (poster session), Qualitative Studies Division, Association of Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, Chicago, Illinois, August 1997

D. Bicket, "Friends or Enemies? The British Press and the European Union," presented at the International Communication Association, Mass Communication Division, Montreal, Canada, May 1997

D. Bicket, "Fictional Scotland: A Realm of the Imagination," presented at the Western States Graduate Student Communication Conference, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Southern California, April 1997

C.A. Giffard and D. Bicket, "International News Agency Coverage of the Fourth World Women’s Conference (Beijing)," presented at the Council on Information and Communication for International Development Conference on Third World Media, Copenhagen, Denmark, September 1996

Recipient, Geneseo Foundation grant for travel and conference expenses (NCA National Convention), November 2000

Recipient, UW Huckabay Teaching Fellowship (1999-2000) to construct and teach an experimental undergraduate course focusing on visual and textual literacy (see "Teaching Experience" above)

Recipient, EU Center/UW Center for West European Studies research grant to study the new Scottish Parliament's relationship with the European Union during 1999

Nominated by the EU Center as one of three graduate students from the UW to participate in a working visit to Brussels, June 13-19, 1999, sponsored by the European Union Commission. (Award is directed toward U.S. graduate students involved in research on European integration.)

Recipient, Foreign Language and Area Studies award for intensive German language study, University of Washington, Summer 1997

Writer, editor, and researcher, Microsoft, Encarta World Atlas project, March to September 1996

Reporter, pagination layout editor, and graphic designer, The Express, Lock Haven, Pennsylvania, September 1993 to May 1995 (plus internship from May to August 1992)

Editor and writer, Wyre (Glasgow Caledonian University student newspaper), September 1992 to June 1993

Disk Jockey, news reporter, and (occasional) production assistant, radio station WLHU 90.3 FM, Lock Haven University, August 1991 to May 1992, and August 1993 to May 1994

P.R. writer, researcher, and photographer, LHU Public Relations Dept., May to August 1992 and October 1993 to October 1994

Freelance reporter, Levittown/Bensalem Express, Levittown, Pennsylvania, June to August 1993

Features editor, reporter, and graphic artist, Eagle Eye (student newspaper), Lock Haven University, August 1991 to May 1992

German: reading and basic conversational competency

Dr. Joe Bulsys, chair and associate professor, Dept. of Communication, SUNY Geneseo, Geneseo, NY 14454. Tel. (716) 245-5224.

Dr. Richard Kielbowicz, associate professor, School of Communications, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195-3740. Tel.: (206) 543-2388, (206) 543-2660; email: kielbowicz@u.washington.edu

Dr. Don R. Pember, professor, School of Communications, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195-3740. Tel.: (206) 543-2660.

Dr. Nancy K. Rivenburgh, associate professor, School of Communications, and adjunct associate professor in Political Science and Speech Communications, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195-3740. Tel.: (206) 543-2745, (206) 543-2660; email: nkriv@u.washington.edu

Dr. Tony Giffard, professor and chair, School of Communications, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195-3740. Tel.: (206) 543-2660; email: giffard@u.washington.edu

Diane Gromala, associate professor, School of Literature, Communication, and Culture, Georgia Institute of Technology. Tel. (404) 894.2730; email: diane.gromala@lcc.gatech.edu

Dr. Kevin Kawamoto, assistant professor, School of Communications, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195-3740. Tel.: (206) 543-2660; email: kawamoto@u.washington.edu

Dr. Hugh O'Donnell, reader, Dept. of Language and Media, Glasgow Caledonian University, Glasgow, Scotland. Tel.: 01144-141-331-3262; email: hod@gcal.ac.uk