Peyton Paxson Middlesex Community College 591 Springs Road Bedford, MA 01730 (781) 280-3943 [email protected]
Professional Experience
1989-present Professor, Middlesex Community College. Teach courses in Constitutional Law, Criminal Evidence and Court Procedure, Criminal Law, Popular Culture and Society, and U.S. History after 1865. Co-chair, NEASC Accreditation Self-Study, 2013-2014. Project Director, “2 + 4 = Service on Common Ground” Grant funded through the Corporation for National Service, 1998-2000. Faculty escort, Chinese study fellowship, 1995.
2010-present Lecturer, Lesley University. Designed and teach online version of American History 2. Designed and teach Popular Culture and Media Studies. Designed and taught course in Business Law.
2001-2009 Instructor, Southern New Hampshire University. Taught graduate courses in Business Law and Responsible Corporate Leadership.
1989 Teaching Fellow, Boston University. Designed and taught course in Popular Culture.
1985-1987 Assistant Professor, Colorado Mesa University, Grand Junction, Colorado. Taught courses in Business Law, Advertising, Insurance, and Retailing.
1984-1985 Visiting Assistant Professor, Texas State University, San Marcos, Texas. Taught courses in Business Law.
Licensed attorney in Massachusetts, Colorado, and Texas.
Education
Ph.D. Boston University, American and New England Studies Program. Presidential University Graduate Fellow. Dissertation: Charles William Post: The Mass Marketing of Health and Welfare.
M.A., English University of Texas at Austin. Concentration in Popular Culture. Thesis: Mythologies of Commerce.
J.D. University of Texas School of Law. Phi Delta Phi Legal Honor Society.
B.S., Advertising University of Texas at Austin. Magna cum laude, College Scholar.
Publications—Books
Mass Communications and Media Studies: An Introduction (New York and London: Continuum, 2010).
Media Literacy: Thinking Critically about Video Games and Virtual Worlds (Portland, ME: Walch Education, 2009).
Media Literacy: Thinking Critically about the Internet (Portland, ME: Walch Education, 2004, second edition 2009).
Media Literacy: Thinking Critically about Television (Portland, ME: Walch Education, 2002, second edition 2009).
Media Literacy: Thinking Critically about Advertising (Portland, ME: Walch Education, 2002, second edition 2009).
Media Literacy: Thinking Critically about Sex in the Media (Portland, ME: Walch Education, 2005).
Media Literacy: Thinking Critically about Newspapers and Magazines (Portland, ME: Walch Education, 2005).
Media Literacy: Thinking Critically about Visual Culture (Portland, ME: Walch Education, 2004).
Media Literacy: Thinking Critically about Movies (Portland, ME: Walch Education, 2003).
Media Literacy: Thinking Critically about Music and Media (Portland, ME: Walch Education, 2003).
Publications—Articles and Essays
“Have You Been Injured? The Current State of Personal Injury Lawyers’ Advertising,” Profiles of Popular Culture, ed. Ray B. Browne (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2005).
“Criminal Justice,” “Law Enforcement,” “Law Schools” The Encyclopedia of New England (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005).
“Have You Been Injured? The Current State of Personal Injury Lawyers’ Advertising,” Journal of Popular Culture, vol. 36, no. 2 (Fall, 2002).
“Kirk Boott,” “John Dorrance,” “W.K. Kellogg,” “Louis Edward Kirstein,” American National Biography, ed. John A. Garraty and Mark C. Carnes, 24 vols. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999).
“C.W. Post,” Encyclopedia of World Biography, 20th Century Supplement (Palatine, IL: Jack Heraty & Associates, 1995). Presentations
“Asian Popular Culture,” Connections across Asia Seminar, Bedford, Massachusetts, April 21, 2012.
“The Evolving Role of Television as an Advertising Medium,” Popular Culture Association Annual Meeting, San Antonio, April 23, 2011.
“Dude, What do you Want from Me? Establishing and Maintaining Expectations in a Classroom Full of Millennials,” Middlesex Community College Learning-Centered Teaching Symposium, Bedford, Massachusetts, September 13, 2008.
“Chasing a Moving Target: Advertising and New Media,” Popular Culture Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, March 20, 2008.
“The Millennial Student: Demographics and Psychographics,” Middlesex Community College Professional Day, Bedford, Massachusetts, October 20, 2006.
“Visual Culture, Critical Reading and Critical Thinking,” International Reading Association Annual Convention, Reno, May 5, 2004.
“Popular Culture, Critical Reading and Critical Thinking,” International Reading Association Annual Convention, Orlando, May 6, 2003.
“Popular Culture: Collision with Academia,” Keynote Presentation, Middlesex Community College Professional Day, Bedford, Massachusetts, October 1, 2002.
“Domestic Life, 1945-1969,” Middlesex Institute for Lifelong Education for Seniors, Bedford, Massachusetts, September 25, 2002.
“America During World War II and the Baby Boom,” Delta Kappa Gamma Massachusetts Area VI Annual Meeting, Middleton, Massachusetts, October 18, 2001.
“Nostalgia: A Look Back at the 1940s and 1950s,” Middlesex Institute for Lifelong Education for Seniors, Bedford, Massachusetts, March 14, 2001.
“The Resilient Student, The Resilient Community” (with Donna Duffy and Joyce Gibson) Campus Compact National Center for Community Colleges National Conference, Scottsdale, May 25, 2000.
“Have You Been Injured? The Current State of Lawyers’ Advertising,” Popular Culture Association Annual Meeting, New Orleans, April 19, 2000.
“Fast Food and the Changing American Psyche,” Popular Culture Association Annual Meeting, Orlando, April 9, 1998.
“C.W. Post and the Postum Cereal Company,” Economic and Business Historical Society Annual Conference, Richmond, April 26, 1997.
Panelist, “America’s Popular Culture: An Agent of Inclusion or Divisiveness?” Merrimack Repertory Theatre Adult Symposium Series, Lowell, Massachusetts, January 21, 1996. Presentations (cont.)
“Advertising and Images of Disabilities” (with Karen L. Muncaster) Popular Culture Association Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, April 14, 1995.
“Horse Sense vs. Applied Science: Advertising Research’s Early Years,” Popular Culture Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, April 7, 1994.
“The Message of Breakfast Cereal, 1895-1915,” Popular Culture Association Annual Meeting, New Orleans, April 7, 1993.
“Breakfast Cereal and American Popular Culture,” American Studies Graduate Students Conference, Boston, October 24, 1992.
“What Works in the Classroom” (with Donna Duffy, Janet Jones and Elaine Linscott) Massachusetts Bay Teaching and Learning Conference, Wellesley, Massachusetts, April 5, 1991.
“Street Law and Rights” (with Eileen Feldman) Massachusetts Association of Teacher of English to Speakers of Other Languages Annual Conference, Lowell, Massachusetts, October 27, 1990.
Professional Development
Fulbright-Hays Faculty Research Abroad Participant, Cambodia, May-June, 2002.
Attorney, Massachusetts Committee for Public Counsel Services, Cambridge (Sabbatical Leave) Spring, 1999.
Program Fellow, Infusing Asian Studies into the Undergraduate Curriculum Summer Institute, Asian Studies Development Program, East-West Center, Honolulu, July-August, 1998.
Honors and Awards
Merit Award, Middlesex Community College, 2002.
Excellence Award, National Institute for Staff and Organizational Development, 1996.
Faculty Member of the Year, Middlesex Community College, 1990.