OFFICE

DiChiaro College Centere, Loyola University, Baltimore, MD 21210-2699 U.S.A
voice (410) 617-2528, fax (410) 617-2198, mobile (410) 800-3060, rjcook@loyola.edu , web evergreen.loyola.edu/~rjcook

Dr. Cook will not maintain an office on campus uring his research leave from the university from July 201 to-August 2012.

HOME

4035 Deepwood Road, Baltimore, MD 21218-1404
home phone (410) 800-2860; no calls after 9:30 p.m., please.
Travel Directions: From Loyola's campus, travel east on Cold Spring Lane. Cross York Road. At next main intersection, turn

right (south) onto The Alameda. At next traffic light, turn left (east) onto Argonne Drive. The first right turn is Deepwood Road. The Cook home is the first house on the left (#4035). Street parking is available on Argonne and Deepwood.

PROFILE

Dr. Russell J. Cook joined Loyola University in 2006. He teaches mass comm and digital media courses in Communication and Liberal Studies. Before Loyola, Dr. Cook served for 23 years as Prof. of Communication and TV Manager at Bethany College, Bethany, WV. He started teaching in 1975. His extensive video/ film work includes awards for documentaries, TV commercials, industrial and gov't films. In 1994 he earned the Ph.D. in Mass Communication at E.W. Scripps School of Journalism, Ohio University. His interests include journalism history, video, cinema, philosphy, and computing.

He cowrote the textbook Currents in Communication with Elliot King and Mitchell Tropin (Kendall Hunt, 2010). His book Vietnam War (Greenwood, 2005) is a history of U.S. media coverage of that conflict. His documentary video 3625: A Memoire won the National Broadcasting Society's Grand Prize in 2004. Dr. Cook's wife, Carol, is an ordained minister in the Christian Church (Disicples of Christ). Son Kermit is a strategic business consultant in Hong Kong, and daughter Katie is a medical research coordinator at Johns Hopkins Univ. Dr. Cook enjoys painting, drawing, fishing, and swimming.