Melita M. Garza
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- School: Texas Christian University
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- Department: Journalism
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2800 S University Dr
Fort Worth, TX - 76129 - Dates at Texas Christian University: November 2013 - April 2018
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People mostly don't like Professor Garza because they don't like talking about diversity issues, which is pretty much the point of this class. She can be intense and seem intimidating but she is much more nice and supportive than people give her credit for. If you are respectful, she will like you. She has no time for nonsense. She can teach you a lot, but is not tech savvy. A very intelligent woman.
Biography
Texas Christian University - Journalism
Resume
2013
Texas Christian University
Fort Worth
TX
US
Assistant Professor
Texas Christian University
2009
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)
Journalism
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
2005
Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.)
The University of Chicago
1977
Bachelor’s Degree
Government
Harvard University
Melita Garza studied government and Latin American studies when she was an undergraduate at Harvard University. She went on to get an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and a PhD in journalism and mass communication from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Melita Garza’s PhD dissertation
“They Came to Toil: News Frames of Wanted and Unwanted Mexicans in the Great Depression
” was awarded the Margaret A. Blanchard Dissertation Prize in 2013. \n\nAs a journalist
Melita Garza worked for major news outlets
including the Chicago Tribune
Milwaukee Journal
and Los Angeles Times
and as an editor for top consulting firm McKinsey & Company’s publication
The McKinsey Quarterly. \n\nToday
Dr. Garza is an assistant professor at the Texas Christian University Bob Schieffer College of Communication. She is a journalism historian with a specialization in English and Spanish language news and media. The classes she teaches focus on topics such as business journalism
diversity in the media
and Latinos in the US media. \n\nDr. Garza has won many awards for her work
including a national Latino/Latin American Research Award (LARA) in 2015
a TCU Research and Creative Activities Committee Grant in 2014
and $30
000 in grants from the Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism between 2013-2016. In 2000
she was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize for her investigative journalism series exploring the failures of Ford/Firestone tires. She is currently working on a book manuscript that is based on her PhD dissertation.
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