Fred Turner | |
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| Born | April 4, 1961 |
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| Institutions | Stanford University |
Fred Turner (born April 4,1961) is an American academic. He is the Harry and Norman Chandler Professor of Communication at Stanford University,having formerly served as department chair. [1]
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Before joining Stanford as an associate professor,Turner taught Communication at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He earned a B.A. in English and American Literature from Brown University,an M.A. in English from Columbia University,and a Ph.D. in Communication from the University of California,San Diego. In 2015,he was appointed as Harry and Norman Chandler Professor and Chair of the Department of Communication at Stanford. [1]
Before joining academia,Turner worked as a journalist for over ten years writing for The Boston Phoenix and Boston Sunday Globe ,among others.
