Pam Creedon

Professor
M.A., University of Oregon
Adler Journalism & Mass Comm. Bldg. (AJB)
319-335-1370
pam-creedon@uiowa.edu

Prof. Creedon came to the University of Iowa as professor and director of School of Journalism and Mass Communication in 2002. She helped raise the $6 million needed to build the Philip D. Adler Journalism and Mass Communication Building, which opened in 2005. After completing a five-year term as director in 2007, Prof. Creedon chose to assume duties in a newly created position as Associate Director for Internships and External Relations from 2007-2008. Prior to coming to Iowa, she served as director and professor at the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Kent State University for eight years. During her directorships, both Iowa and Kent State programs were re-accredited by the Accrediting Council on Education in Journalism and Mass Communication. Prof. Creedon started her academic career in 1984 at The Ohio State University, where she taught journalism, advertising and public relations courses for 10 years.

She was elected to be president of the Association of Schools of Journalism and Mass Communication (ASJMC), an organization for administrators of department, college and university journalism and mass communication departments, college and was selected to be a member of the Hearst Journalism Awards Committee. She was elected and served on the executive committee of the Accrediting Council on Education in Journalism and Mass Communication. She served on the board of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC), where she was elected to the Standing Committee on Professional Freedom and Responsibility for two terms and elected to serve as chair. She also served as chair of the AEJMC Commission on the Status of Women.

Active in feminist scholarship, most recently, she served as an editor of The Edge of Change: Women in the 21st Century Press, published by the University of Illinois Press (2009). Previously, she served as editor of Women in Mass Communication: Challenging Gender Values by Sage (2007, 1994, 1989). She is also an editor of Seeking Equity for Women in Journalism and Mass Communication: A 30-Year Update published by (2004) and is the editor of Women, Media and Sport published by Sage (1994). She continues to serve on the editorial boards of Public Relations Review and the Journal of Public Relations Research.

She worked as an alumni magazine editor, public information officer and public relations practitioner for 15 years before entering academe. Her public relations experience in the field includes 10 years in higher education, where she was the first woman to direct the Public Information Office at Mount Union College. She also spent five years in public relations at Babcock & Wilcox, a McDermott International company, which was then a Fortune 100 company.

Prof. Creedon currently advises the student chapter of the Public Relations Student Society of America and is a member of PRSA. She has earned an International Association of Business Communicator’s (IABC) accredited business communicator (ABC) credential. She earned her master's degree in journalism from the University of Oregon in Eugene, Oregon, and her bachelor's degree in English from Mount Union College in Alliance, Ohio.