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Richard Alan Nelson

Professor
Accredited Public Relations Professional (APR)
Office Phone: 225-578-6686;

Home Phone: 225-769-1273
Office: 246 Hodges Hall

E-mail: rnelson@lsu.edu

Website: http://richardnelson.netfirms.com

:: Ph.D., 1980, Florida State University-  Communication
 

Richard Alan Nelson is editor of  Journal of Promotion Management and Journal of Website Promotion and serves on the editorial board of six other refereed  publications. He is program chair for the International Management Development Association's 2004 conference. Nelson also has served as president of the International Academy of Business Disciplines and head of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication's Public Relations Division. He has a professional background that includes work as a weekly newspaper journalist, trade publication editor, television news writer, public information coordinator and consultant. He is accredited in public relations by the Public Relations Society of America. Before coming to the Manship School, Nelson headed the  public relations sequence at Kansas State University. Previously, he was on the communication faculty at the University of Houston, where he also served as  associate director of the International Telecommunications Research Institute.
 

Selected works:

 R. A. Nelson, The Intersection of Research and the Profession in Public Relations: Getting Published and Getting Ahead, chapter 5 in Lynne M. Sallot, editor, Learning to Teach: What You Need to Know to Develop a Successful Career as a Public Relations Educator, 3^rd edition. New York: Public Relations Society of America, 2003, in press.

R. A. Nelson, Dispelling U.S. Propaganda Images of the Middle East and North Africa, in Kamal G. Darouni, editor, Advertising and Marketing Communications in the Middle East, 2^nd edition. Zouk Mosbeh, Lebanon: Notre Dame University  Louaize, 2002, 286, 301-313.

Bridges, J.A. and R. A. Nelson. (2000).  "Issues Management: A Relational Approach," chapter in John Ledingham and Stephen D. Bruning, editors, Public Relations as Relationship Management: A Relational Approach to the Study and Practice of Public Relations. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum Publishers, 95-116.
 

 T. W. Hoffer and R. A. Nelson, Docudrama on American Television, in Alan Rosenthal, editor, Why Docudrama? Fact-Fiction on Film and TV. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1999.

Nelson, R. A. (1996).  A Chronology and Glossary of Propaganda in the United States. Greenwood Press.

Nelson, R. A. (1995).  "Activist Groups and New Technologies: Influencing the Public Affairs Agenda," chapter in Lloyd B. Dennis, ed., Practical Public Affairs in an Era of Change: A Communications Guide for Business, Government, and College. Public Relations Society of America/University Press of America, 413-422.
 

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