mary.arnold@sdstate.edu

605.688.4171

Yeager Hall 213

Mary Peterson Arnold Ph.D. is the new head of the Department of Journalism and Mass Communication. A native of Mitchell, Arnold was most recently a journalism professor at Ball State University in Muncie, Ind. She was also director of the ASNE (American Society of Newspaper Editors) High School Journalism Institute.

She was a faculty member at the University of Iowa School of Journalism and Mass Communication from 1986 to 1996 where she was director of the Iowa High School Press Association and summer journalism workshops. She managed youth editorial and diversity programs for the Newspaper Association of America Foundation in Vienna, Va., from 1996 to 2001.

She is currently part of a team working on the three-year Women in Newspapers project at Northwestern University's Media Management Center. Now in its final year, the project looks at women in senior management positions at newspapers.