Kelly, Waller retire from The Media School
Two Media School faculty members retired as of Jan. 1. Together, associate professor Jim Kelly and provost professor Greg Waller boast decades of teaching experience.
Jim Kelly
Kelly earned his bachelor’s degree from West Virginia University and master’s from IU. He received a doctorate in mass communication specializing in journalism from IU in 1990. From 1990 to 2007, he was on the School of Journalism faculty at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. In 2007, he joined the IU School of Journalism as an associate professor. From 2015 to 2018, he was the first director of undergraduate Studies in the new Media School. He was the director of journalism from 2019 to 2023.
Much of his research followed the influence that digital imagining technology had on news photo credibility and the audience’s understanding of photojournalism ethics. He also taught various journalism courses, ranging from graphic communication and publication design to the mass media’s role in society. In 2019, Kelly received a Fulbright Scholars award.
He was the co-editor of “The Handbook of Visual Communication: Theory, Methods, and Media,” published by Routledge in 2020, and was a former editor of Visual Communication Quarterly. His most recent book, “From AIDS to Population Health–How an American University and a Kenyan Medical School Transformed Healthcare in East Africa,” was published by IU Press in 2022.
Greg Waller
Waller is a well-renowned and internationally known film historian with a strong publication record. He is the editor of the quarterly journal Film History and taught courses at The Media School in American film history.
His publications include “Beyond the Movie Theater,” Moviegoing in America: A Sourcebook in the History of Film Exhibition,” and Main Street Amusements: Movies and Commercial Entertainment in a Southern City, 1895-1930.” The latter earned him the Katherine Singer Kovacs Award from the Society for Cinema Studies and the Theatre Library Award.
Waller chaired the former Department of Communication and Culture from 2003 to 2010. He helped plan renovations leading to the construction of the IU Cinema and chaired the director search committee for the cinema and a faculty advisory board that vets programming ideas.