Media Hope Authors
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MIKE S. ADAMS, Ph.D., is a criminology professor at the University of North Carolina Wilmington. He is a columnist for Townhall.com and authored two books, Welcome to the Ivory Tower of Babel in 2004 and most recently, Feminists Say the Darndest Things: A Politically Incorrect Professor Confronts "Womyn" on Campus in 2008. Adams has been the guest on several news programs, including The O’Reilly Factor, Hannity and Colmes, and Scarborough Country.
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Thomas F. Bertonneau earned his doctorate in comparative literature from UCLA in 1990. He is the author of over eighty scholarly articles. His book The Truth Is Out There, coauthored with Kim Paffenroth, appeared in 2006; it is a study of religious motifs in science fiction
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THEORDORE L. GLASSER is a professor in the Department of Communication at Stanford University, where for 14 years he directed Stanford’s Graduate Program in Journalism. He has held visiting appointments at the University of Tampere, Finland; Nanyang Technological University, Singapore; and as a senior Fulbright Scholar at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. In 2002-2003 he served as president of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication. His books include Custodians of Conscience: Investigative Journalism and Public Virtue, written with James S. Ettema of Northwestern University, which won the Society of Professional Journalists’ award for best research on journalism.
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Suzanne O'Dell is the managing editor and operations coordinator behind Media Hope.com.
O'Dell received her B.A. in English at Liberty Unversity, where she served as president of Sigma Tau Delta, the International English Honors Society. O'Dell enjoys American Literature, particularly Modernism, and studying anything relating to culture and media.
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Karen Swallow Prior chairs the Department of English and Modern Languages at Liberty University where she is Associate Professor of English at Liberty. She specializes in Eighteenth-Century British Literature and teaches courses in Christian Literature and Christian Poetics. Prior earned both her Ph.D. and her M.A. in English at the State University of New York at Buffalo and received her B.A. in English at Daemen College in Buffalo, New York. She lives with her husband and three German Shorthaired Pointers in a 1912 farmhouse which is under constant renovation.
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JUDITH A. REISMAN, PH.D. has done extensive research on… “fraudulent sex science, sex education and…the power and effect of images and the monopoly media to alter human brain, mind, memory and conduct.” Her expert research has been utilized by the U.S. Departments of Justice, Education, and Health and Human Services. She has served as the President for the Institution for Media Education from 1985-2009.
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Stuart H. Schwartz serves as a professor of communications at Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia and as the editor and chief of the MediaHope.com project.
Dr. Schwartz arrived at Liberty after a 20-year career as a senior executive with media and retail organizations and is considered to be a national authority on media market research.
Dr. Schwartz received his B.A. from University of Connecticut, his M.A. from Fairfield University, and his Ph.D. in Communications from Temple University in Philadelphia, where he was a University Fellow.
Recently, Dr. Schwartz has become a regular conributor for American Thinker, a nationally recognized web publication. He has also been featured on the Dennis Miller Radio show.

