Chair, Communication & The Arts Dept.
Professor of Telecommunications
(1973) BA., Political Science-University of
Massachusetts-N. Dartmouth
(1979) MA., Telecommunications-Michigan State University-East Lansing
(1998) Ph.D., Communications-
Broadcasting/Religious Studies-University of
Tennessee-Knoxville
Michael Laney has been member of the Lee Communication faculty since 1995. A specialist in media and broadcasting, he is a dynamic part of the Lee faculty.
Dr.
Laney teaches Introduction to Broadcasting, Understanding the Mass Media, Electronic Broadcasting Management, International Broadcasting, Radio/TV Speech, New Technology and Society, Media Law, and Media and
Religion. In the Summer of 2004, he led a group of Communications students to
the Cannes Film Festival, London, Paris, Dublin, &
Munich, with the Com & the Arts Study Abroad Program
In the Summer of 2008 he will conduct the Communication
and Art Study Abroad to Lisbon, Paris, London, June
5-25, 2008.
He is the 100 Black Men of Bradley
County's Man of the Year for 1999. He is also listed in Who's Who Amongst African-Americans for
2000.
Dr. Laney received the
Lee University Excellence in Teaching Award for 1999, and Who's Who Among American Teachers for
2004, 2002, 2000. He is a 1998 recipient of the Mellon-ACA Fellowship, Kappa Tau Alpha (Mass Communications Honor Society)
and serves as the sponsor for UMOJA-The Black Student Association.
His research interests include the use of new technology for global evangelization; mediated religion; Christian Web site usage, and the contributions of African-Americans and Women
to the field of mediated religion. His research has been presented at international conferences and is published in various publications. 