Fred Turner (born April 4, 1961) is an American academic. He is the Harry and Norman Chandler Professor of Communication at

Stanford University Stanford University, officially Leland Stanford Junior University, is a private research university in Stanford, California. The campus occupies , among the largest in the United States, and enrolls over 17,000 students. Stanford is conside ...

, having formerly served as department chair. Before joining Stanford as an associate professor, Turner taught Communication at

Harvard University Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of highe ...

's John F. Kennedy School of Government and the

Massachusetts Institute of Technology The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private land-grant research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Established in 1861, MIT has played a key role in the development of modern technology and science, and is one of th ...

. He earned a B.A. in English and American Literature from

Brown University Brown University is a private research university in Providence, Rhode Island. Brown is the seventh-oldest institution of higher education in the United States, founded in 1764 as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providenc ...

, an M.A. in English from

Columbia University Columbia University (also known as Columbia, and officially as Columbia University in the City of New York) is a private research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Church in Manhatt ...

, and a Ph.D. in Communication from the

University of California, San Diego The University of California, San Diego (UC San Diego or colloquially, UCSD) is a public land-grant research university in San Diego, California. Established in 1960 near the pre-existing Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego is ...

. In 2015, he was appointed as Harry and Norman Chandler Professor and Chair of the Department of Communication at Stanford. Before joining academia, Turner worked as a journalist for over ten years writing for ''The

Boston Phoenix ''The Phoenix'' (stylized as ''The Phœnix'') was the name of several alternative weekly periodicals published in the United States of America by Phoenix Media/Communications Group of Boston, Massachusetts, including the ''Portland Phoenix'' and ...

'' and ''

Boston Sunday Globe ''The Boston Globe'' is an American daily newspaper founded and based in Boston, Massachusetts. The newspaper has won a total of 27 Pulitzer Prizes, and has a total circulation of close to 300,000 print and digital subscribers. ''The Boston Glob ...

'', among others.

Bibliography

*''The Democratic Surround: Multimedia and American Liberalism from World War II to the Psychedelic Sixties'' (2013) *''From Counterculture to Cyberculture:

Stewart Brand Stewart Brand (born December 14, 1938) is an American writer, best known as editor of the ''Whole Earth Catalog''. He founded a number of organizations, including The WELL, the Global Business Network, and the Long Now Foundation. He is the auth ...

, the Whole Earth Network and the Rise of Digital Utopianism'' (2006) *''Echoes of Combat: Trauma, Memory, and the Vietnam War'' (''Echoes of Combat: The Vietnam War in American Memory'' in 1996; revised 2nd ed. with new title 2001)

References

External links

Personal Page of Fred Turner

* http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/bios/turner.html * http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/technology_and_culture/v046/46.3turner.html

{{DEFAULTSORT:Turner, Fred Living people Stanford University faculty Harvard Kennedy School faculty Brown University alumni Columbia University alumni 1961 births