Keith Kenney

Full CV / Resume

Keith Kenney

803-553-1806

2441 9Ave. N.

St. Petersburg, FL 33713

Current Situation

• Retired and moved to St. Petersburg in August 2019

• Guardian ad Litem for seven children: advocate their best interests

• Starting a portrait photography business

• Mentoring at St. Petersburg High School in the Take Stock in Children program

• Giving tours as a docent at the Florida Museum of Photographic Arts

Skills

• Create and edit photographs

• Write and administer grants

• Teach people of all ages and skill levels how to create and edit photographs

• Teach and conduct workshops inside and outside the United States

• Create and edit a journal

• Manage multi-person, multi-year projects

Accomplishments

• Wrote and served as principal investigator of grants worth $ million

• Wrote 18 articles for refereed research journals

• Taught 16 different journalism and mass communications courses at the University of South

Carolina

• Wrote Philosophy for Multisensory Communication and Media (2016)

• Wrote Visual Communication Research Designs (2009)

• Edited Handbook of Visual Communication (2005)

• Founded Visual Communication Quarterly (now in its 25rd year)

• Directed project (2010-2015) to ensure the sustainability of a journalism school in Tbilisi,

Georgia

• Taught in China, Uganda, Georgia, Italy, India, Rwanda, Greece, Ethiopia

• Exhibited: “Travel Photography” (2006).

• Exhibited: “Black Pearls: Portraits of Uganda” (1997-1999).

• Exhibited: "A Collective Portrait of Xiamen, China" (1987).

Past Positions

• Associate professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communications (SJMC) at USC

1988-2019

• International coordinator for the SJMC 1988-2019

Education

• PhD in Mass Media from Michigan State University in 1991

• MS in Journalism from East Texas State University in 1984

• BJ in Photojournalism from the University of Texas, Austin in 1981