Miller joins public relations faculty
Dr. Haven Miller, former director of agricultural communications at the University of Kentucky, will join the Department of Journalism and Mass Communications faculty in the fall. He will teach mainly in the public relations major.
Miller
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He has directed the activities of the 45-person unit serving the University of Kentucky College of Agriculture and the statewide Cooperative Extension service.
The unit includes artists, writers, editors, photographers, video producers, media relations specialists, web designers, radio producers, IT staff, a distance learning unit and a magazine staff.
Prior to becoming director, he served as a communications specialist and then section manager for the UK unit. His other media experience includes feature writer for Data Base Publications in Austin, Texas; announcer for KMFA radio in Austin; news director for KSMU radio in Springfield, Mo.; and television anchor/show host in both Lexington and Springfield.
A graduate of Southwest Missouri State University in speech and theater, he earned his master's degree in journalism/public relations from the University of Texas at Austin and his doctorate in mass communications at the University of Kentucky.
He has served as instructor or co-instructor in communications and agriculture communications since 1996. He also has directed media relations training for the UK Cooperative Extension Agents and an intercultural communication seminar for high school students during the summer.
He received a fellowship to the Salzburg Seminar on Mass Media in the Age of Globalization and did research in England for his dissertation and for a published article on "Brits Compare US-UK Press."
In addition, he had an internship with BBC Radio Gloucestershire where he produced several reports aired on BBC and had a two-week seminar in London and Manchester on the British broadcast organizations.
Among his professional organizations are the National Association of Government Communicators, Public Relations Student Society of America, Society of Environmental Journalists and Agricultural Communicators in Education (ACE).
With his theater background in his undergraduate degree, he has continued acting as a hobby. He has performed in several university and community theatrical productions.
Miller visited the campus in February to meet with faculty, sit in on public relations classes and meet with students in Public Relations Student Society of America.
He will officially join the JMC faculty in August.
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