Emil Dansker

Emil Dansker, Ph.D.

"In his first assignment out of Northwestern, Dansker was a Marine Corps combat correspondent. Following military service, and for the next 15 years, he was a reporter and editor for newspapers in Illinois and Ohio. In the early 1970s he began teaching journalism at Bowling Green where he also was advisor to the student newspaper. In 1986 he moved to Central State University of Ohio, a historically black school, where he taught journalism and speech and managed the public radio station. He retired in 1996.

"In Ohio Dansker also taught part-time at several universities and colleges including Cincinnati, Dayton, Findlay, Xavier, Wilberforce, and The Union Institute. He has led seminars on such topics as press coverage of the presidency, the politics of lobbying, and business ethics and the political process. He has done freelance writing for several national publications. He also studied at Hebrew Union College and was lay Jewish chaplain for 10 years at a hospital in Cincinnati. "Dansker is a member of several professional, historical, military, and ethnic associations. His honors include emeritus retirement from Central State University, an award from the American Institute of Architects for his writings on urban design, and induction into the Cincinnati Journalism Hall of Fame by the Society of Professional Journalists."

He is a regional representative of the International Communications Forum.