Michael Levan Email & Phone Number

Washington DC-Baltimore Area

http://liminalities.net

• Liminalities is an international multimedia publication for innovative qualitative scholarship.
• Information design (product): created information map and data model to guide design of site; designed organizing, labeling, and navigation systems for effective user experience, content findability, and wayfinding.
• Information design (internal): created data models and systems to track author submissions and information, to track production schedule of individual content items and each quarterly issue, to track progress and.
• Platforms and coding: Open Journal Systems, VS Code, Dreamweaver, GIMP, Seashore, Photoshop, HTML, CSS.
• Product development: End to end production of 63 issues and 761 qualitative research articles and media projects, by contributors with diverse backgrounds from over 30 countries.
• Awards: Liminalities is a cross-disciplinary model/leader for digital scholarship and creative work; received a Distinguished Service Award from the National Communication Association for impacting the direction and.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Taught classes on Misperception, Misinformation, and Disinformation; Civic Engagement; Narrative Persuasion; and Communication, Culture, and Identity

Vancouver, WA

Taught classes on Persuasion & Propaganda, Globalization & Democracy, Visual Communication, Media & Society, Critical Media Studies, and Public Speaking

Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States

Taught courses on small group communication, fundamentals of communication, business & professional communication, and public speaking

Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida Area

• Program-level IA: designed and implemented a new program structure for the Communication undergraduate major based on competitive research, user interviews, program-wide course outcomes assessments, enrollment.
• Department website: completed full redesign through a research process of information mapping, user interviews, comparative analysis of peer institutions, navigation analytics, and content audits. Designed new.
• Internal IA: led a revision of department operating procedures to produce transparent, equitable, and inclusive data collection, organization, and assessment of faculty responsibilities and productivity.
• Product development: implemented a new hybrid learning experience in collaboration with the National Center for Academic Transformation and USF Media Innovation Team to create a learning model that improved student.
• Subject matter expertise (IA and UX): conducted original research resulting in book-length theory of human communication in terms of place (geographies and architectures of meanings) and movement (wayfinding, open.
• Product development: developed courses, learning strategy, and assessments for 13 unique courses (including public memory, visual culture, globalization & democracy, persuasion, space & place, relationships, young.

Ba, Economics, Philosophy

Ma, Aesthetics, Political Philosophy

Phd, Communication Studies, Performance Studies, Philosophy Of Communication