Lewis Freeman

Lewis Freeman (Ph.D., Columbia), Senior Lecturer in the Department of Communication and Media Studies, has taught at Fordham since 2000. Freeman serves on the Board of Directors of the Children’s Media Association and has also served on the boards of the New York State Communication Association and the Eastern Communication Association as well as on the Task Force on Discipline Advancement for the National Communication Association. He taught at Columbia University for more than a decade, including six years as Director of the Speech Program. His achievements include an Urban Communication Foundation prize, the New York State Communication Association Neil Postman Mentor Award, two Telly awards, a Time Warner Cable grant to study the future of children’s television programming from a media literacy perspective, and a book, Sitcom Society: Social Stratification and Social Mobility in Situation Comedy (2008). His most recent publications are a book chapter, “Symbolic Interactionism: Yogi Berra Stadium and the Minor League Ballpark Experience,” in Communication and the Baseball Stadium: Community, Fandom, Memory, and Commodification (Peter Lang, 2017); and the Instructor’s Resource Manual for the textbook Media & Culture: Mass Communication in a Digital Age (co-author; Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2019).

Companies

• Assistant Professor Fordham University (2000)
• Senior Lecturer Dept. of Communication & Media Studies, Fordham Univ. (2000)
• Senior Lecturer, Dept. of Communication & Media Studies Fordham University (2000)
• Consultant Freeman Communication Consulting (1982)
• Director, Speech Program Columbia University (1982 — 2000)
• Adjunct Lecturer, College Teaching & Academic Leadership Program Teachers College, Columbia University (1987 — 1992)