Kenton Bird, is an assistant professor in the University of Idaho's School of Communciation.
He earned a bachelor's degree from the UI and a master's degree from University College, Cardiff, Wales. In 1988-89, he was a congressional fellow of the American Political Science Association. He worked on the staffs of Senator Tim Wirth of Colorado and Representative Lee Hamilton of Indiana, then the ranking Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee.
Bird spent 15 years as a newspaper reporter and editor for newspapers in northern Idaho. He has been a city hall reporter, copy editor, news editor, managing editor and editorial writer.
He completed a Ph.D. in American Studies from Washington State University. His dissertation was a political biography of Tom Foley, speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1989 to 1995.
After three years on the faculty at Colorado State University, Bird returned to the University of Idaho in 1999. He teaches media and society, public affairs reporting, history of mass communication, and public opinion.
In the spring of 2002, Bird was chosen as a Humanities Fellow by the College of Letters, Arts & Social Sciences. He and two faculty colleagues have planned a year-long series of seminars centered on the theme "Sense of Place: Time, Memory and Imagination in the Pacific Northwest."
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