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Ellen Wartella, Ph.D.

Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost, University of California-Riverside

Description

Ellen Wartella joined University of California at Riverside on July 1, 2004 as the Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost after serving as Dean of the College of Communication at The University of Texas at Austin. She also is a Distinguished Professor of Psychology at UCR. Dr. Wartella earned her Ph.D. in Mass Communication from the University of Minnesota in 1977 and completed her postdoctoral research in development psychology in 1981 at the University of Kansas. Dr. Wartella is a leading scholar of the role of media in children’s development. She was a co-principal investigator on the National TV Violence Study (1995-1998) and is currently co-principal investigator of the Children’s Digital Media Center project funded by the National Science Foundation (2001-2011). She has served on the Kraft Food Global Health and Wellness Advisory Council, the Decade of Behavior National Advisory, and the Board of Trustees of the Sesame Workshop.  She currently serves on the National Educational Advisory Board of the Children’s Advertising Review Unit of the Better Business Bureaus and the National Academy of Sciences Board on Children Youth and Families.  She recently served on the Institute of Medicine’s Panel Study on Food Marketing and the Diets of Children and Youth (2006). She is a member of the American Psychological Association, the Society for Research in Child Development and is the past President of the International Communication Association. Dr. Wartella is co-editor, with Dr. Norma Pecora and Dr. John Murray, of the book, Children and Television: Fifty Years of Research (Erlbaum, 2007). Dr. Wartella is the inaugural Senior Fellow of the Fred Rogers Center for Early Learning and Children’s Media.

Topic(s): Advertising/Marketing, Cognitive Development & Learning, Media Use & Access, Violence & Aggression

User Type(s): Academic, Journalist, Policymaker, Producer

Address

University of California at Riverside
900 University Avenue
4148 Hinderaker Hall
Riverside , California 92521

Contact Information

Phone(s): 951-827-5034
E-mail(s): .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
URL(s): http://provost.ucr.edu/

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