Ronald Bettig

Ph.D.: University of Illinois
Bachelor's degree: University of California-San Diego

Ronald Bettig joined the College of Communications in 1988. He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on the political economy of communications.

He is author of Copyrighting Culture: The Political Economy of Intellectual Property (1996, Westview Press) and co-author, with Jeanne Lynn Hall, of Big Media, Big Money: Cultural Texts and Political Economics (2002, Roman & Littlefield). He also has published a number of book chapters and journal articles and presented many conference papers on political economy, intellectual property, and media industries.

He is a longtime member of the Union for Democratic Communications and has served as a member of the organization's steering committee since 1993. He won the Excellence in Teaching Award from the College of Communications Alumni Society in 1996 and has been named Faculty Marshal five times. He also has chaired and served on dozens of scholar, master's and doctoral thesis committees.