Clay Calvert

J.D.: University of the Pacific
Ph.D.: Stanford University
Bachelor's degree: Stanford University

Clay Calvert, the John and Ann Curley Professor of First Amendment Studies, serves as co-director of the Pennsylvania Center for the First Amendment, housed in the College of Communications.

Calvert's research and teaching focus on issues involving the freedoms of speech and press, and he is the author of the book Voyeur Nation: Media, Privacy, and Peering in Modern Culture (Westview Press, 2000). He is co-author of the nation's top-selling undergraduate communications law textbook, Mass Media Law (McGraw-Hill).

He has published more than 60 law journal articles in the past 10 years. He is a member of the State Bar of California. In 2004, he was named as recipient of the Krieghbaum Under-40 Award. The award, presented by the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC), annually recognizes a member of the association under 40 years old who has excelled in teaching, research and service.

A professor of communications and law, Calvert was named to the endowed Curley Professorship in May 2007.

He has taught four different classes at Penn State: Law of Mass Communications; News Media Ethics; Mass Media and Society; and the First-Year Seminar. Those diverse courses range from 20 or fewer students in the seminar to more than 200 in the media and society session. Calvert was also among the first faculty members in the College of Communications to develop and online course for delivery through Penn State’s World Campus.

He served as associate dean of the Schreyer Honors College from 2002-2003, and as interim dean of the Schreyer Honors College from 2005-2006.

Clay Calvert John and Ann Curley Professor of First Amendment Studies

In the News:
ABC News Online (10/26/07); ABC News Online (9/17/07)

Podcast
From Research Unplugged, "Policing the Public Airwaves: Sex, Violence and the FCC"