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Mike M. Lyons

Associate Professor and Chair of Department of Communication and Media Studies

J. Michael Lyons

Department

Office

Bronstein 212

Phone

610-660-3429
Contact

My teaching, research and media work focuses on storytelling and civic media, particulaly related to narratives of crime and incarceration. In 2015, I co-founded the The Redemption Project with Abd'Allah Lateef, John Pace and Kempis Songster. Our goal is to bring the voices of incarcerated men and women across prison walls to help lead the movement for criminal justice reform.

Julija Kulneva and I founded West Philly Local, which covers parts of West Philadelphia - where we live.

 

    • BA, Temple University
    • PhD, Indiana University

  • Former correspondent and editor for the Associated Press and Agence France-Presse in the former Soviet Union and at newspapers in Central Europe, the British West Indies and Alaska.

  • Lyons, J. Michael, Rosado, Felix. “There’s Urgency Here”: A Pedagogy of Discomfort in a Prison Basement," PUBLIC: The Journal of Imagining America, Vol. 5, No. 2, Spring 2019.