Vitae
Education
University of Oregon. Eugene, Oregon – Ph.D., Media Studies, School of Journalism and Communication. 2012-2016. Certificate: New Media and Culture. Dissertation: “A Beautiful Death; Photography and Framing in Death With Dignity Storytelling.” Dissertation Advisors: Julianne Newton and Tom Bivins.
State University of New York Purchase College. Purchase, New York – M.A. Art History, Museum Studies. 1997-1999, 2007. Thesis: Eikoh Hosoe; Toward a New Visual Language. Thesis Advisor: Jane Kromm.
University of New Mexico. Albuquerque, New Mexico – B.A. University Studies, Journalism emphasis. 1986-1987.
University of Oregon. Eugene, Oregon – Double major in telecommunications and film/journalism. 1981-1984.
Employment
Associate Professor; University of Northern Colorado – August 2021-present
Journalism and Media Studies; School of Communication. Tenure granted 2021.
Assistant Professor; University of Northern Colorado – August 2016-2021
Producer and Owner Taylor Cat Productions; Longmont, Colorado – 2005-present
Field work and studio production work for mutliplatform production company (film/video, web, smartphone/tablet).
Adjunct Instructor; University of Colorado; Boulder, Colorado – August 2010-May 2012; January 2015 – December 2016
Adjunct professor in the Department of Journalism; College of Media, Communication and Information.
Visiting Instructor; Miami University; Oxford, Ohio – January 2010-May 2010
Visiting instructor in the Journalism Department of Miami University, offering the department’s first section in Photojournalism.
Other Research and Writing Experience
Researcher/Research Consultant
Lead Researcher, Four Mile Disaster Community Media Project, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado. Developed human subjects protocol and conducted oral history interviews for research project investigating the use of social media and other news sources (traditional and non-traditional) during and after a local disaster.
Consultant, Mi-Whi News, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio. Pilot project gathering feeds from citizen and professional journalists in a multiplatform web presence.
Graduate Teaching and Research Appointments
Graduate Teaching Fellow, University of Oregon; Eugene, Oregon
Graduate Teaching Assistant, Department of Art History, State University of New York Purchase College; Purchase, New York
Research Assistant, State University of New York Purchase College; Purchase, New York
Staff Writer
Arts Writer, Albuquerque Journal; Albuquerque, New Mexico (3 years)
Gallery/Curatorial Experience
Propose and coordinate exhibitions, including writing press releases and educational text, arranging loans of artwork and orchestrating installation of artwork. Oversee gallery/museum operations. Develop/maintain online presence, including the development of multimedia arts content.
Freelance Curator, Longmont, Colorado; Oxford, Ohio; Eugene, Oregon – 2007-2012
Director, Springfield Museum, Springfield, Oregon – 2006-2007
Director/Owner, Staton•Greenberg Gallery, Santa Barbara, California – 2002-2005
Director, Internet Sales/Client Services, Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York, NY – 1999-2002
Selected Publications
Books
Heisten, Mark, Ryan, Kathleen M. and Staton, David. Living in the Simulacra: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Baudrillard. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press (scheduled 2026).
Ryan, Kathleen M. and Staton, David, co-editors. (2022). Interactive Documentary: Decolonizing Practice-Based Research. New York: Routledge.
D. Staton, D, Macey, M. Napierski-Prancl, and D. Staton Eds. (2022), Persevering during the Pandemic: Stories of Resilience, Creativity, and Connection. Lexington Books, Washington D.C. Editors listed alphabetically, equal work provided.
Creative Work
Pin Up! The Movie: An Interactive Documentary. (2021). TaylorCatProductions. Producer. Interactive documentary (~90 minutes of content).
Ghost Resort (2021). TaylorCatProductions. Director. Documentary short (9 minutes).
Pin Up! The Movie. (2015/2020). TaylorCatProductions. Producer. Feature-length documentary (92 minutes).
Homefront Heroines: The WAVES of World War II. (2013/2015/2020). TaylorCatProductions. Producer of interactive documentary, including feature-length documentary (56 minutes) and website (www.homefrontheroines.com).
Backstretch. (2007). TaylorCatProductions. Producer of feature-length documentary film (60 minutes).
Book Chapters
Kathleen M. Ryan and David Staton, “Oral History, Visual Ethnography, and Interactive Documentary,” in The International Handbook of Ethnographic Film and Video, P. Vannini ed. (invited/refereed, New York, Routledge, 2020, update requested 2025 ed.).
David Staton, “Jemelle Hill, Twitter and ESPN: Thinking Inside the (Potter) Box,” in The ESPN Aftereffect, J. McGuire, G. G. Armfield, and A. Earnheardt eds. (refereed, New York: Peter Lang, 2019).
David Staton and Julianne Newton, “Photojournalism,” in Oxford Bibliographies in Communication, Patricia Moy ed. (invited, New York: Oxford University Press, 2019).
David Staton, “Lipsyte, the League, and ‘The Leader’: An Ombudsman’s Tale,” in The ESPN Effect: Exploring the Worldwide Leader in Sports, J. McGuire, G. G. Armfield, and A. Earnheardt eds. (refereed, New York: Peter Lang, 2015).
David Staton and Kathleen M. Ryan, “’All I Want for Christmas is You’: ‘Tis the Season for Holiday Romance,” in Friends, Lovers, Co-Workers, and Community: Everything I Know About Relationships I Learned from Television, K. M. Ryan, D. A. Macey, N. J. Springer, and M. Erickson eds. (New York: Lexington, 2015).
David Staton, “Mad Hatters: The Bad Dads of AMC,” in Television and the Self: Knowledge, Identity, and Media Representation, K. M. Ryan and D. A. Macey eds. (New York: Lexington, 2013).
Refereed Journal Articles and Conference Proceedings
David Staton, “The Heard Gaze,” Eikön Imago, 10 (2021, pp. 211-220)
David Staton, “Calling Time Out in Doha: The Seiko Block Camera and Image Ethics.” Journal of Communication Inquiry (forthcoming).
David Staton, “A Small Market Newsroom; Surveying the Field.” Journal of Media Education (April, 2020, pp. 46-48).
David Staton, “Darkness visible; blindness and borders/memories and movies,” Visual Studies (June, 2020, pp. 1-9).
David Staton, “A Small Market Newsroom; Surveying the Field,” in The Proceedings of the World Journalism Education Congress, July 2019, Paris. FR (in press, 2020 publication) .
David Staton, “Dragnet and the Big Idea,” InMediaRes (June 2, 2020), http://mediacommons.org/imr/content/dragnet-and-big-idea
David Staton, “Dun Dun!!: That Law and Order Sound,” InMediaRes (August 28, 2019) http://mediacommons.org/imr/content/dun-dun-law-and-order-sound
David Staton, “The Super Bowl: Re-examining a ‘spectacle,’” InMediaRes 17:19 (January 26, 2018), http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/imr/2018/01/26/super-bowl-reexamining-spectacle.
David Staton, “Eve (and Eden) Redeemed,” in The Image of Redemption in Literature, Media and Society: 2018 SASSI Conference Proceedings, Thomas G. Endres, ed., Society for the Academic Study of Social Imagery, 88-93.
David Staton, “Life (and death) with Dignity: Agency and the Heard Gaze,” in The Image of Rebirth in Literature, Media, and Society: 2017 SASSI Conference Proceedings, Thomas G. Endres, ed., Society for the Academic Study of Social Imagery, 65-75
Awards and Honors
Awards
Top Student Paper, Visual Communication Division, International Communication Association Annual Conference, San Juan, Puerto Rico, May 2015.
Creative Projects Award, Visual Communication Division, Association of Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Annual Conference, Montreal, Quebec, August 2014
Ohio Humanities Council Media Production Grant, Homefront Heroines: The WAVES of World War II, Oxford, OH, 2010
Honors
National Association of Television Production Executives (NATPE) Faculty Development Grant – participated at KGWN, Cheyenne, WY, July 2018
Peer-Reviewed Accepted Participant, Visual Methods Preconference, University of Turabo, International Communication Association Annual Conference, San Juan, Puerto Rico, May 2015.
Top Scholar (Highest Graduate Student Ranking), University of Oregon School of Journalism and Communication, 2013.
Kappa Tau Alpha, member 2013-2016.
Fellow, Visual Methods Seminar, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium, August 2013.
Fellow, Tin House Fiction Writer’s Workshop. Reed College, Portland, OR, 2007