Faculty
David Rees
David Rees is the chair of the photojournalism faculty and has taught at Missouri since 1987. He is co-director of the Missouri Photo Workshop. He has an undergraduate degree in English from his native Nebraska and an M.A. in journalism from Missouri. He worked for 10 years at the Columbia Daily Tribune as photographer, picture editor and designer prior to joining the MU faculty. He maintains interest in grassroots photojournalism, and has a strong interest in doing multimedia projects.
E-mail: reesd@missouri.edu
Web Site: http://www.missouri.edu/~reesd
Jackie Bell
Jackie Bell worked as photographer, picture editor and designer prior to joining the MU faculty in January 2001 after two years as an Assistant Professor at the University of Montana. She has 15 years of combined experience as a staff photographer at The Tennessean, The South Florida Sun-Sentinel, The Arizona Daily Star and a chain of magazines in Tel Aviv, Israel. She has worked as adjunct faculty at The Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale and Nashville State Technical Institute. Jackie has a master’s degree in Photographic Communication from Ohio University and an undergraduate degree from the University of Michigan. Her areas of special interest include Latin America, where she has worked on a long-term photography project, and underwater photography. Jackie lives in Columbia with her daughter. E-mail: belljs@missouri.edu
Rita Reed
Rita Reed has been on the faculty since 2000. Previously she was a staff photographer at the Minneapolis Star Tribune for 14 years, where she has won the state photographer of the year multiple times. A recipient of the Nikon Sabbatical grant, Rita has also photographed and written, “Growing Up Gay in America, the Sorrows and Joys of Gay and Lesbian Adolescence,” a documentary black and white project published as a book by Norton in 1997. Rita has been a faculty member of the Missouri Photo Workshop and the Kalish Workshop in picture editing and regularly serves as a speaker on photojournalism and as a juror in photography competitions. She is also director of the College Photographer of the Year Competition. E-mail: reedri@missouri.edu
Rick Shaw
Rick Shaw is the director of the Pictures of the Year International and has taught picture editing and management courses. In 2004 Rick joined the Missouri School of Journalism as the Missourian Photo Director, coming from The Hartford Courant, where he was the director of design and graphics. Rick’s career began as a photojournalist and moved into picture editing at The Florida Times-Union in Jacksonville and then The Sacramento Bee for 12 years. At The Bee, he served in a variety of positions including photo editor, assistant director of photography, and later as an assistant news editor for AP. Prior to joining the Courant in 2001, Rick was the director of photography and graphics at The Arizona Republic in Phoenix. He has been recognized with several design and picture editing awards, including Picture Editor of the Year honors in POY and PEQCC competitions. Both The Bee and The Courant have received the Angus McDougall Overall Excellence in Editing Award. E-mail: shawrf@missouri.edu
Keith Greenwood
Keith Greenwood keeps one foot on the theoretical side of photojournalism and the other foot on the practical side. He joined the faculty in 2008 from the University of Oklahoma and also taught at Michigan State University. Throughout his career he was worked with photography, print and web design, video editing and audio. He has a PhD from Missouri, where he also worked with the Pictures of the Year archive. He teaches courses related to photojournalism history, photojournalism’s role in society and multimedia-oriented photojournalism. E-mail: greenwoodk@missouri.edu
Abby Pheiffer
Abigail Pheiffer is the interim Director of Photography at the Columbia Missourian and teaches the course in photo desk management. She earned her Master’s degree from the Missouri School of Journalism by working with two fellow graduate students to edit and publish a documentary photojournalism book, Arrow Rock: where the past is the future. She completed a multimedia internship at Washingtonpost.com and worked as a Graduate Coordinator for Pictures of the Year International and the Missouri Photo Workshop. Prior to graduate school, Abigail was a staff photojournalist at the Loudoun Times-Mirror in Virginia. She has received an editing award from Pictures of the Year International and multiple photography awards from the Virginia Press Association. E-mail:pheiffera@missouri.edu
Emeritus
C. Zoe Smith
C. Zoe Smith, Ph.D. from the University of Iowa, has a rich background that blends academic and practicing photojournalism. She is a well-recognized photo historian and has published widely. From 1992-1998 she was a member of the Accrediting Council of the Association of Educators in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC).
E-mail: smithcz@missouri.edu
Web site: http://web.missouri.edu/~photowww/zoe/zoe.html