Robert Hilliard

professor, visual, media arts, Emerson

Dr. Robert L. Hilliard was the chief of the Educational Broadcasting Branch of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and chaired the Federal Interagency Media Committee for the White House. Prior to joining the Commission staff, Dr. Hilliard was both a broadcaster and teacher of broadcasting at various colleges and universities in New York and North Carolina. He also wrote a number of highly regarded college textbooks on various phrases of radio and television broadcasting. He currently teaches at Emerson College as a Professor of Visual and Media Arts and was formerly the Dean of Graduate Studies and Dean of Continuing Education there. [Source: http://www.lib.umd.edu/NPBA/oral/hilliard.html]