Michael Dahlstrom

Notable work and positions

Greenlee School of Journalism and Communication, Iowa State University - Director (2020-present); Liberal Arts and Sciences Dean's Professor

Biography

Michael F. Dahlstrom is the 17th director of the Greenlee School of Journalism and Communication at Iowa State University, a position he began July 1, 2020, after serving in an interim capacity from August 2019. He holds a Ph.D. in mass communications and environmental resources from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. A member of the Greenlee faculty for more than a decade before becoming director, he served as the school's associate director from 2016 to 2019, overseeing curriculum, assessment and academic advising. His research examines how storytelling shapes the communication of science across contexts including risk, health, agricultural and environmental communication, and the ethical considerations involved; his work has appeared in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, PLOS Biology, Communication Research and Science Communication. He co-founded the Science Communication @ Iowa State research group and its biennial Science Communication Summer Symposium Series, and is co-editor of Ethics and Practice in Science Communication. He is a Kavli Fellow and a past head of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication's Communicating Science, Health, Environment and Risk Division.