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Matthew Cecil received his B.S. in History from South Dakota State University in 1995. He then went on to Minnesota State University at Mankato to receive his M.A. in History. In 2000, he graduated from the University of Iowa with a Ph. D. in Mass Communication with a specialization in Publication Relations.
Cecil's career has includes experience as a political reporter and columnist, and a media relations practitioner in South Dakota and North Dakota. His teaching career started as a graduate teaching assistant at the University of Iowa. His first Assistant Professor position was a Purdue University in the Department of Communication from 2000-2002. He then took a position at the University of Oklahoma. In 2005, he moved back to his hometown of Brookings, SD and South Dakota State University. Dr. Cecil is now an Associate Professor and the Coordinator of the Media Production Emphasis in the Department of Journalism & Mass Communication. Dr. Cecil teaches a variety of courses including the department's introductory course, Introduction to Mass Communication, as well as basic video production, new media, and public relation skills.
Cecil's specialty area is new media and media history, but his expertise would be the FBI public relations during the J. Edgar Hoover era. Dr. Cecil's scholarly work has appeared in American Journalism, Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly, The Journalism Inquiry, and other national and international journals.