Email: dn15@txstate.edu
Personal Web Page:
http://uweb.txstate.edu/~dn15/
Office: Old Main 226
Phone: 512-245-9653

Courses

MC2319 - Visual Communication
MC3390 - Publication Design and Production
MC4356E - Photojournalism
MC4311 - Independent Study
HON 2391B - The Role of Images in Mediating
Reality (Honors Course)


David Nolan received a Master of Arts in Mass Communication from Texas State and is currently working on a Ph.D. in Adult, Professional, and Community Education from the College of Education at Texas State.  With an impressive professional career in photojournalism, visual communication and publication design, Nolan brings a high caliber of skills to the classroom. 
 
Nolan teaches courses in visual communication, publication design and production, and photojournalism to more than 800 undergraduate students every year. He has presented research on education and journalism across the country and is currently working on research in photojournalism and professional development. 
 
His activities off-campus include being the associate editor of the Southwestern Mass Communication Journal (SWMCJ), a biannual scholarly journal published by the Southwest Education Council for Journalism and Mass Communication, a judge for numerous national press association contests, and guest speaker and lecturer at workshops and classrooms around Texas. Nolan is a member of the National Press Photographers Association, Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, and the Texas Photographic Society. 
 
Nolan's photography has been featured in publications such as: Time, Newsweek, U.S. News and World Report, New York Times magazine, Life, New York Newsday, Air Force magazine, Los Angeles Times, Airman Magazine, Torch magazine, countless books, websites and other media.  One of his most recent honors was the 2006 Friends of Fine Arts and Communication Excellence in Service Award from Texas State. 
 
Nolan’s professional career as a photojournalist started in 1978 in Tucson, Ariz., and then on to the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado. While there he was accepted into the military’s advanced photojournalism program at Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications. From Syracuse he was stationed as a photojournalist in Frankfurt, Germany, in 1984 where he covered assignments throughout Europe the Middle East and Africa. His photography included coverage of former President Ronald Reagan’s much publicized visit to a German Nazi SS stormtrooper cemetery; the repatriation of journalist Jeremy Levin who escaped from Islamic fundamentalists; the release of a hijacked TWA crew and passengers; the release of hostages from an American Airlines jet in Malta; Afghanistan during the height of the Soviet invasion to document the plight of the Mujahadeen; and coverage of Soviet Jewish dissident Natan Sharansky's release and flight to Israel. From Germany Nolan was assigned to England in 1988, where he covered the draw down of Ground Launched Cruise Missiles in England and the beginning of the thaw in the Cold War; United Nations Peacekeeping Forces in Namibia, Africa; Uzbekistan in the Soviet Union to cover burn victims from a Soviet gas pipeline explosion; and Europe and the Middle East to document military operations during Operation Desert Shield and Desert Storm. In 1991 he became the assistant director of photojournalism for Airman Magazine at the Air Force News Agency in San Antonio, Texas, where he covered the visit of Russian bombers to the United States; South America and the Caribbean to cover the "War on drugs"; the conflict in the Balkans, flying night airdrop missions of food to Muslim enclaves in Bosnia-Herzegovina, and combat re-supply missions into Sarajevo; Mogadishu, Somalia, at the height of tensions between warring clans and the U.S. military; McMurdo Station, Antarctica, photographing and writing about contributions to the National Science Foundation's work; and to Cuba to cover the plight of Haitian refugees. In 1994 he moved to Torch Magazine as the director of photojournalism where he was the editorial director of all visual material for the magazine. In 1997 he returned to Airman Magazine as the assistant director of photojournalism and once again traveled worldwide to produce photography, news, and assignments. His story highlights included a story on National Science Foundation activities in Antarctica and the airlift of "Keiko" the killer whale from Oregon to Iceland. In 1999 he was promoted to director of photography and managed thirteen photojournalists in San Antonio, and at news bureaus in Washington D.C.; Japan; and Germany. His last assignment was to the Middle East to cover combat operations during the American invasion of Afghnaistan before retiring in 2003.