Kim Zarkin, Ph.D
FULL-TIME FacultyProfessor
Phone: 801.832.2823
Email: kzarkin@westminsteru.edu
Office Location: Foster Hall 108
Office Hours: MW 2:00–3:30 p.m.
Degrees
Ph.D. University of Florida
M.A. Emerson College
B.A. James Madison University
About
Dr. Kim Zarkin is a professor and chair of the Communication program at Westminster
College. She also chairs the Arts Administration program. Zarkin teaches broadly in
Mass Communication, offering courses in Media & Society, Communication Law & Ethics,
and Race, Gender, Class & the Media. Her primary area of research is the regulation
of sexually explicit speech.
Dr. Zarkin has published two books. Anti-Indecency Groups and the Federal Communications
Commission: A Study in the Politics of Broadcast Regulation was published by The Edwin
Mellen Press in 2003. Her second book was co-authored with her husband, Westminster
political science professor Dr. Michael Zarkin. The Federal Communications Commission
Front Line in the Culture and Regulation Wars was published by Greenwood Press in
April of 2006. It is the first book on the Commission to detail the regulatory history
of both broadcasting and telephony.
Dr. Zarkin has a PhD from the University of Florida, a M.A. in Radio from Emerson
College, and a B.A. in Mass Communications from James Madison University.
Interests
Mass Media Law & Ethics Broadcast History & Content Regulations Electronic Media Impact of New Technologies on Society
Areas of Expertise
Media Law, First Amendment, regulation of indecent speech, media ethics, public relations, media history
