Matthew W. Seeger
Interim Dean, College of Fine, Performing and Communication Arts – Wayne State University
Panelist - 1:00pm, Thursday, April 7th – Catalysts for the Creative Economy: Universities, Colleges, and the Post-Industrial City
Matthew W. Seeger, (Ph.D., 1982, Indiana University) is Interim Dean of the College of Fine, Performing and Communication Arts and Professor of Communication at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan, USA.
The College of Fine, Performing and Communication Arts (CFPCA) serves over 2,500 students majoring in 16 undergraduate and 12 graduate programs through its five departments of the James Pearson Duffy Department of Art and Art History, the Department of Communication, The Maggie Allesee Department of Dance, the Department of Music and the Department of Theatre.
Seeger’s research interests concern crisis, and risk communication, crisis response and agency coordination, health communication, the role of media in crisis, crisis and communication ethics, failure of complex systems and post-crisis renewal.
He has worked closely with the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on communication and the anthrax attack and on pandemic influenza preparedness. He is an affiliate of the National Center for Food Protection and Defense where he studies issues of food safety and recalls. He is Co-PI on the National Science Foundation Grant, Multi-Agency Jurisdictional Organized Response, a project involving crisis coordination in complex social-technical systems. Seeger also works with the National Center for Border Security and Immigration.
His work on crisis, risk and communication has appeared in over 100 journal articles, book chapters, and conference proceedings. Seeger is the author or co-author of six books on crisis and risk communication. He has advised over 35 doctoral dissertations.