Michael Kent

Michael L. Kent (1965-) was born in Boston Massachusetts but moved to Fairbanks Alaska at the age of three where he lived for more than twenty years. Michael grew up reading, playing D&D, sword fighting, shooting, and motorcycle touring.

Kent teaches public relations writing and publishing, and graduate classes on public relations theory. Kent has taught 30 different courses in his more than 20 years of teaching.

Kent has lectured internationally in Italy, Bosnia, Turkey, and the Czech Republic, and spent six months in Riga Latvia on a Fulbright scholarship.

Kent has more than 60 articles, book chapters, books, and professional publications, and more than 100 conference papers and professional presentations on public relation, international and intercultural communication, technology, dialogue, and media criticism.

Kent builds furniture, brews beer and wine, and has been working on training his four cats and three dogs.

Kent taught at SUNY-Fredonia, Rutgers University, spent five years as graduate advisor in the Communication department at Montclair State University in New Jersey, worked two years as an Associate Professor at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, and, most recently, teaches at the University of Oklahoma in Norman in the Gaylord College of Journalism and Mass Communication.

Kent attended the University of Alaska Fairbanks for his Bachelor's degree, the University of Oregon for his Master's degree, and Purdue University for his Doctorate.

He lives on a lake in Blanchard Oklahoma.