Mary Benanti, College Assistant Professor Women's Studies
Email: mbenanti@nmsu.edu
Education: M.A. Government (New Mexico State University); B.A., Journalism and Mass Communications (New Mexico State University)
Teaching Interests: Politics; Media Studies; Women and Politics; Women and Media; Women and Public Policy
Courses Taught: Women, Politics and Media; Women and Mass Media; Women and the U.S. Presidency; Women and Immigration; Women's Movements and the Media; Introduction to Women's Studies
Research Interests: Politics and the media; presidency and the press; international relations
Other fields: 20 years as a journalist writing and editing for Gannett News Service, El Paso Times, Fort Collins Coloradoan, Tucson Citizen, USATODAY
Publications: As a practicing journalist, I have published in hundreds of newspapers across the country. I continue to publish in El Paso, Inc., El Paso Magazine, and the El Paso Times. My writing has covered topics ranging from U.S.-Mexico relations and immigration to national politics and political campaigns. I have also covered the femicides in Juarez and the statehouse in Denver. I wrote a weekly column between 1993 and 2004.
Video of Prof. Benanti as Part of Shine On in April 2011, a multi-media event produced by Mark Medoff and the Creative Media Institute. The event celebrates NMSU faculty members.
