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Lindsay M. McCluskey

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Associate Professor
Advisement Coordinator
Public Relations Unit Coordinator

Contact Information

158 Hewitt Hall
[email protected]

Office hours

Wednesdays (in person) 11:30 am- 12:30p & 1:45 - 2:45p or by appointment (email [email protected]

Fall 2025 Schedule:

  • PRL 311 800 Social Media Strategy Mon/Wed 3:00 - 4:20p Hewitt 207
  • PRL 215 ON1 Survey of Public Relations ONLINE

Conferences 

Conference Papers, Panels, and Presentations

McCluskey, Lindsay M. (Panel Chair), Riecke, Michael, Loper, Catherine, & O’Donnell, Kelly.  “Newsrooms, Boardrooms, and Classrooms: Preparing Students to Navigate Journalist-PR Practitioner Relationships.” New York State Communication   Association Annual Conference. Callicoon, New York. October 2019[Panel Discussion]

McCluskey, Lindsay M. “A Different Kind of Public Sector Practice: Local Law Enforcement Public Relations.” Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication  Annual Conference. (Public Relations Division). Toronto, Canada. August 2019. [Research Paper]

McCluskey, Lindsay M. Top Paper Panel. “More than ‘Beyond the Badge:’ Identifying and   Illuminating the Public Relations Activities of Local Law Enforcement on Twitter.” Eastern Communication Association (Political Communication Division). Providence, Rhode Island. April 2019. [Research Paper]

McCluskey, Lindsay M. “A Different Kind of Public Sector Practice: Understanding the Environmental Characteristics, Challenges, and Opportunities Associated with Local Law Enforcement Public Relations.” Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Southeast Colloquium. (Open Division-Research in Progress). Columbia, South Carolina. March 2019. [Research Paper]

McCluskey, Lindsay M“‘Really What We Do and Really Why We Do It:’ Citizens Academies as Public Relations Tools of Local Law Enforcement.” Association for Education in   Journalism and Mass Communication Midwinter Conference. (Mass Communication and Society Division). Norman, Oklahoma. March 2019. [Research Paper]

Education 

  • Ph.D., Manship School of Mass Communication, Louisiana State University, 2016
  • M.S., S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, Syracuse University, 2008
  • B.A., St. John Fisher College, 2007