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Raul Reis is the dean of the School of Communication at Emerson College in Boston, USA. He was the dean of the School of Journalism and Mass Communication (SJMC) at Florida International University (FIU) in Miami, Florida, from 2011 to 2016.

Reis is a native of Belém, a city in the Amazon region of Brazil. He earned his bachelor’s degree in Brazil, and both of his graduate degrees in the United States: master’s at Kansas State and Ph.D. at the University of Oregon.

Reis has published extensively in academic journals and books on topics such as the impact of mass media on traditional communities; Latin American and Brazilian media; higher education; and science, health and environmental communication. His academic articles have appeared in the Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media, Journalism & Mass Communication Educator, Journal of Mass Media Ethics, Science Communication, World Communication Journal, Environmental Communication, and the Journal of Intercultural Communication, among others. He has co-authored a book titled “Mass Communication: Producers and Consumers” (2010), and another called “Writing and Reporting for Digital Media” (2015). Reis has contributed chapters to five edited academic books, and his research has been reprinted in specialized encyclopedias.

Previously to entering academia, Reis worked for many years as a newspaper, television and magazine reporter and editor for Brazilian and U.S. news organizations. As a journalist, he covered politics, sports, city news, and science and the environment, among other topics.

As dean of the SJMC at FIU, he led the school through a period of growth that included the creation of two new undergraduate majors (Broadcast Media and Digital Media), and one new graduate program (online master’s in Strategic Communication), which added 200 new students to the SJMC. Under his leadership, the school’s permanent endowment grew by 158 percent in only three years, from $1.16 million in 2011 to $3 million by 2014. The school’s annual budget grew by 32 percent in the same period, from $4.17 million to $5.5 million.

Before FIU, Reis was a faculty member at California State University, Long Beach, from 2000–2011. He earned tenure at CSULB in 2003, and promotion to full professor in 2008. He also served as department chair, from 2007 to 2011.