Background
Purvis, Hoyt Hughes was born on November 7, 1939 in Jonesboro, Arkansas, United States. Son of Hoyt Somervell and Jane (Hughes) Purvis.
(Hoyt Purvis illuminates and analyzes the growing power of...)
Hoyt Purvis illuminates and analyzes the growing power of the media from within a sociopolitical context-thoroughly examining the media, the media-politics-government relationship, and its increasingly central role in our public affairs and public life. This book is comprehensive, accessible, and thoroughly up-to-date.
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academic administrator educator political scientist
Purvis, Hoyt Hughes was born on November 7, 1939 in Jonesboro, Arkansas, United States. Son of Hoyt Somervell and Jane (Hughes) Purvis.
BJ, University Texas, 1961. MJ, University Texas, 1963. Postgraduate, University Nancy, France, 1963.
Postgraduate, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, 1964.
Researcher/writer Southern Education Reporting Service, Nashville, 1963-1964. Reporter Houston Chronicle, 1964-1965. Press secretary, special assistant Sen.
J.W. Fulbright, Washington, 1967-1974. Director publications and lecturer Lyndon Baines Johnson School Public Affairs, University Texas, Austin, 1974-1976. Foreign/defense advisor and deputy staff director Sen.
Majority Leader and Sen. Democratic Policy Committee, Washington, 1977-1980. Senior research fellow Lyndon Baines Johnson School Public Affairs, University Texas, 1980-1982.
Director and professor Fulbright Institute International Relations, University Arkansas, Fayetteville, 1982—2000. Director International Relations, professor journalism and political science University Arkansas, since 2000.
(Hoyt Purvis illuminates and analyzes the growing power of...)
Member advisory council Science Information Liaison Office, Arkansas General Assembly, Little Rock, 1984-1996. Chairman Fayetteville City Cable Board, 1991-1993. Appointed J. Wm. Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board, 1994-2003, vice chair, 1995, chairman, 1996-1999.
Secretary Washington County History Society, since 2004. Board directors Fulbright Association, since 2004, vice president, 2007. Member International Studies Association (regional vice president 1984-1986), American Political Science Association, Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, Phi Beta Delta (named National Outstanding Faculty award 2000), Delta Phi Alpha.
Married Marion M. Purvis. Children: Pamela R., Camille C.