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Profile

College / Department
Teaching areas
Journalism and related topics
Research areas
Journalism, History
Education
PhD, Policy And Communication, Boston University, United States, 1994
MA, International Relations, Boston University, United States, 1990
BS, Communication, Boston University, United States, 1987
Contact
+971 6 515 2756
Dr. Joseph Gibbs
Professor
PhD, Boston University, United States
Joseph Gibbs worked as a reporter and editor on Greater Boston-area newspapers prior to joining AUS in 2002. His research and publications have addressed various media-related and historical topics. He earned an interdisciplinary doctorate combining policy and communication studies from the University Professors Program of Boston University.
Publications
Joseph Gibbs. A modern version of restoration comedy? Double entendre, objectification, fearful men and rakes manque in the television work of Benny Hill, Critical Studies In Television, 14 November 2023
Joseph Gibbs. Crime News in a Loyalist Press Environment, Arab Media & Society, 17 August 2023
Joseph Gibbs. From Peers to Professionals: Regulating Influencer Marketing in the United Arab Emirates, Arab Media & Society, July (3rd Quarter/Summer) 2020
Joseph Gibbs. The Brevity and Severity of Golden Age Piracy Trials, International Journal Of Maritime History, 6 December 2019
Joseph Gibbs. Business News in a Loyalist Press Environment, Journalism, 10 October (4th Quarter/Autumn) 2019
Joseph Gibbs. A Certain False, Malicious, Scandalous and Famous Libel': Sir Henry Morgan's Legal Action Against a London Publisher of Alexander Exquemelin, 1685., International Journal Of Maritime History Xxx:1, 1 February 2018
Joseph Gibbs. John Massey, George Lowther, and the Taking of the Gambia Castle, 1721, International Journal Of Maritime History, 1 August 2016
Joseph Gibbs. 'The Touchstone of Our Sanity': Discussing Objectivity in Journalism Using Interdisciplinary Elements, Journal Of Interdisciplinary Studies In Education, 1 May 2015
Joseph Gibbs. On the Account in the Golden Age: Piracy and the Americas, 1670-1726, July (3rd Quarter/Summer) 2014
Joseph Gibbs. Digital Sources and Newer Approaches in the Study of Historical Piracy, Coriolis: The Interdisciplinary Journal Of Maritime History, 1 October (4th Quarter/Autumn) 2013
Joseph Gibbs. On the Account: Piracy and the Americas, 1766-1835, April (2nd Quarter/Spring) 2012
Joseph Gibbs. "John Brown and the Cambria County Press., Western Pennsylvania History, June 2009
Joseph Gibbs. The Berlin Newspaper Der Panzerbar, April 1945, Media History, 1 July (3rd Quarter/Summer) 2008
Joseph Gibbs. "The U.S. Navy Battles Pirates of the Caribbean., Naval History, April (2nd Quarter/Spring) 2008
Joseph Gibbs. Dead Men Tell No Tales: The lives and legends of the pirate Charles Gibbs, November 2007
Joseph Gibbs. Rest in Peace, Ronnie Barker, Soura, January (1st Quarter/Winter) 2006
Joseph Gibbs. Dissonant Laughter: Tony Hancock's Legacy of Comedy and Tragedy, Soura, September 2005
Joseph Gibbs. Let the Artist Speak Please: A Conversation with Ben Myers, Soura, September 2005
Joseph Gibbs. Media Content Analysis: An introduction to methodologies and applications, Journal Of Social Affairs, 1 July (3rd Quarter/Summer) 2004
Joseph Gibbs. "'We can hear the cannons roar every day'": The Civil War letters of Philip Lantzy, Eleventh Pennsylvania Reserves., Western Pennsylvania History, April (2nd Quarter/Spring) 2003
Joseph Gibbs. Three Years in the Bloody Eleventh: The campaigns of a Pennsylvania Reserves regiment, December 2002
Joseph Gibbs. The Official Secrets Act and the Second Stain, The Baker Street Journal, December 2002
Joseph Gibbs. Gorbachev's Glasnost: The Soviet media in the first phase of perestroika, October (4th Quarter/Autumn) 1999