People
Faculty
Cheryl Heckler
Titles
- Associate Professor
Education
- M.A. Religious Education, United Theological Seminary, May 1992
- B.A. English Journalism, Miami University, May 1981
Teaching Interests
- Computer-assisted reporting
- Public affairs reporting
- International journalism
Research Interests
- The White House and the media
- Italian journalist Indro Montanelli
- Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Edmund Stevens
Selected Publications
- An Accidental Journalist. University of Missouri Press, 2007.
- Heart and Soul of a Nation: How the Spirituality of Our First Ladies Changed America. Doubleday Publishers, N.Y. 1997
- The Carpenter’s Apprentice: The Spiritual Biography of Jimmy Carter. Harper Collins Publisher, N.Y. 1996. Co-authored with Daniel Ariail
Work in Progress
Cheryl Heckler is an associate professor of journalism at Miami University of Ohio. Author of Heart & Soul of the Nation: How The Spirituality of Our First Ladies Changed America published with Doubleday in 1997, she is a former writer with the New York Times Syndicate and has been published in more than 100 newspapers in North America. Her work as a correspondent in Italy has been published in the International Herald Tribune and the Christian Science Monitor. Currently she is editing the memoirs of the late Pulitzer Prize winner Edmund Stevens and writing a book about the unique friendship of Stevens and the late Italian journalist Indro Montanelli.