Dr. Fritz Cropp,
Director of the Transatlantic Center
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Dr. Fritz Cropp, Director of the Transatlantic Center |
Dr. Fritz Cropp is the Director of the Transatlantic Center (formerly the European Union Center) of the University of Missouri-Columbia (UMC). He is an associate professor in the School of Journalism at UMC.
Fritz Cropp directs a diverse array of international programs at the Missouri School of Journalism, where he also is an associate professor of advertising. He has managed several large grants from the U.S. Department of State aimed at building journalism education programs around the world, including the Bringing the Missouri Method to Moscow State University and the Giving Voice to Democracy: Building a Graduate Journalism Program in Moldova programs.
Cropp works with graduate students from more than 25 countries. He has developed and implemented a variety of short-term training programs for journalists and educators, both in their native countries and at the School. Cropp oversees academic programs for more than 20 visiting professionals and scholars on an annual basis.
Cropp taught in the public relations sequence at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University prior to joining the Missouri School of Journalism faculty in 1998. He earned his doctorate degree at the Missouri School of Journalism two years earlier, with a dissertation that explored perceptions of advertising among advertising executives in Japan. Cropp's master's project, completed at California State University, Fullerton, examined perceptions of public relations practitioners among newspaper journalists.