E-mail: lisasisk@sc.edu

Office:
Phone: 803.777.8605
Room: Coliseum 3020C

Hours:
Monday, Wednesday 2 - 4 p.m.
Tuesday, Thursday 10 - 11 a.m.
or by appointment

Fall 2008 Syllabi:
Jour 436 - Public Relations Writing
Jour 531 - Public Relations Campaigns

Journalism 463 Blog:
Atlanta Public Relations Experience

Lisa Sisk
Instructor

B.A., Lindenwood College
M.A., Univ. of South Carolina

Lisa Sisk has worked in the public relations field for more than 30 years, beginning in St. Louis with the local Manning, Selvage & Lee office, where she handled public relations and investor relations for clients ranging from non-profits to Fortune 100 companies. She also has worked with several non-profit organizations and in the corporate, government and public education sectors of communications and public relations.

She joined the faculty of the School of Journalism and Mass Communications full time in 2005 after teaching as an adjunct since 2001.

In 2006, USC's Mortar Board honor society awarded Sisk its Excellence in Teaching Award.

She earned her bachelor's degree in Communications from Lindenwood College in St. Charles, Mo., completed two years of post-graduate study in journalism at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale and earned her Master of Arts in Journalism from USC.

Among the courses she teaches in the advertising/public relations sequence are Public Relations Campaigns, Public Relations Writing, Mass Media Writing and Principles of Public Relations. She also teaches the graduate level campaigns class as well as the advertising and public relations components in the Camp Carolina program for incoming graduate students. She developed and teaches the Public Relations Experience in Atlanta class for May sessions.

Sisk serves on the board of directors of Richland District Two Educational Foundation as vice president. She is the former Executive Director of the Wildlife Coalition of the Midlands, and a former board member of the South Carolina chapter of the International Association of Business Communicators, the Media Club of Columbia and City Year Columbia.