Inger Stole
Inger Lisbeth Stole is a media scholar and associate Professor of communication at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Background and Education
Stole earned her undergraduate degree from the University of Washington, where she met her future husband, Robert W. McChesney. She earned her Ph.D. in mass communication from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1998.
Academic career
She is affiliated with the Department Of Speech Communication at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her research focuses on communication history, and specifically advertising, consumer culture, and public relations. Her work also examines historic and present-day consumer movements.
Books
- 2006: Advertising on Trial: Consumer Activism and Corporate Public Relations in the 1930s
Articles
- Advertising on Trial: an Interview with Dr. Inger Stole
- "Cause-Related Marketing": Why Social Change and Corporate Profits Don’t Mix
- Stay Free! interview with Inger Stole