Associate Professor, Media and CommunicationClassroom Building 130978.542.7086
B.A., Writing Seminars, The Johns Hopkins University (1986)
M.A./Ph.D, Communication Studies, Northwestern University (1996)
Assistant Professor, Emerson College (1997-2002)
Assistant Professor, Salem State College (2002-2007)
Associate Professor, Salem State College (2007- )
History of bird protection and print media
Internatural communication, environmental listening
Intercultural communication and popular culture
Teach advertising, social media, global communication, social marketing, media history.
Oehlkers, P.W. & A.I. Oehlkers (2021). Ada Clapham Govan and “Birds I Know”: Ecological Intimacy in a Mass-Mediated Sisterhood, in V. Fletcher and A. Dare (eds.), Communicating (in) the Anthropocene: Intimate Relations. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.
Oehlkers, P.W. (2020). “Birds I Know,” the Boston Globe’s Bird Column, 1932-1966. Bird Observer, 48(5).
Oehlkers, P.W. (2017). Bird Sermons: Thomas Green Fessenden and the New England Farmer (1822-1846). Bird Observer, 45(4), 247-252.
Cho, H., P. Oehlkers, J. Mandelbaum, K. Edlund, and M. Zurek. (2004). The Healthy Talk Family Planning Campaign of Massachusetts: A communication-centred approach. Health Education 104 (5), p. 314-325.
Oehlkers, P. W. (2000). Mediating news: The "international media echo" and symbolic international relations, in A. Malek & A.P. Kavoori (eds.), The global dynamics of news: Studies in international news coverage and news agendas. Stamford, CT: Ablex Publishing Corporation, p. 31-53.
Oehlkers, P.W. (2023). BYRDSXNG with House Sparrows: The Birdsong Project and the tuning of bird/human community. Conference on Communication and Environment. Harrisonburg, VA.
Oehlkers, P.W. (2023). Listening to birds as they listen: Eavesdropping on Baltimore orioles in one place over time. World Forum for Acoustic Ecology. New Smyrna, FL.
Oehlkers, P.W. (2021). Touching Birds: Images of the tame-wild in the early Audubon movement. Conference on Communication and Environment, Online everywhere.
Oehlkers, P.W. (2018). Rhetorical Orioles. Symposium on Sound, Rhetoric, and Writing. Nashville, TN.
Oehlkers, P.W. (2017). “Spare the Birds” Stories and Bird-Friendly Editors (1819- 1855). Conference on Communication and Environment, Leicester, England.
Oehlkers, P.W. (2015) Marketing Thornton Burgess. Conference on Communication and Environment, Boulder, CO.
Vice Chair, Needham Conservation Commission
Production Editor, Bird Observer
Blog projects include: Thornton W. Burgess Research League (http://twbresearchleague.blogspot.com); Wingéd Wardens (wingedwardens.blogspot.com); Japanrockology (japanrockology.wordpress.com); Harrison Cady cartoon archive (harrisoncady.tumblr.com).
Self-published volumes, including 1999 "Pokemon Case Study" and "A Bird-walk through Macunaíma" on archive.org @profoehlkers.