Robertson School of Media and Culture, teaching journalism and mass communications classes. He has presented more than 50 research papers at national and international conferences and has published more than 30 articles in academic journals. Since 2010, Dr. Messner has served as co-Academic Director of the Social Media Institute of the Iraqi Young Leaders Exchange Program, which is sponsored by the U.S. State Department. He has been named a “Promising Professor” and “Emerging Scholar” by AEJMC and has been recognized as one of the “most social media savvy professors” in the United States.