, Associate Professor / Photojournalism
Office phone: (406) 243-2238

Keith grew up in Mississippi during the 1960s. One year his parents went on vacation and returned with a 35mm camera. Keith started shooting cars, the business his father worked in all his life. He's been hooked ever since. He studied photojournalism at the University of Missouri, then got an internship with The Miami Herald , which led to a job offer the following year. It was exciting. The Cuban boatlift, riots on the streets of Liberty City, drug trials, the Miami Dolphins, University of Miami sports, Little Havana and Little Haiti made for a photojournalist's dream.

He became an experienced editor at the San Jose Mercury News, then spent his last 2 1/2 years there working as a picture editor and photographer. During his final year there, he photographed the Democratic National Convention, the Republican National Convention, the World Series and the Super Bowl.

Keith and his wife, Gin, and son Jordan moved to Virginia two months before the World Series earthquake in 1989. In Roanoke they bought an old house and restored it. It burned, and they restored it again. Three more sons--Hunter, Joshua and Reid--were born there. While at The Roanoke Times, Keith has worked as a photographer, picture editor and director of photography.

Keith came to Montana's School of Journalism in 1998, bringing with him a love of gardening, sports of all kinds, reading, but most of all his love for Christ, his family and a desire to teach. His motto for teaching is have fun and learn a lot.

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