, Distinguished Pollner Professor
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photo by Ryan Brennecke

Christine Boese, a writer for CNN Headline News and a blogging pioneer, arrived in Missoula in late August to teach at the J-School as the fifth Distinguished Pollner Professor.

Boese, a Wisconsin native, has been a newspaper reporter and photographer and has taught at universities in Wisconsin, Arkansas, Georgia, New York and South Carolina. Her doctoral dissertation at New York's Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute examined the online fan culture of "Xena, Warrior Princess."

Boese, who is also a poet, is teaching a seminar on blogging and works with the Kaimin staff.

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