Film Media Program

Michael Vocino

Email: vocino@uri.edu
Office hours: by appt.

Michael Vocino holds degrees in cultural studies/film studies, library science, and political science from Boston University, the University of Rhode Island and the Universiteit van Amsterdam. He is a life member of the Phi Kappa Phi National Honor Society for Academic Achievement. Since 1980, he has held many administrative positions including Director of Libraries and Interim Dean of Libraries. He also has taught for years in the political science program, the Graduate School of Library and Information Studies, and the film media program. Vocino's research interests continue to be information ethics, public ethics, minority rights and the intersection of ethics and minority rights with film history/narrative and film theory.