Welcome to the official website of Dr. J. Gregory Payne.
J. Gregory Payne is an Associate Professor in Emerson College's Department of Communication Studies. He is Director of the Center for Ethics in Political and Health Communication, which he co-founded in 1996. He also has taught at Tufts University's Department of Family Medicine and Yale University'sGlobal Marketing, a joint Health Communication program with Tufts School of Medicine, the first joint degree program of its kind, Marketing Communication and Political Communication. During this time, the number of graduates in the program increased from single digits to over 350. Dr. Payne also started and currently advises the Emerson chapter of the Communications, Politics & Law Association (CPLA) which hosts numerous guest speakers, events and trips for students throughout the course of each academic year.
He received his B.A, M.A. and Ph.D at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Phi Beta Kappa and Phi Kappa Phi) where he was a NDEA Fellow and a participant in the Big Ten Traveling Scholar Program with graduate work at Illinois, Wisconsin and the University of Southern California. Payne also earned an MPA from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.