Derigan  Silver

• Assistant Professor
• Mass Communications Building, Room 107A
• 303-871-2657
• derigan.silver@du.edu

Focus:

Government secrecy, First Amendment theory and law, media law, Internet law and policy, media coverage of the United States Supreme Court.

Background:

PhD, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (2008)
MMC, Arizona State University (2004)
BA, University of California at Santa Barbara (1994)

Selected Accomplishments:
Member, Kappa Tau Alpha, National Honors Society in Journalism and Mass Communication
Outstanding PhD Graduate, School of Journalism and Mass Communication,
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (2008)

John B. Adams Award for Excellence in Mass Communication Law, School of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (2008)
Whitney and Shirley Mundt Top Student Paper Award, Law and Policy Division of the Association for Education and Journalism and Mass Communication Conference (2007)

Curtis D. MacDougall Top Student Paper Award, Newspaper Division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Conference (2007)