Andrew Lingwall

Dr. Andrew Lingwall teaches undergraduate and graduate-level advertising and public relations courses in the Bellisario College of Communications on the World Campus.

Prior to joining academia, Lingwall worked as an account executive with Russell & Herder Advertising and PR in Minnesota and as a public relations specialist with Tacoma Community College in Washington state. He was also a news reporter, serving eight years as a freelance features writer with The News Tribune in Tacoma.

Lingwall’s research agenda includes public relations education and student writing skills in programs of journalism and mass communication. In 2017, he co-authored "The Basics of Media Writing: A Strategic Approach," for SAGE Publications. In 2019, he was named a Scripps Howard Foundation Visiting Professor in Social Media by the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC).

Lingwall is passionate about international study and travel. He has taught graduate seminars in strategic communication at Catholic University in Lille, France and an international public relations course at Universidad de Alcalá, Spain. Lingwall spent his 2017 sabbatical in Aalborg, Denmark studying public relations education. In 2023, he spent four months in Wellington, New Zealand studying the government’s crisis communications messaging during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Lingwall is also a professor of public relations at PennWest University Clarion.