Richard Cavell is Founding Professor of Media Studies at the University of British Columbia (Vancouver Canada). Mentored by Marshall McLuhan at the University of Toronto, Prof. Cavell went on to found the Bachelor of Media Studies Program at UBC. Author of a dozen books, he has published most recently The Explorations of Edmund Snow Carpenter, which received the McLuhan Award from the Media Ecology Association, and Honorable Mention for the Book Prize in Museum Anthropology from the American Anthropological Association.
