David Nolan

David Nolan, Ph.D.
REGENTS' TEACHER
School of Journalism and Mass Communication
College of Fine Arts and Communication
512.245.9653
dnolan@txstate.edu 

Areas of Interest: Photojournalism, Film, Digital Media, Visual Communication, Learning

Dr. David Nolan teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in visual communication, media design, photojournalism, visual storytelling and digital video production in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Texas State University. He received a Ph.D. from Texas State University in Education in 2012.

His activities off-campus include being a judge for numerous national press association contests, and guest speaker and lecturer at workshops and classrooms around the United States. Nolan is a longtime member of the National Press Photographers Association and the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication. Dr. Nolan's photography has won numerous awards and has been featured in publications such as: Time, Newsweek, U.S. News and World Report, New York Times magazine, Life, New York Newsday, Air Force magazine, Los Angeles Times, Airman Magazine, Torch magazine, countless books, websites and other media. He was recognized in 2000 for his photography by the National Press Photographers Association, in 2008 as the Honors Professor of the Year at Texas State, and received the Presidential Award for Excellence in Service at Texas State University in 2010.

Dr. Nolan's professional career as a military combat photographer and photography editor spanned 24 years, all seven continents, major conflicts in Somalia, Afghanistan, Desert Storm, and Bosnia, as well as other major stories throughout the world. He was the director of photography for Airman Magazine, the official magazine of the United States Air Force for many years and was a staff photojournalist before that. His last assignment was to the Middle East where he deployed three days after the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, to cover combat operations during the American invasion of Afghanistan before retiring from military service in 2003.