Clay Calvert'91

    Clay Calvert, ’91, the John and Ann Curley Professor of First Amendment Studies, serves as co-director of the Pennsylvania Center for the First Amendment, housed in the College of Communications at Penn State University. His research and teaching focus on issues involving the freedoms of speech and press. Calvert is the author of the book Voyeur Nation: Media, Privacy, and Peering in Modern Culture (Westview Press, 2000), the first scholarly book to examine the 21 st century phenomena of reality TV shows. He is co-author of the nation’s top-selling undergraduate communications law textbook, Mass Media Law (McGraw-Hill). Calvert has published more than 60 law journal articles in the past 10 years.