Dan Fellner

 Dan.Fellner@asu.edu
 (480) 727-1526
 Santa Catalina 240G Mesa

Coll of Letters Science Poly

Faculty Assoc
Faculty, POLY Campus, Mailcode 2780
Partnership for Community Development
Interdisciplinary Humanities and Communication

Biography

Dan Fellner has more than 35 years of experience in corporate public relations, television news and
university teaching in the United States, Eastern Europe and Southeast Asia; he is a six-time Fulbright
fellow.

He began his career as a television news and sports reporter at stations in four different American
cities. He later spent 10 years in corporate public relations with the Dow Chemical Company, where
he held a wide variety of positions, including manager of news media relations.

In 1998 Fellner joined Arizona State University as a faculty associate and currently teaches courses in
Communications and English in the Interdisciplinary Humanities and Communication unit at ASU's
Polytechnic Campus.  He also is a faculty affiliate with ASU's Melikian Center for Russian, Eurasian
and East European Studies, and teaches courses in Eastern Europe, Asia and travel writing for ASU's
Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI). He also has taught travel writing as part of the adult
education program at the Desert Botanical Garden in Phoenix.

Fellner is a three-time Fulbright Scholar (Latvia, Moldova and Bulgaria) and three-time Fulbright
Senior Specialist (Lithuania, Latvia and Indonesia).  During his Fulbright grants, he has taught courses
in journalism, public relations and intercultural communications at seven foreign universities. He
also has taught one-week intensive courses in communications four times at the Fulbright
International Summer Institute (FISI) in Bulgaria.  In August 2015 he was named for the third time to
the speakers' bureau (AZ Speaks) of the Arizona Humanities Council and gives presentations about
Eastern Europe to audiences throughout Arizona.  

In addition to his teaching responsibilities, Fellner is a freelance travel writer for American
newspapers and magazines.  He has visited over 115 countries, all 50 U.S. states, and had more than
75 articles published on such diverse destinations as Greenland, Swaziland, Moorea, Nicaragua,
Myanmar, Kosovo, Tunisia, New Zealand, Dubai, Ecuador and India.  In 2017 Fellner was named to
the Society of American Travel Writers.  His published work can be viewed at www.Global-Travel-
Info.com. 

Fellner has a bachelor's degree in broadcasting from ASU and a master's degree in journalism from
The Ohio State University.