Dr. Maddie Liseblad is an associate professor in the Department of Journalism & Public Relations at Cal State Long Beach. Before CSULB, Liseblad taught at Middle Tennessee State's School of Journalism and Strategic Media and at Arizona State's Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication. She has stayed involved with the Cronkite School - where she received her Ph.D. - and in 2023 served as the keynote speaker for the annual Cronkite Research Symposium.
Liseblad is the publications chair for Journalism History (academic journal) and a past chair for the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication's History Division.
Prior to academia, Liseblad was a journalist and a PR professional. She has worked in the United States, as well as in Europe.
Outside of academia, Liseblad is a Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA) for children and youth in the foster care system in Orange County. She also recently served the U.S. Department of State as a Fulbright Specialist at Babeș-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca in Romania.