Hong Cheng is Professor and Director of the Richard T. Robertson School of Media and Culture (formerly the School of Mass Communications) at Virginia Commonwealth University. His work includes Becoming a Media Savvy Student (co-authored with Guofang Wan, 2004); Advertising and Chinese Society: Issues and Impacts (co-edited with Kara Chan, 2009); and Social Marketing for Public Health: Global Trends and Success Stories (co-edited with Philip Kotler and Nancy Lee, 2011). He is a former head of AEJMC’s Advertising Division and International Communication Division, a current associate editor of Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly, and the chair-elect of the National Education Executive Committee of the American Advertising Federation.