After decades years in national and local radio/TV/print and digital content creation, Ian Punnett stepped away from commercial media to pursue a Ph.D. from the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University in Phoenix. Before coming to Kansas State University in 2018 as a professor of practice at the A.Q. Miller School of Journalism and Mass Communication and chief operator of campus new music station Wildcat 91.9, Punnett published his fifth book, Toward a Theory of True Crime for Routledge Press which was based on his groundbreaking dissertation.
His other books include A Black Night for the Bluegrass Belle for Acclaim Press, How to Pray When You’re Pissed at God for Random House, several works which edited or coedited, and now How Millennials Can Get Us Out of the Mess We're In: A Jew, a Moslem, and a Christian Share Leadership Lessons from the Life of Moses which is coauthored by Rabbi Mordecai Schreiber and Dr. Iqbal Unus.