Archives and Special Collections: Mordecai Lee Collection

Papers of Mordecai Lee: History of Public Relations in American Public Administration and NGOs/Nonprofits

Mordecai Lee was a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA, with an interest in government public relations, especially in American public administration. Beginning with his doctoral studies at Syracuse University (NY) in 1970 and until his retirement in 2018, he collected materials on the practice and history of public relations in the American public sector. In the 1990s, he expanded his collecting to include the practice of public relations by NGOs in the US (nonprofits in American parlance).

In 2017, he donated about 40 books to Bournemouth University’s library dealing with the practice of PR by governmental agencies and NGOs in the 20^th and early 21^st centuries. These were incorporated into the library’s collection. Separately, that year he donated his collection and research files to the PR History Archive at Bournemouth. 

A catalogue for this deposit is available as a pdf below.

Use Restrictions: Please credit all references to any material located in this collection to:

“Papers of Mordecai Lee, International PR History Archive, Special Collection, Bournemouth University, UK”