She teaches broadly in communication, including journalism, advertising and public relations. She also chairs the Gender Studies program. Dr. Zarkin has published two books, Anti-Indecency Groups and the Federal Communications Commission: A Study in the Politics of Broadcast Regulation (2003) and The Federal Communications Commission Front Line in the Culture and Regulation Wars (2006). Dr. Zarkin has a Ph.D. from the University of Florida, an M.A. in Radio from Emerson College in Boston, and a B.A. in Mass Communications from James Madison University.