Marquita Byrd, Associate Professor
B.S. (1972) Central Missouri State University; M.A. (1975) Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville; Ph.D. (1979) University of Missouri. Primary Area of Expertise: Interpersonal Communication. Other areas of interest: interracial communication, interviewing.
Stephanie J. Coopman, Professor and Interim Department Chair
B.S. (1979) Western Michigan University; M.A. (1982) Central Michigan University; Ph.D. (1989) University of Kentucky. Primary Areas of Expertise: Organizational Communication, Applied Communication. Other areas of interest: health communication, disability, small groups, new media.
Deanna Fassett, Associate Professor
B.A. (1995) University of California, San Diego; M.S. (1996) Southern Illinois University, Carbondale; Ph.D. (2000) Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. Primary Area of Expertise: Pedagogy. Other areas of interest: communication education; instructional communication; critical, feminist, anti-racist, and performative pedagogies.
Ge Gao, Professor
B.A. (1984) Beijing Broadcasting Institute; M.A. (1988) and Ph.D. (1990) Arizona State University. Primary Area of Interest: Intercultural Communication. Other areas of interest: cross-cultural interpersonal communication, communication in the Chinese culture, and research methods.
Rona Halualani, Professor
B.A. (1992) University of California at Davis; M.A. (1995) California State University, Sacramento; Ph.D. (1998) Arizona State University. Primary Area of Expertise: Intercultural Communication. Other areas of interest: language, culture, and communication; cultural studies; ethnography; cultural identity; race relations; intercultural contact; globalization; diaspora; transnational studies; and the racial state.
Timothy G. Hegstrom, Professor and College of Social Sciences Dean
B.A. (1970) Brigham Young University; M.A. (1970) University of Montana; Ph.D. (1984) University of Colorado. Primary Area of Expertise: Organizational Communication. Other areas of interest: applied communication, discussion, nonverbal communication.
Hanns J. Hohmann, Professor
Legal State Examination (1971) University of Gottingen; LL.M. (1973) University of California, Berkeley; J.S.D. (1987) University of California, Berkeley. Primary Area of Expertise: Rhetoric. Other areas of interest: legal rhetoric, rhetorical criticism, classical rhetoric, and argumentation.
Dennis Jaehne, Professor and Associate Vice President, Undergraduate Studies
B.A. (1966) Brigham Young University; M.S. (1986) and Ph.D. (1989) University of Utah. Primary Area of Expertise: Rhetoric. Other areas of interest: public discourse, and environmental communication.
Kathleen McConnell, Assistant Professor
B.A. (1997) The Evergreen State College; M.A. (2003) Bowling Green State University; Ph.D. (2008) Indiana University. Primary Area of Expertise: Rhetoric and critical/cultural studies. Other areas of interest: rhetorical criticism, instructional communication and education discourse, critical race and gender theory.
Priya Raman, Assistant Professor
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Mattnew Spangler, Associate Professor
B.S. Speech (1996) Northwestern University; M.A. Communication Studies (1998) University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; M.Phil. Theatre (2000) Trinity College Dublin, Ireland; Ph.D. Communication Studies (2004) University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Primary Area of Expertise: Performance Studies. Other areas of interest: Irish studies, globalization, post-colonial studies, adaptation of literature for stage performance, film studies.
Shawn Spano, Professor
B.A. (1981) Humboldt State University; M.A. (1983) University of Wyoming; Ph.D. (1988) Indiana University. Primary Area of Expertise: Interpersonal communication. Other areas of interest: communication theory, language pragmatics, research methodology.
David Terry, Assistant Professor
B.S. in Speech (1999) Northwestern University; M.A. Communication Studies (2005) Louisiana State University; Ph.D. Communication Studies (2009) University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Primary Area of Expertise: Performance Studies. Other areas of interest: cultural studies, oral history, ethnography, place and space, modern Greek studies, digital storytelling.
Anne Marie Todd, Associate Professor
B.A. (1998) Emory University; M.A. (2000) and Ph.D. (2002) Annenberg School for Communication, University of Southern California. Primary Area of Expertise: Rhetoric. Other areas of interest: argumentation, environmental communication, social movements, globalization.
Federico Varona, Professor
B.A. (1976) Universidad Pontificia de Salamanca, Spain; M.A. (1988) and Ph.D. (1991) University of Kansas. Primary Area of Expertise: Organizational Communication. Other areas of interest: intercultural communication, interpersonal communication.
Andrew F. Wood, Professor
A.A. (1992) St. Petersburg Junior College, Clearwater Campus; BA (1994) Berry College; MA (1995) and Ph.D. (1998) Ohio University. Primary Area of Expertise: Computer mediated communication. Other areas of interest: rhetorics of space and place, visual communication, tourism and travel.
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