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Faculty and Staff

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  • Joani Bedore

    Joani Bedore

    Assistant Professor

    Interpersonal and Small Group Communication

  • Don M Boileau

    Don M Boileau

    Basic Course Director

    Public speaking, classroom communication, intercultural communication, communication theories, rhetorical criticism, parliamentary procedure

  • Carl Botan

    Carl Botan

    Professor

    Strategic communication as it is used in both public relations and strategic and emergency communication

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  • Xiaomei Cai

    Xiaomei Cai

    Associate Professor

    Children and media; Media effects

  • Richard T Craig

    Richard T Craig

    Assistant Professor

    Mass communication, media institutions, communication policy

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  • Stephen J. Farnsworth

    Stephen J. Farnsworth

    Associate Professor

    Political communication, journalism, media studies

  • Andy Finn

    Andy Finn

    Associate Professor

    Public communication, media systems

  • Carla Fisher

    Carla Fisher

    Assistant Professor

    health and aging communication across the life span, family illness and coping, intergenerational family communication, cancer communication, clinician-patient communication, human development and aging

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  • Tim Gibson

    Tim Gibson

    Associate Professor

    Critical media studies, mass communication theory, and urban communication

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  • Jeremy Hodgson

    Jeremy Hodgson

    Instructor

    Public Speaking & Forensics Seminar in Creative Arts

  • Mark C Hopson

    Mark C Hopson

    Assistant Professor

    Developmental models of intercultural/interracial responsibility

  • Yue (Mary) Hu

    Yue (Mary) Hu

    Intercultural/International crisis communication and intercultural/international risk communication

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  • Steve Klein

    Steve Klein

    Coordinator, Journalism concentration, Electronic Journalism minor, Sport Communication minor

    Cross-platform journalism

  • Gary Kreps

    Gary Kreps

    Director, Center for Health and Risk Communication
    Chair, Communication

    Health communication/promotion, multicultural relations, social organizations, applied research methods, health informatics, communication campaigns, social change

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  • Christy Ledford

    Christy Ledford

    health communication, patient-provider communication, uncertainty, information seeking, health journalism, media effects

  • Robert Lichter

    Robert Lichter

    Director, Center for Media and Public Affairs; Director, Statistical Assessment Center (STATS)

    Political communications, political sociology, and health and risk communication

  • Cindy Lont

    Cindy Lont

    Director, Film and Video Studies Program
    Concentration Head, Interdisciplinary Studies

    Video-based production

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  • Edward Maibach

    Edward Maibach

    Director, Center for Climate Change Communication

    Climate change communication, public health communication, social marketing

  • Carole A Mandryk

    Carole A Mandryk

  • David Miller

    David Miller

    Instructor

    Media production

  • Star A Muir

    Star A Muir

    Associate Professor

    Rhetoric and technology, public communication, digital natives

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  • Anne Maydan Nicotera

    Anne Maydan Nicotera

    Associate Professor

    Health communication, communicative/interactive constitution of organization, race and gender, diversity, and culture and organizations

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  • Peter M Pober

    Peter M Pober

    Professor

    Performance studies, rhetoric, aesthetics, intercultural communication, interpersonal communication

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  • Connie Roser-Renouf

    Connie Roser-Renouf

    Assistant Professor

    Media studies, communication research methods, environmental communication

  • Katherine E Rowan

    Katherine E Rowan

    Professor

    Risk communication, science communication, public relations

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  • Sergei A Samoilenko

    Sergei A Samoilenko

    Instructor

    Public relations, communication and technology

  • Lance E Schmeidler

    Lance E Schmeidler

    Instructor
  • Dava L Simpson

    Dava L Simpson

    Instructor

    Communication and culture, organizational communication, media studies

  • Rodger Smith

    Rodger Smith

    Instructor

    How the traditional television media program for their audiences and the competition they face for audience

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  • Melinda Villagran

    Melinda Villagran

    Associate Professor

    health communication across the lifespan, clinician/patient communication, strategic communication, health and culture, risk and crisis communication, social media, military quality of life, social influence, end-of-life, Latino health disparities, women's health communication

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  • Catherine Wright

    Catherine Wright

    Assistant Professor

    The uses and applications of technology in communication, especially in terms of how new innovations are shared with others, as well as how students apply these out of the classroom

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  • Xiaoquan Zhao

    Xiaoquan Zhao

    Associate Professor

    Health communication, media effects, climate change communication, and persuasion