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Syed Muhammad Abubakar

Graduate Research Assistant

Climate change communication, environmental journalism, and health communication

Oare Danielle Addeh

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Social media research, Health Communication, Strategic Communication, Qualitative research method, Quantitative research method

Moe Ahmed

Research Operations, Climate Change Communication, Climate and Health, Environmental Science, Geospatial Analysis, Human Geography

Muna Al Taweel

Graduate Lecturer

Theories of Nationalism, Politics of Space, Identity Politics, Levantine Postcolonialism, S.W.A.N.A Studies , Trauma Studies

Alejandro Alegre

Oluwatomisin Jo John Badmus

Iccha Basnyat

Professor

Culture, gender and health; global health communication; South and South East Asia

Sarah Benrazek

Adjunct Faculty

Michelle Cadwell Blackston

Graduate Research Assistant

Climate change communication, clean and renewable energy, environmental policy, environmental justice, journalism and the changing mainstream news media landscape.

Troy A Bogino

Adjunct Faculty

Relationship development and resolution

Don M Boileau

Emeritus Faculty

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

Carl Botan

Emeritus Faculty

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

Jordan Elijah Bridgers

Shelby E. Broberg

Instructor

instructional communication, public speaking, multilingual public speaking support, professional development

Melissa A. Broeckelman-Post

Professor

Instructional Communication, Public Speaking, Interpersonal Communication, Research Methods, Communication Theory

Nate S. Brophy

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Instructional Communication, Health Communication

Christal Bunch

Adjunct Faculty

Barbara Burfeind

Adjunct Faculty

PR campaigns, Visual Communication

Xiaomei Cai

Professor

Children and media; Media effects; online privacy

Maria Carabelli

Director of Operations and Finance

Finance Coordinator

Wan-Lun (Debby) Chang

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Strategic communication--government-civilian public relations, persuasion and emotions/psychological reactions, message design, and social media

Chantee L Christian

Adjunct Faculty

Chris Clarke

Associate Professor

health and environmental risk perception, communication. Director, Science Communication Graduate Program; Director, Ph.D. program

Joseph A Coffie

Graduate Teaching Assistant

John Cook

Assistant Professor

Climate communication, cognitive science, psychology, misconception-based learning

Richard T Craig

Associate Chair

Professor

Media ownership, telecommunication/media policy, media political economy, media representation of marginialized groups (race,gender, religion, etc...), popular culture

Manoj Kumar Dahal

Graduate Research Assistant

Communication of Health Disparities, Digital Health Communication, Mobile Communication.

Khaled Dakak

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Media Representation, Media Consumption, Media Criticism, Cultural Studies, and Animation. 

Austin Davis

Adjunct Faculty

Communications/Public Relations

Warren Decker

Emeritus Faculty

Animesh Dev

Graduate Research Assistant

Socio-spatial processes, borders formation, design anthropology, interdisciplinary research & pedagogy, qualitative methods, global south, India, United States

Pratiti Diddi

Assistant Professor

Crisis, health, and strategic communications, message design, social media

Sandra Djaba

Graduate Research Assistant

Nancy Donnelly

Adjunct Faculty

Claude Andre Drolet

Senior Instructor

Academic Governance, Career Infusion, Communication in Public Administration, Panelology

Naessiamba Eab-Aggrey

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Health Communication, Social Pharmacy, Pharmaceutical Communication, Global Health, AI & Digital Health Literacy, Climate Change Literacy.

Megan Edmondson

Undergraduate Program Coordinator

Ashley Elliott

Graduate Lecturer

Health Communication

Sami Elsayed

Andre Sousa Esteves

Joshua A Ettinger

Postdoctoral Fellow

Kimberlie Fair

Assistant Professor

Riley P Fariss

Peter T Figueroa

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Julia C Fine

Research Assistant Professor

Sheryl A Friedley

Emeritus Faculty

Interpersonal communication, communication and gender

Javonna M Friend

Graduate Research Assistant

Grace Furlong

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Arvind Geetha Christo

Graduate Lecturer

Neoliberal development, Development-induced Displacement, Development-induced Dispossession, Kerala Model of Development, Dalit Politics, Development Sociology, Social Movements, and Ethnography.

Narges Ghafary

Graduate Research Assistant

The intersections of gender, media, culture, and health inequalities in transnational contexts through an interdisciplinary approach.

Tim Gibson

Associate Professor

Critical media studies, the political economy of communication, and urban communication

Daniel Gilgoff

Adjunct Faculty

Angela Goodwin

Del Taylor Gorman

Neha Gour

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Climate Change Communication, Public Health, Science Communication, Public Policy

Rick Gray

Instructor

Lisa Gring-Pemble

Associate Professor

Social impact, innovation, and entrepreneurship; Rhetorical criticism, argument, persuasion; Political communication and public policy

Hiba Haroon

Beverly Dempsey Harp

Alyssa Harrell-Webber

Graduate Research Assistant

Health communication, patient-provider health communication, and health education and promotion

Chelsea Henderson

Doniven Hill-Bush

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Critical Media Studies, Decolonial Studies, Pop Culture Studies, Black Pop Culture Studies, the Black Radical Tradition, Forensics (Speech and Debate)

Erik Holland

Assistant Professor

Rhetoric, Cultural Studies, Psychoanalysis, Black Studies, Popular Culture, Argumentation

Madeleine Holland

Associate Professor

Jane Holloman

Graduate Professional Assistant

science communication, risk communication, environmental communication, climate change communication

Henri K Huber

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Health Communication, Instructional, and Interpersonal Communication

Freya Hutton

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Metaphysics, Ontology, Disability, Contemporary Politics, Phenomenology, Epistemology

Katherine Hyatt Hawkins Shaw

Graduate Lecturer

Health communication; health identity; health decisions; vaccine communication; cancer communication; instructional communication; small group communication

Robert Inglis

Research Professor

Sandeep (Anu) Kaur

Graduate Lecturer

Health communication; interpersonal communication 

Caitlin Kelleghan

Sojung Claire Kim

Associate Professor

Health and Risk Communication, Strategic Message Design, Misinformation Correction, Social Media and Influence, Social Emotions, Quantitative Research Methods, Eye Tracking

Josh Kinchen

Instructor

Steve Klein

Emeritus Faculty

Cross-platform journalism, sports journalism, history of journalism

Em Kohl

Graduate Lecturer

Climate and Intercultural Communication, Queer Theory, Media Studies, Risk Communication

Esther Abiodun Konan

Graduate Professional Assistant

John Kotcher

Director, Center for Climate Change Communication

Research Associate Professor

Gary L. Kreps

Distinguished University Professor, Director; Center for Health and Risk Communication

Health communication/promotion, health equity, multicultural relations, social organization, applied research methods, health informatics, communication campaigns, global health, and social change

Angela N Larck

Teresa Ann Lawless

Research Associate Professor

Siyoon Lee

Graduate Lecturer

Health Communication

Lynnette Grace Leonard

Associate Professor

* Persuasion, Rhetoric, & Social Influence, * Media Technology, Ethics, & Criticism

Nick M Loew

Assistant Director of Debate

Instructor

Cindy Lont

Emeritus Faculty

Video-based production

Sara Looney

Emeritus Faculty

Dawn M Lowry

Director of Forensics

Instructor

Forensics, Film & Television, Peace Rhetoric, and First Amendment Issues.

Edward Wile Maibach

Emeritus Faculty

Climate change communication, public health communication, social marketing

Brenna Maloney

Instructor

Andie S Malterud

Graduate Lecturer

Health Communication, E-cigarettes, Stigma, Instructional Communication, Health Education, Patient-Provider Communication, E-health

Bruce Manchester

Emeritus Faculty

Performance studies, media studies

Kathryn Mangus

Instructor

Mitchell E. Marovitz

Adjunct Faculty

Savannah Martincic

Jim J McAuley

Emeritus Faculty

Aging, health and long-term care

Fanchun Meng

Graduate Research Assistant

David J. Miller

Senior Instructor

Media production and criticism, Journalism, Distance Education, Instructional Design

Tarang Mishra

Adjunct Faculty

Brennan Mock

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Forensics (Competitive Speaking), Health and Strategic Communication.

Cale Joseph Morrow

Adjunct Faculty

Eugenio Mulero

Adjunct Faculty

media, journalism

Rita Nassuna

Adjunct Faculty

Emebet Nigella Neale

Anne M. Nicotera

Professor

Organizational communication, organizational structure, intractable conflict, health communication, nursing communication, communicative/interactive constitution of organization, race and gender, diversity, and culture and organizations

Austin Oliver

Adjunct Faculty

Sachita Pandey

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Health Communication Diplomacy and Public Affairs Integration of Media, Culture & Communication

Scott Perdue

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Strategic Communications

Jackie Poapst

Warren D. Decker Director of Debate

Assistant Professor

Critical legal communication; race, sexuality, gender and biopolitics; rhetoric and semiotics; queer and feminist theory

Deirdre J Prigge

Adjunct Faculty

Crisis communication, corporate social responsibility, health and stigma communication, and public communication campaigns

Ama Gyesiwaa Quansah

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Health Communication

Jose C Quinones

Adjunct Faculty

Sk Farhan Rabbi

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Strategic Communication, Health Communication, AI and Emerging Communication Technologies, and Advertising.

Gopal Ratnam

Adjunct Faculty

Pav Reddy

Graduate Lecturer

Ageing, Ageism, Discourse, Necropolitics, Semiotics, Disability, Marxism, Logistics

Daniel Reed

Instructor

Climate communication, environmental storytelling, media production, photography

Noah Foster Reed

Brenda Jennifer Reyes

International Security / Economic Policy / Argumentation & Debate

Roy Dereck Rinehart

Adjunct Faculty

Marcella Robertson

Adjunct Faculty

Camila Rosa Perez Montes

Connie Roser-Renouf

Associate Professor

Environmental communication, informal science education, science communication

Katherine E Rowan

Emerita Faculty

Risk and crisis communication, science communication, public relations.

Andrew E Rudd

Director of Fundamentals of Communication and Graduate Student Pedagogical Development

Associate Professor

Basic Course

Sergei A. Samoilenko

Associate Professor

subversive strategic communication, reputation management, climate misinformation, crisis communication, political campaigns, public relations,

Brittany Sanders

Graduate Program Coordinator

Lance E Schmeidler

Senior Instructor

Director, Hiring & Scheduling

Mariam Shafik

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Intercultural Communication, Instructional Communication, Interpersonal Communication

Md Alavi Akbar Shihab

Immigration law, Global conflict, international theory

Dana Siller

Adjunct Faculty

Integrated Marketing Communications

Balkisa Muhammed Sissy

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Rodger Smith

WGMU Faculty Advisor

Senior Instructor

Anita Taylor

Emeritus Faculty

Communication and gender, public communication

Avery Julianne Taylor

Graduate Lecturer

Mayah Taylor

Graduate Lecturer

Shannon M. Taylor-Heflin

Graduate Lecturer

Health Communication, Health Misinformation, Interpersonal Communication, Family Communication, Parent-Child Communication, Parenting

Susan Tomasovic

Instructor, Lambda Pi Eta Faculty Advisor

Public communication, performance studies, business communication, student careers and internships, artificial intelligence

Doran Tucker

Postdoctoral R & T Fellow

Strategic Climate change, Science Communication, Trust, Appalachia, National Security, Hunting

Meg Tucker

Associate Professor

Interpersonal communication, organizational communication, identity, business & professional communication, small group communication, social and digital media, media criticism, communication theory

Amy Vaillancourt Mandt

Undergraduate Academic Advisor

Reanna Vardhanapu

Addison Wagner

Adjunct Faculty

Tyler Watkins

Assistant Director of Forensics

Instructor

Bram Weinstein

Adjunct Faculty

Kimberly Meltzer Weisman

Chair

Professor

Holly Williams

Adjunct Faculty

Allyson L. Wilson

Graduate Lecturer

Uncertainty, Heuristics & Biases, Normative Messaging, Persuasion, Social Media, Reputation, Social Support, Conflict

MaryKate Winter

Graduate Research Assistant

Ashley Wright

Adjunct Faculty

Catherine M. Wright

Undergraduate BA Director

Professor

My interests lie in 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.

Kevin B Wright

Professor

Health communication, social media and interpersonal relationships, life span communication, and interpersonal issues in health communication

Xingya Xu

Graduate Lecturer

Alysa R Yalch

Yuan Yue

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Climate Change Communication/Environmental Communication/Science Communication

Rania Zaied

Graduate Lecturer

Rhetorical Criticism, Mass Communication, Media Rhetoric, Media Representations of Marginalized Communities, Culture, Intercultural Communication

Xiaoquan Zhao

Distinguished University Professor

Health communication, persuasion, media effects, information seeking, tobacco prevention, and climate change communication

Ying Zhuang

Graduate Research Assistant