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Syed Muhammad Abubakar

Graduate Teaching 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

Environmental Science, Geoinformation Science, Climate Change, Human Geography, Health Geography

Iccha Basnyat

Associate Professor

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

Michelle Cadwell Blackston

Graduate Teaching 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

Professor

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

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

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

David S Carroll

Instructor

Nader H Chaaban

Adjunct Faculty

Intercultural, Interpersonal, and Mass Communication

Wan-Lun (Debby) Chang

Graduate Research Assistant

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

Chantee L Christian

Adjunct Faculty

Xavier Clark

Graduate Lecturer

Organizational Communication, Critical Race Theory, Intersectionality, Urban Communication, Urban Commerce, Luxury Communication, Wealth Communication

Chris Clarke

Associate Professor

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

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 Teaching Assistant

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

Khaled Dakak

Graduate Lecturer

Media Representation, Media Consumption, Media Criticism, Popular Culture, and Animation. 

Laura L Dallman

Adjunct Faculty

Warren Decker

Emeritus Faculty

Pratiti Diddi

Assistant Professor

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

Sandra Djaba

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Nancy Donnelly

Adjunct Faculty

Claude Andre Drolet

Senior Instructor

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

Nicole S Duritz

Instructor

Naessiamba Eab-Aggrey

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Health Communication, Emerging Health Innovation, Community-based Health Interventions and Implementation with a focus on Health, Medication use, and Climate Change Literacy.

Megan Edmondson

Undergraduate Program Coordinator

Ashley Elliott

Graduate Lecturer

Health Communication

Joshua A Ettinger

Postdoctoral Fellow

Kimberlie Fair

Assistant Professor

Peter T Figueroa

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Julia C Fine

Postdoctoral Fellow

Sheryl A Friedley

Emeritus Faculty

Interpersonal communication, communication and gender

Javonna M Friend

Graduate Research Assistant

Grace Furlong

Graduate Research Assistant

Austin Gallas

Graduate Lecturer

Police reform, public sexuality, undercover surveillance, sex work, New York City, social history, archives

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

Neha Gour

Graduate Teaching Assistant

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

Noah M Graham

Adjunct Faculty

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 Teaching Assistant

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

Jason Blair Hartsel

Instructor

Chelsea Henderson

Mary C. Hickey

Adjunct Faculty

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)

Lauren Hobson

Adjunct Faculty

Jane Holloman

Graduate Professional Assistant

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

Urszula Anna Horoszko

Research Associate Professor

Shannon Elizabeth Howley

Adjunct Faculty

Katherine Hyatt Hawkins Shaw

Graduate Lecturer

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

Hale Inanoglu

Adjunct Faculty

Sociology of religion, Muslims in the US, diaspora, gender.

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 Teaching Assistant

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

Esther Abiodun Konan

Graduate Teaching Assistant

John Kotcher

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

Lynnette Grace Leonard

Associate Professor

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

Nick M Loew

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

Distinguished University Professor

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

Holly Massett

Adjunct Faculty

Jim J McAuley

Emeritus Faculty

Aging, health and long-term care

David J. Miller

Senior Instructor

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

Tarang Mishra

Adjunct Faculty

Mark A Mitchell

Research Associate Professor

Brennan Mock

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Forensics (Competitive Speaking), Health and Strategic Communication.

Star A. Muir

Associate Professor

Rhetoric and technology, public communication, digital natives

Eugenio Mulero

Adjunct Faculty

media, journalism

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

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

Izzy Grace Poteet

Adjunct Faculty

Deirdre J Prigge

Adjunct Faculty

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

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

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

Adam A Rizzoli

Marcella Magdalena Robertson

Adjunct Faculty

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

Assistant Professor

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

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 A 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 Amara Taylor

Graduate Lecturer

Shannon M. Taylor-Heflin

Graduate Lecturer

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

Kathryn Thier

Postdoctoral Fellow

solutions journalism, climate change communication, health communication, media effects

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

Climate change, Science Communication, 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

Addison Wagner

Adjunct Faculty

Tyler Watkins

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

Benjamin Aram Witkov

Adjunct Faculty

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 Research Assistant

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

Xiaoquan Zhao

Professor

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