All Faculty

Sherazade C Ariavand

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Mary B Armstrong

Adjunct Faculty

Robert Price Atkinson

Research Associate Instr

Nicholas Badullovich

Postdoctoral Fellow

Climate change communication

Jameson Balda

Adjunct Faculty

Iccha Basnyat

Associate Professor

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

Sarah Benrazek

Adjunct Faculty

Benjamin Biggs

Adjunct Faculty

Ana Muller Bittner

Adjunct Faculty

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

Ryan G Braun

Instructor

College student success, advising and retention strategies, college student career development, masculinity in higher education.

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

Eliza Blair Buckner

Adjunct Faculty

Barbara Burfeind

Adjunct Faculty

PR campaigns, Visual Communication

Xiaomei Cai

Professor

Children and media; Media effects; online privacy

Hannah Elizabeth Call

Adjunct Faculty

Joseph P. Campbell

Adjunct Faculty

David S Carroll

Instructor

Nader Hussein Chaaban

Adjunct Faculty

Intercultural, Interpersonal, and Mass Communication

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

Bruce D Cooke

Adjunct Faculty

Digital Video Production & Post-Production; Film Studies

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

Laura L Dallman

Adjunct Faculty

Austin Davis

Adjunct Faculty

Communications/Public Relations

Warren Decker

Emeritus Faculty

Pratiti Diddi

Assistant Professor

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

Nancy Donnelly

Adjunct Faculty

Claude Andre Drolet

Senior Instructor

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

Nicole S Duritz

Instructor

Joshua A Ettinger

Postdoctoral Fellow

Kimberlie Fair

Instructor

Julia C Fine

Postdoctoral Fellow

Sheryl A Friedley

Emeritus Faculty

Interpersonal communication, communication and gender

Jeffrey Alan Fuchs

Adjunct Faculty

Austin Gallas

Graduate Lecturer

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

Tim Gibson

Associate Professor

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

Robert Gould

Adjunct Faculty

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

Salvador Guzman

Adjunct Faculty

Interpersonal Communication; Relational and Family Communication; Race Communication; Race and Ethnicity; Latina/o/x and Chicana/o/x Communication; Immigration and Parenthood

Beverly Dempsey Harp

Jason Blair Hartsel

Instructor

Mary C. Hickey

Adjunct Faculty

Aayushi Hingle

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Lauren Hobson

Adjunct Faculty

Urszula Anna Horoszko

Research Associate Professor

Shannon Elizabeth Howley

Adjunct Faculty

Henri K Huber

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Health Communication, Instructional, and Interpersonal Communication

Katherine Hyatt Hawkins Shaw

Graduate Lecturer

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

Tiff R Imbimbo

Adjunct Faculty

Robert Inglis

Research Professor

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 D Kinchen

Instructor

Steve Klein

Emeritus Faculty

Cross-platform journalism, sports journalism, history of journalism

Kasey Knopp

Adjunct Faculty

Health Policy, Aging Research, Public Policy, STEM, Indigenous Studies, Medicare and Medicaid

Robert Koort

Adjunct Faculty

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

George Charles Kueppers

Graduate Research Assistant

Health communication; political communication; interpersonal communication; social influence; persuasion; communication technologies

Farah Latif

Adjunct Faculty

Strategic Communication, Reputation Management, Political Communications, Social Media, and Leadership.

Teresa Ann Lawless

Research Associate Professor

Lynnette Grace Leonard

Associate Professor

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

Adela Levis

Adjunct Faculty

Cindy Lont

Emeritus Faculty

Video-based production

Sara Looney

Emeritus Faculty

Ian Terrell Lowery

Instructor

Strategic Communication. Argumentation & Debate

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

Taylor Mallory

Instructor

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

Nancy E Mantelli

Adjunct Faculty

Mitchell E. Marovitz

Adjunct Faculty

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

Suzanne Lowery Mims

Adjunct Faculty

Social media and engagement, public relations, writing in the digital age.

Tarang Mishra

Adjunct Faculty

Mark A Mitchell

Research Associate Professor

Cale Joseph Morrow

Adjunct Faculty

Yajie Mu

Star A. Muir

Associate Professor

Rhetoric and technology, public communication, digital natives

Eugenio Mulero

Adjunct Faculty

media, journalism

Sammi Munson

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Science Communication, Climate Change Communication, Communication Education, Instructional Communication

Paula F Nadler

Instructor

Rita Nassuna

Adjunct Faculty

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

Brandon C Parker

Adjunct Faculty

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

Jacob Powell

Adjunct Faculty

Deirdre J Prigge

Adjunct Faculty

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

Pav Reddy

Adjunct Faculty

Daniel Reed

Instructor

Climate communication, environmental storytelling, media production, photography

Dean Richter

Adjunct Faculty

Bree Riddick

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Roy Dereck Rinehart

Adjunct Faculty

Melissa Rizzo

Adjunct Faculty

Marcella Magdalena Robertson

Adjunct Faculty

Jesse Robinson

Adjunct Faculty

Megan Marie Rodak

Adjunct Faculty

Connie Roser-Renouf

Associate Professor

Environmental communication, informal science education, science communication

Chelsea Rossheim

Adjunct Faculty

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

Mallory L Saleson

Instructor

Sergei A. Samoilenko

Assistant Professor

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

Tatiana Sanina

Adjunct Faculty

Media effects, persuasion, political communication, social media use, cognition, and attitude change.

Lance E Schmeidler

Senior Instructor

Director, Hiring & Scheduling

Abhis Sedhai

Adjunct Faculty

Dana Siller

Adjunct Faculty

Integrated Marketing Communications

Rodger Smith

Undergraduate Advising Coordinator

WGMU Faculty Advisor

Senior Instructor

Angela Suarez

Adjunct Faculty

Sevil Suleymani

Adjunct Faculty

Reet Taxali

Adjunct Faculty

Anita Taylor

Emeritus Faculty

Communication and gender, public communication

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

Graduate Lecturer

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

Meg H. L. Tucker

Associate Professor

Interpersonal communication, organizational communication, identity, small group communication, social and digital media

Saahi Uppalapati

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Climate Change Communication, Climate Change Policy, Climate and Health

Jan Carlo R Videna

Adjunct Faculty

Addison Wagner

Adjunct Faculty

Tyler Watkins

Instructor

Kimberly Meltzer Weisman

Chair

Professor

Skye Wellman

Adjunct Faculty

Chris A Williams

Instructor

Holly Williams

Adjunct Faculty

Macaulay Williams

Adjunct Faculty

Sport, Race, & Political Communication

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

Sheila Yusufi

Adjunct Faculty

Xiaoquan Zhao

Professor

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