All Faculty

Iccha Basnyat

Professor

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

Sarah Benrazek

Adjunct Faculty

Media / Music Business / Marketing / Communications

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

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

Chantee L Christian

Adjunct Faculty

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

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

Joshua A Ettinger

Postdoctoral Fellow

Kimberlie Fair

Assistant Professor

Julia C Fine

Research Assistant Professor

Sheryl A Friedley

Emeritus Faculty

Interpersonal communication, communication and gender

Tim Gibson

Associate Professor

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

Daniel Gilgoff

Adjunct Faculty

Angela Goodwin

Rick Gray

Instructor

Lisa Gring-Pemble

Associate Professor

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

Beverly Dempsey Harp

Erik Holland

Assistant Professor

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

Madeleine Holland

Associate Professor

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

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 Kinchen

Instructor

Steve Klein

Emeritus Faculty

Cross-platform journalism, sports journalism, history of journalism

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

Teresa Ann Lawless

Research Associate Professor

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

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

Cale Joseph Morrow

Adjunct Faculty

Eugenio Mulero

Adjunct Faculty

media, journalism

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

Austin Oliver

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

Deirdre J Prigge

Adjunct Faculty

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

Jose C Quinones

Adjunct Faculty

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

Roy Dereck Rinehart

Adjunct Faculty

Marcella 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

Associate Professor

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

Lance E Schmeidler

Senior Instructor

Director, Hiring & Scheduling

Mariam Shafik

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Intercultural Communication, Instructional Communication, Interpersonal Communication

Dana Siller

Adjunct Faculty

Integrated Marketing Communications

Rodger Smith

WGMU Faculty Advisor

Senior Instructor

Anita Taylor

Emeritus Faculty

Communication and gender, public communication

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

Addison Wagner

Adjunct Faculty

Tyler Watkins

Assistant Director of Forensics

Instructor

Bram Weinstein

Adjunct Faculty

Kimberly Meltzer Weisman

Chair

Professor

Holly Williams

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

Xiaoquan Zhao

Distinguished University Professor

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