Full-time Faculty

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  • Nicholas Badullovich

    Nicholas Badullovich

    Postdoctoral Fellow

    Climate change communication

  • Iccha Basnyat

    Iccha Basnyat

    Associate Professor

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

  • Ryan G Braun

    Ryan G Braun

    Instructor

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

  • Shelby E. Broberg

    Shelby E. Broberg

    Instructor

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

  • Melissa A. Broeckelman-Post

    Melissa A. Broeckelman-Post

    Director of Fundamentals of Communication and Graduate Student Pedagogical Development

    Professor

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

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  • Xiaomei Cai

    Xiaomei Cai

    Professor

    Children and media; Media effects; online privacy

  • Chris Clarke

    Chris Clarke

    Associate Professor

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

  • John Cook

    John Cook

    Assistant Professor

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

  • Richard T Craig

    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

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  • Pratiti Diddi

    Pratiti Diddi

    Assistant Professor

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

  • Claude Andre Drolet

    Claude Andre Drolet

    Senior Instructor

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

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  • Austin Gallas

    Austin Gallas

    Graduate Lecturer

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

  • Tim Gibson

    Tim Gibson

    Associate Professor

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

  • Rick Gray

    Rick Gray

    Instructor

  • Lisa Gring-Pemble

    Lisa Gring-Pemble

    Associate Professor

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

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  • Sojung Claire Kim

    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

    Josh D Kinchen

    Instructor

  • John Kotcher

    John Kotcher

    Research Associate Professor

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  • Lynnette Grace Leonard

    Lynnette Grace Leonard

    Associate Professor

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

  • Samuel Robert Lichter

    Samuel Robert Lichter

    Professor

    Political communications, political sociology, and health and risk communication

  • Ian Terrell Lowery

    Ian Terrell Lowery

    Instructor

    Strategic Communication. Argumentation & Debate

  • Dawn M Lowry

    Dawn M Lowry

    Director of Forensics

    Instructor

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

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  • Anne M. Nicotera

    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

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  • Jackie Poapst

    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

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  • Daniel Reed

    Daniel Reed

    Instructor

    Climate communication, environmental storytelling, media production, photography

  • Andrew E Rudd

    Andrew E Rudd

    Associate Professor

    Basic Course

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  • Sergei A. Samoilenko

    Sergei A. Samoilenko

    Assistant Professor

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

  • Lance E Schmeidler

    Lance E Schmeidler

    Senior Instructor

    Director, Hiring & Scheduling

  • Rodger Smith

    Rodger Smith

    Undergraduate Advising Coordinator

    WGMU Faculty Advisor

    Senior Instructor

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  • Kathryn Thier

    Kathryn Thier

    Postdoctoral Fellow

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

  • Susan Tomasovic

    Susan Tomasovic

    Instructor, Lambda Pi Eta Faculty Advisor

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

  • Meg H. L. Tucker

    Meg H. L. Tucker

    Associate Professor

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

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  • Tyler Watkins

    Tyler Watkins

    Instructor

  • Kimberly Meltzer Weisman

    Kimberly Meltzer Weisman

    Chair

    Professor

  • Chris A Williams

    Chris A Williams

    Instructor

  • Catherine M. Wright

    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

    Kevin B Wright

    Professor

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

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  • Xiaoquan Zhao

    Xiaoquan Zhao

    Professor

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