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Communication Studies
Communication Studies Faculty
Dr. Albone (website) teaches Public Speaking, Small Group Communication, Interpersonal Communication, Advanced Public Speaking, and Rhetorical Criticism. His research interests include quantitative methodology, instructional practices and assessment methods.
Dr. Arnold teaches Interpersonal Communication, Family Communication, Communication Theory, Public Speaking, Public Speaking for Reticent Students, and Seminar in Communication Studies. Her research interests are family communication and sex roles. In recent years, she has studied the topics sex role narratives, communication about pregnancy, cross-sex and same-sex friendship, and family size.
Professor Benavidez teaches Public Speaking, Interpersonal Communication, and Sophomore Engineering Clinic II. Her research interests are the role of interpersonal communication in military family life.
Dr. Corison teaches Survey Research, Public Opinion, Communication Theory, and Mass Media and Their Influences.
Dr. Cypher teaches Seminar in Communication Studies, Communication Theory, Public Speaking, Health Communication, and Ethical Issues in Human Communication. Her interests in research include communicative construction of health, philosophies of embodiment and disability studies.
Dr. Haynes teaches Images of Gender in Popular Culture, Mass Media and Their Influences, Rhetorical Criticism, and the Seminar in Communication Studies. She also teaches Public Speaking and Public Speaking for Engineering students. Her research interests include: rhetorical dimensions of media and popular culture, rhetorical constructions of gender and feminist resistance rhetoric, rhetoric of social protest, and rhetoric of regional identity.
Dr. Ikpah teaches Mass Media and Their Influences, Communication Studies Seminar, International Communication and Intercultural Communication. He has made extensive medial travels to China, the United Kingdom, Holland, Cameroon and Ghana.
Dr. Popa teaches Organizational Communication, Communication Theory, Communication Research Methods, Intercultural Communication, and Public Speaking. Her research interests are organizational groups, communicating trust in organizations, communication networks, group decision-making, and organizational culture.
Dr. Schowalter teaches Mass Media and Their Influences, Rhetorical Theory, Rhetorical Criticism, Public Speaking, and Senior Seminar. His research interests include the intersections of rhetorics, visuality, memory and the popular imagination, with special interest in rhetoric of documentary imagery.
Dr. Simone teaches a collection of courses, including Political Communication, Mass Media and Their Influences, Communication Theory, Introduction to Communication Studies, Public Speaking, and Public Speaking for the Reticent Student. Additionally, she serves as the Course Director for Public Speaking. Her primary research agenda focuses on a participatory civic culture through explorations of media and democracy, with an emphasis on public sphere studies, media law and policy, and civic engagement, especially via digital and converging media systems. A secondary research interest, which compliments the first, includes an examination of surveillance via digital media technologies and the type of disciplinary power such surveillance wields over a democratic citizenry.
Dr. Streb teaches Persuasion and Social Influence, Public Speaking, Seminar in Communication Studies, and Rhetorical Criticism. He is a former president of the University Senate, and currently serves nationally as the president of the NCAA Faculty Athletics Representatives Association. His research focuses on the persuasive aspects of popular culture. |
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