Communication Faculty and Academic Staff
Mike Allen, Professor and Chair
Social influence processes
Evelyn Ang, Lecturer
Mediation, conflict resolution
Sandra Braman, Professor
Macro-level effects of the use of new information technologies and their policy implications.
Nancy Burrell, Professor
Campus Mediation Center, Certificate in Mediation and Negotiation
Interaction in family, educational and organizational contexts.
Andy Cuneo, Lecturer
Business and professional communication
Kathryn Fonner, Associate Professor
Changing nature of the workplace, and how employee communication and behavior continue to evolve due to technological advances
Leslie J. Harris, Assistant Professor
Research focuses on rhetoric in public culture, especially as it pertains to representations of gender
Sally Henzl, Senior Lecturer
Interpersonal communication, conflict, and communication theory
John W. Jordan, Associate Professor
Rhetorical theory/criticism, technology and new media, and cultural studies
William Keith, Professor
History of the Discussion Movement and the Forum Movement; history of the Speech Communication field; rhetoric and deliberative democracy; rhetorical theory; rhetoric of science.
Sang-Yeon Kim, Assistant Professor
M.A. Program Director, (effective Fall 2013)
Research interests are focused on social influence and cross-cultural communication.
Tae-Seop Lim, Professor
Ph.D. Program Director
Face and facework across cultures; characterization of culture as an explanatory scheme; speech and verbal behavior in Asia; intergenerational communication; media language
Edward A. Mabry, Associate Professor
M.A. Program Director, Coordinator of Graduate Studies
Communication in mediated contexts
Kathryn Olson, Professor
Director of Rhetorical Leadership Program
Rhetorical theory and criticism, argumentation, contemporary American public address
Robert Ricigliano, Adjunct Professor
Director, Institute of World Affairs, Center of International Education
Negotiation, facilitation, international mediation, and peace studies
Erin Ruppel, Assistant Professor
Communication technologies, interpersonal communication, health communication, small group communication
Erin Sahlstein, Associate Professor
Marital and family communication, qualitative methods
Hayeon Song, Assistant Professor
Technology and health communication, Quantitative research methods
Erik Timmerman, Associate Professor
Organizational communication, issues related to the selection and use of communication technology
Lindsay Timmerman, Associate Professor
Communication in close relationships, under-studied relationships
Emeritus Faculty
Kathryn Dindia, Emeritus Professor
Sex differences and similarities in communication, self-disclosure, relational maintenance strategies
Jack Johnson, Emeritus Professor
Developing and assessing organizational development and instructional interventions designed to improve communication in profit and nonprofit organizations.