Communication Faculty and Academic Staff
Mike Allen, Professor
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 in family, educational and organizational contexts.
Andy Cuneo, Lecturer
Business and professional communication
Julie Delaney Shields, Assistant Professor
Interests in health communication, interpersonal communication and social influence and persuasion.
Kathryn Fonner, Assistant 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 and Chair
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
Research interests are focused on social influence and cross-cultural communication.
Tae-Seop Lim, Professor
PhD 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
MA Program Director, Coordinator of Graduate Studies
Communication in mediated contexts
Perri Mayes, Lecturer
Renee Meyers, Professor
How groups argue in decision-making situations.
Kathryn Olson, Professor
Director of Rhetorical Leadership Program
Rhetorical theory and criticism, argumentation, contemporary American public address
Jennifer Peterson, Assistant Professor
Health communication, social support, and coping with illness
Robert Ricigliano, Adjunct Professor
Director, Institute of World Affairs, Center of International Education
Negotiation, facilitation, international mediation, and peace studies
Julie Delaney Shields, Assistant Professor
Interests in health communication, interpersonal communication and social influence and persuasion.
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
Elaine M. Wong, Assistant Professor
Interpersonal and organizational communication, leadership, and groups and teams
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.