Faculty
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Communication Studies faculty take pride in teaching all manner of communication courses from the introductory level classes to advanced graduate student seminars. We are dedicated to teaching students both the communication skills required for success in business, family, and civic life and the cutting edge research in communication. Faculty take pride in their close relationships with undergraduate and graduate students. Student-faculty contacts are frequent and informal, fostering the development of genuine interpersonal exchange. Faculty are willing to engage in team research with all students.
Regular Faculty
| Name | Contact | Specialty |
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| Ronald Walter Greene Professor Department Chair |
225A Ford Hall 612-624-5800 green179@umn.edu |
Rhetorical studies, cultural studies/cultural policy, citizenship, philosophy of communication |
| Atilla Hallsby Assistant Professor |
263 Ford Hall 612-625-2985 hall1039@umn.edu |
Rhetorical Studies; Post-structuralist Theories of Discourse; History of Secrecy; Privacy & Transparency; Critical Surveillance & Security Studies |
| Dean E. Hewes Professor |
258 Ford Hall 612-624-9880 dhewes@umn.edu |
Small group communication, interpersonal communication, conflict, research methodology |
| Susanne M. Jones
Professor
Director of Undergraduate Studies
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278 Ford Hall 612-626-0592 jones344@umn.edu |
Interpersonal communication and emotional support messages, nonverbal communication, communicating emotional support, communication theory |
| Zornitsa Keremidchieva Assistant Professor |
228 Ford Hall 612-624-4316 zkeremid@umn.edu |
Rhetorical studies; feminist political theory and democratic theory; congressional and public policy discourse; women's and immigrants' civic and political organizations
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| Ascan F. Koerner
Professor
Associate Dean of Undergraduate Education
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234 Ford Hall 612-624-4030 koern011@umn.edu |
Cognitive processes in interpersonal communication; marital and family communication; persuasion |
| Kate Lockwood Harris Associate Professor |
244 Ford Hall 612-624-4030 kharris@umn.edu |
Sexual violence; critical and qualitatitative methods; organizational communication; discourse; Title IX; feminist theory; intersectionality, new materialism |
| Laurie Ouellette
Professor
Chair of Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature
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254 Ford Hall 612-626-8517 ouell031@umn.edu |
Critical media studies; cultural studies; feminist criticism; television studies; reality TV; citizenship; governmentality and media |
| Mark Pedelty Professor |
268 Ford Hall 612-626-8517 pedeltmh@umn.edu |
Environmental communication; media ethnography; media and social change; media rituals; media education; music; methods |
| Rachel Presley Assistant Professor |
205 Nolte Center 612-625-0151 rpresley@umn.edu |
Rhetorical theory and criticism; critical/cultural studies; social movement and resistance rhetorics; (trans)national citizenship and belonging; postcolonial/decolonial/anticolonial theory. |
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Gilbert B. Rodman
Associate Professor |
Critical media studies; cultural studies; popular culture; communication technologies; politics of race and ethnicity
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| Critical race and media studies; feminist media studies; politics and media; public sphere studies | ||
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Media studies; feminist theory; political economy of media
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| Emily Winderman Assistant Professor |
247 Ford Hall 612-626-7713 ewinderm@umn.edu |
Rhetoric of health and medicine; reproductive health; public emotion |
Affiliate Faculty
| Name | Contact | Specialty |
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| Richard Graff Associate Professor |
221 Nolte Center 612-624-4985 graff013@umn.edu |
Early history of rhetoric, writing and reading practices of ancient Greece and Rome, theories of prose style |
| Laura Gurak Professor |
212 Nolte Center 612-624-1784 gurakl@umn.edu |
Rhetorics of science and technology, rhetorical criticism, internet studies, online research methods, social aspects of computing, technical and professional communication |
| Elaine Tyler May Professor |
207 Scott Hall 612-626-7847 mayxx002@umn.edu |
Twentieth century history of intersections of gender, sexuality, domestic culture, politics |
| Daniel J. Philippon Associate Professor |
21 Lind Hall 612-624-9880 danp@umn.edu |
American studies, conservation biology, development studies and social change, English, rhetoric and scientific and technical communication, risk analysis for introduced species and genotypes |
| Mary Lay Schuster Professor |
225 Nolte Center 612-624-2262 mmlay@umn.edu |
Gender and communication, reproductive technologies, feminist theory and rhetoric of science and technology |
| Jeffry Simpson Professor |
N-218 Elliott Hall 612-626-2079 simps108@umn.edu |
Gender and communication, reproductive technologies, feminist theory and rhetoric of science and technology |
| Jacquelyn Harvey-Knowles Tenure-Track Assistant Professor, UMN-Duluth |
421 A.B. Anderson Hall University of Minnesota, Duluth 218-726-7085 jaharvey@d.umn.edu |
Interpersonal communication theory, interpersonal communication and health, mindful communication, supportive communication |
| John Logie Associate Professor |
Department of Writing Studies, Room 206 NCCE University of Minnesota-TC logie@umn.edu |
Interpersonal communication theory, interpersonal communication and health, mindful communication, supportive communication |
Emeriti Faculty
| Name | Contact | Specialty |
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| Rosita D. Albert | alber001@umn.edu | Intercultural communication, international relations, communication theory, health communication |
| Donald R. Browne | brown003@umn.edu | Comparative and international broadcasting, broadcasting and national development, international relations, historical research methodology |
| Karlyn Kohrs Campbell | campb003@umn.edu |
Rhetorical theory and criticism, women in communication, presidential rhetoric
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| Alan G. Gross | agross@umn.edu | Scientific communication, visual communication, rhetorical theory |
| Robert L. Scott | scott033@umn.edu | Rhetorical theory, criticism of public address, value implications in communication research and practice |
| Amy Sheldon | asheldon@umn.edu | Language and gender, language and social interaction, child and adult language acquisition, discourse analysis |
| Michael Sunnafrank | msunnafr@umn.edu | Interpersonal communication, intercultural relationships, communication theory, persuasion |
| Arthur E. Walzer | awalzer@umn.edu | Rhetorical theory and criticism, 18th century rhetorical theory, ethics and technical communication |
Senior Lecturers
| Name | Contact | Specialty |
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| David Cram Helwich | Public argument and debate; rhetorical theory and criticism | |
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Argumentation and rhetoric; biblical studies
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Family communication, persuasion, organizational communication, credibility
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| Jeffrey VanCleave | 285 Ford Hall jvanclea@umn.edu |
Rhetorical criticism; public speaking; communication and sport |
Lecturers
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| Wendy Anderson |
285 Ford Hall
wzeitz@umn.edu |
Rhetorical studies, media studies |
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288 Ford Hall
baxt0029@umn.edu |
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| Allison Brenneise | 285 Ford Hall brenn383@umn.edu |
Communication and disability; critical communication pedagogy; rhetorical criticism; communication theory/research methods; intercultural communication |
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285 Ford Hall
srcalder@umn.edu |
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285 Ford Hall
elia0039@umn.edu |
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285 Ford Hall
galar006@umn.edu |
Organizational communication; intercultural communication
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| Dawn Shot Klotzbach | 264 Ford Hall scho0062@umn.edu |
Media Production |
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285 Ford Hall
zimme313@umn.edu |
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Senior Teaching Specialists
| Name | Contact | Specialty |
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290 Ford Hall
gesch004@umn.edu |
Small group and team communication; conflict management | |
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Rhetorical studies; environmental communication'communication performance
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| Small group; interviewing; internships; public speaking | ||
Teaching Specialists
| Name | Contact | Specialty |
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| Lisa Hutchinson |
264 Ford
hutch354@umn.edu |
Electronic media production |
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264 Ford Hall
juri0010@umn.edu |
Video production; feminist media studies; US television history
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Rhetoric and public speaking
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