Faculty
Our faculty take pride in teaching a wide range of communication topics and from the introductory-level, skill/performance-based classes to advanced graduate student seminars on specialized areas. 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 invest in our community by developing close, collaborative, and supportive relationships with undergraduate and graduate students. Student-faculty contacts are frequent and informal, fostering the development of genuine interpersonal exchange. Faculty regularly engage in team research with all students.
Regular Faculty
| Name | Contact | Specialty |
|---|---|---|
| Ronald Walter Greene, Ph.D. Professor |
243 Ford Hall 612-624-9003 green179@umn.edu |
Rhetorical studies, cultural studies/cultural policy, citizenship, philosophy of communication |
| Atilla Hallsby, Ph.D. 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 |
|
Elaine Hsieh, Ph.D., J.D. |
225A Ford Hall |
Health communication, culture and health, interpreting studies |
| Susanne M. Jones, Ph.D.
Professor
|
258 Ford Hall 612-626-0592 jones344@umn.edu |
Interpersonal communication and emotional support messages, nonverbal communication, communicating emotional support, communication theory |
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Zornitsa Keremidchieva, Ph.D. |
228 Ford Hall 612-624-2504 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, Ph.D.
Professor
Associate Dean of Undergraduate Education
|
234 Ford Hall 612-624-4030 koern011@umn.edu |
Cognitive processes in interpersonal communication; marital and family communication; persuasion |
| Kate Lockwood Harris, Ph.D. Associate Professor Director of Graduate Studies |
244 Ford Hall 612-624-4030 kharris@umn.edu |
Sexual violence; critical and qualitative methods; organizational communication; discourse; Title IX; feminist theory; intersectionality, new materialism |
| Laurie Ouellette, Ph.D.
Professor
|
254 Ford Hall 612-626-8517 ouell031@umn.edu |
Critical media studies; cultural studies; feminist criticism; television studies; reality TV; citizenship; governmentality and media |
|
Gilbert B. Rodman, Ph.D.
Associate Professor |
Critical media studies; cultural studies; popular culture; communication technologies; politics of race and ethnicity
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| Mary Douglas Vavrus, Ph.D.
Professor
Director of Undergraduate Studies |
Media studies; feminist theory; political economy of media
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| Emily Winderman, Ph.D. Assistant Professor |
257 Ford Hall 612-626-7713 ewinderm@umn.edu |
Rhetoric of health and medicine; reproductive health; public emotion |
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Deborah Yoon, Ph.D. |
268 Ford Hall 612-625-7150 yoon0213@umn.edu |
Interpersonal communication; identity; identity uncertainty; family communication; adoption; health communication; genetic family health history |
Visiting Scholars & Teaching Professors
| Name | Contact | Specialty |
|---|---|---|
| Karina Horsti, Ph.D. Associate Professor |
284 Ford Hall |
cultural diversity policies; nationalist populism; and mediated representations of refugees and asylum seekers |
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Eric Kramer, Ph.D. |
253 Ford Hall 405-641-1911 ekramer@umn.edu |
international communication, intercultural communication, communication theory, communication and technology, mass communication, environmental communication |
Senior Lecturers
| Name | Contact | Specialty |
|---|---|---|
| Mike Baxter-Kauf, Ph.D. | 288 Ford Hall baxt0029@umn.edu |
public speaking; comparative literature |
| David Cram Helwich, Ph.D. | Public argument and debate; rhetorical theory and criticism | |
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John P. Nordin, Ph.D.
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Argumentation and rhetoric, biblical studies
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Jeremy Rose, Ph.D.
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Family communication, persuasion, organizational communication, credibility
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| Jeffrey VanCleave, Ph.D. | 285 Ford Hall jvanclea@umn.edu |
Rhetorical criticism; public speaking; communication and sport |
Lecturers
| Name | Contact | Specialty |
|---|---|---|
| Wendy Anderson, Ph.D. |
285 Ford Hall
wzeitz@umn.edu |
Rhetorical studies, media studies |
| Carly Byrnes, Ph.D. | 285 Ford Hall dani0376@umn.edu |
Bullying; harassment; discrimination; sexual health; bystander interventions; relationships; coping; social support; mixed methods research |
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Liora Elias, Ph.D.
|
285 Ford Hall
elia0039@umn.edu |
critical media studies; gender, women, and sexuality studies
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| Kristin Fitzsimmons, Ph.D. |
285 Ford Hall |
Audiences and fans; critical media studies; film, television, and new media |
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Stephanie Galarneault, Ph.D.
|
285 Ford Hall
galar006@umn.edu |
Organizational communication; intercultural communication
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| Dawn Schot Klotzbach, MFA | 264 Ford Hall scho0062@umn.edu |
Media production |
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Heidi Zimmerman, Ph.D.
|
285 Ford Hall
zimme313@umn.edu |
Critical media studies
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Senior Teaching Specialists
| Name | Contact | Specialty |
|---|---|---|
|
Nan Gesche, MA
|
290 Ford Hall
gesch004@umn.edu |
Small group and team communication; conflict management |
| Lisa Hutchinson, MA | 264 Ford hutch354@umn.edu |
Electronic media production |
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Diane Odash, MA
|
290 Ford Hall
odas0002@umn.edu |
Rhetorical studies; environmental communication; communication performance
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Andrea Shada, MA
|
290 Ford Hall
slon0010@umn.edu |
Small group; interviewing; internships; public speaking |