Faculty

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Our 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 also 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
Ronald Walter Greene Professor	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
Susanne M. Jones Professor 2021-22 Interim Chair	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
Ascan F. Koerner 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 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	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 Interim Director of Undergraduate Studies	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.
Gilbert B. Rodman Associate Professor	284 Ford Hall 612-624-7853 rodman@umn.edu	Critical media studies; cultural studies; popular culture; communication technologies; politics of race and ethnicity
Catherine Squires Professor Associate Dean of Humphrey School of Public Affairs	248 Ford Hall 612-624-5235 squir050@umn.edu	Critical race and media studies; feminist media studies; politics and media; public sphere studies
Mary Douglas Vavrus Professor Interim Director of Graduate Studies	237 Ford Hall 612-624-5515 vavru001@umn.edu	Media studies; feminist theory; political economy of media
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
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 Associate 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 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
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
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
David Cram Helwich	285 Ford Hall 612-626-7713 helwi012@umn.edu	Public argument and debate; rhetorical theory and criticism
John P. Nordin	288 Ford Hall 612-624-3309 nordi062@umn.edu	Argumentation and rhetoric; biblical studies
Jeremy Rose	288 Ford Hall 612-624-3309 rosex013@umn.edu	Family communication, persuasion, organizational communication, credibility
Jeffrey VanCleave	285 Ford Hall jvanclea@umn.edu	Rhetorical criticism; public speaking; communication and sport

Lecturers

Name	Contact	Specialty
Wendy Anderson	285 Ford Hall wzeitz@umn.edu	Rhetorical studies, media studies
Mike Baxter-Kauf	288 Ford Hall baxt0029@umn.edu
Allison Brenneise	285 Ford Hall brenn383@umn.edu	Communication and disability; critical communication pedagogy; rhetorical criticism; communication theory/research methods; intercultural communication
Liora Elias	285 Ford Hall elia0039@umn.edu
Stephanie Galarneault	285 Ford Hall galar006@umn.edu	Organizational communication; intercultural communication
Dawn Shot Klotzbach	264 Ford Hall scho0062@umn.edu	Media Production
Heidi Zimmerman	285 Ford Hall zimme313@umn.edu

Senior Teaching Specialists

Name	Contact	Specialty
Nan Gesche	290 Ford Hall gesch004@umn.edu	Small group and team communication; conflict management
Diane Odash	290 Ford Hall odas0002@umn.edu	Rhetorical studies; environmental communication'communication performance
Andrea Shada	290 Ford Hall slon0010@umn.edu	Small group; interviewing; internships; public speaking

Teaching Specialists

Name	Contact	Specialty
Lisa Hutchinson	264 Ford hutch354@umn.edu	Electronic media production
Rebecca Jurisz	264 Ford Hall juri0010@umn.edu	Video production; feminist media studies; US television history
Eric Short	290 Ford Hall ejshort@umn.edu	Rhetoric and public speaking