Faculty
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 |
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Ronald Walter Greene Professor |
243 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 |
Elaine Hsieh |
225A Ford Hall |
Health communication, culture and health, interpreting studies |
Susanne M. Jones
Professor
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258 Ford Hall 612-626-0592 jones344@umn.edu |
Interpersonal communication and emotional support messages, nonverbal communication, communicating emotional support, communication theory |
Zornitsa Keremidchieva |
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
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 qualitative methods; organizational communication; discourse; Title IX; feminist theory; intersectionality, new materialism |
Laurie Ouellette
Professor
Interim Director of Graduate Studies
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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 |
268 Ford Hall 612-626-8517 pedeltmh@umn.edu |
Environmental communication; media ethnography; media and social change; media rituals; media education; music; methods |
Gilbert B. Rodman
Associate Professor |
Critical media studies; cultural studies; popular culture; communication technologies; politics of race and ethnicity
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Mary Douglas Vavrus
Professor
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Media studies; feminist theory; political economy of media
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Emily Winderman Assistant Professor |
257 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 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 |
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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 | |
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
Name | Contact | Specialty |
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Wendy Anderson |
285 Ford Hall
wzeitz@umn.edu |
Rhetorical studies, media studies |
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 |
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 |
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 | |
290 Ford Hall
odas0002@umn.edu |
Rhetorical studies; environmental communication'communication performance
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290 Ford Hall
slon0010@umn.edu |
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 |