The graduate faculty takes pride in their close relationships with graduate students. Student faculty contacts are frequent and informal enough to permit the development of genuine interpersonal exchange. Faculty are willing to engage in team research with students in either short or long range projects. Such projects have the potential of leading to publications with students as coauthors, or as the sole author.
Rosita D. Albert
(Ph.D., 1972, University of Michigan)
Intercultural Communication; International Relations; Communication Theory; Health Communication.
Donald R. Browne
(Ph.D. 1961, University of Michigan)
Comparative and International Broadcasting; Broadcasting and National Development; International Relations; Historical Research Methodology.
Karlyn Kohrs Campbell
(Ph.D. 1968, University of Minnesota)
Rhetorical Theory and Criticism; Women in Communication; Presidential Rhetoric.
Ronald Walter Greene
Director of Undergraduate Studies
(Ph.D. 1995, University of Illinois)
Rhetorical Studies; Cultural Studies/Cultural Policy; Citizenship; Philosophy of Communication
Alan G. Gross
(Ph.D. 1962, Princeton University)
Rhetoric of Science and Scientific Controversy; Role of Scientific Methods in the Humanities; History of the Scientific Article.
Laura J. Gurak
(Ph.D. 1994, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)
Rhetorics of Science and Technology; Rhetorical Criticism; Internet Studies; Online Research Methods; Social Aspects of Computing; Technical and Professional Communication.
Personal website
Dean E. Hewes
(Ph.D. 1974, Florida State University)
Small Group Communication; Interpersonal Communication; Analysis of Social Interaction; Cognitive Bases of Communication; Research Methodology; Bargaining and Negotiation.
Susanne M. Jones
(Ph.D. 2000, Arizona State University)
Interpersonal Communication and Emotional Support Messages, Nonverbal Communication, Communicating Emotional Support, Communication Theory.
Ascan F. Koerner
(Ph.D. 1998, University of Wisconsin)
Cognitive Processes in Interpersonal Communication; Marital & Family Communication; Persuasion.
Personal website
Laurie Ouellette
(Ph.D., University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 1998)
Critical Media Studies; Cultural Studies; Feminist Criticism; Television Studies; Reality TV; Citizenship, Governmentality and Media.
Gilbert B. Rodman
(Ph.D. 1996, University of Illinois)
Associate Professor; Critical Media Studies; Cultural Studies; Popular Culture; Communication Technologies; Politics of Race and Ethnicity.
Personal website
Edward Schiappa
Paul W. Frenzel Chair in Liberal Arts & Department Chair
(Ph.D. 1989, Northwestern University)
Contemporary Rhetorical Theory; Classical Rhetoric; Criticism of Public Address; Argumentation; Cultural Criticism.
Amy Sheldon
(Ph.D. 1972, University of Texas, Linguistics)
Language and Gender; Language and Social Interaction; Child and Adult Language Acquisition; Discourse Analysis.
Mary Lay Schuster
(Ph.D. 1976, University of New Mexico)
Gender and Communication; Reproductive Technologies; Feminist Theory and Rhetoric of Science and Technology.
Mary Douglas Vavrus
(Ph.D. 1997, University of Illinois)
Media Studies; Feminist Theory; Cultural Studies; Critical Theory.
Arthur E. Walzer
(Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 1975)
Rhetorical Theory and Criticism; 18th Century Rhetorical Theory; Ethics and Technical Communication.
Kirt H. Wilson
Director of Graduate Studies
(Ph.D. 1995, Northwestern University)
Rhetorical Theory and Criticism; American Public Address Criticism; African American Discourse; Civil Rights Issues.
Personal website
Additional Graduate Faculty
Robert L. Scott, Emeritus
(Ph.D., 1955, University of Illinois)
Rhetorical Theory; Criticism of Public Address; Value Implications in Communication Research and Practice.
Michael Sunnafrank
(Ph.D., Michigan State University, 1979)
Interpersonal Communication; Intercultural Relationships, Communication Theory; Persuasion.