Our faculty sustain exceptionally active research programs. In the last year alone, for example, Public Communication faculty won the SSCA Teaching Award (Mary Stuckey), the NCA Lilla Heston Performance Studies Prize (Michael Bruner), and the SSCA Community Outreach Award (Carol Winkler). Three area faculty direct university research centers: Mary Ann Romski (CRADL: Center for Research in Atypical Development of Language), Leonard Teel (CIME: Center for International Media Education), and David Cheshier (CCSH: Center for Collaborative Scholarship in the Humanities). Many more serve on national editorial boards (including the Quarterly Journal of Speech, Women in Communication, Controversia, Communication Studies, Communication Law and Policy, and the Howard Journal of Communication) and play prominent roles in the national communication associations (e.g., Carol Winkler is President of the American Forensic Association, Marian Meyers just completed a term as chair of the ICA Feminist Studies Division, and James Darsey serves on the NCA Research Board). We are currently interviewing for faculty positions in International Communication and International Film/TV Studies, and over the next few years expect to hire faculty in visual communication, political economy of the media, mass communication theory, inter-group communication, communication and race, and related areas. Also, in addition to the faculty listed below, other faculty members in the department are associated with the Ph.D. program in Moving Images Studies in areas such as performance studies (Gayle Austin, Shirlene Holmes), Screenwriting and Television History (Jack Boozer), Television Industries and Visual Media (Alisa Perren), Cultural Studies (Ted Friedman), and Media History and American Social History (Kathy Fuller-Seeley). We also enjoy the presence of several faculty members working in the area of film production (Ly Bolia, Sheldon Schiffer, Niklas Vollmer) and Media Industries (Kay Beck). |
