The graduate faculty and doctoral students in the Public Communication program continue to work on a wide range of research projects. 

Professor Carol Winkler continues to expand and strengthen the Urban Debate program, which brings debate into urban high schools.  The project has proven to provide major benefits to at risk youth, and inter-high school debate will expand this year to several new states.

The Center for International Media Education continues to develop its work in China, with several workshops planned to connect journalists and the business community to work on economic journalism during the upcoming Olympics in Bejing.

Professor Mary Stuckey and affiliated faculty are developing workshops for candidates seeking to develop ethical and responsible political campaigns.  A pilot program will be developed for spring 2007, and a major campaign development workshop series should be fully developed for implementation for the 2008 state and national elections.

Professor David Cheshier is finalizing plans for the new Humanities Center, eventually to be housed in the new Humanities Building scheduled for construction in 2008.  In the meantime, the Humanities Center will develop interdisciplinary projects among the humanities disciplines at Georgia State University.  Doctoral students will be active in helping to develop research projects associated with the Center.

Professor Michael Bruner is currently in the final stages of completing his book on Democracy’s Debt, a historical review of the rhetoric of free trade and its impact on global governance.  Professor Bruner is also the 2006 recipient of the Heston Award for Outstanding Scholarship in Performance Studies.

Professor Leonard Tell just completed his most recent book on the History of the Press in the United States.

Professor Mary Stuckey just completed her most recent book on National Identity and the American Presidency, and has an article appearing in the next Quarterly Journal of Speech on the rhetoric of Theodore Roosevelt.

Mark Alleyne is currently the Project Leader for a Toda Institute (Hawaii) research program on peace, culture and globalization, and he continues to engage in extensive research on the United Nations.

Mary Ann Romski (Associate Dean) published essays on language acquisition in the American Journal of Mental Retardation and Infants and Young Children in 2005.

Jaye Atkinson was the 2006 recipient of the Gerontology Institute’s Distinguished Faculty Award.

Cindy Hoffner published a 2005 essay on the “Enjoyment of Mediated Fright and Violence” in Media Psychology, and has forthcoming essay in the Encyclopedia of Children, Adolescents, and the Media.

Yuki Fujioka was recently named to the Editorial Board of the Howard Journal of Communication, and has publications on media stereotypes in 2005 in the Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media and Communication Research.

Marian Meyers recently published essays in Critical Studies in Media Communication and the Journal of Communication Inquiry on issues related to feminism and the media

This year alone, doctoral students in the program have published over a dozen essays in national and regional journals, and they have presented over forty conference papers.