Communication Department

  • Mardi Kidwell Communication/Justice Studies/Linguistics; Communication Department Chair
    Research Interests: Children/Youth, Intercultural Communications, Law Enforcement, Microanalysis of face-to-face interaction between children, adults and individuals in policing contexts, Nonverbal Communication, Sociolinguistics
  • Mike Alvarez Communication; Postdoctoral Research Associate
  • Jennifer Borda Communication; Professor
    Research Interests: Critical cultural studies, Democracy, Feminist rhetoric, Film analysis, Film/Cinema Studies, Gender Equality, Political discourse, Rhetoric, Social protest
  • Kevin Healey Communication; Associate Professor
    Research Interests: Moral, Ethical and Religious Aspects of Digital Culture
  • Danielle Pillet-Shore Communication/Justice Studies/Linguistics; Associate Professor
    Research Interests: Acute Care/Medicine, Animal Communication, Anthropology, Breastfeeding, Broadcast Media, Caregivers, Child/Maternal Health, Children/Youth, Classroom Instruction, Community and School Relations, Culture, Early Childhood Education, Education, Elementary Education, Ethnography, Family, Fieldwork, Health Communication, Human Factors, Lactation, Language and social Interaction; examines video-recorded, naturally-occurring face-to-face casual and professional interactions, Mass Communication/Media, Medical Sociology, Nonverbal Communication, Parent Involvement, Primary Care, Social Control, Social Exclusion, Social Inclusion, Social Psychology, Sociolinguistics, Sociology, Women's Health
  • Joseph Terry Communication; Senior Lecturer
    Research Interests: Critical media studies, Cultural geography, Cultural policy, Environmental Studies, Gender, race, class in media, Popular music, Social Movements
  • Lin Zhang Communication; Assistant Professor
    Research Interests: Digital media, East Asia, Globalization, Labor Economics, Media and cultural studies, Media industries, Visual culture