COMversations
About COMversations
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the faculty and staff of the Department of Communication Studies began working from home and teaching online. Now that faculty and students have returned to campus and have more opportunities for face-to-face interactions, we feel the need to re-introduce ourselves to our colleagues and students. With these podcast episodes, we hope to help our students and the public meet the people who teach the classes, conduct the research, and learn throughout our department. We also hope to get to know each other better and build a richer academic community. So lend an ear to the personal stories of the faculty and staff preparing students for a promising future.
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Videos
The Department of Communities studies hosts in-person and livestreamed conversations with experts in the communication studies field. Produced by UNLV-TV, these discussions with alumni and faculty experts from our campus and across the nation offer students insight into the discipline.
Alumni Panel Discussion
Alumni discuss their career journeys and how their degrees helped them.
Alumni Speakers
- Sage Sammons, Media Relations Manager for Veterans Benefits Guide
- Robert Burgy, Climate and Sustainability Program Manager for Clark County’s Department of Environment and Sustainability
Communication Studies Lecture: How Communication Processes Address Inequity and Disparity
The Dr. Sanford I. Berman Lecture invites scholars to consider the role of language in addressing the pressing problems humankind faces in the 21st century.
Kristina M. Scharp, associate professor of communication at Rutgers University, presents a lecture titled How Communication Processes Address Inequity and Disparity: The Importance of Remaking, Resistance, and Resilience.
In her talk, Scharp discusses how the communicative processes of remaking, resistance, and resilience can help people better disrupt and manage the inequities they experience and resulting marginalization with which they must cope. Based on her research about family estrangement, complicated health diagnoses, and disenfranchised college students, Scharp illustrates how communication scholarship can inform a new theory, inspire a new research method, and translate that to the public.