Donovan Conley, Ph.D. |
Associate Professor
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- Rhetoric and Public Culture
- Materiality and Aesthetics
- Food and Citizenship
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- Hartnett, S., Keranen, L., & Conley, D. Imagining China: Rhetorics of Nationalism in an Age of Globalization (East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2017).
- Donovan Conley, “M/Orality.” Forum on “Rhetorics and Foodways,” Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies (Spring 2015). Eds. Amy Young, Donovan Conley, & Justin Eckstein.
- Keranen, L., Dodge, P., & Conley, D. “Modernizing Traditions on the Roof of the World: Displaying ‘Liberation’ vs. ‘Occupation’ in Three Tibet Museums,” Journal of Curatorial Studies 4:1 (2015), 79-106.
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Emma Frances Bloomfield, Ph.D. |
Assistant Professor |
- Environmental Communication
- Scientific Controversies
- Rhetoric, Identity, and Dialogue
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- Bloomfield, E. F., & VanderHaagen, S. C. (2022). Where women scientists belong: Placing feminist memory in biography collections for children. Women's Studies in Communication.
- Bloomfield, E. F. (2021). Transcorporeal identification and strategic essentialism in eco-horror: mother!'s ecofeminist rhetorical strategies. Environmental Communication, 15(3), 339-365.
- Bloomfield, E. F. (2019). Communication Strategies for Engaging Climate Skeptics: Religion and the Environment. New York, NY: Routledge Series on Advances in Climate Change Research.
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Michael Lane Bruner, Ph.D. |
Professor
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- Policy Argumentation
- Public Persuasion
- Rhetorical Studies
- Aesthetics and Politics
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- Why Must You Say These Things Out Loud? (Los Angeles, CA: Rose of Sharon Press, 2021)
- Hard to Say in A Way That Might Be Heard (Los Angeles, CA: Rose of Sharon Press, 2021).
- Rhetorical Unconsciousness and Political Psychoanalysis (Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 2019).
- “The Cynical Manipulation of Universities as Public Forums in the Age of Trump,” Communication Law Review 18:1 (August 2018), pp. 29-41.
- “Recuperating the Real: New Materialism, Object Oriented Ontology, and Lacanian Ontical Cartography,” Philosophy & Rhetoric 51 (Summer 2018), pp. 151-75. Caleb Cates, M. Lane Bruner and Joseph Moss.
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Natalie Pennington, Ph.D. |
Assistant Professor
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- Interpersonal Communication
- Communication Technology
- Quantitative and Qualitative Research Methods
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- Pennington, N., Holmstrom, A., & Hall, J. A. (2021). The toll of technology while working from home during COVID-19. Communication Reports, 1-13. Online First.
- Pennington, N. (2021). Extending social penetration theory to Facebook. Journal of Social Media in Society, 10(2), 325-343.
- Pennington, N. (2021). Communication outside of the home through social media during COVID-19 and well-being. Computers in Human Behavior Reports, 4, 1-8.
- Pennington, N. (2021). The maintenance of dormant and commemorative relationships through social media. Southern Journal of Communication, 86(3), 244-255.
- Hall, J. A., Pennington, N., & Holmstrom, A. (2021). Connecting through technology during COVID-19. Human Communication & Technology, 2(1), 1-18.
- Pennington, N. & Hall, J. A. (2021). Does Facebook-enabled communication influence weak tie relationships over time? A longitudinal investigation into mediated relationship maintenance. Communication Monographs. 88(1), 48-70.
- Pennington, N., & Winfrey, K. L. (2021). Engaging in political talk on Facebook: Investigating the role of interpersonal goals and cognitive engagement. Communication Studies. 72(1), 100-114.
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Rebecca Rice, Ph.D. |
Assistant Professor
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- Organizational Communication
- Inter-organizational Collaboration
- High Reliability Organizations
- Security
- Natural Hazards
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- Bean, H. & Rice, R. M. (2019). Organizational communication and security. B. C. Taylor and H. Bean (Eds.). The Routledge Handbook of Communication and Security. Routledge.
- Rice, R. M. (2018). When Hierarchy becomes Collaborative: Collaboration as Sensemaking Frame in High Reliability Organizing. Corporate Communications, 23(4), 599–613.
- Rice, R. M. (2018). Negotiating the Professional in Media Representation: The Carnivalesque and Privatized Security Work. TAMARA: Journal for Critical Organizational Inquiry, 16(1–2), 25–36.
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Tara Emmers-Sommer, Ph.D. |
Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Education
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- Interpersonal Communication
- Relational Communication
- Health Communication
- Media
- Sexual Communication
- Sex and Gender
- Quantitative Methods
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Tara McManus, Ph.D. |
Associate Professor
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- Family and Interpersonal Communication
- Uncertainty
- Stress and Coping
- Disclosure
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Social support
- Quantitative Methods
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