Communication Studies Graduate Faculty Bios - Csus.edu

Communication Studies Graduate Faculty BiosNote: Graduate Faculty are listed according to their primary areas of focus, butmay teach across different areas of the curriculum.Click on one of the subjects below to jump to that area: Intercultural CommunicationInterpersonal & Instructional CommunicationMass Communication & Mediated CommunicationOrganizational CommunicationPublic Relations & Political CommunicationRhetoricIntercultural CommunicationEdith LeFebvre, Professor*B.A., Central Michigan UniversityM.A., University of Oregon, PsychologyPh.D., University of Oregon, Rhetoric and CommunicationResearch Areas: Ethnographic studies of intercultural communicationConflict management in the global communityPolitical DiscourseTeaching Areas: Conflict ResolutionPersuasion and Attitude ChangeInterpersonal Communication'Organizational CommunicationNonverbal CommunicationPolitical CommunicationSmall Group CommunicationPublic SpeakingIntercultural CommunicationUpdated August 2020

Kikuko Omori, Assistant ProfessorB.A., Senshu University (Japan), Business AdministrationM.A., University of Kansas, Communication StudiesPh.D., University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee,CommunicationResearch Areas: Intercultural CommunicationJapanese/Japanese AmericansMedia influence across culturesHealth communication across culturesOnline education across culturesTeaching Areas: Intercultural CommunicationQuantitative Research MethodsDavid Zuckerman, Professor, Fulbright Scholar, 2013B.A., California State Polytechnic University, PomonaM.A., California State University, Los AngelesPh.D., University of OklahomaResearch Areas: Terrorist recruitment strategiesInternational and intercultural communicationsMass mediaLanguage and social interactionTeaching Areas: Intercultural & International CommunicationDual focus on communication in zones of war and terrorism and cultural imperialism inthe mass mediaUpdated August 2020

Interpersonal & Instructional CommunicationKimberly Aguilar, Assistant ProfessorB.A., California State University, San BernardinoM.A., California State University, San BernardinoPh.D., The University of UtahResearch Areas: Instructional CommunicationCyberpedagogyInterpersonal CommunicationTeaching Areas: Instructional CommunicationInterpersonal CommunicationCommunication Research MethodsMark Stoner, Professor Emeritus*B.S., Pennsylvania State UniversityM.A., Ohio State University, Communication TheoryPh.D., Ohio State University, Rhetorical CriticismResearch Areas: Principles of Instructional CommunicationTeaching Areas: CriticismInstructional CommunicationUpdated August 2020

Mass Communication & Mediated CommunicationDiego Bonilla, ProfessorB.A., ITAM (Mexico City), Business AdministrationM.S., Syracuse University, Media ManagementPh.D., Syracuse University, Mass Communication(Doctoral Prize 2003)Research Areas: Development of hypermedia storytellingHuman communication on the InternetInformation Literacy in Higher Education andWorkforce Effects of new media in societyTeaching Areas: New Media TheoryComputer-Mediated Communications TheoryDigital Media Authoring (Basic and Advanced)Carmen Stitt, ProfessorB.S., University of PittsburghM.S., California State University, SacramentoM.A., University of ArizonaPh.D., University of ArizonaResearch Areas: Social influencePersuasionHealth communicationLearning health information from mediaCognitive and affective processing of TV narrativesTeaching Areas: Media Communication and SocietyMass Media Theory and EffectsMedia HistoryIntroduction to Research MethodsHealth CommunicationUpdated August 2020

Organizational CommunicationElaine Gale, Associate ProfessorB.A., Boston UniversityM.F.A., Antioch UniversityPh.D., University of DenverResearch Areas: In-law triads in marital relationshipsFirst date scriptsEngagement narrativesNewsroom budget meetingsFunctions of the cc and bc in email communicationTeaching Areas: Organizational CommunicationInterpersonal CommunicationTraining and DevelopmentShawna Malvini Redden, Associate ProfessorB.A., Walla Walla UniversityM.A., California State University, SacramentoPh.D., Arizona State UniversityResearch Areas: Identity and Emotion in OrganizationsWorkplace RelationshipsOrganizational SensemakingSocial Media and Teen Online IdentityOnline Sexual HarassmentTeaching Areas: Organizational CommunicationInterpersonal CommunicationCritical, Discursive and Qualitative MethodsUpdated August 2020

Gerri Smith, Professor, Department ChairB.A., Michigan State UniversityM.A., United States International UniversityPh.D., Ohio UniversityResearch Areas: Examining organizations from a cultural perspectiveCritically understanding gender roles in organizationsStudying mentoring relationships in academic settingsTeaching Areas: Organizational CommunicationSmall Group CommunicationUpdated August 2020

Public Relations & Political CommunicationAndrew E. Stoner, Associate ProfessorB.A., Franklin College of IndianaM.A., Ball State UniversityPh.D., Colorado State UniversityResearch Areas: Public Relations Crisis CommunicationPublic Relations Social Media IntegrationLGBTQ Media HistoryTeaching Areas: Public RelationsMark Ludwig, ProfessorB.S., University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, JournalismM.A., California State University, Fullerton,CommunicationsPh.D., Claremont Graduate University, Political ScienceResearch/Interest Areas: EditingJournalism EthicsPolitical communicationTeaching Areas: Political communicationJournalismUpdated August 2020

RhetoricNicholas F. Burnett, Professor Emeritus*B.A., University of Massachusetts, AmherstM.A., University of Massachusetts, AmherstPh.D., University of PittsburghResearch Areas : Technology and Freedom of SpeechThe Rhetoric of Holocaust DenialSeptember 11th: Denial and RevisionismTeaching Areas: Business and Professional SpeakingFreedom of SpeechRhetorical CriticismTelevision CriticismElizabeth Earle, Assistant ProfessorB.A., Louisiana State UniversityM.A. L.A., Louisiana State UniversityPh.D., Texas A&M UniversityTeaching Interests: Rhetorical Theory & CriticismLatin American RhetoricPublic MemoryRhetoric and Public CultureResearch Interests: Rhetorical Theory and CriticismPublic IntellectualsPolitical History of Spain / Latin AmericaPublic MemoryMedia EcologyUpdated August 2020

Carlos Flores, Assistant ProfessorB.A., California State University, NorthridgeM.A., California State University, NorthridgePh.D., Arizona State UniversityResearch Areas: Publics and CounterpublicsParticipatory Critical RhetoricDigital Rhetoric; Rhetorical Field MethodsFirst Generation EducationTeaching Areas: Rhetorical Theory and CriticismQualitative Research MethodsCommunication and Popular CultureMichele Foss-Snowden, ProfessorB.A., Stanford UniversityM.A., University of California, DavisPh.D., University of FloridaResearch Areas: Film and TelevisionRepresentations of Race and EthnicityWomen in EducationEducation TechnologyTeaching Areas: Rhetorical CriticismMedia AestheticsCommunication TheoryUpdated August 2020

Jacqueline A. Irwin, ProfessorB.F.A., University of KansasM.A., University of KansasPh.D., University of KansasResearch Areas: Rhetorical CriticismSocial MovementsThe Rhetoric of War/PeacePublic AddressCrisis CommunicationTeaching Areas: Rhetorical CriticismPersuasionGender IdeologySpeech WritingChristine Miller, Professor, Interim Vice Provost*B.S., University of Oregon, Speech CommunicationM.S., Southern Illinois University, CarbondalePh.D., Pennsylvania State UniversityResearch Areas: Critical analyses of visual rhetoricRhetorical critical research methodologiesHealth communicationTeaching Areas: Rhetorical CriticismVisual RhetoricArgumentationUpdated August 2020

Andrea Terry, Assistant ProfessorB.A., Cal Poly SLOM.A., Sacramento State UniversityPh.D., Texas A&M UniversityResearch Areas: Presidential & Political DiscourseReligious Rhetoric & GenderPublic AddressVisual RhetoricTeaching Areas: Rhetorical CriticismGender & CommunicationPolitical RhetoricMark A. E. Williams, ProfessorB.A., Oral Roberts UniversityM.A., Louisiana State UniversityPh.D., Louisiana State UniversityResearch Areas History of RhetoricRhetoric and ReligionEthics and Informal logicsTeaching Areas Systems and Theories of RhetoricHistory of RhetoricCommunications and ReligionRhetorical CriticismArgumentationPublic Speaking* These faculty are eligible to serve on graduate committees, but cannot be the committee chairUpdated August 2020

Mass Communication & Mediated Communication Organizational Communication Public Relations & Political Communication Rhetoric Intercultural Communication Edith LeFebvre, Professor* B.A., Central Michigan University M.A., University of Oregon, Psychology Ph.D., University of Oregon, Rhetoric and Communication Research Areas: