The School of Communication Studies at Ohio University is dedicated to two propositions:  (1) teaching and research are equal partners in the making of a distinguished program of faculty and students; (2) collegiality and rigor can be fostered such that one does not play off against the other.  The School supports collaborative work in support of these propositions--faculty in the School work closely with each other and with students, both on teaching and research. 

More detailed faculty profiles, including CV's and other information, can be found on individual faculty pages by clicking their names below.

Faculty

Roger Aden (email)
LSHR 205 | 740-593-4822
Rhetoric and Popular Culture; Place and Space Theory
Benjamin R. Bates  (email)
LSHR 009 | 740-593-9163
 Communication Health Campaigns and Messaging; Rhetoric of Health; Communication and International Health and Development
Austin Babrow  (email)
LSHR 107 | 740-597-2783
 Health Communication; Communication Theory; Problematic Integration Theory (Communication and the interplay of uncertainties and values)
Christina S. Beck  (email)
LSHR 210 | 740-593-9167		 Health and Media; Language and Social Interaction; Popular Culture and Fandom
William Benoit  (email)
LSHR 206 | 740-597-3328		 Political Communication; Image Repair
Laura Black  (email)
LSHR 111 | 740-593-4690
 Group Communication; Computer Mediated Communication; Ethnography and Discourse Analysis; Public Deliberation and Dialogue
Amy E. Chadwick  (email)
LSHR 109 | 740-593-4821
 Health Communication; Persuasion and Social Influence; Environmental Communication; Message Design; Emotion
Devika Chawla  (email)
LSHR 031 | 740-591-5733
 Narrative and Performative approaches to Identity; Diasporic Identities; Home, Space, and Habitality; Postcolonial Theory/s; Transnational Studies; Critical and Performance Ethnography
Yea-Wen Chen  (email)
LSHR 007 | 740-593-4837
 Intercultural Communication; Intercultural Friendships; Identity-Based Nonprofit Organizing; Intersecting Cultural Identities; Critical Race Theory
Karen Deardorff (email)
LSHR 012 | 740-593-4826		 Organizational Communication (Interviewing, Training and Development, Advanced Presentations, Event Planning); Health Communication
Claudia Hale  (email)
LSHR 203 | 740-593-4825
 Interpersonal and Organizational Processes; Conflict Management and Dispute Resolution; Communication and Peace Building
Lynn Harter  (email)
LSHR 208 | 740-593-4830
 Narrative Approaches to Health; Organizing for Social Change; Social Justice; Feminist Theory
Anita James  (email)
LSHR 204 | 740-593-4840
 Communication Processes in Organizing; Training and Development; Survey Development
Judith Yaross Lee  (email)
LSHR 113 | 740-593-4844
 Literary Rhetoric; American Humor; Media History and Theory; Narrative Theory; Graphic Narration
Carolyn Bailey Lewis   (email)
CTCL 306 | 740-593-0909
 Health Communication, Organizational Communication, Autoethnography, Advocacy
Raymie McKerrow  (email)
LSHR 212 | 740-593-4843
 19th-21st Century Rhetorical Theory; Argument Theory; Postmodernism
Jerry Miller  (email)
LSHR 102A & 202 | 740-593-9160/740-593-4831
 Political Advertising and Gender; Political Communication; Argumentation and Public Deliberation
Brittany Peterson  (email)
LSHR 008 | 740-593-4968
 Organizational Communication; Membership; Socialization; Identification
Bill Rawlins  (email)
LSHR 215 | 740-593-4823
 Interpersonal Communication; Friendship; Dialogue and Experience; Communication in Public and Private Relationships
J.W. Smith (email)
LSHR 112 | 740-593-4838
 Communication and Disability; African American Rhetoric
Mirit Shoham (email)
LSHR 213 | 740-593-9159		 Communication Networks; Diffusion; Persuasion

Natalie Shubert (email)
LSHR 006 | 740-593-0596

Visiting Assistant Professor specializing in Organizational Communication and Interpersonal Communication
Scott Titsworth  (email)
RTV 497 | 740-593-4884		 Classroom Communication and Emotion; Student Learning; Discourses of Education; Quantitative Methods
Dan West  (email)
CTCL 315 | 740-593-9962

Debate and Forensics Pedagogy; Communication Pedagogy

Administrative Staff/Adjunct Faculty

Joseph Bianco (email)
GROS 308 | 740-593-9167

Social Medicine; Narratives of Health 

Gayle McKerrow  (email)
LSHR 102 | 740-593-4832

Assistant to Director; Budgeting; Faculty Records
Erin Thompson (email)
LSHR 022 | 740-593-4842 		Administrative Assistant; Student Records; Office Manager
Jeff Kuznekoff (email)
CTCL 306 | 740-593-0909		 New communication technology, computer-mediated communication, instructional, interpersonal, and quantitative methods.
Jacqueline Wolf (email)
GROS 302| 740-597-2777		 Social Medicine; Women's and Children's Health
Fletcher Ziwoya (email)
LSHR 037 | 740-593-4833