• School of Communication Studies
  • Lasher Hall
  • Athens, Ohio 45701
  • Phone: (740) 593-4828
  • Fax: (740) 593-4810

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)
LASHER 205 | 740.593.4822
Rhetoric and Popular Culture; Place and Space Theory
Benjamin R. Bates  (email)
LASHER 009 | 740.593.9163
Communication Health Campaigns and Messaging; Rhetoric of Health; Communication and International Health and Development
Austin Babrow  (email)
LASHER 107| 740.597.2783
Health Communication; Communication Theory; Problematic Integration Theory (Communication and the interplay of uncertainties and values)
Christina Beck  (email)
LASHER 210 | 740.593.9167
Health and Media; Language and Social Interaction
William Benoit  (email)
LASHER 011 | 740.593.3328
Political Communication; Image Repair
Laura Black  (email)
LASHER 111 | 740.593.4690
Group Communiction; Computer Mediated Communication; Ethnography and Discourse Analysis
Jennifer Bute  (email)
LASHER 208 | 740.593.0596
Health Communication; Interpersonal Communication; Privacy and Disclosure; Social Support
Devika Chawla  (email)
LASHER 031 | 740.593.4820
Narrative and Performative approaches to Identity; Ethnography and Performance; Postcolonial Theory
Tom Daniels  (email)
LASHER 008 | 740.593.4968
Organizational Communication Systems and Practices
Elizabeth Graham  (email)
LASHER 213 | 740.593.4826
Interpersonal Communication, Family Change and Redefinition, Statistics, and Research Methods 
Claudia Hale  (email)
LASHER 102A | 740.593.4825
Interpersonal and Organizational Processes; Conflict Management and Dispute Resolution; Communication and Peace Building
Lynn Harter  (email)
LASHER 109 | 740.593.4830
Narrative Approaches to Health; Organizing for Social Change; Social Justice; Feminist Theory
Anita James  (email)
LASHER 204 | 740.593.4840
Communication Processes in Organizing; Training and Development; Survey Development
Andrew Ledbetter  (email)
LASHER 206 | 740.593.4903
Interpersonal Communication; Communication Technology; Family Communication; Structural Equation Modeling.
Judith Yaross Lee  (email)
LASHER 113 | 740.593.4844
Literary Rhetoric; American Humor; Rhetoric of Science and Technology
Raymie McKerrow  (email)
LASHER 212 | 740.593.4843
19th-21st Century Rhetorical Theory; Argument Theory; Postmodernism
Jerry Miller  (email)
LASHER 202 | 740.593.4831
Political Advertising and Gender; Political Communication; Argumentation and Public Deliberation
Bill Rawlins  (email)
LASHER 215 | 740.593.4823
Interpersonal Communication; Friendship; Dialogue and Experience; Communication in Public and Private Relationships
Greg Shepherd (email)
RTV 483 | 740.593.4883
Communication Theory; American Pragmatism; Pragmatic consequences of our beliefs about communication.  Greg is currently the Dean of the Scripps College of Communication.
J.W. Smith (email)
LASHER 112 | 740.593.4838
Communication and Disability; African American Rhetoric
Mirit Shoham (email)
LASHER 012 | 740.593.9159
Communication Networks; Diffusion; Persuasion
Scott Titsworth  (email)
LASHER 203 | 740.593.9160
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


School Administrative Staff

Vicki Dornbush  (email)
LASHER 022 | 740.593.4842
Graduate & Undergraduate Files; Technology Orders and Management; Textbook Orders
Gayle McKerrow  (email)
LASHER 102 | 740.593.4832
Budgeting; Faculty Records
Christopher Bartos  (email)
LASHER 015 | 740.593.4886
Computer Lab Operations Manager; Desktop Computer Support