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

Graduate Students

In a typical year the School of Communication Studies has approximately 40 active, on-campus graduate students.  Of those, approximately 32 are funded as graduate assistants in the school; the remaining students are either funded through other assistantships on campus or have fellowships. Our graduate students are a very bright and divers group of scholars who, in many ways, serve as a foundation for much of what we do in the school.  We actively socialize and treat our graduate students as colleagues so that they feel prepared to enter tenure track jobs upon graduation.

Contact information for our graduate students is below.  If you click on a students' name you will be able to view their personal profile page.

Fall 2009 Cohort

Mari Adams  (EMAIL)
LSHR 024 | PHONE
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Tim Baird  (EMAIL)
LSHR 024 | PHONE
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Adriana Ángel Botero  (EMAIL)
LSHR 014 | 740.597.3022
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Vicki Crooks  (EMAIL)
LSHR 024 | PHONE
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Aaron Duncan  (EMAIL)
LSHR 020 | 740.593.2952
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Kimberly Field Springer  (EMAIL)
LSHR 037 | 740.593.4833
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Moyi Jia  (EMAIL)
LSHR 005 | 740.593.9164
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Ran Ju  (EMAIL)
LSHR 024 | PHONE
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Shannon Lawson  (EMAIL)
LSHR 024 | PHONE
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Mike Parsons  (EMAIL)
CTCB 306 | 740.593.0909
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Sarah Patten  (EMAIL)
LSHR 037 | 740.593.4833
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Steve Phalen  (EMAIL)
LSHR 035 | 740.593.4824
Cultural Studies, Ethnographic Methods, Identity
Katie Striley (EMAIL)
LSHR 005 | 740.593.9164
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Anna Wiederhold (EMAIL)
LSHR 006 | 740.593.4837
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Fall 2008 Cohort

Jennifer Barber  (email)
LASHER 035 | 740.593.4842
Health Communication, Small Group Communicaiton
Erin Dame  (email)
LINDLEY 216 | 740.593.9129
Organizational Communication, Communication for Social Change, Alternative Organizing Theories
Megan Dowd  (email)
LASHER 110 | 740.593.9162
Communication of change; Interpersonal Communication; Small Group Communication; Instructional Communication
Angela Johnson  (email)
LASHER 013 | 740.593.3019
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Mark Kokoska  (email)
CTCL 314 | 740.593.4842
Competitive Speech and Debate; Rhetoric and Public Culture; Interpersonal Communication
Jeff Kuznekoff  (email)
LASHER 020 | 740.593.2952
New Communication Technologies; Health Communication; Instructional Communication; Quantitative Research Methods
Rebecca Mercado Thornton  (email)
LASHER 013 | 740.593.3019
Rhetoric and Public Culture, Qualitative Research Methods
Dante Morelli  (email)
LASHER 006 | 740.593.4837
Organizational Communication, Health Communication, Social Capital, Diffusion Studies, Postcolonial Theory, Visual Rhetoric and Queer Theory
Spencer Patterson  (email)
LASHER 020 | 740.593.2952
Health Communication, Organizational Communication, Narrative Theory, Communication in dentistry
Lindsey Rose  (email)
LASHER 005 | 740.593.9164
Health Communication and Organizational Communication
LiLi  (email)
LASHER 037 | 740.593.4833
Instructional Communication; Cross Cultural Communication

Fall 2007 Cohort

Michelle Calka  (email)
LASHER 010 | 740.593.9166
computer-mediated communication; critical rhetoric; game studies
Courtney Cole  (email)
LASHER 037 | 740.593.4833
narrative approaches to health care, healing, and organizing;
post-conflict and post-colonial communication research; qualitative methods
Anne Kerber  (email)
LASHER 035 | 740.593.4824
Discursive constructions of health and bodies; Health activism; Organizational communication
Annette Hamel  (email)
LASHER 007 | 740.593.4842
In/out group communication, race as a social construct, individual and group identity.
Craig M. Pinkerton  (email)
LASHER 037 | 740.593.4833
Theories of Knowledge; Silence; Listening; Learning; Southeast Asia
Laura Russell  (email)
LASHER 020 | 740.593.2952
Theories of relating and organizing; Phenomenology and philosophies of temporality; Health communication; Education advocacy
Tennley Vik  (email)
LASHER 007 | 740.593.4842
Health communication; Issues of privacy, disclosure, and sexuality
Abbey Wojno  (email)
LASHER 037 | 740.593.4833
Relating and Organizing; Health Communication; Youth, Sport and Social Change; Political Communication; Tropical Disease Education and Prevention
Fletcher Ziwoya  (email)
LASHER 020 | 740.593.2952
Relating and Organizing: focusing on Political Communication; conflict resolution; communication and national development

Fall 2006 Cohort

Sarah Heiss  (email)
CTCL 013 | 740.593.3019
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Jirah Krittayapong  (email)
CTCL 406 / 740-593-9129
Identity, Interpersonal Communication, Intercultural Communication, and Instructional Communication
Joseph Mazer  (email)
CTCL 305 | 740.593.0795
Instructional Communication; Interpersonal/Family Communication; New Communication Technologies; Quantitative Research Methods
Azhanni Muhammad  (email)
LASHER 020 | 740.593.2952
Crisis Communication Management, Corporate Image Restoration, Corporate Communication, Managerial Communication, Business Communication, Interpersonal Communication
Mumba Mumba  (email)
LASHER 406 | 740.593.9129
Health Communication, HIV/AIDS/Sexuality of MSM,  Disability, Health Promotion, Interpersonal Communication, Qualitative Methods
Margaret Romoser  (email)
LASHER 110 | 740.593.9162
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Valerie Schrader  (email)
LASHER 020 | 740.593.2952
Social movement rhetoric, political rhetoric, rhetorical implications of theatre, instructional communication, communication education, ethnography/autoethnography, media and rhetoric
Natalie Shubert  (email)
LASHER 014 | 740.593.3022
Organizational Communication; Environmental Communication; Alternative forms of community organizing; Health Communication; Interpersonal Communication; Interpretive approaches through Qualitative Methods
Kenny Sibal  (email)
LASHER 014 | 740.593.3022
Interpersonal Communication; Mutuality & Dialogue; Relational Maintenance; Relational Intimacy; Organizational and Group Comm
Heather S. Ferrara  (email)
LASHER 306 | 740.593.0909
Rhetoric and Public Culture; Relating and Organizing; Women's Studies
Brian Swafford  (email)
CTCL 314 | 740.593.4842
Rhetoric and Public Culture; Rhetoric of Sports; Rhetoric of Comic Books; Ethnography of Communication; Fan Cultures; Competitive Forensics; Instructional Communication; Relating and Organizing

Fall 2005 Cohort

Shirley Acquah  (email)
740.597.3688
Qualitative research methods, Health Communication, Organizational Communication, Communication for Social change
Karen Greiner (kg247305@ohio.edu)
LINDLEY 216 | 740.593.4842
Communication for social change, participatory communication, innovative health interventions (contests, theater, telenovelas, etc.), performance, humor & play.
Ephraim Kotey  (email)
CTCL 306 | 740.593.0909
Organizational Communication; Communication for Social Change; Develeopment Rhetoric ( rhetoric between development partners); Qualitative Research Methods.
Marie Thompson  (email)
LASHER 014 | 740.593.3022
Health Communication, Organizational Communication, Feminist, Women's and Gendered Studies, Narrative Theory and Interpretive Research Methods.