News

Dr. Thomas Lessl has been granted the status of Professor Emeritus by President Jere Morehead and the University of Georgia. A beloved teacher and exacting scholar, Dr. Lessl taught at the university since 1985. He retired in August of this year. 

Congratulations Dr. Maryam Ahmadi for being awarded the Outstanding Dissertation Award from the American Society of History & Rhetoric.

Our department is excited to see our alumni doing amazing things. One of those individuals, D.J. Shockley, spoke with UGA Today about his great achievements after completing his degree with UGA!

Congratulations to Dr. Analisa Arroyo for being selected as one of the Associate Editors for Communication Monographs, a flagship journal in the Ccmmunication Studies discipline!

Congratulations to Rachel Bailey, a current Communication Studies PhD candidate, on her new position! Rachel has accepted a Lecturer position at the University of Maryland in their Department of Communication. She will be teaching Oral Communication in Fall 2023.