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Jennifer Monahan

Jennifer Monahan came to UGA as an assistant professor in 1993 after completion of her Ph.D. at the University of Southern California. She teaches classes in theory development, research methods, message design, emotion, and intercultural communication. Her research interests are in health and interpersonal communication.  She studies social interactions and conversational behavior in a host of contexts including initial…


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I am Josiah Meigs Professor emeritus of Speech Communication, the University of Georgia. In the year 2000, I retired after teaching public speaking, history and Criticism of American Public Address, African American Public Address, rhetorical criticism, and other communication courses for over three decades. I taught at Birmingham-Southern College (in Alabama), Louisiana State University (as graduate assistant), University of Arkansas (one…


Thomas Lessl

Dr. Thomas Lessl (Ph. D. University of Texas at Austin) is a professor of Communication Studies at the University of Georgia.   He has written scholarly articles for many journals and books.  His research addresses the modern scientific identity, especially in relation to religion.   His work has been reported in many media outlets, including The New York Times,  National Public Radio, …


Christin Huggins

Christin E. Huggins (Ph.D., University of Georgia) received her MA from UGA and her BA in Communication Studies from Samford University. Her teaching focuses on engaging students using active learning strategies so that students are invested in their own learning. Dr. Huggins teaches undergraduate courses in interpersonal communication, nonverbal communication in close relationships, empirical research methods, and interpersonal…


Kelly Happe

Dr. Happe, Professor of Communication Studies and Women's and Gender Studies, is a rhetorical theorist and critic working at the intersection of feminism, science studies, biopolitics, and Marxist theory. Her scholarship has appeared in Theory and Event, The Quarterly Journal of Speech, New Genetics and Society, Philosophy and Rhetoric, and other venues.  Her book, The Material Gene: Gender, Race, and Heredity After the…


Celeste Condit

Celeste Condit serves the department and the university as a Distinguished Research Professor. She is currently expanding her understanding of the possibilities for global politics.  She is working to integrate biological and symbolic facets of human being in theories of human experience and human social structures. She has recently studied public understanding of genetics and public communication about genetics, with emphasis in gene…


Barbara Biesecker

After spending a good number of years studying literature and literary theory, Professor Barbara Biesecker changed her course of study and went to the University of Pittsburgh to earn a doctoral degree in rhetorical studies.  She completed the Ph.D. in 1989, was a Fellow of the School of Criticism and Theory, accepted a position at the University of Iowa in 1990, and taught undergraduate and graduate courses there until she joined the…


Analisa Arroyo

Dr. Arroyo's research interests are in health, interpersonal, and relational communication. Her research falls into three lines of inquiry:  Interpersonal Communication and Body Image (e.g., negative body talk, disordered eating) The Intergenerational Transmission of Mental Health (e.g., parent-child depression, loneliness, anxiety) Intergroup Attitudes within Interpersonal Relationships (e.g., sexism, weightism, racism)  Together,…
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