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Please help us congratulate Dr. Kristi Schaller on becoming Principal Lecturer Emerita! Dr. Schaller joined our department in 2005 and has since played an important role in supporting our students and strengthening our community through her teaching and service. We are grateful for her many contributions and wish her all the best as she begins this new chapter. Congratulations, Dr. Schaller!

The Department of Communication Studies is deeply saddened to learn of the passing of Michael F. Adams, University of Georgia president emeritus. A specialist in political communication, Dr. Adams was an affiliated faculty member in the department and previously taught some courses within the department.  We would like to express our sincerest condolences to his entire family.

Allegro Wang, a Ph.D. candidate, is up for the Top Student Paper in the NCA American Studies Division. The paper, "Time-Space Compression as Trope: Drone Surveillance on the US-Mexico Border" is about how Project Maven, a system being designed by Palantir to integrate drones with AI capabilities, is legitimized within a broader cultural narrative of a migration "crisis." Spatially, these tropes are used to narrow the audiences attention to the…

🎉Congratulations to alumna Dr. Savannah Downing for her recent win of dissertation of the year award from the American Society for the History of Rhetoric at NCA. 

CommDawg Jarryd Wallace (Class of 2019) was recently named a member of the UGA 2020 class of 40 under 40. This designation means that Jarryd aspires to uphold the principles manifested in the three Pillars of the Arch, demonstrates a commitment to maintaining a lifelong relationship with UGA and has made an impact in his professional and philanthropic endeavors. Jarryd is a professional athlete and director of the Affordable Blade…

Communication Studies Department graduate Alec Ream (BA ’88) has recently published his first novel. Alec credits Dr. Cal Logue and the Demosthenian Literary Society with inspiring his rhetoric style. The novel, Canterbury 2020, explores the ideas of apocalypse and Y2K with a comedic emphasis. Congratulations to Alec!  

Grad CommDawg Emily Winderman (Ph.D., 2015) has been awarded a Residential Fellowship by the Institute for Advanced Study at the University of Minnesota.  Residential Fellows are chosen in an open rank competition.  The selected faculty and visiting scholars are released from teaching to spend a semester in residence at the IAS. Together they constitute a supportive interdisciplinary intellectual community in which fellows work…

Stories in this issue include:  Kentucky Wins - Bannister & Trufanov earn perfect record in preliminary rounds and 20 of 22 ballots in out rounds Brovero and Leeson-Schatz honored - Two long serving coaches honored for their service to the NDT community Jacob Hegna earns top speaker honors - Hegna is the second debater from the University of Kansas to receive this distinction Participants - List of the 16 teams receiving…

The Department of Communication Studies extends its congratulations to Dr. Tina M. Harris, who has been named the faculty recipient of UGA’s 2017-2018 Excellence in Diversity Leadership Award. The Excellence in Diversity Leadership Awards are given annually by the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences Office of Inclusion and Diversity Leadership to one Franklin faculty member and one member of the Franklin staff in recognition of their efforts…

The Department of Communication Studies held its annual commencement exercises on Thursday, May 3, 2018 in the University of Georgia Chapel. The event featured two addresses, one from graduating senior Jonas Taylor and a second from program alum Hannah Kay Herdlinger. A member of Lambda Pi Eta and a graduate of UGA’s entrepreneurship program, Taylor encouraged his classmates to see their graduation day as a beginning to lives of service in…