Sophia Flemming, Ph.D. Candidate, has been recognized for a series of notable achievements during the 2025–2026 academic year. She was selected as the graduate student recipient of the Giles Encouragement Award, recognizing her outstanding promise and scholarly contributions. In addition, Sophia received a Mellon Grant supporting her work in Spring and Summer 2026. Sophia was also invited to participate in the New Georgia Encyclopedia (NGE) xPD…

As a researcher of war propaganda, Roger Stahl has been busy fielding more than a dozen interview requests from the likes of the Washington Post, Bloomberg, Times of London, Le Monde, Financial Times, BBC World News, and PBS Newshour.  News outlets at home and around the world wonder what to make of the Trump administration’s video mash-ups of Hollywood one-liners, game clips, and missile strike footage in their messaging regarding the…

The Department of Communication Studies is proud to congratulate Anthony Gargiulo, Taylor Vanderveen, Sophia Flemming, and Mik Davis-Bryant for being recipients of the Outstanding Teaching Assistant (OTA) Award. This award honor teaching assistants who demonstrate superior instructional skills and a strong commitment to student learning in the classroom or laboratory. The 2026 recipients will be celebrated at the annual Spring GradTeach…

Four graduate students from the program presented original research at the 2026 Georgia Communication Association (GCA) Conference, held February 26–28 at Mercer University in Macon, Georgia. Their work spanned topics including digital media, gender rhetoric, film, and classical history, showcasing the breadth and depth of student scholarship. Hampton Stall, a first-year PhD student, presented his paper “Nostalgia and World of Warcraft: A…

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!