Tags: Alumni

Congratulations to Department of Communication Studies alum Dr. Leland G. Spencer, who was recently tenured at Miami University in Hamilton, Ohio. Now an associate professor in Miami’s Department of Interdisciplinary and Communication Studies, Dr. Spencer is also his department’s chief departmental advisor as well as an affiliate faculty member in the Department of Media, Journalism, and Film and in the Women’s, Gender, and Sexualities Studies…

The Department of Communication Studies is pleased to announce Dr. Kathryn Greene as its 2018 Spotlight Scholar. Dr. Greene, an alumna of the department’s graduate program, is Professor of Communication Studies at Rutgers University. Her research focuses on health decision-making and the central role of communication in both preventing disease and injury in adolescents as well as in maintaining health and wellness in close…

E. Michele Ramsey, a graduate of the Department of Communication Studies's doctoral program and former advisee of Dr. Bonnie Dow, has received the Organization for the Study of Communication, Language, and Gender's (OSCLG) 2017 Feminist Teacher-Mentor Award. In a Penn State press release announcing the award, Ramsey, Associate Professor of Communication Arts and Sciences and Women's Studies at Penn State Berks, credits her own…

Raka Shome, a former doctoral student in Rhetorical Studies, has been awarded the prestigious Charles Woolbert Award from the National Communication Association for her work in postcolonial communication and media studies, and particularly for the essay she co-authored (as lead author) with Radha Hegde: "Postcolonial Approaches to Communication: Charting the terrain, engaging the intersections" (in 2002). Hegde will also receive the…

Hosted by the Department of Communication Studies and the Georgia Debate Union   Join us this spring for a Comm Studies reunion for graduate program and debate alumni! On Saturday, April 23rd, the event will kick off with an afternoon of activities, including an historic walking tour of the campus, golf tee times, and the presentation of academic research for alumni interested in sharing their work with friends and colleagues (details are…

Finally, pictures from the Georgia Debate Union's amazing alumni reunion are online! Available here.