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Professionally, Rich is quite active at the regional and national levels and has amassed an impressive portfolio of service and scholarship.
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Phillip Glenn's scholarly interests concern interaction, especially negotiation, mediation and conflict; employment interviews; and laughter in everyday talk. His book Laughter in Interaction (Cambridge University Press, 2003) received the Outstanding Scholarly Publication Award from the Language and Social Interaction Division of the National Communication Association.
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Dr. Anderson, a performance studies scholar, focuses his research in the area of narrative theory and performance. He is the author of The Student Companion to William Faulkner (Greenwood, 2007). In addition to publishing articles in Text and Performance Quarterly, he has served as Book Review Co-Editor for the journal.
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Elizabeth's Baeten primary teaching responsibilities are in the Ethics and Values Perspective curriculum. Though a philosopher by training and temperament, Professor Baeten's interests are broadly interdisciplinary; for example, she has worked with sophomore Honors students on the implications of evolution and natural selection on our conceptions of morality.
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Sam Binkley is Associate Professor of Sociology. While he is administratively housed in the Department of Communication Studies, he teaches in the General Education curriculum, and at the Institute for Liberal Arts and Interdisciplinary Studies. He offers courses in the sociology of identity, cultural sociology, critical theory and cultural studies.
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Cara Buckley's research focuses on the intersections of rhetoric and queer theory with particular interest in the productive, resistive potential of queer identities/kinships and their representations.
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Angela Cooke-Jackson's research and teaching interests focus on the links between interpersonal relationships, culture, and health among underserved and disparate populations. She has served on a number of research grants and worked as a Health Communication Contractor for the Department of Health in Albuquerque, NM.
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Cathryn became interested in speech communication and linguistics during her Speech Pathology and Audiology undergraduate work at Boston University. Later, while attending graduate school at New York University, she began working with foreign speakers of English, using accent reduction methods, to help them speak more clearly. Returning to Boston in 1982, she opened the consulting firm, Verbal Impact, providing instruction for professionals who desired to improve their speaking skills.
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Heather's love of public speaking and argumentation started with a debate class in high school in her hometown of North Platte, Nebraska. She competed in Forensics for 8 years, at the University of Nebraska – Lincoln, making it to quarter-finals in Poetry at the AFA national tournament in 1996 and semi-finals in dramatic interpretation in 1997.
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Nicole Files-Thompson is currently a doctoral candidate at Howard University. Her dissertation, "Understanding Empowerment through the Experiences of African American Women as Tourists in Jamaica," uses an ethnographic, interdisciplinary strategy to intersectionally examine intercultural communication, sexuality, identity, perceptions, and the fluidity of power in the tourist experience.
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Dr. Gallant's teaching and research interests include the application of research methods to social computing and the maximization of information and communication technology (ICT) to advance human communication in multiple contexts – healthcare, politics, and the workplace.
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Mr. Hollingworth is a nationally known speaker, lecturer, and consultant in the public and private sectors.
Read More - Assistant Professor and Director of the Communication 100 Program
Dr. Angela Hosek's research interests focus on investigating the extent to which social group categorization impacts relational functioning as people communicate to create, negotiate, and express their identities. Dr. Hosek's current research examines the ways in which teachers and students manage their social identities and privacy during interactions whether they are facilitated by face-to-face, out of class, or through mediated forms of communication
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Patrick Johnson is a former Director of Forensics at Northwest Missouri State, where he directed an individual events program that was active on the American Forensics Association (AFA) national circuit.
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Pablo Muchnik specializes in Kant, early modern philosophy, ethics, and political philosophy. He taught at Siena College (NY) from 2003 to 2010.
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Dr. Payne 's expertise is in political communication, public diplomacy, crisis communication, celebrity/spectacle media events and health communication, protest rhetoric, especially the shootings at Kent State. He has edited the American Behavioral Scientists campaign edition for every presidential election since 1988.
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Tulasi Srinivas' research focuses on the cultural politics of religion and the processes of cultural globalization through an inter-disciplinary and comparative analysis of ideology, experience and subjectivity.
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Ashley Torrence comes to Emerson from Washington, D.C., having just completed her coursework at Howard University. She is pursuing her PhD in mass communication media studies with a political concentration. Her dissertation will focus on media framing, Strom Thurmond, and the election of 1948.
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Allen arrived at Emerson with over a decade of competitive speech and debate experience. He achieved national recognition while an undergraduate student at Eastern Michigan University (EMU), one of the most successful forensics programs in the country. After graduation, Allen worked with independent film and theatre companies before returning to school to study Communication, focusing on Performance Studies.
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Michael Weiler, a member of the faculty since 1989, is an expert in argument, rhetoric, and political communication. His research has appeared in Argumentation and Advocacy, Informal Logic, and the Quarterly Journal of Speech, and he has co-authored a collection of essays on the rhetoric of Ronald Reagan.
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