The School of Communication Studies at Ohio University is dedicated to two propositions:  (1) teaching and research are equal partners in the making of a distinguished program of faculty and students; (2) collegiality and rigor can be fostered such that one does not play off against the other.  The School supports collaborative work in support of these propositions--faculty in the School work closely with each other and with students, both on teaching and research. 

More detailed faculty profiles, including CV's and other information, can be found on individual faculty pages by clicking their names below.

Faculty

Roger Aden (email)
LASHER 205 | 740.593.4822
Rhetoric and Popular Culture; Place and Space Theory
Benjamin R. Bates  (email)
LASHER 009 | 740.593.9163
Communication Health Campaigns and Messaging; Rhetoric of Health; Communication and International Health and Development
Austin Babrow  (email)
LASHER 107| 740.597.2783
Health Communication; Communication Theory; Problematic Integration Theory (Communication and the interplay of uncertainties and values)
Christina Beck  (email)
LASHER 210 | 740.593.9167
Health and Media; Language and Social Interaction
William Benoit  (email)
LASHER 011 | 740.593.3328
Political Communication; Image Repair
Laura Black  (email)
LASHER 111 | 740.593.4690
Group Communication; Computer Mediated Communication; Ethnography and Discourse Analysis; Public Deliberation and Dialogue
Amy E. Chadwick  (email)
LASHER 109 | 740.593.4821
Health Communication; Persuasion and Social Influence; Environmental Communication; Message Design; Emotion
Devika Chawla  (email)
LASHER 031 | 740.593.4820
Narrative and Performative approaches to Identity; Diasporic Identities; Postcolonial Theory/s; Transnational Studies; Critical and Performance Ethnography
Yea-Wen Chen  (email)
LASHER 007 | 740.593.4837
Intercultural Communication in Nonprofit Organizing; Intercultural Communication in Interpersonal Relating; Intersecting Cultural Identities; Critical Race Theory
Claudia Hale  (email)
LASHER 203 | 740.593.4825
Interpersonal and Organizational Processes; Conflict Management and Dispute Resolution; Communication and Peace Building
Lynn Harter  (email)
LASHER 109 | 740.593.4830
Narrative Approaches to Health; Organizing for Social Change; Social Justice; Feminist Theory
Anita James  (email)
LASHER 204 | 740.593.4840
Communication Processes in Organizing; Training and Development; Survey Development
Judith Yaross Lee  (email)
LASHER 113 | 740.593.4844
Literary Rhetoric; American Humor; Rhetoric of Science and Technology
Carolyn Bailey Lewis   (email)
CTCL 306 | 740.593.4842
Health Communication, Organizational Communication, Autoethnography, Advocacy
Raymie McKerrow  (email)
LASHER 212 | 740.593.4843
19th-21st Century Rhetorical Theory; Argument Theory; Postmodernism
Jerry Miller  (email)
LASHER 202 | 740.593.4831
Political Advertising and Gender; Political Communication; Argumentation and Public Deliberation
Brittany Peterson  (email)
LASHER 008 | 740.593.4968
Organizational Communication; Membership; Socialization; Identification
Bill Rawlins  (email)
LASHER 215 | 740.593.4823
Interpersonal Communication; Friendship; Dialogue and Experience; Communication in Public and Private Relationships
J.W. Smith (email)
LASHER 112 | 740.593.4838
Communication and Disability; African American Rhetoric
Mirit Shoham (email)
LASHER 012 | 740.593.9159
Communication Networks; Diffusion; Persuasion
Natalie Shubert (email) Visiting Assistant Professor specializing in Organizational Communication and Interpersonal Communication
Scott Titsworth  (email)
RTV 497 | 740.593.4883
Classroom Communication and Emotion; Student Learning; Discourses of Education; Quantitative Methods
Dan West  (email)
CTCL 315 | 740.593.9962
Debate and Forensics Pedagogy; Communication Pedagogy


School Administrative Staff

Gayle McKerrow  (email)
LASHER 102 | 740.593.4832

Assistant to Director; Budgeting; Faculty Records

Heather Grove  (email)
LASHER 022 | 740.593.4842
Administrative Assistant; Student Records; Office Manager