Graduate Students

In a typical year the School of Communication Studies has approximately 40 active, on-campus graduate students.  Of those, approximately 32 are funded as graduate assistants in the school; the remaining students are either funded through other assistantships on campus or have fellowships. Our graduate students are a very bright and divers group of scholars who, in many ways, serve as a foundation for much of what we do in the school.  We actively socialize and treat our graduate students as colleagues so that they feel prepared to enter tenure track jobs upon graduation.

Contact information for our graduate students is below.  If you click on a students' name you will be able to view their personal profile page.

Fall 2011 Cohort

Jordan Compton  (email)
LASHER | 740.593.____

Political and sports communication, Image repair , Forensics pedagogy

Nancy Gomez  (email)
LASHER | 740.593.____

Communication and culture, Social justice, Polyphonic communication

Kevin J. Hales  (email)
LASHER | 740.593.____

Lowcountry Gullah and Geechee culture, epigraphy and semiotics in West Africa and Black representations in Western media

Dongjing Kang (email)
LASHER | 740.593.0795

Organizational Communication, Power, Resistance, and Social Change 

Jean Claude Kwitonda  (email)
LASHER | 740.593.____

Narrative theories, Discourse of health and healing, Cultural studies

Zhou Li  (email)
LASHER | 740.593.____

Rhetorical Theory & Public Culture; Public spheres and counterpublics

Tamra Portalla  (email)
LASHER | 740.593.____

Interpersonal communication, Intercultural communication, Participatory communication

Pornchanok (Porsche) Ruengvirayudh  (email)
LASHER | 740.593.____

Interpersonal communication between children and personal coaches as mind shapers, character developers, and life coaches

Maria Subert  (email)
LASHER | 740.593.____

Linguistic and imagined communities, Moral and ethical communication, Encountering and communicating with difference

Amanda Torrens  (email)
LASHER | 740.593.____

Communication within interpersonal relationships, specifically close friendships, Spiritual and religious communication, Personal narratives and other forms of ethnographic writing

 Prosper Tsikata (email)
LASHER | 740.593.____

 

OU / BU Joint Ph.D. Program Students 2011-2012

Sawitree Cheevasart  (EMAIL)
LSHR 024 | 740.593.____

Organizational identification, new media technologies, student/faculty and faculty/faculty relationships

Benya Lertsuwan  (EMAIL)
LSHR 024 | 740.593.____

Public relations, political communication

Srinuan Limvarakul  (EMAIL)
LSHR 024 | 740.593.____

Strategic communication

Nantida Otakum  (EMAIL)
LSHR 024 | 740.593.___

Organizational identity and image management, interpersonal communication

Wuttichai Phaovanich  (EMAIL)
LSHR 024 | 740.593.____

Discourse studies, cross-linguistics studies, pedagogical communication, intercultural communication, and communication research tools

Usa Silraungwilai  (EMAIL)
LSHR 024 | 740.593.____

Leadership, team effectiveness, problem solving, negotiation, coaching & counseling

Fall 2010 Cohort

Adil Al-Busaidi  (email)
LASHER 020 | 740.593.2952

Organizational communication, Leadership, Conflict and communication, CMC, Intercultural communication

Aarti Arora  (email)
CTCL 312 | 740.597.9147

Health Communication, Health awareness campaigns, Persuasive techniques and culture in creating awareness, Health Communication and race, Organizational Communication, Intercultural Communication, Conflict and gender

Stellina Aubuchon  (email)
CTCL 312 | 740.597.9147

Health communication, Health message effects, Narrative and health

Michael Broderick  (email)
ALDEN 101 | 740.593.2720

Communication and food studies, Environmental communication, Communication and development

Anita Frederick  (email)
CTCL 312 | 740.597.9147

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Jessica Furgerson  (email)
CTCL 314 | 740.593.4836

Gender and communication, Narrative, Forensics and competitive speaking

Lacey Hawk  (email)
CTCL 314 | 740.593.9147

Women and health; Interpersonal communication

Kelli Lutz  (email)
CTCL 314 | 740.593.9147

Interpersonal communication with an emphasis on family communication

Timothy McKenna  (email)
LASHER 010 | 740.593.9166

Organizational difference; Privacy management and disclosure; Identity negotiation; Community; Narrative

Stephanie Ruhl  (email)
CTCL 312 | 740.597.9147

Communication in health organizations, Interpersonal communication, Crisis and risk communication

Nathaniel Simmons  (email)
LASHER 014 | 740.597.3022

Intercultural communication, Health communication and culture, Privacy management, Communication for social change

Samuel Venable  (email)
MCKEE 104 | 740.593.2206

Narrative construction formed through the use of new technology; privacy management and identity negotiation; organizational and interpersonal communication.

Fall 2009 Cohort

Mairi Adams  (EMAIL)
LSHR 005| 740.593.9164
Rhetoric of assimilation in religious conversion; Disability studies and Asperger Syndrome
Tim Baird  (EMAIL)
CTCL 305 | 740.593.0795
Cross-Cultural Communication, International Communication
Adriana Ángel  (EMAIL)
LINDLEY 216 | 740.593.9148
Rhetoric and Popular Culture, Rhetoric and Social Construction of Reality, Collective Memory
Vicki Crooks  (EMAIL)
LSHR 020 | 740.593.2952
Organizational Communication, Interpersonal Communication, and Health Communication
Aaron Duncan  (EMAIL)
LSHR 020 | 740.593.2952
Rhetoric and public culture, Religion, Aesthetics, Community and Identity
Kimberly Field Springer  (EMAIL)
LSHR 037 | 740.593.4833
Health communication, Persuasive messages, Health promotional campaigns, Women's studies
Moyi Jia  (EMAIL)
LSHR 005 | 740.593.9164
Organizational Communication, Emotions in Organizations, Training and Development, Research methods
Ran Ju  (EMAIL)
LSHR 014 | 740.597.3022
International communication, Intercultural communication,Organizational communication
Shannon Lawson  (EMAIL)
LSHR 020 | 740.593.2952
Rhetoric and Public Culture, Intercultural Communication,  Gender Studies, Visual Rhetoric
Mike Parsons  (EMAIL)
CTCL 306 | 740.593.0909
Computer-mediated communication, Quantitative Methods
Sarah Patten  (EMAIL)
LSHR 037 | 740.593.4833
Rhetoric and Public Culture, Intercultural Communication, Media Effects, Gender Studies
Steve Phalen  (EMAIL)
LSHR 035 | 740.593.4824
Cultural Studies, Ethnographic Methods, Identity
Katie Striley (EMAIL)
LSHR 035 | 740.593.4824
Organizing for social change, social exclusion and the formation of marginalized identities, social construction of reality, resistance
Anna Wiederhold (EMAIL)
LSHR 011 | 740.593.4903
Conflict & Identity; Space & Place; Organizing for Social Change; Women's & Gender Studies

Fall 2008 Cohort

Jennifer Barber  (email)
LASHER 035 | 740.593.4824
Health Communication, Small Group Communicaiton
Erin Dame  (email)
LASHER 005 | 740.593.9164
Organizational Communication, Communication for Social Change, Alternative Organizing Theories
Megan Dowd  (email)
LASHER 013 | 740.597.3019
Communication of change; Interpersonal Communication; Small Group Communication; Instructional Communication
Angela Huffman  (email)
LASHER 013 | 740.593.3019
Relating and Organizing and Health Communication; Narrative Approaches to meaning making; and Participatory Methods
Mark Kokoska  (email)
CTCL 314 | 740.593.4836
Competitive Speech and Debate; Rhetoric and Public Culture; Interpersonal Communication
Jeff Kuznekoff  (email)
LASHER 035 | 740.593.4824
New Communication Technologies; Health Communication; Instructional Communication; Quantitative Research Methods
Rebecca Mercado Thornton  (email)
LASHER 211 | 740.593.4837
Rhetoric and Public Culture, Qualitative Research Methods
Spencer Patterson  (email)
LASHER 020 | 740.593.2952
Health Communication, Organizational Communication, Narrative Theory
Lindsey Rose  (email)
LASHER 011 | 740.593.4903
Health Communication, Interpersonal Communication, Organizational Communication, Interpretive approaches through Qualitative Methods
LiLi  (email)
CTCL 406 | 740.593.9129
Instructional Communication; Cross Cultural Communication

Fall 2007 Cohort

Annette Hamel  (email)
LINDLEY 216 | 740.593.9148
In/out group communication, race as a social construct, individual and group identity.
Fletcher Ziwoya  (email)
LASHER 020 | 740.593.2952
Relating and Organizing: focusing on Political Communication; conflict resolution; communication and national development

Fall 2006 Cohort

Jirah Krittayapong  (email)
CTCL 406 / 740-593-9129
Identity, Interpersonal Communication, Intercultural Communication, and Instructional Communication
Azhanni Muhammad  (email)
LASHER 020 | 740.593.2952
Crisis Communication Management, Corporate Image Restoration, Corporate Communication, Managerial Communication, Business Communication, Interpersonal Communication
Margaret Romoser  (email)
CTCL 305 | 740.593.0795
Health communication, Politics of health