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Carole Barbato
Rozell Duncan
Nichole Egbert
Jerry Feezel
William Gorden
Paul Haridakis
D. Ray Heisey
Dominic Infante
Janet Meyer
Nancy Mitchell
Jeffrey A. Nelson
Robyn Parker
Alan Rubin
Rebecca Rubin
Graduate Students

 

Full Time Faculty

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*Alan Rubin
Ph.D. University of Illinois, 1976
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Professor, Interim Director
Research Interests:
Media Uses and Effects; Audience Research; Personal and Mediated Communication; Media News and Entertainment; Political Communication; Newer Communication Technologies
Current Research Projects: Communication Motivation and Audience Involvement with Media; Uses and Effects of Radio and Television Talk Shows; Aggression and Popular Music; Media and Parasocial Interaction; Using the Internet.
Teaching Interests:  Media Uses and Effects; Political Communication; Quantitative Research Methods; Communication in an Information Society; Measurement and Analysis
Rozell Duncan
Ph.D., Kent State University, 1996
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Assistant Professor
Research Interests:
Organizational Culture; Organizational Diversity; Superior/Subordinate Relationships; Immediacy in the Superior/subordinate Relationship; The use of Power in the Superior/Subordinate Relationship; Uncertainty in the Workplace.
Teaching Interests: Organizational Communication; Nonverbal Communication; Business and Professional Speaking; Interracial Communication; Interpersonal Communication; Managerial Communication; Organizational Culture/Diversity; Rhetorical Criticism; Argumentation; Group Discussion.
Current Research Project: Immediacy in the Superior/Subordinate Relationship; Boyer's Tenure Considerations; Power in the Superior/Subordinate Relationship.
Recent Publications: Currently working on a project with other KSU full and part-time faculty.
*Jerry Feezel
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, 1971
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Professor
Research Interests:
Communication in Teaching and Learning: Teaching Assistant Development; Semantic Analyses of Language; Language and Culture.
Current Research Projects: Language and Reflective Teaching; Verbal Probability and Uncertainty; Social Acceptability of Language; Teaching Assistant Development; Verbal/Nonverbal Codes; Communication Terms in Cultures.
Teaching Interests: College Teaching of Communication; Secondary Methods of Teaching Speech; Language and Meaning; Interpersonal Communication.
*Nichole Egbert
Ph.D
., University of Georgia, 2000
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Assistant Professor
Research Interests:
Health Communication; Social Support Processes; Emotion, Attitude and Persuasion; Relational and Interpersonal Communication
Current Research Projects: Uncertainty in the Provision of Social Support by Hospice volunteers; Mood and social support Quality; Health Talk in Social Networks
Teaching Interests: Health Communication; Organizational Communication; Training and Development; Nonverbal Communication; Theory; Quantitative Methods; Relational Communication
*Paul Haridakis
Ph.D., Kent State University, 2000
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Assistant Professor
Research Interests:
Media Uses and Effects; New Communication Technologies; Media Policy and Regulation; Freedom of Expression; Media Ethics
Current Research Projects: Uses and Effects of Television Violence; Regulation of Television Content; The First Amendment and the Internet; Media Coverage of Judicial Processes.
Teaching Interests: Speech in a Free Society; Communication Process; Research Methods; Senior Seminar.
*Janet Meyer
Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1989
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Assistant Professor
Research Interests:
Communication and cognitive processes, Cognitive editing, Message production, Persuasion, Interpersonal Communication, Communication theory
Current Research Projects: Regretted messages, Cognitive representation of request situations, Cognitive editing, Secondary goals in message production
Teaching Interests:  Communication Theory, Persuasion, Communication Research Methods, Interpersonal Communication
Nancy Mitchell
Ph.D., University of Iowa
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Assistant Professor and Assistant Dean, College of Fine & Professional Arts
Teaching Interests:
Criticism of Public Discourse, Rhetorical Theory and Criticism
*Robyn Parker
Ph.D
., Wayne State University, 2001
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Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Telework; New communication technologies; Impact of distributed patterns of work on organizational structures; Communication Channel Selection and Effects; Organizational Identification. 
Current Research Projects:  Managerial patterns of influence in telecommuting success; Qualitative assessment of organizational identification; Examining the effects of merger and acquisition on employee levels of organizational connection; Channel selection model testing.
Teaching Interests: Organizational Communication; Training & Development; Computer Mediated Communication; Managerial Communication & Team Building; Qualitative Research Methods.
David Powers
Ph.D., Kent State University, 1996
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Assistant Professor
Bruce Riddle
Ph.D., Kent State University, 1994
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Assistant Professor
*Rebecca Rubin
Ph.D., University of Illinois, 1975
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Professor
Research Interests:
Interpersonal Communication; Personal and Mediated Communication; Communication Competence; Impression Formation and Relationship Development; Interpersonal Communication Motives; Instructional Communication.
Current Research Projects: Interpersonal Motives, Media Use, and New Technologies; Interpersonal Communication Competence; Communication Measurement; Communication Cognition; Communication Situations and Contexts.
Teaching Interests: Interpersonal Communication; Quantitative Research Methods; Communication Competence; Measurement and Analysis; Theories of Communication; Communication Inquiry

*Graduate Faculty

Regional Campus Faculty
FULL TIME FACULTY            PART TIME FACULTY          EMERITI      
*Carole Barbato
Ph.D., Kent State University, 1994
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EAST LIVERPOOL
Associate Professor
Research Interests:
Small Group Decision-Making; Argumentativeness; Interpersonal Communication Motives; Communication and Aging
Current Research Projects: Interpersonal Communication Motive between Parents and Children; Argumentativeness in the Decision and Communication Outcomes of Small Groups; Argumentativeness of Children and their Parents.
Teaching Interests: Interpersonal Communication; Small Group Communication and Team building; Foundations of communication Inquiry.
Laurie Bentley
M.A., Kent State Unversity, 1996
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ASHTABULA
Instructor
Bei Cai
 
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STARK
Instructor
Jeffrey A. Nelson
Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1973
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TRUMBULL
Associate Professor
Research Interests:
Rhetorical Theory and Criticism; Media Criticism.
Current Research Projects:  Social Movements; Rhetoric of Religion.
|Teaching Interests:  Rhetorical Theory and Criticism
Lisa Schroeder
Ph.D., Kent State University, 1997
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TUSCARAWAS
Assistant Professor
 
Lisa Waite
M.A., University of Akron, 1985
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STARK
Lecturer, Non Tenure Track

Part Time Faculty

FULL TIME FACULTY            REGIONAL FACULTY           EMERITI 
Suzanne Holt
Ph.D., Kent State University, 1994
Instructor
Lorie Hopp
M.A., Kent State University, 1984
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Instructor
Carole Kane
B.A., Kent State University, 1962
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Instructor
Evin Kleinman
B.A., Kent State University, 1989
Instructor
Samantha Kovach
M.A., University of Dayton, 1993
Instructor
Bruce Landis
Ph.D., Kent State University, 1988
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Instructor
Gregory Miller
M.A., Bowling Green, 1990
Instructor
David Trebing
Ph.D., Kent State University, 1990
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Instructor
Research Interests:
History and Criticism of Public Address; The Rhetoric's of Art, Music and Popular Culture; Movement Studies; Rhetorical Epistemology
Current Research Projects: The Rhetoric of the Motorcyclists' Rights Movement; "From 'On the Beach' to 'The Day After': The Nuclear Holocaust Genre"; "Something Warm and Fuzzy in Your Inbox: ePhilosophy on the Net"
Teaching Interests: Rhetorical Criticism, Rhetorical Theory, Political Rhetoric, American Popular Culture, Public Speaking
Marie Whaley
Ph.D., Indiana University, 1982
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Instructor

Emeriti Faculty

FULL TIME                  REGIONAL                   PART TIME          
William I. Gorden
Ph.D., Purdue University, 1958
Professor Emeritus of Communication Studies
Research Interests: 
Organizational Culture and Member Rights, Commitment, Freedom of Speech, Values, Ethics and Relationships, Quality in Organizations.
Current Research Projects: Superior-Subordinate Communication; Employee Rights; Organizational Citizenship; Socialization in Society and at Work; Teamwork.
*D. Ray Heisey
Ph.D., Northwestern University, 1964
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Professor Emeritus and Director Emeritus of Communication Studies
Research Interests: 
Rhetoric of National Leaders; Conflict and Revolutionary Movements; International and Intercultural Communication.
Current Research Projects:  Rhetoric of Scandinavia, China and the Middle East; International Crises and the Rhetoric of National Leaders; Apologia.
Dominic A. Infante
Ph.D., Kent State University, 1971
Professor Emeritus of Communication Studies
Research Interests: 
Argumentativeness; Verbal Aggressiveness; Personality and Communication; Interpersonal Communication; Family Violence; Spousal Abuse.
Current Research Projects: Verbal Aggression; Nonverbal Communication and Aggressiveness; Aggressive Communication and Corporal Punishment.
FULL TIME FACULTY      REGIONAL FACULTY      PART TIME FACULTY      EMERITI

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