Faculty Profiles

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	V. William (Bill) Balthrop Curriculum Vitae in Adobe Acrobat .pdf format B.A., Wichita State University; M.A. and Ph.D., University of Kansas.* Rhetorical Studies. Dr. Balthrop's professional interests focus on the interactions between rhetoric, argument and cultural practice. He is a former President of the National Communication Association and former President of the American Forensic Association. (See Profile)
_{Phone: 962-4982 Office: 206 Bingham Hall vwb@email.unc.edu}

	Carole Blair Curriculum Vitae in Adobe Acrobat .pdf format B.A. and M.A., University of Iowa. Ph.D. Pennsylvania State University. Rhetorical Studies. Professor Blair's research focuses on the rhetorical and cultural significance of U.S. commemorative places and artworks. She teaches related courses on visual and material rhetorics, rhetoric and memory, and rhetorics of place, as well as on contemporary rhetorical theory and criticism. (See Profile)*
_{Phone: 962-4943 Office: 211 Bingham Hall cblair1@email.unc.edu}

	Richard C. Cante BA, Northwestern University; MA, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; PhD, University of Southern California. Media and Cultural Studies. Dr. Cante's publications and course offerings reflect his broad interest in relations between contemporary media industries, culture & society, history, and assorted lineages of "critical-theoretical" thought from across disciplines (especially those involving identity, difference, relationality, and "form" in general). (See Profile)
_{Phone: 962-4958 Office: 201A Bingham Hall rcante@email.unc.edu}

	J. Robert Cox Curriculum Vitae in Adobe Acrobat .pdf format B.A., University of Richmond; M.A. and Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh.* Rhetorical Studies. Dr. Cox's research and teaching focus on the role of discourse in social change. His published work includes critical studies of the rhetoric of civil rights, antiwar protest, labor, and the environmental movement. Dr. Cox has served as Associate Editor for the Quarterly Journal of Speech, and advises environmental groups on strategy in their advocacy campaigns. In addition, he served from 1995-1996 as President of the national Sierra Club. Dr. Cox's current research project, Re-Articulating "Environment": The Discourse of the Grassroots Movement for Environmental Justice, has served as the basis for a recent seminar. A recent grant also has allowed him to develop a new course, "Environmental Advocacy." (See Profile)
_{Phone: 962-4937 Office: 308 Bingham Hall rcox1@email.unc.edu}

	Renee Alexander Craft Curriculum Vitae in Adobe Acrobat .pdf format BA (English) and MA (Communication Studies), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; PhD (Performance Studies), Northwestern University.* Postdoctoral Fellow: Performance Studies. Dr. Alexander Craft’s research focuses on black identity, cultural performance, and nationalism(s) in the Americas. Based on six years of critical ethnographic and historical research with the Congo community of Portobelo, Panama, including a sustained one-year experience supported by a Fulbright Full Grant, she is completing a manuscript entitled When the Devil Knocks: The Congo Tradition and Politics of Black Identity in Panama.
_{Phone: 962-4957 Office: 215 Bingham Hall renee_alexander@unc.edu}


	Cori E. Dauber Curriculum Vitae in Adobe Acrobat .pdf format B.A. and Ph.D., Northwestern University; M.A., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.* Rhetorical Studies. Dr. Dauber's research focuses on the argument strategies that underlie the debate in the United St ates over defense and military policy, the way that debate differs in technical and public forums, and ways in which public argument over these issues might be devoted to defense debate. (See Profile)
_{Phone: 843-0244 Office: 203 Swain Hall}_{cdauber@email.unc.edu}

	Sarah Dempsey B.A., Alma College; M.A., Western Michigan University; Ph.D., University of Colorado, Boulder. Organizational Communication. Dr. Dempsey's interests include critical and cultural theories of discourse. Her research investigates problems of agency, representation, and power within global forms of advocacy and international development. (See Profile)
_{Phone: 843-9706 Office: 314 Bingham Hall sedempse@email.unc.edu}

	Paul Ferguson Curriculum Vitae in Adobe Acrobat .pdf format B.A. and M.A., University of South Florida; Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin.* Performance Studies. Dr. Ferguson's interests include group performance, directing and performance theory, composition and sta ge movement, and the performance of contemporary poetry and original texts. (See Profile)
^{Phone: 962-4941 Office: 312 Bingham Hall} ^{andreapf@aol.com}

	Lawrence Grossberg Curriculum Vitae in Adobe Acrobat .pdf format Morris Davis Professor of Communication Studies: B.A., University of Rochester (Philosophy and History); Postgraduate studies, Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies, University of Birmingham (UK); Ph.D., Unive rsity of Illinois (Communication Research). Media and Cultural Studies. Dr. Grossberg's research and teaching interests are: cultural studies and cultural theory (including Marxist, feminist, British, "postcolonial," post-structuralist, and postmodernist); modern and contemporary philosophy; popular music (rock culture) and popular culture; contemporary political culture of the U.S. (See Profile)*
_{Phone: 962-4942 Office: 209 Bingham Hall docrock@email.unc.edu}

	Madeleine Grumet
Phone: 962-9737 Office: 219A Peabody Hall grumet@unc.edu

	Ken Hillis (Assistant Chair) Curriculum Vitae in Adobe Acrobat .pdf format B.A., University of Toronto; M.S.E., York University; Ph.D., University of Wisconsin.* Media and Cultural Studies. Dr. Hillis' research focuses on the politics of communication technologues, with an emphasis on virtual reality. His interests include information technology, electronically mediated communication, the technologization of politics and the "public sphere," construction of identity and minority body politics and social change. (See Profile)
_{Phone: 962-4950 Office: 205 Bingham Hall khillis@email.unc.edu}

	Gorham Kindem Curriculum Vitae in Adobe Acrobat .pdf format B.A., Lawrence University; M.A. and Ph.D., Northwestern University. Media Studies.* Teaching and research interests include documentary production, film history, and media aesthetics. His documentary films have appeared on PBS and the Discovery Channel, and he directs a UNC-CH summer abroad, the London Media and Performance Program (see "Related Programs" section). (See Profile)
_{Phone: 962-4960 Office: 315 Bingham Hall kindemg@email.unc.edu}

	Christian O. Lundberg Curriculum Vitae B.A., University of Redlands; Master of Divinity, Emory University; Ph.D., Northwestern University, Communication Studies. Teaching and research interests include Theories of the Public, Rhetorical Theory, Critical Theory, Cultural Studies and Religion. (See Profile)
_{Phone: 962-7720 Office: 112 Bingham Hall}_{clundber@email.unc.edu}

	Steve May (Director of Undergraduate Studies) Curriculum Vitae in Adobe Acrobat .pdf format B.A. and M.A., Purdue University; Ph.D., University of Utah.* Interpersonal and Organizational Communication. Dr. May's interests include interpretive and critical studies of organizational communication, post-struct uralist theory, and boundaries among work/family, labor/leisure, and private/public. He is currently studying therapeutic discourse in the work place. (See Profile)
_{Phone: 962-4945 Office: 201B Bingham Hall skmay@email.unc.edu}

	Joseph Megel (See Profile)
^{Phone: 843-7067 Office: 106 Swain Hall megel@email.unc.edu}

	Dennis Mumby (Department Chair) Curriculum Vitae in Adobe Acrobat .pdf format B.A., Sheffield Hallam University, U.K; M.A. and Ph.D., Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. Organizational Communication. Dr. Mumby's research interests focus on critical and postmodern approaches to the connections among power, discourse, gender, and identity in organizational settings. (See Profile)*
^{Phone: 843-3613 Office: 116 Bingham Hall}^{mumby@email.unc.edu}

	Stephen C. Neigher B.A. and M.A., University of Massacusetts-Amherst. Media Studies. Mr. Neigher is a film writer, as well as a writer, producer and creative consultant for numerous television programs, including The Jeffersons, Barney Miller, Facts of Life, Dear John, Due South and Judging Amy. He created the CBS series Sugar and Spice and won a Writers’ Guild of America award for Barney Miller. (See Profile)
^{Phone: 843-2037 Office: 209 Swain Hall}^{neigher@email.unc.edu}

	Patricia Parker Curriculum Vitae in Adobe Acrobat .pdf format B.A., Arkansas Tech University; M.A., California State University, Long Beach; Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin. Organizational Communication. Dr. Parker’s research, teaching, and community service are in the areas of organizational leadership, racial, ethnic, and gender diversity, workplace democracy, women’s executive leadership communication, and girls and women’s empowerment. Recent publications include her book, Race, Gender, and Leadership: Re-envisioning Organizational Leadership from the Perspectives of African American Women Executives (Erlbaum, 2005), and several articles and book chapters on race, gender, and organizational communication. Her current work focuses on leadership development and community activism among African American female teens in low-income neighborhoods. (See Profile)*
^{Phone: 962- 4939 Office: 201C Bingham Hall}^{psparker@email.unc.edu}

	Tony Perucci B.S. (Performance and Cultural Studies) Northwestern University, M.A. (Communication Studies) University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Ph.D. (Performance Studies) New York University. Performance Studies. Dr. Perucci’s research and teaching interests include the politics and aesthetics of presence in performance, performance activism, cinematic theatre, time and space in theatrical practice, site-specific art, anti-imperialist activism of the black diaspora, cultural practices of neoliberalism. (See Profile)
^{Phone: 962-4944 Office: 214 Bingham Hall ^{perucci@unc.edu}}

	Della Pollock (Director of Graduate Studies) Curriculum Vitae in Adobe Acrobat .pdf format B.S., M.A., and Ph.D. Northwestern University.* Performance Studies. My research has developed around questions central to understanding the politics of performance, including: How do staged events articulate and distribute power? What are the biopolitics of everyday representation? What does or might the performance of memory lend to the formation of new political aggregates? What happens to given subjectivities and cultural narratives in and through performance? (See Profile)
^{Phone: 962-4946 Office: 212 Bingham Hall}^{pollock@email.unc.edu}

	Edward Rankus Curriculum Vitae in Adobe Acrobat .pdf format B.A., University of Illinois at Chicago; M.F.A., Schoolof the Art Institute of Chicago. Media Studies. Since the late 70's Professor Rankus has been creating fine art video productions that have screened internationally, have won numerous awards, and are in the collections of major museums (MOMA, The Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam). His work is distributed by the Video Data Bank. He has taught a wide range of media production courses at institutions such as DePaul University, The University of Illinois at Chicago, and for the last ten years at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. (Rankus at VDB)*
^{Phone: 843-9110 Office: 201 Bingham Hall}^{rankus@email.unc.edu}

	Lawrence B. Rosenfeld Curriculum Vitae in Adobe Acrobat .pdf format B.A., Hunter College (Math and Chemistry); M.A., University of Iowa (Playwriting and Theatre History); Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University (Interpersonal Communication and Quantitative Resarch Methodology). Interpersonal and Organizational Communication. Dr. Rosenfeld's primary areas of research and teaching are interpersonal and family communication. He was Editor of Communication Education, 1991-1993, and the Western Journal of Communication, 1979-1981. (See Profile)*
^{Phone: 962-4947 Office: 210 Bingham Hall}^lbr@unc.edu

	Joyce Rudinsky BFA, Unversity of New Mexico; MFA, University of Washington. Joyce Rudinsky is a visual artist working with electronic and interactive media to investigate lived experience in an information-based society. Her most recent work investigates the impact of information technology on cognitive experience and sensory perception. (See Profile)
^{Phone: 843-5701 Office: 110 Bingham Hall}^{jrudinsk@email.unc.edu}

	Sarah Sharma Curriculum Vitae in Adobe Acrobat .pdf format BA University of British Columbia (Political Science), MA University of Westminster (International Relations and Contemporary Political Theory), PhD York University (Communication and Culture).* Media and Cultural Studies. Dr. Sharma's research and teaching focuses on the relationship between technology, changing conceptions of space and time, and the public sphere. Her research draws from diverse theories and methods including medium theory, post-structuralism, identity politics, biopolitics, critical discourse analysis, and ethnomethodologies.
^{Phone: 962-4930 Office: 310 Bingham Hall}^{srsharma@email.unc.edu}

	David Sontag The Wesley Wallace Professor of Communications Studies and Director of the Writing for the Screen and Stage Program, David Sontag, is an award-winning writer and producer and has written for most of the Hollywood studios. Mr. Sontag has held important creative and executive positions at NBC, CBS Films and ABC. In addition to his numerous television and film credits, Mr. Sontag was Senior Vice-President and creative head of 20th Century Fox Television. He has been a consultant to the University of California, Riverside, a member of the Faculty at the American Film Institute and has lectured and been a resource scholar at many institutions, universities and colleges. (See Bio)
^{Phone: 843-6035 Office: 205 Swain Hall}^{sontag@email.unc.edu}

	Francesca Talenti B.A., Brown University (Comparative Literature); M.F.A., The University of Southern California (Film Production). Media Studies.. Professor Talenti's interests include live-action narrative filmmaking, as well as animation. Her feature film, Snake Tales, has shown world-wide in 18 festivals, has garnered eight awards, and has cable distribution through Warner Bros. Her recent animation series, Poetry in Motion, is funded by the Independent Television Service, and will be seen on PBS. (See Profile)
^{Phone: 843-5702 Office: 109 Bingham Hall}^{talenti@email.unc.edu}

	Michael S. Waltman Curriculum Vitae in Adobe Acrobat .pdf format B.S.E., University of Arkansas; M.A., University of Kentucky; Ph.D., Purdue University.* Interpersonal and Organizational Communication. Dr. Waltman's interests center on the processes involved in adapting co mpliance-gaining messages in a variety of contexts (e.g., teacher-student, parent-child, and superior-subordinate) to the interpersonal and social needs of listeners. (See Profile)
^{Phone: 962-4948 Office: 311 Bingham Hall}^{waltmanm@email.unc.edu}

	Eric King Watts Curriculum Vitae in Adobe Acrobat .pdf format B.A. and M.A. from the University of Cincinnati; Ph.D. from Northwestern University.* Rhetorical Studies. Dr. Watts’ research explores the manner in which public voice is invented, performed, consumed, and suppressed. This fundamental question constituting his research program extends into literary studies, aesthetics, and critical media studies. In particular, Dr. Watts examines the diverse phenomena of African American public voice and its relation to the representation of the black body, the meanings of blackness, the shape of civic culture and community; voice and voicelessness are understood as being impacted by the rhetorical agency of the subject, the terms of one’s publicity, and the power relations that make up one’s various identities. (See Profile)
^{Phone: 962-4961 Office: 313 Bingham Hall}^{ekwatts@email.unc.edu}

	Julia T. Wood Curriculum Vitae in Adobe Acrobat .pdf format B.A., North Carolina State University; M.A., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University.* Interpersonal and Gender Communication. Dr. Wood's teaching and research focus on gender, communication, and culture; personal relationships; and feminist theories. Since joining the faculty in 1975, she has authored or edited 24 books and over 70 articles and chapters in books, including Gendered Lives and the Sage Handbook of Gender and Communication, co-edited with Bonnie Dow. In addition, she has presented over 80 papers at international, national, and regional conferences, served as associate editor of 5 national journals, and held a number of administrative positions in the National Communication Association. She served as Editor for the Journal of Applied Communication Research. Dr. Wood has won several awards for teaching and scholarship. She is the recipient of the 1998 Board of Governors award for teaching at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the 1998 Case/Carnegie Award for North Carolina Professor of the Year, and the 2006 Donald C. Ecroyd Award for Outstanding Teaching. (See Profile)
^{Phone: 962-4949 Office: 308 Bingham Hall}^{turbiville@aol.com}

Adjunct Professors
	Robert C. Allen B.A., Davidson College; M.A. and Ph.D., University of Iowa. American Studies and History, joint appointment in Communication Studies. Dr. Allen's teaching and research interests include film and media history, media criticism, cultural history, and the history of popular entertainment. He has published books on soap operas, film historiography, television criticism, and burlesque.
Phone: 962-5165 Office: 312 Greenlaw rallen@email.unc.edu

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