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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)

_{Office: 206 Bingham Hall

vwb@email.unc.edu}

Carole Blair

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)

_{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}

Dana Coen
B.S., Boston University; M.F.A., University of California, Los Angeles.
Screenwriting (Writing for the Stage and Screen). Mr. Coen's professional and academic career bridges theatre, television and film disciplines. A former stage actor and director, his writing credits include Co-Executive Producer titles on the prime-time drama series "Bones" and "JAG" and an Off-Broadway production of his play "Sympathy". He previously taught screenwriting and film analysis courses at Chapman University's Dodge College of Film and Media Arts.
(See Profile)

_{Phone: 843-9250

Office: 204 Swain

rcoen@email.unc.edu}

Robbie Cox

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 serves as Advisory Editor for Environmental Communication: A Journal of Nature and Culture, and advises environmental groups on strategy in advocacy campaigns. In addition, he served as President of the national Sierra Club in 2007-08, 2000-01, and 1994-96. Dr. Cox's current research project, “Challenges of Scale and the Strategic in Climate Change Campaigns,” has served as the basis for recent undergraduate seminars, as well as lectures in Europe and the U.S. (See Profile)

_{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.

_{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)

_{Office: 203 Swain Hall}_{cdauber@email.unc.edu}

Sarah Dempsey

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)

_{Office: 314 Bingham Hall

sedempse@email.unc.edu}

Paul Ferguson

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)

^{312 Bingham Hall}
Office hours by appt
^{andreapf@aol.com}

Lawrence Grossberg

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; cultural theory; modern and contemporary philosophy; contemporary political cultures; modernities; and (political) economics.
(See Profile)

_{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)

_{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)

_{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. Rhetoric and Cultural Studies. Teaching and research interests include theories of the public and public discourse, public speaking, rhetorical theory, debate and deliberation, critical theory, and Cultural Studies. Dr. Lundberg also teaches the First Year Seminar “Think, Speak, Argue,” which focuses on debate and public speaking skills as pedagogical tools and as critical components of democratic life.

(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-structuralist theory, and boundaries among work/family, labor/leisure, and private/public. He is currently studying organizational ethics and corporate social responsibility. (See Profile)

_{201B Bingham Hall
Tue & Thu 10-11 or by appt}962-4945
_{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}

Steve Neigher

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)

^{Office: 209 Swain Hall}^{neigher@email.unc.edu}

Michael Palm
Curriculum Vitae in Adobe Acrobat *.pdf format

BA (English), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; MA (Humanities and Social Thought), New York University; PhD (American Studies), NYU. Media and Technology Studies. Professor Palm's teaching interests include media and communications history, work and labor studies, and cultural studies of technology. His research is focused on media technologies introduced into people's everyday lives. More broadly, he explores the role of technology in the emergence and interplay between new forms of work, commerce and consumption. He is currently writing a history of self-service technologies that have transferred work from employees to customers, from the telephone dial to the ATM. He has also published research about the cultural politics and political economy of outsourcing, and is a co-editor of The University Against Itself: The NYU Strike and the Future of the Academic Workplace (Temple UP, 2008).

^{316 Bingham Hall
Mon & Wed 3-4pm} ^{mpalm@email.unc.edu}

Patricia Parker

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 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)

^{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)

^{212 Bingham Hall
Tue 12:30-2 or by appt}^{pollock@email.unc.edu}

Edward Rankus

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)

^{201 Bingham
Mon 1-4 or by appt}^{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, and working as a disaster helper. He was Editor of Communication Education, 1991-1993, and the Western Journal of Communication, 1979-1981. Currently, he serves as Co-Chair of the University's Social-Behavioral Institutional Review Board (IRB). (See Profile)

^{210 Bingham Hall
Tue & Thu 10-11 or by appt}^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)

^{Office: 110 Bingham Hall}^{jrudinsk@email.unc.edu}

Sarah Sharma

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 agenda and teaching interests can be summarized as a "cultural approach to technology" which politicizes the mediating role technology plays in contemporary politics, social organization, and the maintenance of social inequalities. Her work draws from diverse theories and methods including post-structuralism, medium theory, biopolitics, critical discourse analysis,ethnography, and identity politics. Currently, Dr. Sharma is writing a book on the cultural politics of time which considers the relationship between time and the biopolitics of difference in contemporary culture.

^{Office: 310 Bingham Hall}^{srsharma@email.unc.edu}

Wen Hua Shi

Wenhua Shi
Curriculum Vitae in Adobe Acrobat *.pdf format

BA. & BFA., University of Colorado, Boulder; MFA., University of California, Berkeley. Teaching and research interests including experimental film & animation, moving image & sound installation, interactive art. (See Bio)

^{Phone: (919) 962-4955
Office: 111Bingham Hall}^{wenhua@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)

^{205 Swain Hall
Tue & Thu 8:15-9:15; 11-11:30}(919) 843-6035
^{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)

^{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 research examines the diverse functions of hate speech in multiple contexts. His research addresses the ways that hate is used to pursue a variety of social and personal goals, including the promotion of hate crime, ethnoviolence, and the maintenance of White privilege. Dr. Waltman's teaching interests include Persuasion, Communication and Social Memory, Theories of Interpersonal Communication, and Hate Speech. (See Profile)

^{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)

^{Office: 313 Bingham Hall}^{ekwatts@email.unc.edu}

Julia Wood

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)

^{207 Swain Hall
Tue & Thu 11-12 or by appt}^{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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