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Department of Communication

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Through grants, publications, honors and research projects, the faculty represents the finest combination of excellence in teaching and research. Professors in our department have won numerous awards, including several prestigious university teaching awards. The department also is home to several Fulbright scholars. Our faculty includes some of the finest and most respected academicians within the field of communication. OU communication scholars have produced a prolific amount of research, with many books, journal articles, book chapters and convention papers - rivaling any program in the nation.



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Special Faculty

Affiliate Members of the Department

The Department of Communication welcomes the opportunity to have affiliate members from other departments on campus. We believe that these affiliate relationships are mutually beneficial by encouraging or recognizing collaboration between faculty and graduate students with similar interests in other departments on campus.

Email: gjh@ou.edu

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Emeritus Professors of Communication

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Graduate Students & Assistants

Chris Anderson.
Chris Anderson

Areas of Interest:
Interpersonal Communication and CMC

Ifesinachi Ayogu.
Ifesinachi Ayogu

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Syboney Biwa.
Syboney Biwa

Areas of Interest:
Interpersonal Communication and CMC

Anthony Cavazos.
Anthony Cavazos

Areas of interest: Toxicity in gaming, leadership development in virtual environments, pop culture, aphantasia and academic achievement

Paola Conte.
Paola Conte

Areas of Interest:
Organizational and Intercultural Communication

Laura Contestable.
Laura Contestable

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Egbe Ebohon.
Egbe Ebohon

Graduate Teaching Assistant
Area of Interest: 
Organizational Communication and Technology Communication

Kenneth Fischer.
Kenneth Fischer

Areas of Interest:
Political and Mass Communicaiton

Yizhu (Sherry) Gai.
Yizhu (Sherry) Gai

Graduate Teaching Assistant
Areas of interest:
Interpersonal communication and organizational communication

Mohammad Z. Hossain.
Mohammad Z. Hossain

Graduate Teaching Assistant
Areas of interest:
Political and mass communication

Emmanuel Odunfa.
Emmanuel Odunfa

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Marisa Penkauskas.
Marisa Penkauskas

Graduate Teaching Assistant
Area of Interest:
Interpersonal Communication

Jesse Porter.
Jesse Porter

Area of Interest:  
the relationships between affect and cognition with an emphasis on dual-processing models and heuristics

Maleeha Shahid.
Maleeha Shahid

Graduate Teaching Assistant
Areas of interest:
Health Communication and Social Influence
Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Health Services Research and Human Resource Administration
Population Medicine

Julie Sisler.
Julie Sisler

Graduate Teaching Assistant
Areas of Interest:
Sexual Communication, Interpersonal Communication

Neil Talbert.
Neil Talbert

Graduate Research Assistant
Areas of Interest:
Social Cognition and Intergroup Communication.

Faye Wan.
Faye Wan

Graduate Teaching Assistant
Area of Interest: 
Media studies, Popular Culture, Health Communication

Will Wendl.
Will Wendl

Graduate Teaching Assistant
Area of Interest: 
Artifical Intelligence, Environmental Communication

Erika Williams.
Erika Williams

Area of interest:
Mass Communication

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Staff

Krysti Wright.
Kristi Wright

Financial and Operations Manager

610 Elm Avenue, Room 101
Norman, OK 73019

Phone: (405) 325-3112
Email: cosmo@ou.edu

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Kimberly Vincent

Administrative Support Specialist

610 Elm Avenue, Room 101
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(405) 325-4496

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Kaleigh Voss

Academic Counselor

610 Elm Avenue, Room 101
Norman, OK 73019

Phone: (405) 325-7710
Email: kvoss@ou.edu