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Graduate Students & Assistants

Chris Anderson

Areas of Interest:
Interpersonal Communication and CMC

Johnson Aranda

Areas of Interest:
Health Communication, CMC, and Social Influence

Ryan Beaty

Graduate Teaching Assistant
Areas of interest:
Organizational and Interpersonal Communication

Da Bi

Graduate Teaching Assistant
Areas of Interest:
  Organizational communication, Rural Community Studies and Social Change

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Anthony Cavazos

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

Paola Conte

Areas of Interest:
Organizational and Intercultural Communication

Laura Contestable

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Egbe Ebohon

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

Kenneth Fischer

Areas of Interest:
Political and Mass Communicaiton

Yizhu (Sherry) Gai

Areas of interest:

Interpersonal communication and organizational communication

Emily Gerston

Graduate Teaching Assistant
Areas of Interest:  
Gender and sexuality, interpersonal communication, media and civic engagement.

Rebecca Greer

Graduate Teaching Assistant
Areas of Interest:
Organizational diversity, multicultural teams, and expatriate workers

 

 

 

Kyle Hammonds

Graduate Teaching Assistant
Areas of interest:
Media and culture

Mohammad Zahid Hossain

Areas of interest:
Political and mass communication

Caleb Hubbard

Graduate Teaching Assistant
Areas of Interest:  
Popular culture, fanship/fandom, and media effects

Sarah Lasser

Graduate Teaching Assistant
Areas of Interest:
Organizational Communication and Gender and Leadership

 

 

 

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Brian Long

Graduate Teaching Assistant
Areas of Interest:
Interpersonal Communication

Anthony Machette

Graduate Teaching Assistant
Areas of interest: Relational Communication and Sexual Communication

Justin Mahutga

Graduate Teaching Assistant
Areas of Interest:
Organizational Communication, Communication Ethics, Small Group and Team Communication

Brittney Morrissey

Graduate Teaching Assistant
Area of Interest:
Interpersonal/family communication, health communication, disability studies, women’s health, difference.

Marisa Penkauskas

Graduate Teaching Assistant
Area of Interest:
Interpersonal Communication

Lauren Pettigrew

Areas of interest:
Computer-Mediated Communication and Political Communication

Jesse Porter

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

Jorge Restrepo-Garcia

Graduate Teaching Assistant
Areas of Interest
Political Communication, minorities' political participation, and gender. 

Erick Roebuck

Areas of Interest:
Organizational Communication, Political Communication, and Social Movements

Katherine Ann Rush

Graduate Teaching Assistant
Areas of Interest:
Organizational Communication, Positive Organizational Scholarship, Positive Deviance

Maleeha Shahid

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

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Julie Sisler

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

Juhyung Sun

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

Neil Talbert

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

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Yifeng Wang

Graduate Teaching Assistant
Areas of Interest:
Intercultural communication and Interpersonal communication

Ellie Weaver

Graduate Teaching Assistant
Area of Interest:
Interpersonal Communication - Friendship, Romantic Relationships, Blurting, and Conflict

Will Wendl

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

 

 

Erika Williams

Area of interest:
Mass Communication

Karis Wilson

Areas of Interest: Organizational Communication; Technology Communication; Health Communication

Anthony Woodall

Graduate Teaching Assistant
Areas of Interest:

 Political Culture and its impact on how we communicate in our personal relationships. 
Science communication in academic practices of peer review and dissemination through journals and conferences

Ashjan Zaila

Areas of Interest:
Intercultural communication, Mass Communication, Mass Media, and social media effects.