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Communication Studies

Kristina Horn Sheeler (Chair)

Campus Address: CA 309-D
Phone: (317)278-3161
Fax: (317)278-1025
Email: ksheeler@iupui.edu
Appointments: Department of Communication Studies Chair, and Associate Professor of Communication Studies
Academic Interests: Political communication, gender, and public identity, studying the ways in which political identity is rhetorically constructed and contested in popular media.
Teaching: Political Communication
Persuasion
Gender and Communication

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Robin L. Waldron (Assistant to the Chair)

Campus Address: CA 309B
Phone: (317)274-2095
Fax: (317)278-1025
Email: rlwaldro@iupui.edu
Appointments: Assistant to the Chair, Department of Communication Studies
Academic Interests: Personal History, Writing, and Editing

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Elizabeth Goering (Director of Graduate Programs & Director of Online Teaching and Learning)

Campus Address: CA 307F
Phone: (317)278-3136
Email: bgoering@iupui.edu
Appointments: Associate Professor of Communication Studies
Academic Interests: organizational communication, intercultural communication, small-group communication, communication in conflictsituations, communication apprehension and shyness, the relationship between culture and communication, and narratives/storytelling in organizations

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Kristine Brunovska Karnick (Director of Undergraduate Programs)

Campus Address: CA 309E
Phone: (317)278-3141
Fax: (317)278-1025
Email: kkarnick@iupui.edu
Appointments: Department of Communication Studies Director of Undergraduate Studies, Associate Professor of Communication Studies, Adjunct Associate Professor of Informatics
Academic Interests: mass media and society, film and television history, film and television aesthetics and criticism, media humor and comedy, film comedy, and early television history

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Jill Annette Cobb (Graduate Program Assistant)

Campus Address: CA309A
Phone: (317)274-0572
Fax: (317)278-1025
Email: jiacobb@iupui.edu
Appointments: Graduate Program Assistant, Departmental Web Editor, Senior Administrative Assistant
Academic Interests: Information Science in Medical Subject Area. Also,interested in Genealogy, Archives, and Grassroots Website Development.

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Jan De Wester (Director of the Certificate in Theatre and Performance Program)

Campus Address: Office:Taylor Hall 2141. Administrative (Mailbox):CA 309
Phone: (317)274-2615
Email: jdeweste@iupui.edu
Appointments: Senior Lecturer in Communication Studies, Director, Theatre and Performance Certificate, Co-Director of the Summer Bridge Academy
Academic Interests: Theatre, public speaking, freshman first year seminars and summer preparatory programs
Teaching: Introdution to Theatre (Comm T130), History of Theatre (Comm T337 & T338), Acting (Comm T133 & T333), Public Speaking (Comm R110), Freshman Seminar (UCOL U110)

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Jaime Hamilton (Director of Forensics)

Campus Address: CA 001E5
Phone: (765)455-9558
Email: jlhami@iupui.edu
Appointments: Lecturer in Communication Studies
Director, IUPUI Forensics Program

Academic Interests: Public Speaking

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Stephen Le Beau, Jr. (Director for R110: Fundamentals of Speech Communication)

Campus Address: CA003D
Phone: (317)274-7110
Email: salebeau@iupui.edu
Appointments: Department of Communication Studies Director of Public Speaking, and Lecturer in Communication Studies
Academic Interests: Public Speaking, English as a Second Language, Instructional Technology

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Charles R. Bantz

Campus Address: AO 104
Phone: (317) 274-4417
Email: cbantz@iupui.edu
Appointments: Chancellor, IUPUI
Vice President for Long-Range Planning, IU
Professor of Communication Studies
Professor of Management
Academic Interests: Communication in collectives such as organizations and cultures; international higher education; technology and higher education; news in cross-cultural contexts

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Linda G. Bell

Campus Address: Cavanaugh 307-D and SON 426
Phone: (317)274-0299
Email: lgbell@iupui.edu
Appointments: Professor of Communication Studies in the School of Liberal Arts and
Professor of Family Health in the School of Nursing

Professor Emerita of Psychology and Family Therapy, University of Houston - Clear Lake

Licensed Psychologist; Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist
ABPP, Family Psychology
AAMFT Approved Supervisor

1985-1987 Visiting Researcher, Japanese National Institute of Mental Health, Ichikawa, Japan. Dr. Bell also provided supervision and training in family therapy to many Japanese therapists through various Japanese clinics, hospitals and universities at a time when family therapy was just starting to grow as a profession in Japan.

1976-1991 Professor of Behavioral Sciences, and Director of Training in Family Therapy ('82-'85), University of Houston - Clear Lake. Dr. Bell initiated and helped develop a nationally accredited training program in family therapy. In 1986 the program was selected as a model program in the state of Texas.

Academic Interests: The relationships between family communication and family system processes and the health and wellbeing of family members, particularly adolescents.

Dr. Bell is involved in a 40-year cross-cultural longitudinal study of marriage and family; samples from the U.S. and Japan. The study involves structured home interviews and 25-year follow-ups focusing on wellbeing, resilience, and adult child-elder parent relationships More information about this research can be found at www.familylegacies.net.

Teaching: Dr. Bell teaches in the areas of interpersonal, restorative, health and family communitation (School of Liberal Arts) and family health (School of Nursing). She also supervises and trains in family therapy.

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Jennifer Bute

Campus Address: Cavanaugh Hall 307J
Phone: (317)274-2090
Fax: (317)278-1025
Email: jjbute@iupui.edu
Appointments: Assistant Professor, Department of Communication Studies
Academic Interests: Communication about health in interpersonal relationships, public discourse about women's health, qualitative research methods
Teaching: I teach courses at the undergraduate and graduate level in interpersonal communication, health communication and gender and communication

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Charmayne 'Charli' Champion-Shaw

Campus Address: CA325
Phone: (317)274-8356
Email: cchampio@iupui.edu
Appointments: Interim Director, Office of American Indian Programs Faculty, Communication Studies Facilitator, Intergroup Dialogue Doctoral Student, IU School of Social Work
Academic Interests: Identity & Community, Social Justice, Media Studies, Interpersonal Communication, Intercultural Communication
Teaching: Introduction to Interpersonal Communication Mass Media & Contemporary Society Introduction to Social Justice Native American Culture & Communication Native American Course & Curriculum Development

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Catherine A. Dobris

Campus Address: CA 307A
Phone: (317)278-3110
Email: cdobris@iupui.edu
Appointments: Associate Professor of Communication Studies, Adjunct Professor of English, Adjunct Professor Women's Studies
Academic Interests: Contemporary rhetorical theory and public address, Women's Studies, intersections of race, class, culture, ethnicity and gender from a rhetorical perspective

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Julie A. Goldsmith, Ph.D.

Campus Address: CA001E5
Phone: (317)278-0112
Email: jgoldsm@iupui.edu
Appointments: Visiting Associate Professor of Liberal Arts

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Sumana Naomi Jogi

Campus Address: CA 003F
Phone: (317)278-3140
Fax: (317)278-1025
Email: sjogi@iupui.edu
Appointments: Lecturer in Communication Studies
Academic Interests: Interpersonal communication; Listening; Public Speaking; Intercultural communication; Small Group Communication

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Michael R. Maitzen

Campus Address: CA 446
Phone: (317)274-0568
Fax: (317)278-2525
Email: mmaitzen@iupui.edu
Appointments: Teleproduction Supervisor
Coordinator, Communication Techonology Laboratory, Visual Language Lab
Academic Interests: Video, Audio, Graphics, Photography, 3D Modeling and Animation, Interactive Multimedia
Teaching: M220 Electronic Graphic Production M221 Electronic Media Production M290 Video Production Workshop M465 Advanced Video Technique M466 Television Direction

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John Parrish-Sprowl

Campus Address: CA 126
Phone: (317)278-3145
Fax: (317)278-1025
Email: johparri@iupui.edu
Appointments: Professor of Communication Studies
Co-Director, Global Health Communication Center
Adjunct Professor, Informatics
Russian & Eastern European Institute
University College
Academic Interests: Relational, organizational, and cultural transformation and change; global health issues
Teaching: Global Health, Advanced Communication Theory, Organizational Communication, Intercultural Communication, Study abroad

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Sandra Petronio

Campus Address: AO 101
Phone: (317)274-8655
Fax: (317) 255-4324
Email: petronio@iupui.edu
Appointments: Professor of Communication Studies,
IU School of Medicine,Senior Affiliate Faculty, Charles Warren Fairbanks Center for Medical Ethics, Adjunct Professor in the IU School of Nursing and School of Informatics
Academic Interests: Privacy, disclosure, confidentiality, health communication, family communication, interpersonal relationships, on-line social media, Communication Privacy Management Theory
Teaching: ethics, disclosure, confidentiality, and privacy management, health communication, family communication.

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Mike Polites

Campus Address: CA 001E3
Phone: (317)278-7718
Email: mpolites@iupui.edu
Appointments: Lecturer, Department of Communication Studies
Academic Interests: Public Speaking, Interpersonal Communication, Interviewing research focus on humor
Teaching: R110 Fundamentals of Public Speaking C180 Interpersonal Communication C325 Principles and Practices of Interviewing

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T. G. Potts

Campus Address: CA-003E
Phone: (317)278-3146
Email: freethoughtcommunications@YAHOO.COM
Appointments: Faculty, Communication Studies
Academic Interests: Media and society, legal communication (First Ammendment issues), social movements, political/social impact of new media technologies

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Charles Reyes

Campus Address: CA 001E4
Phone: (317) 278-3102
Email: chreyes@iupui.edu
Appointments: Lecturer, Department of Communication Studies Department, IUPUI
Academic Interests: Course instruction at IUPUI includes Interpersonal Communication (C180) The Art of Public Speaking (R110)

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Jonathan Paul Rossing

Campus Address: CA 307-H
Phone: (317)278-5192
Email: jrossing@iupui.edu
Appointments: Assistant Professor of Communication Studies
Academic Interests: Critical Race Theory; Comedy as a source for social justice education; Racial controversies and constructions of racial knowledge
Teaching: Introduction to Media Studies (COMM M150) Introduction to Communication Theory (COMM G201) Media and Social Movements (COMM G391)

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Ronald M. Sandwina

Campus Address: CA 307E
Phone: (317)278-3158
Email: rsandwin@iupui.edu
Appointments: Sr. Lecturer of Communication Studies
Academic Interests: Interests include intergroup dialogue and developing communication-centered approaches to achieving student persistence and success.
Teaching: Courses taught include, among others, Communication and Conflict, Research Methods, and Organizational Communication.

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Ian Sheeler

Campus Address: CA 001E2
Phone: (317)278-3143
Email: isheeler@iupui.edu
Appointments: Lecturer in Communication Studies
Academic Interests: communication pedagogy, law and rhetoric
Teaching: Teaching public speaking, interpersonal communication, business communication, argumentation and debate and communication theory.

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YoungJu Shin

Campus Address: CA309
Phone: (317)274-2060
Fax: (317)278-1025
Email: younshin@iupui.edu
Appointments: Assistant Professor, Department of Communication Studies
Academic Interests: •Health Communication •Youth Subtance use Prevention Intervention •Family Communication •Immigrant Families and Intercultural Communication •Research Methodology
Teaching: C392 Health Communication C483 Intercultural Communication C501 Applied Quantitative Research Methods

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Kate Thedwall

Campus Address: Taylor Hall B05B
Phone: (317) 278-6480
Email: kthedwal@iupui.edu
Appointments: Director of the Gateway to Graduation Program, University College Senior Lecturer in Communication Studies
Appointed Associate Faculty in University College
Academic Interests: Rhetoric, Mass Communication, Shared Teaching with Russian Universities, Gateway endeavors at IUPUI.

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Gail Gráinne Whitchurch

Campus Address: CA 503-A
Phone: (317)278-3197
Fax: (317)278-1025
Email: whig@iupui.edu
Appointments: Associate Professor of Communication Studies;
Associate Professor, International Studies;
Adjunct Associate Professor of Family Sociology.
Academic Interests: Applied family communication research. Socio-historical research on the famine-era Achill Mission, Achill Island, County Mayo, Ireland.

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Kim White-Mills

Campus Address: CA 307-B
Phone: (317)278-3199
Email: kwhitemi@iupui.edu
Appointments: Associate Professor
Academic Interests: organizational communication, group communication, research methodology, and communication styles and strategies of women

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Associate Faculty ( Communication Studies )

Janice Elizabeth Bankert-Countryman

Email: jbanco@iupui.edu
Appointments: Communication R-110 Associate Faculty.
Academic Interests: Autoethnography, ethnography, rhetoric, feminist theory, critical theory, Coordinated Management of Meaning
Teaching: R-110

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Abram John Book

Campus Address: CA313
Email: abebook@iupui.edu

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Cynthia Lee Budyn

Campus Address: CA313
Email: cbudyn@iupui.edu

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Katelyn Buis

Campus Address: CA313
Email: katebuis@iupui.edu

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Callie N Burk

Campus Address: CA313
Email: cnburk@iupui.edu

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Casey Nicole Cawthon

Email: ccawthon@iupui.edu
Teaching: R-110 Fundamentals of Speech Communication

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Lawrence Nickolas Cistrelli

Campus Address: CA313
Email: lcistrel@iupui.edu

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Gregory Cook

Campus Address: CA 313
Email: grdcook@iupui.edu

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Rachel D. Copley

Campus Address: CA313
Email: rdcopley@iupui.edu
Appointments: Associate Faculty, Communication Studies
Academic Interests: Contemporary Rhetorical Theory; Women's Studies
Teaching: R110, Public Speaking

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Moffett L Craig

Campus Address: CA 313
Phone: (317)773-5595
Fax: (317)773-6065
Email: molcraig@iupui.edu
Appointments: Associate Faculty, Communication Studies
Academic Interests: Oratory, Theatre,
Teaching: R110, Public Speaking

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Dina David

Campus Address: CA313
Email: ddavid@iupui.edu

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Bryan D Fonseca

Campus Address: CA313
Email: bfonseca@phoenixtheatre.org

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Christopher A. Fox

Campus Address: CA313
Email: chrisfox@iupui.edu
Appointments: Associate Faculty, Communication Studies
Teaching: R110, Public Speaking

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Michael Joseph Harvey

Campus Address: CA313
Email: mharvey@iupui.edu
Appointments: Comm Studies
Academic Interests: Contemporary rhetorical theory, Group Communication, Interpersonal Communication, Conflict Resolution
Teaching: R110 / Public Speaking

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A. Cyrus Hayat

Campus Address: CA 504J
Phone: (317)274-7387
Email: ahayat@iupui.edu

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Crystal L Henderson

Campus Address: CA313
Email: crlhende@iupui.edu

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Krista Hoffmann-Longtin

Campus Address: FS 6200
Phone: (317)278-2608
Email: klongtin@iupui.edu
Appointments: Program and Evaluation Director, School of Medicine Office of Faculty Development Associate Faculty, Department of Communication Studies Associate Faculty, Women's Studies Program
Academic Interests: Communication Pedagogy
Medical Education
Faculty Development
Teaching: Introduction to Interpersonal Communication; Human Communication and the Internet, Introduction to Women's Studies

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Kate Johnson

Campus Address: EF 250
Phone: (317)274-3178
Email: katlnich@iupui.edu
Appointments: Associate Faculty, Department of Communication Studies Program Manager, Indiana Public Health Training Center, IUSM Department of Public Health
Academic Interests: Health communication, health education, chronic disease education, public health, public speaking
Teaching: P650: Readings in Public Health: Public Health Communication R110: Fundamentals of Public Speaking R110: Fundamentals of Public Speaking, TLC: So, You Want to Be a Nurse?

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Andrew T Kerr

Campus Address: CA313
Email: atkerr@iupui.edu

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Desirae Sarah Masterson

Campus Address: CA313
Email: desdesmi@iupui.edu

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Jennifer Rice Medcalfe

Campus Address: CA313
Phone: (317)414-8505
Email: jmedcalfe@yahoo.com
Appointments: Comm Studies
Teaching: Associate Faculty for R110 Public Speaking

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Elizabeth Ann Meyer

Campus Address: CA313
Fax: (317)278-1025
Email: elameyer@iupui.edu
Appointments: R-110 Associate Faculty, Fall Semester 2012.

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Konye Obaji Ori

Email: kori@iupui.edu
Appointments: Teaching Assistant, Assistant Director of Forensics (Public Address Coach)
Academic Interests: Conflict communication, analysis and resolution, counter-terrorism and militant insurgency, public administration, policy deliberation and advocacy, political communication, health communication, and rhetorical analysis.

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Steven Overbey

Campus Address: CA313
Phone: (317)294-8255
Email: soverbey@iupui.edu
Teaching: Communication Studies

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Sherra L. Schick

Campus Address: CA313
Email: sschick@indiana.edu
Appointments: Visiting Assistant Professor of Film Studies

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Angela Sisson

Campus Address: CA 313
Phone: (317)731-0060
Email: ajsisson@iupui.edu

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Thomas Stuckey

Campus Address: CA 313
Phone: (317)435-9461
Email: tstuckey@iupui.edu

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Teresa G. Tackett

Campus Address: CA313
Email: ttackett@iupui.edu

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Kara Terrell-Curtis

Campus Address: CA313 Cube P
Phone: (317)563-1529
Email: terrelkb@iupui.edu
Appointments: Associate Faculty, Communication Studies
Teaching: R110- Fundamentals of Speech Communication

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H. Anne Weiss

Campus Address: CA313
Email: haweiss@iupui.edu
Appointments: Adjunct Faculty for COMM R-110: Introduction to Public Speaking
Vice President of the Graduate Communication Club Graduate Assistant in Civic Engagement, Center for Service and Learning Advisor to Democracy Plaza
Academic Interests: civic engagement, public dialogue, deliberation, intergroup dialogue, civil dialogue, rhetoric, coordinated management of meaning, social justice, educational leadership
Teaching: COMM R-110: Introduction to Public Speaking

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Susan (Sue) Lynn Wheeler

Campus Address: UL1170
Phone: (317)274-1861
Email: sulwheel@iupui.edu
Appointments: Associate Faculty, Department of Communication Studies, Graduate Non-Degree Coordinator, IUPUI Graduate Office
Teaching: R110, Public Speaking

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Research Assistants

Spencer Philip King

Campus Address: CA313
Email: sppking@iupui.edu
Appointments: Communication R-110 Associate Faculty
Academic Interests: Coordinated Management of Meaning (CMM), Interpersonal Neurobiology, Pragmatics, Conflict Resolution, Communication surrounding weight management
Teaching: R-110

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Lindsay K Quandt

Email: lquandt@umail.iu.edu
Appointments: Research Assistant - Communication Studies Department
Officer - Graduate Communication Club
Academic Interests: Political Communication, Conflict Communication, Public Address, Political Memoirs and War Rhetoric, Primary and Election Communication, Health Communication, End-of-Life Communication

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Emeritus/Retired

Richard K. Curtis (Retired)

Appointments: Professor Emeritus of Communication/Theatre
Academic Interests: Communication/information theory, universal values and peace/order, ethology/ecology, evolution, future studies/forecasting, chaos theory, and higher education in the twenty-first century
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Dorothy L. Webb (Retired)

Appointments: Professor Emerita of Theatre
Academic Interests: youth theatre, directing for the stage, playwriting, scenic design, nineteenth and early twentieth-century American theatre,and Indiana theatre history
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Jennifer Sue Cochrane

Campus Address: CA 313 mailbox #66
Phone: (317)696-0785
Fax: (765)565-6625
Email: cochrane@iupui.edu
Appointments: Online Teaching and Learning, Department of Communication Studies
Senior Lecturer in Communication Studies; Senior Lecturer, Emerita, Associate Faculty, Communication Studies
Academic Interests: Vocal mechanics (articulation, voice) and public speaking skills, online pedagogy; online course development.
Teaching: R110, Fundamentals of Speech Communication Online; C316,Human Communication and the Internet; C104, Voice and Diction

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