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MARK ANDREJEVIC   (mark-andrejevic@uiowa.edu)
Mark studies television and new media from the perspective of critical theory and cultural studies. His recent work focuses on surveillance and monitoring in the digital economy, and his writings on reality TV and interactive media have appeared in several journals and book chapters.

LESLIE BAXTER   (leslie-baxter@uiowa.edu)
F. Wendell Miller Distinguished Professor. Leslie's research focuses on communication in friendship and romantic, marital, and kin relationships. She is particularly interested in applying quantitative and qualitative analysis to study the contradictions that face relationship parties in their communicative practices.

SAMUEL L. BECKER   (sam-becker@uiowa.edu)
Sam is the University of Iowa Foundation Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Communication Studies. He chairs the emeritus faculty and staff organization at the University, and still is called upon from various parts of the country for review and speaking gigs. Can't keep him in the pasture.

BARBARA A. BIESECKER   (barbara-biesecker@uiowa.edu)
Barbara teaches and writes at the intersections of contemporary rhetorical theory and criticism, feminist theory and criticism, and cultural studies. Her recent work addresses the rhetoric and politics of WWII remembrance at the end of the 20th century, and the rhetoric and politics of 9/11 and the War on Terror today.

SHELLY CAMPO (shelly-campo@uiowa.edu)
Shelly's research focuses on health communication, particularly in the areas of persuasion/social influence and heath campaigns. She teaches courses in health communication, health campaigns and persuasion and health. Her institutional home is Community and Behavioral Health and she has a secondary appointment in Communication Studies.

DAVID DEPEW   (david-depew@uiowa.edu)
David Depew's interests and expertise centers on rhetoric of inquiry and rhetoric of science, critical history of rhetoric. He shares an appointment with Iowa's internationally known Project on the Rhetoric of Inquiry (POROI). His own interests center on the discourses of biology (Darwinism, Creationism, and the rhetoric of biotechnology).

STEVE DUCK   (steve-duck@uiowa.edu)
Steve Duck is the Daniel and Amy Starch Research Chair. His work centers on communication in relationship development and disintegration, and focuses particularly on everyday communication in the context of personal relationships, especially variation in experience and communication during the day. His work generally seeks to relate the rhetoric of everyday talk to interpersonal relationship processes.

KRISTINE FITCH   (kristine-fitch@uiowa.edu) Departmental Executive Officer
Kristine's research and theory are centered in the ethnography of speaking based on fieldwork in Colombia, England, Spain, Finland, and Texas. Her current work centers around persuasion and personal relationships in cultural context, particularly in moments of poaching and improvisation at the intersections of public and private.

BRUCE GRONBECK   (bruce-gronbeck@uiowa.edu)
Bruce is the A. Craig Baird Distinguished Professor of Public Address. He works primarily in rhetorical and media studies, with particular interests in television and politics. He teaches and writes about 20th-century American cultural studies, contemporary visual politics. He is Director of the University of Iowa Center for Media Studies and Political Culture.

HANNO HARDT   (hanno-hardt@uiowa.edu)
John F. Murray Professor of Journalism and Mass Communication, Professor of Communication Studies, and Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana   (Slovenia). Emeritus.

JOY ELIZABETH HAYES   (joy-hayes@uiowa.edu)
Joy's research interests in media history include the cultural history of broadcasting in the Americas, mass media audiences in historical perspective, and the historical role of communication media in building and sustaining national communities and identities.

TIMOTHY HAVENS   (timothy-havens@uiowa.edu)
Tim has primary research interests in how worldwide cultural differences (race, gender, nation, age) shape the business practices of international television trade. His book Global Television Marketplace was published by British Film Institute Publishing's International Screen Studies series in 2006.

DAVID HINGSTMAN   (david-hingstman@uiowa.edu)
David is Director of the A. Craig Debate Forum and of the A. Craig Baird Center for Public
Advocacy and Debate. His scholarly interests include argumentation, rhetorical criticism, the history of rhetorical theory, and freedom of expression as applied to the study of legal and political discourse.

KEMBREW MCLEOD   (kembrew-mcleod@uiowa.edu)
Kembrew McLeod's work focuses on popular culture, popular music and the cultural impact of intellectual property law. Kembrew has co-produced one documentary on the music industry and is currently co-producing two more documentaries that focus on different aspects of intellectual property law and culture. As a music critic, he has contributed to The Village Voice, Rolling Stone and SPIN, as well as SonicNet, VH1.com and MTV.com..

LIZ PEARCE     (liz-pearce@uiowa.edu)
Liz’s primary focus is on intercultural communication, particularly in encounters where there is an asymmetric balance of power. She has served as a consultant to a number of educational institutions, local businesses, and healthcare agencies to develop intercultural competence in organizational settings.

JOHN DURHAM PETERS   (john-peters@uiowa.edu)
F. Wendell Miller Distinguished Professor. John's interests include media history and social theory. John is author of the award-winning book Speaking into the Air.  His second book, Courting the Abyss: Free Speech and the Liberal Tradition, appeared from the University of Chicago Press in Spring, 2005.

BARBARA WELCH BREDER   (barbara-welch-breder@uiowa.edu)
Barbara studies the evolution of contemporary consumer culture: How certain ways of seeing and being in the world are "taken for granted" at certain historical moments. Her methods are critical and culturally historical, while her central texts are advertising and the media it supports.

RITA ZAJACZ     (rita-zajacz@uiowa.edu)
Rita studies the relationship between communications policy and international relations from a historical perspective, with a special emphasis on the strategic uses of early point-to-point communications technologies in Britain and in the United States.


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Chair Kristine Fitch 105 BCSB

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353-2255

Department Administrator Becky Scott 105 BCSB 335-2481
Accounts Christina Brenneman 105 BCSB 335-0577
Secretary Jean Allgood 105 BCSB 335-0576
Receptionist Barbara Surber 105 BCSB 335-0575
Academic Counselor Carol Stratton 162 BCSB 335-0578
Chief Engineer Robert H. Burns 230 BCSB 335-0583
Technicians Joe Hermanstorfer & Tim Kakavas 242 BCSB 353-2271
Film & Video Checkout Lemuel Torrevillas BCSB 335-0587
Communication Studies T.A.s 1st. Floor BCSB 335-0584/5
Communication Studies T.A.s 2nd-3rd floors BCSB 353-2268/9
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