Brian Altenhofen - Ph.D. student
E-mail: brianaltenhofen@tamu.edu
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Robin Bedenbaugh - Ph.D. student
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Shelly Blair - Ph.D. student
E-mail: shelly.blair@tamu.edu
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Shelly earned her B.A. in Communication with a concentration in Public Address from Point Loma Nazarene University in 2006. In 2008, she graduated from San Diego State University with an M.A. in Communication before saying goodbye to sunny San Diego and driving to Texas, where she was disappointed not to receive a cowboy hat at the border. Shelly is currently a PhD Candidate in Communication focusing on Organizational Communication. Her primary research methods are mainly interpretive and include ethnography, critical and feminist methods, performance methods, and Textual Methods. My subjects of interest include
- Feminist issues, including the status of women in various occupations and the changing role of women in society
- Intercultural communication, especially relationships that bridge cultural differences
- Issues of race, gender, and LGBT concern
- Societal and political events in the United States, especially related to civil rights and the political process
- Human rights issues, especially human trafficking, the treatment of women, and issues of sexual assault.
- Issues of able-bodiedism, and discrimination of disabled persons
- Topics about the media, especially critical evaluation of information
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Find more information about her at www.shellyblair.net
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Patty Ann Bogue - Ph.D. Student
E-mail: pabogue@tamu.edu
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Joshua Butcher - Ph.D. Student
Email: pelleas5@tamu.edu
Joshua completed a B.A. in Communication (Rhetoric & Public Affairs) from Liberty University in 2004. He recently completed a M.A. in Communication (Rhetoric & Public Affairs) from Texas A&M. He is currently in his second year of the Ph.D. program in the department of Communication here at A&M and is interested in rhetoric & philosophy as well as rhetoric & religion. Special topics under these general headings include the intersection of rhetoric and hermeneutics and the responsibility of rhetoric in theology.
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Georgia
Carmichael - Ph.D Student
Email: carmg@nhmccd.edu
Georgia earned her B.S. in Biology and M.A.
in English from Stephen F. Austin State University. She
is currently employed as the dean of visual, applied and
performing arts at North Harris College, a community college
in Houston. Her areas of interest include organizational
democracy and public management.
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Misti Carter - Ph.D. Student
E-mail: hillcarter@tamu.edu
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Jacquelyn Chinn - Ph.D. Student in Organizational Communication
Email: jchinn05@tamu.edu
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Jacquelyn's research focuses on the organizational aspects of public diplomacy and new media initiatives.
Engaging in government-to-individual and individual-to-individual communication is a departure from traditional government-to-government and government-to-press forms of communication for the State Department and for other government organizations. She examines these questions interpretively, from local, emergent perspectives such as training initiatives within State as well as other nations’ e-governance initiatives. When she's not doing schoolwork, you'll probably find her enjoying a leisure book, or spending time with her church family. |
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Brittany Collins - Ph.D Student
Email: collinbl@tamu.edu
Brittany earned her B.A. and M.A. degrees in Communication from the University of Cincinnati. Her Master's Thesis focused on the discursive techniques enacted by African American leaders as they managed their racial identity within the organizational context. She is currently pursuing a PhD at the Texas A&M University. Her research interests continue to lie at the intersection of racial identity management and dominant ideologies. She currently teaches Public Speaking and has experience teaching an introductory Interpersonal Communication course. Brittany also has a passion for speech writing, which stems from her experience working with Cincinnati Mayor, Mark Mallory. In early 2009, Mayor Mallory delivered the State of the City Address, which she played an integral role in creating.
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Kevin-Khristian Cosgriff-Hernandez - Ph.D. student in Organizational Communication
Email:cosgriffhernandez@tamu.edu
Kevin-Khristián earned his Bachelor's degree from the University of Chicago with an emphasis in Public Policy, and his M.A. in Communication Management from John Carroll University. He has conducted research and developed communication strategies in both the non-profit sector and on political campaigns. He has lectured on Public Speaking, Interpersonal Communication and Small Group Communication in Ohio and Texas. Currently, he is pursuing a Ph.D. in the Department of Communication. His research interests are primarily concerned with issues of power, control, and identity in organizational and cultural contexts. He has co-authored a forthcoming chapter in Food as Communication/Communication as Food, on how cultural identity and change are negotiated via food and communication entitled “We still had to have tortillas”: Negotiating health, culture and change in the Mexican American diet.Kevin-Khristián is currently lecturing on Negotiation in the School of Business, while conducting a Mentorship with Dr. Rothenbuhler investigating baseball as an expression of culture.
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Joelle Cruz - Ph.D. student
E-mail: joellecruz@tamu.edu
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Christopher Cudahy - Ph.D. student
Email: cudahyc@tamu.edu
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Marleah Dean - Ph.D. Student
E-mail: deanmarl@tamu.edu
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Marissa Doshi - Ph.D. student
E-mail: marissadoshi@tamu.edu
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Nina French - Ph.D. student in Rhetoric & Public
Affairs
Email: ninafrench@tamu.edu
Nina received both her B.A. and M.A. in English from Texas A&M University. Her research interests include the rhetoric of female misogyny in Hip-Hop culture, satire and Hip-Hop, as well as the integration of British and American thought in popular culture. When Nina is not working, she is either supporting the New York Kicks/New York Yankees, performing spoken word poetry, or playing video games.
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Adam Gaffey - Ph.D. student
E-mail: ajgaffey@tamu.edu
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Ariadne Gonzalez - Ph.D. student
E-mail: amagallanes@tamu.edu
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Katherine Hampsten - Ph.D Student in Organizational Studies
Email: khampsten@tamu.edu
Katherine Hampsten is a 3rd year doctoral student studying organizational communication. Katherine's research interests include work/family balance, representations of femininity and motherhood, and interpretive methods. She holds an MA in communication studies from Baylor University.
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Leandra Hernandez - Ph.D. student
E-mail: leandrahernandez@tamu.edu
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Holly Hirsch - Ph.D. student in Organizational Communication
Email: hollyhirsch@tamu.edu
Holly received a B.A. in Communication from the University of Colorado in 1996. She spent several years working for a variety of organizations, including those with strong cultures (Disney) and strong bureaucracies (public schools), searching for insight into how to better approach organizational studies. As a result, she has no shortage of research interests, including organizational change, cultures, technology implementation, and narratives.
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Isaac Holyoak - Ph.D. Student
E-mail: ikeholyoak@tamu.edu
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Cara Jacocks - Ph.D. Student in Organizational Communication
Email: cjacocks@tamu.edu
Cara earned a B.A. in Speech Communication from Texas A&M University in 2001 and an M.A. in Communication from Abilene Christian University in 2003. Currently she splits her time by taking Ph.D. courses in TAMU's Department of Communication and teaching Organizational Communication courses as faculty on TCU's campus (Fort Worth). Her current research interests include conflict management issues, nonprofit organizations and emotion in the workplace. She is excited about being back in Aggieland and in her free time (which isn't much these days), she enjoys watching college sports...especially football and basketball!
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Eric James -
Ph.D. student
Email: epjames@tamu.edu
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Anisah Kasim - Ph.D . student in Organizational Communication
Email: anisah@tamu.edu
Anisah is a first year PhD student who earned her Bachelor of Education in TESL from Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia and Master in Corporate Communication from Universiti Putra Malaysia.
Her research interest is constantly changing; this week, it is the perception of self in organization through non-verbal communication. Tune-in for what it's going to be next week. She is taking a break to go to school after 10 years of teaching undergraduates (whew!!!). Anisah is currently the envy of her colleagues because she does not have to teach. She likes to explore Bryan/College Station on her bike and her favorite question is, "Is that bikeable?" She doesn't think that she has an accent although people have been calling her accent "oceanic".
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Taejin Koh -
Ph.D. student
Email: kisun88@tamu.edu
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Luke Lockhart -
Ph.D. student
Email: lockhartl@tamu.edu
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Paul Logan - Ph.D. student
Email: lucasvlogan@tamu.edu
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Amanda R. Martinez - Ph.D. student in Mass Media and Health Communication
Email:
armartinez4@tamu.edu
Born in California, but raised in Texas and Colorado, Amanda received her B.A. in Multinational Organization Studies, a concentration in Spanish, and a minor in English Comm. Arts from St. Mary's University in San Antonio, TX. She then completed her M.A. in Mass Communication, and Women's Studies Certificate at the University of Houston (Main Campus) in Houston, TX and is currently working towards her Ph.D. Her research interests reside in the areas of mass media effects and health issues (body image identity, eating disorders, and depression to name a few) with special emphasis on gender, feminism, race/ethnicity, and culture. Amanda also enjoys teaching comm. classes and researching in both qual. and quant. methods. In her limited free time, Amanda enjoys traveling (determined to visit every place on Earth!), watching movies, reading, and spending time with friends and family.
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Paul Mbutu - Ph.D. student
E-mail: kgauss@tamu.edu
Mr. Paul Mutinda Mbutu holds an M.A degree in Print Communication from Wheaton College, USA and a B.A. degree in Print Communication (Major) and Community Development (Minor) from Messiah College, USA.
He is a first year Fulbright PhD. Organizational Communication Student at A&M University and a Senior lecturer (on study leave) from Daystar University, Nairobi, Kenya. He teaches in the areas of Communication and Culture, Development Communication, Media Planning and Management, Research Methods, Public Relations Management, among others. He consults on Conflict Transformation and Peace Building, Organizational Communication and Management, and Project Design, Management and Evaluation locally and internationally. His dissertation research interest is in the area of Communication and Ethnic Politics in Conflict Resolution in Kenya.
He has served in various capacities with premier organizations including The World Bank, Norwegian Church Aid, Lutheran World Federation, Harvest Impact Ministries, Peace Healing and Reconciliation Program, spearheading programs geared to poverty reduction, build tailored local capacity, promote peaceful co-existence, and monitor regional conflict dynamics.
Paul is a husband, a father, a church elder, a peace advocate, and a small-scale farmer.
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Grant McKay - Ph.D. Student
E-mail: granthmckay@tamu.edu
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Lucy Miller - Ph.D. student
E-mail: lucyjmiller@tamu.edu
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Anirban Mukhopadhyay -
Ph.D. student
Email: anirban009@tamu.edu
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Gregory Ormes - Ph.D. Student
E-mail: gorme421@tamu.edu
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Tawipas Pichaichanarong - Ph.D. Student
E-mail: tawipas@tamu.edu
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Chang Qu -
Ph.D. student
Email: christine880328@tamu.edu
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Vandhana Ramadurai - Ph.D. student
E-mail: vandhana14@tamu.edu
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Rachel Rashe - Ph.D. student
E-mail: rrashe@tamu.edu
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Rachel is a second year doctoral student studying issues of identity and socialization in organizations. She has taught public speaking and small group communication. She earned her BA in journalism and English and her MA in organizational communication from the University of Arkansas (Go Hogs!). In her spare time she enjoys playing with her corgi Teddy and her miniature schnauzer Macy. |
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David Richardson -
Ph.D. student
Email: dmrich01@tamu.edu
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Jeremy Rogerson - Ph.D. student
E-mail: jeremyrogerson@tamu.edu
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Sara Rowe -
M.A. student
Email: sarowe@tamu.edu
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Bradley Serber-
M.A. student
Email: serb0020@tamu.edu
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Yogita Sharma - Ph.D. student
E-mail: yogitasharma@tamu.edu
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Paul Sommer - Ph.D. Student
E-mail: pasommer73@gmail.com
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Elizabeth Spradley - Ph.D. student in Organizational Communication
Email: espradley@tamu.edu
While Elizabeth's background is in rhetoric and argumentation and
debate, she has developed an interest in organizational communication.
More specifically, her interests focus on risk communication campaigns,
volunteering, and emotion. Currently, Elizabeth is pulling triple duty
as an instructor at Stephen F. Austin State University, as a Ph.D.
student at TAMU, and as a wife and mother (soon to be of two instead of
just one). She received her BA and MA in Communication from SFASU where
she has continued to teach public speaking and freshmen success
seminars. Additionally, Elizabeth coordinates the Communication
Department's Lecture Series at SFASU. In her spare time, she enjoys
family time, reading, home and garden magazines, remodeling projects,
movies, listening to her husband (Ty) play guitar, and nature trails.
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Ty Spradley - Ph.D. student in Organizational Communication
Email: tspradley@tamu.edu (or) tspradley@sfasu.edu
Ty is an assistant professor at Stephen F. Austin State University where
he teaches undergraduate and graduate classes in organizational
communication, conflict and negotiation, leadership, communication
theory, rhetorical and textual methods, interpersonal communication, and
public speaking. He assists in administrating the basic public speaking
course and editing the student workbook for SFASU. Ty holds degrees
from Stephen F. Austin State University (B.A. and M.A.) and Southwestern
Baptist Theological Seminary (M.A). His research interests include
conflict in crisis situations (i.e. interorganizational tension in
coordinated disaster response efforts), collective mind and highly
reliable organizing, volunteering, organizational/occupational culture
and gender. Currently, Ty is researching tensions present within urban
search and rescue task forces. Elizabeth Spradley (see above) is with
Ty. They enjoy their son Micah, have one on the way via the stork
(expected to arrive January 2008), and still remain very successful -
just not sane.
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Samaria D. Stanford - Ph.D. student in Health Communication
Email: srobertsperez@tamu.edu
Born and raised in New Jersey, Sammy earned her undergraduate degree
from Rutgers University in New Brunswick, NJ where she majored in
Communication. After completing her B.A. she lived for two years in San
Juan, Puerto Rico where she learned more about her cultural roots and
became fluent in Spanish. Her research interests in the field are
specifically in Health Communication, Intercultural Communication, and
the intersection of the two. Outside of academia she takes pleasure in
a multitude of hobbies-- music/song-writing, dance, fashion design,
painting, and playing with her cats: Giorgio and Joy. A more recent
interest includes her role as leader of a Hula-Hoop Troupe where she
both makes hula-hoops and performs with them.
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Joshua Street -
M.A. student
Email: jstreet@tamu.edu
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Masa (Masha) Sukovic - Ph.D. student in Health Communication
Email: masha.sukovic@tamu.edu
Masha received her M.A. in Communication from Texas A&M University in August 2007. Her thesis research included exploration of narratives, selfhood, and social construction of identity, as well as communication and coping strategies among Serbian women who have undergone hysterectomies.
She is currently a PhD candidate in Health Communication at Texas A&M University, working on her dissertation which is focused on the perceived role of mothers in healthy nutrition for children and prevention of childhood obesity.
Masha’s research interests include health communication, gender, and intercultural communication, more specifically health narratives, cultural understandings of illness and health, and the effects of media on health attitudes and social behavior. She is particularly interested in issues pertaining to food/diet and communication. Her areas of expertise include health communication, women's and gender studies, prevention science, and intercultural communication. Masha has also worked on several research projects focusing on media studies and entertainment education. Some of those projects include exploring viewers’ exposure to the TV show House, M.D. and their perceptions of real life physicians; representations of complementary and alternative medical practitioners in mainstream movies and TV shows; and using entertainment education to overcome the stigma of hysterectomy in pronatalist societies.
Masha believes in limitless creativity, likes controversy and is always on the look-out for inspiration. She does not believe in coincidental encounters. In her free time she enjoys exercising, outdoor activities, cooking, singing, photography, spending time with her husband and friends, and reading and writing fiction.
Peer-reviewed articles:
M. Sukovic, B.F. Sharf, J.R. Sharkey & J.A. St. John (in press). Seasoning for the Soul: Empowerment through Food Preparation among Mexican Women in the Texas Colonias. Food and Foodways.
Thesis:
Sukovic, M. (2007). Hysterectomies and Gender Identity among Serbian Women (Master's Thesis). Texas A&M University, College Station.
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Kylene Wesner - Ph.D. student in Health
Communication
Email: kylene@tamu.edu
Kylene earned a B.A. in Biology from the University of Southern Indiana and an M.A. in Applied Communication from Indiana University Purdue University - Indianapolis (IUPUI). Her current research interest focuses on interactive communication technologies and health care. In her spare time, she enjoys socializing with her fellow grad students, reading, working out, traveling, and cooking.
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Bradley S Wesner - Ph.D. student in Organizational Communication
Email: bswesner@tamu.edu
Brad received his BA from Ball State University in Muncie , Indiana and then worked in corporate America and law enforcement for a number of years. He received his MA from Indiana University Purdue University of Indianapolis. His current research interests include conflict management with a focus on the impact of intractable conflict situations. Brad is also working with coauthor Cara Jacocks on development of a group communication theory at this time. Interestingly enough, prior to being accepted to A&M, Brad proposed to Kylene Baker under the Century Oak…talk about proactive!
Brad enjoys traveling, and has a special fondness for the Caribbean . When you can't find him working, he loves to fly fish in both fresh and saltwater. Brad loves discussing political issues of the day and Roman Catholicism, but will rarely do so unless cocktails are involved. He has also become somewhat noted for his infamous “Thursday Night Invitation” which he sends to fellow grad students weekly. Brad also once was a front man for a heavy metal band and dreams of returning to the road if this academic thing does not work out. After all, if you can't spend your time buried in a pile of journal articles…you might as well ROCK!
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Caleb Westbrook -
M.A. student
Email: tbro@tamu.edu
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Dustin Wood - Ph.D. student in Rhetoric and Public Affairs
E-mail: dustin.wood@tamu.edu
Dustin earned a B.A. in Communication Studies and Sociology from Western Kentucky University and a M.A. in Communication from the University of Cincinnati. As a doctoral candidate in the Department of Communication at Texas A&M University, his research focuses on rhetorical criticism and religious communication. He has experience teaching Public Speaking, Persuasion, Argumentation and Debate, Interpersonal Communication, and Communication for Technical Professions. His book review of J. Donald Ragsdale’s Structures as Argument: The Visual Persuasiveness of Museums and Places of Worship recently appeared in Rhetoric & Public Affairs.
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Ying Xi -
M.A. student
Email: yingxi@tamu.edu
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