Penny Addison - Ph.D. student in Organizational Communication
Email: paddison@tamu.edu
Penny received her B.A. in Education from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill (thus she is a HUGE Tarheel basketball fan) and her M.S. in Speech Communication from Texas Christian University. Her current research interests include emotion in the workplace, conflict, and "spiritual labor". She enjoys traveling, a good cup of java, and playing with her dog Gracie.
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Iftekhar Ahmed - Ph.D. student in Telecommunication Media Studies
Email: iahmed@tamu.edu
Iftekhar is a PhD candidate of Telecommunication Media Studies with a special interest in Communication and technology.
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Alberto Aleman - M.A
Email:
aaaleman@tamu.edu
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David C Bailey -
Ph.D. student in Rhetoric & Public
Affairs
Email: bail105@tamu.edu
David earned his BA from Southwest Baptist University (in Missouri) in 2000 and his MA from Missouri State University in 2002. He teaches courses in public speaking, argumentation and debate, religious communication, and American political rhetoric. His dissertation explores the use of religious rhetorical forms in contemporary presidential discourse from Jimmy Carter through George W. Bush. His research has appeared in Sizing Up Rhetoric, and the forthcoming Encyclopedia of Political Communication.
In his free time (what there is of it) David enjoys spending time with his wife, Jodee, reading, and coming up with new creations on his backyard barbeque grill.
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Jane Baker - Ph.D. student in Organizational Communication
Email: jsbaker@tamu.edu
Jane earned her B.A. in Theatre at the University of Texas and her M.A. in Organizational Communication from the University of Houston. Jane's research interests include organizational diversity, group communication, negotiation and facework, and intercultural conflict. Her dissertation addresses employee network groups in diverse corporate environments.
Jane is also recently married and in her personal time she enjoys running, spinning classes, trying new recipes, and traveling with her husband.
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Kylene Baker - Ph.D. student in Rhetoric & Public Affairs
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 organizational issues and personal risk perceptions related to infectious disease outbreaks and bioterrorist events. She is also interested in the effect of communicative technology in health care, specifically how it affects the organizational context and patient/provider interactions.
In her spare time, she enjoys socializing with her fellow grad students, reading, walking, traveling, cooking, dining out, gazing out her office window at the Century Oak where her fiance proposed to her last fall, and embracing the Aggie Traditions (see photo for the Gig'em hand signal). Kylene's philosophy for life is to laugh a lot and not take thelittle things in life too seriously. In Kylene's opinion, silliness makes life's burdens a lighter load to carry.
I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope, which is what I do. And that enables you to laugh at life's realities. - Dr. Seuss
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Jaime Bochantin, Ph.D. student in Organizational Communication
Email: JBochantin@tamu.edu
Jaime, a Chicago native, received both her B.A. and her M.A. in organizational and multicultural communication from DePaul University in Chicago (Go Blue Demons!). She is currently pursuing her Ph.D. in Organizational Communication, here at Texas A & M. Her secondary interests include Interpersonal Communication, Gender Studies and Organizational Psychology.
Her current research interests include the aging female professional and how she experiences her body in the workplace, especially in regard to dealing with menopause. In addition, Jaime also has an interest in motherhood in the workplace, especially mothers who work in traditionally masculine professions (i.e. police officers, fire fighters, line workers, etc.) and how they negotiate and use polices like the FMLA in order to balance their work and life.
When Jaime is not working, she is spending time with her family, including her dog Fendi.
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Suzanne Boys -
Ph.D. student in Organizational
Communication
Email: suzanneboys@hotmail.com
Suzanne earned an MA in communication from
the University of Cincinnati. Her Master's thesis focused
on the discursive construction of the teacher role by international
students. Her doctoral research on the Roman Catholic priest
abuse case spins out of her interest in faith-based organizations.
Suzanne is conducting an experiment in postmodern living,
having multiple selves across the country (namely in Ohio
and Texas). Ah, fragmentation!
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Laura Brown - M.A. student
Email: laura.brown@tamu.edu
Laura earned her BA in communication studies from Southwestern University in Georgetown, TX. Currently, she is interested in Organizational Communications and looks forward to studying gendered and raced concepts within organizations. In November, she is excited and ready to present a paper in Chicago at the NCA conference, concerning gender and whiteness in sorority life.
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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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Patricia Calderon - MA student in Telecommunications and Media Studies with a focus on religion.
Email: pacalderon@tamu.edu
Her research interests include but are not limited to: new media technologies, televangelism, megachurches, e-vangelism, religious individualism, and the history of mass communication. She earned her B.A. in Communication and minor in Religious Studies from the University of California in Davis. In her free time, she enjoys napping, reading, baking, hiking, and traveling.
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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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Emily Caulfield - M.A. student
Email: Emily_c@tamu.edu
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Dorothy Collins - Ph.D. student in Organizational Studies
Email: dorothycollins@tamu.edu
Howdy! I am a proud Aggie - Class of '99. After teaching public school for a few years, I received my MA from Texas State University in San Marcos. Currently, I am a 2nd year PhD student who wants to understand risk communication. My research questions hover around how organizations and local citizens negotiate their understandings of acceptable risks, especially related to the siting of nuclear facilities. In my free time (ha!) I return to my undergrad roots by volunteering as an academic mentor with the A&M Corps of Cadets.
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Kevin-Khristian Cosgriff-Hernandez - Ph.D. student in Organizational Communication
Email:cosgriffhernandez@tamu.edu
Kevin-Khristian 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 also completed several lectureships in Public Speaking and Interpersonal Communication in Ohio and Texas. He is currently pursuing his Ph.D. in the Department of Communication and his research interest is primarily in issue management. In addition to being a graduate student, Kevin-Khristian is currently lecturing on Public Speaking.
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Renee Cowan - Ph.D. student in Organizational Studies
Email: renee_cowan1@tamu.edu
Renee received her B.S. from the University of Texas at Austin and her M.A. from Texas State University-San Marcos. Renee is currently pursuing her PhD in Organizational Communication with a focus on dysfunctional organizational communication. Her main research interests include workplace bullying and conceptions of justice, the intersection between work and life (particularly in the case of blue collar employees) and communication technologies (Email, CMDs, and Blogs). In free her time (yeah, right!) she enjoys spending time with her husband D.C. and their three obese cats Simon, Malachi, and Space.
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Bonnie Creel -
Ph.D. student in Health
Communication
Email: bonnie.creel@tccd.edu
Bonnie received both her B.F.A. and M.F.A.
from Texas Christian University. Her research interests
focus on health narratives. Bonnie, who is in her early 50s, teaches
Speech Communication at a junior college and hopes to have
her degree before she retires.
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Brady Creel - Ph.D. student
in Rhetoric and Public Affairs
Email: bradycreel@tamu.edu
Brady earned a B.S. in journalism and an M.S. in management from Texas A&M University. His research interest is the intersection of presidential rhetoric and speechwriting, political communication, and media.
In addition to being a graduate student, Brady works full time at Texas A&M University at Qatar, where he is communications manager for the University's Middle East campus. He is an avid photographer and likes to travel.
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Christopher Cudahy - Ph.D. student
Email: cudahyc@tamu.edu
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Xi Cui - M.A. student in Telecommunication Media Studies
Email: xcui@tamu.edu
Xi received his B.A. from Beijing Broadcasting Institute in 2002, in the major of News Casting and Hosting Art. Later he got a Master's degree in Applied Linguistics in Communication University of China (CUC). He taught Chinese Mandarine Pronunciation and Broadcasting Phonetion, and Public Speaking and Debate at CUC from 2005 to 2007. His current academic focus is in telecommunication as a media and its interaction with developing societies.
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Danya Day - Ph.D. student
in Rhetoric and Public Affairs
Email: danya99@tamu.edu
Danya received her B.A. from Texas A&M
in 1999, double majoring in Speech Communication and Journalism.
She currently teaches one section of COMM 203 - Public
Speaking and is a consultant in the CommLab. Her interests
include media studies, interpersonal communication, and
rhetoric of pop culture.
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Andrei Duta -
Ph.D. student in Organizational
Communication
Email: andrei@tamu.edu
Andrei's interests include leadership, change,
motivation, non-profits, and start-up organizations.
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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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Kacy Gadberry -
M.A.student in Health Communication
Email: kacygadberry@tamu.edu
Kacy received her B.A. in English Literature from Oklahoma State University before traveling to Japan to teach English with the Japanese English Teaching Program. Back on U.S. soil, she currently teaches two sections of COMM 203 while pursuing her studies in health communication. A certified Yoga and Pilates instructor, Kacy's research interests include mind-body communication as well as international health campaigns and cross-cultural health communication. An avid traveler, she also enjoys a variety of "ings" such as running, swimming, hiking, cooking, and bouldering.
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Kristin Garrison - M.A student
Email: ktgarri@tamu.edu
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Amron Hamdi - M.A student
Email: amron.hamdi@tamu.edu
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Sommer Hamilton - M.A Student in Telecommunication and Media Studies
Email: sommer@tamu.edu
Sommer earned a B.S. in journalism from Texas A&M University in 2004. Until 2007, she worked as a writer and communications specialist for Mays Business School, and has now taken on the creation of a communications center to support business undergraduates in written and oral communication skills via seminars, help sessions and tutorials. Her interests are in media studies and telecommunications, particularly online communication tools, and in communication education.
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Katherine Hampsten - Ph.D Student in Organizational Studies
Email: khampsten@tamu.edu
Prior to joining the program, she taught at an urban community college for several years.
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Elizabeth (Beth) Fish Hatfield - Ph.D. student in Telecommunications and Media Studies
Email: ehatfield@tamu.edu
Elizabeth received her B.S. from Georgetown University's McDonough School of Business with a focus on Marketing and Human Resource Management. Her M.A. in Telecommunications and Media Studies was earned at Fordham University. As a master's student (2002-2003), Elizabeth's research included areas such as: challenges facing digital radio, the perceived and actual "richness" of email as a medium for communication, gender and advertising, baseball stadia as media outlet, and war coverage in the information age. Aside from academic pursuits, Elizabeth spent five years working in marketing and public relations. In her free time, Elizabeth enjoys spending time with her husband/friends/family, swimming/boating, reading fiction, gardening and playing with her dog Lily.
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Katharine Head - MA. student in Health Communication
Email: kjhead@tamu.edu
Katy received her B.A. in Communication from Texas A&M, and liked it so much, she decided to stick around for another degree! Her main focus is looking at the media's role in changing or sustaining health behaviors. She is currently working on her thesis, which looks at how source credibility in media messages affects women's decision to use tanning beds. Katy teaches Public Speaking and very much enjoys teaching Aggies. In addition to being a graduate student, she is very involved in her church. In her spare time, she enjoys visiting family, watching tv, reading, and doing anything that involves the outdoors.
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Britney Hibbeler - M.A. student in Telecommunication and Media Studies
Email: britney13@tamu.edu
Britney received her B.A. in Communication from Texas A&M University in 2007. She is currently pursuing her M.A. in the department. Her area of interest is in telecommunication media studies. Britney is particularly interested in the socialization process, gender, and how these things affect communication in different forms of media, especially in online settings. She is currently teaching two sections of COMM 203-Public Speaking. In her spare time, Britney enjoys going home to visit her family and hanging out with friends. One of her greatest loves is her "weiner" dog Riley that she rescued from the animal shelter!
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Kristin Hill
Email: krhill@tamu.edu
Kristin received her B.A. in Speech Communication and English from Texas A&M University in Spring 2003. She currently teaches one section of COMM 203 - Public Speaking. Her interests include rhetorical antecedents of popular culture and mass media, on everything from the KKK to health and hygiene advertising. When she gets a few spare minutes, she likes to talk politics with her husband, friends and anyone else who will listen.
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Marisa Hill -
Ph.D. student in Rhetoric & Public
Affairs
Email: marisahill@tamu.edu
Marisa received her B.S. and M.S. degrees
in Speech Communication from Idaho State University. She
is currently teaching COMM 203 - Public Speaking. Her research
interests include political and presidential rhetoric and
the rhetoric of popular culture.
Marisa is happy to call Texas "home" again
after being away for eight years. She enjoys traveling,
reading, and spending time with her husband and two beautiful
children, Spencer and Audrey.
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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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Jay M. Hudkins -
Ph.D. student in Rhetoric & Public
Affairs
Email: jay_hudkins@baylor.edu
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Zeba Imam
Email: zebaimam@tamu.edu
Zeba got her Master's degree in Social Work from Jamia Millia Islamia, India. She worked with a child rights organization in India before joining the Master's program in Communication at TAMU. She went on to join the Ph.D. program in the department after graduating. Her research interests include intercultural communication and gender studies. More specifically she is studying construction of women's identities in the discourse of religious nationalism in India.
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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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Denise Jodlowski - Ph.D.
student in Health
Communication
Email: djodlowski@tamu.edu
Denise Jodlowski is currently a doctoral candidate in the department. She studies medical rhetoric. Her dissertation examines how scientists, family caregivers, and media rhetorically construct autism.
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Jonathan Jones - Ph.D. student in
Rhetoric and Public Affairs
Email: jonathanjones02@tamu.edu
Jonathan graduated from Texas A&M in 2002 with a degree in Political Science and from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2004 with a degree in Public Administration. Although he works full-time for Texas A&M, he is trying to finish his doctorate in a reasonable amount of time! A native of rural South Texas, his hobbies are reading, writing, traveling, and gambling.
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Rachel Jumper - Ph.D. student in Health Communication
Email: rjumper@tamu.edu
Rachel received her BA in Speech Communication from Texas A&M in 2003 (Whoop!) and her MS in Human Development and Family Studies from Auburn University in 2005 (War Eagle). Her interests are in health and family communication. Specifically, her research interests include the social and emotional side of Celiac Disease and bully behaviors during adolescence among the gifted. Rachel is very excited to be starting her dissertation!! Rachel is a native Texan and loves being back in the Lone Star State. She enjoys spending time with her family, eating Tex-Mex while drinking margaritas, cooking, quilting, hanging out with Emily (the most precious English Springer Spaniel in the world), reading, jogging, canoeing (as long as she is in the back and gets to steer), riding her horse, fixing up her house, and working in her yard.
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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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Kathryn Kelly - M.A student
Email: kakelly@tamu.edu
Kathryn Kelly is in her last year of her Masters in Rhetoric and Public Affairs here at A&M. Her current interests include the rhetoric of biotechnology and bioethical questions, as well as conducting rhetorical analysis of political theory. She received her B.S. in Government from Berry College where she also received a Communication minor and competed on the Forensics team there. In her spare time she volunteers with local animal shelters, and trains horses for equine rescue centers.
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Christine A Kleck - Ph.D. Student in Telecommunication and Media Studies
Email: Kleckca@tamu.edu
Christine received her bachelor's degree in May of 2003 in Communication and Media Studies from The Behrend College of Penn State University. She worked for a year as a Research Technologist before completing a Semester at Sea through the University of Pittsburgh in 2004. She received her master's degree in May of 2006 in Media Studies from The College of Communications at Penn State University.
Her research interests include media literacy, specifically gender and race representation in the media and the use of information technology in the classroom. She is actively involved in the International Communication and National Communication Associations, as well as the Association for Women in Communication and the Association for Journalism and Mass Communication Education.
In her free time, Christine enjoys photography, travel, running, biking and supporting all of her Pennsylvania teams including the Super Bowl-winning Pittsburgh Steelers and the Orange Bowl-winning Penn State Nittany Lions!
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Sarah Kornfield - M.A student
Email: skornfield@tamu.edu
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Tony L. Kroll -
Ph.D. student in Health
Communication
Email: kroll@tamu.edu Tony received his B.S. from Oklahoma State University and his M.S. from the University of North Texas. At Texas A&M Tony taught COMM 203 - Public Speaking and COMM 210 - Group Communication and Discussion. He is currently a Visiting Senior Lecturer at Southern Methodist University where he teaches courses in Health Communication, Non-profit Advocacy, Communication Research, Communication Theory, and Strategic Writing.
He is co-author of articles and chapters published in Patient Education & Counseling, The Handbook of Family Therapy and Chronic Illness (forthcoming), the Journal of Rheumatology, the Journal of Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation, and Health Communication in Practice. Tony's work focuses on patient descriptions of illness, racial disparities in healthcare, and communication between patients and healthcare providers. His current project considers the effects of visual communication about breast cancer for both members of the general public and breast cancer survivors. During the 1990s Tony worked in the healthcare industry as a hospital administrator in acute-care teaching hospitals and later in healthcare marketing and public relations. His last professional position before focusing on research and graduate education was as the Director of Public Relations for a network of 65 healthcare facilities in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. When not thinking about issues related to health and communication, Tony's favorite activity is spending time with his two daughters, Katie and Mary Beth.
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Lauren Lemley - Ph.D. student
Email: lauren.lemley@tamu.edu
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Jia Lu - Ph.D. student
Email: lujiantu@tamu.edu
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Ryan Malphurs - Ph.D. student
Email: malphurs@tamu.edu
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Amanda R. Martinez - Ph.D. student in Telecommunication Media Studies and Health Communication
Email:
armartinez4@tamu.edu
Office: 024-1 Bolton
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 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) with special emphasis on gender, feminism, race/ethnicity, and culture. Amanda also enjoys teaching Comm 203 - Public Speaking. In her limited free time, Amanda enjoys traveling (determined to visit every place on Earth before she dies!), watching movies, reading, working out, and spending time with friends and family.
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Kristin Mathe - M.A. student
Email: kmathe@tamu.edu
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Elisabeth McCann - Ph.D. student
Email:
betsy.mccann@tamu.edu
"Boots," a proud Leo, spends most of her days wishing she were a native Texan. Raised by a Southern family on a farm in central Ohio, she left the Midwest after earning her Bachelor's degree in Political Communication from Ohio University and Masters in Communication Studies from Ball State University. Her adult formative years were spent as Director of Forensics at Morehouse College in Atlanta, GA, her adopted hometown.
In her leisure hours, Boots relishes her membership in Hula Hoop Troop local 979, enjoys reading (still), cooking, composting, arts & crafts, March Madness, listening to records, slam poetry, James Bond films and applied joyology.
Academically, Boots hopes to save the world through sustainable agriculture. Her research involves studying the promotion of sustainable practices in relation to the industrial agriculture complex. Areas she hopes to explore include: eco-agriculture, farmers' markets, agriculture extension service programming, community gardening, eco-tourism, the slow foods movement, international farming methods and policies, the rhetorical construction of "organic," identity constructs of vegetarianism, and media representation of the agriculture industry and its processes.
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Laurie Metcalf -
Ph.D. student in Organizational
Communication
Email: lmetcalf@neo.tamu.edu
Office: 015 Bolton
Office Phone: 862-6956 Laurie received her B.S. and M.A. from Abilene
Christian University. She is currently teaching COMM 203
- Public Speaking. Her research interests are in conflict
management issues, with a particular focus on mediation.
Laurie and her husband, Kyle, are the proud
parents of Domino, a three-year old cocker spaniel/Jack
Russell terrier mix. In her spare time she enjoys reading
and fueling (no pun intended) her NASCAR interest (ok-obsession).
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Anirban Mukhopadhyay - Ph.D. student in Telecommunication Media Studies
Email: anirban009@tamu.edu
My research interests extend over media and health. I am especially
interested in cultural narratives in the media, how marginalized
cultures communicate about health, digital divide, globalization and
computer mediated communication in an intercultural context. To me,
communication is the foundational practice of human experience and
culture is the shared, lived realities of particular groups. And I
believe Scholarship should be an active intervention into a world of
inequities and injustices in the hope of producing knowledge that can
envision a better world. When I am not buried under books and articles
I love to watch and play tennis, soccer, cricket, badminton, and
table-tennis; watch movies, explore aggie land; listen to all sorts of
music; try to figure out how I can fly and imagine myself to be in a
circus.
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Laura Padgett - Ph.D. student
Email: txmartyhm@hotmail.com
Laura began her Ph.D. studies at TAMU in the summer of 2001 and
completed her coursework in 2003. From 2003 - 2006 she took a break from
her studies in order to maintain tenure-track status at Northwest Vista
College where she is an assistant professor in Speech Communication and
English. In 2006, she resumed her studies and completed her
comprehensive exams in the spring of 2007. She is now working with her
advisor, Dr. Jim Aune, to complete a dissertation on speech versus
conduct from a legal and rhetorical perspective.
At Northwest Vista College, she teaches a variety of courses including
Intro to Speech Communication, Public Speaking, World Literature, and
Student Development (Intro to College). She finds this fast-growing
community college, located next to Sea World in San Antonio, TX, to be
stimulating, fun, and empowering from both academic and personal
perspectives. Her other outside interests and activities include playing
pool three nights per week; an all- ladies 8-ball team placed 17th in
the American Poolplayers Association National tournament for 2007. She
also enjoys walking, playing the piano, reading, and traveling.
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Greg Paul -
M.A. student in Rhetoric & Public
Affairs
Email: gregdpaul@houston.rr.com
Greg received his B.A. & M.A. in communication from Texas A&M. His
master's thesis focused on the relationship between account behavior and
conflict framing. His main research interests focus on conflict
management (esp. apology and forgiveness) within organizations,
organizational justice, ADR, and nonprofit organizations. He has worked
as a Foreign Expert in Beijing with China Central Television, as a
representative with Big Brother Big Sister, and as a board member with a
regional high school softball umpires association.
He's taught public speaking, argumentation and debate, public speaking
for the technical professions, interviewing, and negotiation.
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Samaria D. Roberts Perez - M.A./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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Amy Sanders - M.A student
Email: amy.sanders@tamu.edu
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Zach Schaefer (PhD)
Email: zachschaefer@tamu.edu
Zach is a second year PhD student studying organizational communication.
He is particularly interested in issues of time-flexibility in the
workplace and how this relates to organizational outsourcing. The
decisions that people make to organize and make-sense of their lives in
the workplace fascinates him. In the future, he aims to study how
multinational organizations manage the contradiction of retaining loyal
employees in a social environment that is highly volatile and often
viewed as temporary. The social responsibility, or lack thereof, within
contemporary organizational life is also an area of interest. Before
heading to Texas, he completed both of his undergraduate and Master's
degrees in communication at Saint Louis University. When not expanding
his theoretical and methodological horizons, he enjoys riding his
motorcycle, keeping in touch with friends and family from the St. Louis
area, and wrestling with his two boxers: Auburn and Gizmo.
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John Scroggs - Ph.D. student in Organizational Communication
Email: scroggs@tamu.edu
John received his B.A. from Texas A&M University in English and
Philosophy with minors in Sociology and History. He later received his
M.S. from Texas A&M University in Science and Technology Journalism.
His current research interest focuses on how faculty of color and
university administrators communicate and negotiate power at state
universities.
In addition to his graduate studies, John also works for the Office of
the Dean of Faculties and Associate Provost. During his spare time,
John likes to sit at home sipping martinis with his husband Paul and
their 3 dogs, 3 cats, and tank full of tropical fish.
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Yogita Sharma -
Ph.D. student
Email: yogitasharma@tamu.edu
Yogita did her Bachelor's and Master's in English Literature from Delhi
University, India. She studies contentious politics using rhetorical and
organizational perspectives. Her doctoral research investigates how
women organize to constitute themselves as a self conscious
collectivity.
Specifically, her dissertation examines the organizing practices of the
All India Democratic Women's Association (AIDWA), an Indian organization
with a membership of eight million and a unique commitment to developing
women as responsible and democratically conscious citizens. She teaches
communication research methods and organizational communication at the
University of Texas, San Antonio.
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Martha Shoemaker - Ph.D. student
Email: mmshoemaker@tamu.edu
Martha completed her undergraduate work at California State University at
Fullerton in History. She received her master's degree in communcation at
the University of Nevada, Las Vegas where she wrote her thesis on the
American Communist Party and their newspaper campaign to integrate
professional baseball.
Currently, Martha's interest lies in organizational and intercultural
communication. Specifically, she is investigating conflict in an
international organizational setting and looking at the intersection and
influence of national culture on conflict and change in terms of resistance
and power.
Martha's teaching experience includes interpersonal communication, first-
year program teaching, public speaking, and negotiations.
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Jennifer Siepel - M.A. student in Organizational Communication
Email: jennifersiepel@tamu.edu
Jennifer received her bachelor's degree from Texas A&M in Speech
Communication. She is currently completing a thesis studying hidden
conflict during organizational change and teaching COMM 203 and COMM
205. In her free time she is involved in her church and enjoys watching
sports and cooking.
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Monique L. Snowden - Ph.D. Student in Organizational Communication
Email: msnowden@northwestern.edu
Monique earned a B.B.A. in Business Analysis and M.S. in Management Information Systems from Texas A&M University. She is currently the assistant dean of enrollment management at Northwestern University School of Continuing Studies. Her research interests include organizational communication in higher education, bureaucratic discourse/discursive practices, technology innovation and appropriation, and structuration theory.
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Cade Spaulding - Ph.D. student in Organizational Communication
Email: cade.spaulding@tamu.edu
Cade received his Associates Degree in Communication from BYU-Idaho in
2001, his BA in Speech Communication with an emphasis in Speech and
Organizational Communication from Idaho State University in 2003, and
his MA in Communication Studies with an emphasis in Organizational
Communication from the University of Montana in the amazing city of
Missoula, MT. He is currently in his third year of doctoral work in the
area of organizational communication with a special interest in
health-related and disaster-response organizations. He has taught
courses in Public Speaking, Interviewing, Negotiation, and currently
teaches a class in Organizational Communication. He spends most of his
free time with his beautiful and talented wife Courtney, their four
children, and a pet Leopard Gecko.
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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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Steve Stogsdill - Ph.D. student in Organizational Communication
Email: sstogsdill@tamu.edu
Steve received his undergrad at Hannibal-LaGrange College (HLG)in
Missouri in 1989, received two Masters degrees from Southwestern Baptist
Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas in 1994 - Master of Arts in
Religious Education and a Master of Arts in Communication. Taught a
variety of undergrad courses in the Communications Department for 9
years at HLG before heading back to Texas to A&M to work on a PhD with
an emphasis in Organizational Communication. Steve has accepted a new
Assistant Professor of Communication position at Hardin-Simmons
University in Abilene, Texas and began teaching Fall classes in 2007. He
plans to complete his doctoral degree in 2008 with a study of the
perceptions of power and influence among IT professionals in
organizations. Steve's wife, Mendy, and daughter, Emily, now live
outside of Abilene on Mendy's family farm where they are learning to
mend fence, chase cows, and put up hay.
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Masa (Masha) Sukovic - Ph.D. student in Health Communication
Email: trinity3@tamu.edu
Masha received her B.A. in English Language and Literature from Belgrade
University, Serbia. She worked with the Embassy of the Republic of Korea
and Finnish Embassy in Belgrade before joining the Master's program in
Communication at Texas A&M University. She received her M.A. in
Communication from TAMU in August 2007 and started her Ph.D. in the fall
of 2007. She is currently working as Graduate Assistant Director at the
University Writing Center at TAMU.
Masha's 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. Her
current 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 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 singing jazz, cooking, painting,
and writing.
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Elizabeth Thorpe - Ph.D. student in Rhetoric & Public Affairs
Email: boyde@tamu.edu
Elizabeth did her undergrad at Baylor University in English then came to A&M where she got her M.A., also in English. It was after two years in College Station that she defected to the COMM dept. and to Bryan. She now spends her time playing catch-up with her colleagues and making peace between her dog and her husband. Her area of interest is rhetoric, and she is terrible about returning phone calls and email in a timely manner. She is known by many names in the COMM dept., due to name changes and registration snafus, but the one she prefers is "Your Majesty."
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Kristine Campos Wallace - Ph.D. student
Email: kcamposwallace@tamu.edu
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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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Christopher Joseph Westgate - Ph.D. student
Email: westgate@tamu.edu
Education: B.S. Cornell University, M.A. Columbia University
Research Interests: Media Theory & History; Latino Studies; Radio & Music Industries; Visual & Sound Technologies; Historical Photography; Material Culture; Collective Memory.
As a critical-cultural scholar, Chris studies acts of cultural commerce between Mexico and the U.S. including, but not limited to: reciprocal radio broadcasts, resistant record and music texts, power dynamics between computers and communities, digitized realities of sight and sound contained in typographic or photographic imaginaries, producers of industry, circulators of identity and consumers of policy. Chris has over ten years of experience in the radio industry, and has served in various management and on-air capacities at commercial and non-commercial stations. He currently trains new announcers and hosts his own show at KEOS once a week (http://keos.org).
Hobbies: Music, Books, Film, Photography, NPR, PBS, Art & Culture, Architecture, Flamenco, Travel, Cooking, Computers, Politics, Science and Technology, Theater, Museums, Web Design, Tennis, Badminton, Running, Golf, Yoga, Meditation, Aerobic & Racquet Sports.
Favorite places: Cordoba, Spain; Capri, Italy; Providence, Rhode Island; Outdoors, Greenhouses, Health Food Stores, Libraries, Coffee Shops.
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Jennifer Willyard - M.A. student
Email: jwillyard@tamu.edu
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Misty Wilson - Ph.D. student
Email: mwilson8@tamu.edu
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Jill Yamasaki - Ph.D. student in Health Communication
Email: jyamasaki@tamu.edu
Jill earned her M.A. in Speech Communication from the University of Houston and her B.A. in English-Writing from the University of Colorado at Denver.
Her primary research interests include the social construction of identity, community, and shared meanings of health, illness, and old age in long-term care residences. Jill and her husband, Mark, enjoy life in Texas but head home to the Colorado mountains as often as possible (though not often enough!).
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