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Department of Communication
1103 E University Blvd
P.O.Box 210025
Tucson, AZ 85721
Tel: (520) 621-1366
Fax: (520) 621-5504
General Inquiries: trm@email.arizona.edu
UNDERGRADUATE ADVISING
Communication 115
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Debbie Marlow
dmarlow@email.arizona.edu
Tel: (520) 621-1497
Candace Landwerlen
cjl@email.arizona.edu
Tel: (520) 621-8073
Department Head
Chris Segrin
Communication 220
Tel: (520) 621-1366
Fax: (520) 621-5504
segrin@email.arizona.edu
Faculty Members
Associate Professor
(520) 621-1025
(520) 621-5504
Communication 224
Dr. Bonito earned his Ph.D. in 1997 at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the Department of Speech Communication. His primary area of interest is small group communication processes, especially the characteristics of participation, as well as its antecedents and relation to group outcomes. His articles have appeared in Communication Monographs, Human Communication Research,...
Assistant Professor
(520) 621-1366
(520) 621-5504
SIRLS 3
Catherine Brooks (PhD, University of California) joined the Department of Communication in January, 2012. She holds a joint appointment in the School of Information Resources and Library Science. Catherine’s primary research interest focuses on day-to-day language use in online and learning communities. She is most interested in the social uses of communication technologies and the varied...
Assistant Professor
(520) 621-7077
(520) 621-5504
Communication 219
Kevin Coe (Ph.D. 2008, University of Illinois) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication. His research focuses on the interaction of American political discourse, news media, and public opinion. He is especially interested in politicians’ strategic language choices and how these choices succeed or fail in influencing news coverage and public opinion. His scholarship has...
Professor
(520) 621-2726
(520) 621-5504
Communication 221
Ed Donnerstein’s major research interests are in mass-media violence, as well as mass media policy. He has published over 225 scientific articles in these general areas and serves on the editorial boards of a number of academic journals in both psychology and communication. He was a member of the American Psychological Associations Commission on Violence and Youth...
Lecturer Emeritus
(520) 621-1553
(520) 621-5504
Communication 204
Michael Dues (Ph.D., Communication and American Studies, Indiana University, 1973) Dr. Dues studies and teaches organizational communication, conflict management, and argumentation. He is a former head of the Department of Communication, and a past President of the Arizona Communication Association. He is co-author (with Mary L. Brown) of Boxing Plato’s shadow: An introduction to the study...
Adjunct Lecturer
(520) 621-1366
(520) 621-5504
Communication 105
Rosalind is an adjunct lecturer teaching Communication and the Legal Process. She is a Trial Consultant with Advanced Jury Research, co-chair of the Professional Standards Committee of the American Society of Trial Consultants, a member of the State Bar of Arizona. She received her J.D. from the University of Arizona, College of Law where she was the Research Editor for the Arizona Law...
Professor & Director of Graduate Studies
(520) 621-1366
(520) 621-5504
Communication 205
Jake Harwood is a Professor of Communication. He received his Ph.D. in Communication from the University of California at Santa Barbara in 1994. His research focuses on intergroup communication with a particular focus on age groups. He is interested in the ways in which cognitive (e.g., stereotypes) and societal (e.g., mass media) representations of groups relate to communication processes. This...
Assistant Professor
(520) 621-5504
Communication 317
Jay Hmielowski (Ph. D. 2011, The Ohio State University) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication. His major areas of interest are environmental communication, science communication and political communication. Specifically, he is interested in how different types of messages or the combination of conflicting messages affect the structure of people’s attitudes, and...
Adjunct Lecturer, Study Abroad
Orvieto, Italy
Lilian Jacques (MA 2010, University of Arizona; MS 2003, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro) is a communication scholar interested in intercultural contexts, public relations and health communication. She has a broad international background that includes teaching in Italy, Brazil and the US. Besides Brazilian Portuguese, her native language, Lilian is fluent in English, Italian, French and...
Associate Professor
(520) 626-3066
(520) 621-5504
Communication 202
Kate Kenski (Ph.D. 2006, University of Pennsylvania) teaches political communication, public opinion, and research methods at the Department of Communication at the University of Arizona. Prior to teaching at the UofA, she was a Senior Analyst at the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania and a member of the National Annenberg Election Survey (NAES) team in 2000 and 2004...
Professor Emeritus
(520) 307-0698
(520) 621-5504
Communication 217
Dr. Dale Kunkel (Ph.D., Annenberg School, University of Southern California, 1984) is Professor of Communication at the University of Arizona. Kunkel studies children and media issues from diverse perspectives, including television effects research as well as assessments of media industry content and practices. He is a former Congressional Science Fellow, and has testified as an expert witness on...
Adjunct Lecturer & Director of Public Speaking
(520) 626-3052
(520) 621-5504
Communication 105
Diana Leonard is an alumnus of the University of Arizona, receiving her Bachelor of Arts in Psychology in 1982. She reentered academe in 1995 to pursue graduate studies at San Francisco State University, receiving her Master of Arts in Communication in 1998. Her graduate research was focused on small group, cultural studies, and teaching communication. Primarily a teacher, she has taught...
Assistant Professor
(520) 621-7080
(520) 621-5504
COMM 222
Maggie Pitts (PhD, Penn State, 2005) joined the Department of Communication at the University of Arizona as an Assistant Professor in the Fall 2011. Her program of research centers on the types of everyday talk people use to manage transitions across the life course (such as health decision-making, end-of-life and later life conversations, retirement, international sojourning, etc.). Transitions...
Associate Professor
(520) 626-3065
(520) 621-5504
Communication 319
Steve Rains earned his Ph.D. in 2005 from the University of Texas at Austin. His research is situated in the general areas of new communication technologies, social influence, and health communication. He is particularly interested in issues that intersect these domains. Two topics define his current work: First, much of his research examines the implications of new communication technologies for...
Professor & Department Head
(520) 621-1366
(520) 621-5504
Communication 220
Chris Segrin (Ph.D. 1990, University of Wisconsin) is a behavioral scientist whose specialty is interpersonal relationships and mental health. His research focuses on social skills, relationship development and satisfaction, and such problems as depression, anxiety, loneliness, and marital distress. This research can be found in journals such as Human Communication Research, Communication...
Adjunct Lecturer
(520) 626-3482
(520) 621-5504
Communicaton 105
Gates Matthew Stoner, (MA, Arizona 2001) has been teaching business communication, interpersonal communication, and Communication & Technology for over 14 years at the University of Arizona, Pima Community College and Santa Clara University. His research interest include human-computer interaction and computer-mediated communication.
He currently serves as an Associate...
Associate Professor, Director of Undergraduate Studies
(520) 626-8771
(520) 621-5504
Communication 201
Kyle Tusing (Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2000) specializes in social influence and interpersonal communication. He regularly teaches Communication 101, the introductory course to the major. He also has taught undergraduate and graduate courses on public speaking, communication theory, small group communication, relational communication, and persuasion. In 2006 he won the College of...