Communication & Media Faculty & Staff

Nicholas Benson

Degrees:
Ph.D. in Media and Cultural Studies, University of Wisconsin Madison
M.A. in Lifespan and Digital Communication, Old Dominion University
B.A. in Mass Communication, SUNY Oneonta.

Course History:
Digital Storytelling

Media Inquiry

Research Interests:
My work is interested in the role evolving franchise narratives play in the management and changing industrial practices of contemporary media industries. I tend to focus on intermediaries who negotiate the (sometimes) smooth transfer of story worlds from one medium to another and consider how their knowledge of the franchise story world facilitates those creative and business discussions. My current research project offers a critical analysis of shifting managerial practices within the media industries and connects them to emerging discourses about expansive storytelling and shared interconnected transmedia universes. This work has spun off into a second research area that involves immersive franchised environments. With this latest research, I seek to understand the growing number of virtual and physical spaces that aim to place audiences into franchise story worlds.

Selected Publications:
“Rewatching with the Gilmore Guys: Rewatch Podcasts and Residual Consumption,” The Velvet Light Trap, (forthcoming Spring 2023 in issue 91)

“For Your Future Enjoyment: Managing Intellectual Property Through Franchise Refurbishment,” Media, Culture & Society, 44.3, April 2022.

“‘All Hail Disney’: Establishing Corporate Authorship Through Industrial Intertextuality,” Quarterly Review of Film and Video, 37.1, January 2020.

“Apes On TV: Medium Specificity and Considerations of Continuity in Early Transmedia Storytelling,” Critical Studies in Television, 14.1, March 2019.

“From Art House to Attraction: Haunted Mansion Holiday and Rebranding “Disney’s The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)”. In The Nightmare Before Christmas (Key Films/Filmmakers in Animation Series). Eds. Filipa Antunes, Brittany Eldridge, and Rebecca Williams. Bloomsbury Press, (forthcoming).

“All This Has Happened Before: Mythic Repetition in the Film-to-Television Reboot,” (with Jonathan Gray). In Film Reboots. Eds. Dan Herbert and Constantine Verevis. Edinburgh University Press, 2020.

Emma Bedor Hiland, Ph.D.

Degrees:

Ph.D. in Communication Studies, University of Minnesota
M.A. in Media Studies, Pennsylvania State University
B.A. in Communication, SUNY Geneseo

Course History:

Persuasion
Digital Storytelling
Health Communication
Free Speech

Research Interests:

Health, media, technologies, medicine, bioethics

Selected Publications:

Therapy Tech: The Digital Transformation of Mental Healthcare. (2021). University of Minnesota Press.

The Rhetorical Possibilities of Communicative Time Travel. (2024). Rhetoric and Society Quarterly, 54(3), 263–271.

“I Felt Like It was the Right Thing to Do”: How College Students’ Decisions to Disclose COVID-19 Diagnoses Reflect Privacy Preferences, Perceptions of Stigma, and Cultural Norms. (2024). Qualitative Health Communication, 3(2), 44–71.

“Fluff,” Affect, and the Circulation of Feeling. (2018). Feminist Media Studies, 18(1), 138-143.

The Politics of Revenge (Pornography). (2016). Screen Bodies, 1(1), 32-50.

It’s Not You, It’s Your (Old) Vagina: Osphena’s Articulation of Post-Menopausal Sexual Dysfunction. (2016). Sexuality & Culture, 20(1), 38-55.

No Fat Moms! Celebrity Mothers’ Weight-Loss Narratives in People Magazine. (2012). Co-authored with Atsushi Tajima. Journal of Magazine and New Media Research, 13(2), 1-26.

ChatGPT in the Clinic? Medical AI Needs Ethicists. (2023). The Hastings Report. Online: https://www.thehastingscenter.org/medical-ai-needs-ethicists/.

How Smart Tech Tried to Solve the Mental Health Crisis and Only Made It Worse. (2022).

The Hedgehog Review. Online: https://hedgehogreview.com/web-features/thr/posts/how-smart-tech-tried-to-solve-the-mental-health-crisis-and-only-made-it-worse.

Jacqueline Bruscella

Degrees:
Ph.D. in Organizational Communication, University of Oklahoma
M.A. in Speech Communication, Hofstra University
B.A. in English and History, Lafayette College

Course History:
Argumentation
Small Group Communication
Organizational Communication
Professional Communication
Communication Studies Internship
Mass Communication Internship

Research Interests:
I study organizational communication, with a specific interest in intercultural interactions and language and social interaction. Most recently, my research has focused on the discursive constitution of organizational legitimacy; in other words, how organizations legitimatize themselves through discursive techniques, such as naming and labeling practices. I also am interested in the language of everyday life, and how we use words to "do things."

Selected Publications:
Bruscella, J. S. (2016). “The sins of name calling”: Responses to Paula Deen’s use of ethnophaulisms. Communication Quarterly, 79(1), 116-132.

Bruscella, J. S. (2015). Holiday greeting rituals as expressions of ambivalence and indifference towards social change. Western Journal of Communication, 79(1), 116-132.

Bruscella, J. S. (2015). It’s more than just a name: A theoretical approach to eradicating terrorism through propositions of organizational naming. Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, 38(9), 759-775.

Personal Hobbies & Interests:
Oklahoma college football
Camping & hiking with my dog, Scout
Paddleboarding
World Travel
And not letting the grass grow beneath my feet.

Kristen Blinne

Degrees:
Ph.D. in Communication, University of South Florida
M.A. in Medical Anthropology, cum laude, Universiteit van Amsterdam
B.A. in Health Arts & Creativity Studies, Goddard College

Course History:
Intro to Communication Theory
Argumentation
Small Group Communication
Gender and Communication
Interpersonal Communication
Communication & Conflict
Listening
Intercultural Communication
Speaking for Social Change (Special Topics)
Theories of Interpersonal Communication
Philosophy and Psychology of Yoga

Professional Interests:
Communication and cultural sustainability
Communication and the construction of difference
Communication as a contemplative philosophy and practice
Communication activism for social justice
Feminist communication studies
Ethnographic methods / storytelling / poetry

Hobbies and interests:
Road trips, hiking, and camping
Herding cats, dogs, and goats
Random acts of spontaneous dancing
Yoga, mantra, and meditation
Eating vegan baked goods

Other Information:
Certified yoga teacher
Brazilian jiu-jitsu blue belt
Licensed skin care therapist
Thai bodywork therapist

Selected Scholarship
Blinne, K. C. (2017). The Saheli experiment: Giving birth to alternative oral contraception options on the Aphrodite women’s health forums. Women & Language, 39(2), 93-113.

Blinne, K. C., & Hrenak, T. (2017). How Rainbow gatherings work: (Dis)organization through small acts. In A. Herrmann (Ed.), Organizational autoethnographies: Power an identity in our working lives. Walnut Creek, CA: Left Coast Press.

Blinne, K. C., & Hrenak, T. (2017). Living light with the Rainbow Family.

Blinne, K. C., & Hrenak, T. (2017). Embodying wonder: Sound meditation series.

Blinne, K. C. (2017). Saved Me: Communication scholar response. Communication’s civic callings: The social justice exchange and community engagement. National Communication Association.

Blinne, K. C., & Hrenak, T. (2016). Myanmar in sound.

Blinne, K. C. (2016). Me, myself, and IRB: A Rainbow quest to hu(e)manize ethnography. Humanity & Society.

Blinne, K. C. (2016). Applying (com)passion in the academy: A calling…a vow…a plea…a manifesto. Departures in Critical Qualitative Research, 5(1), 92-101.

Blinne, K. C. (2015). I am (mentally ill)?: A documentary by Tom Shadyac. Journal of Medicine and the Person [Special Issue: Politics of Mental Illness], 13(3), 154-156.

Blinne, K. C. (2014). Performing critical pedagogy through fireside chats. International Journal of Critical Pedagogy, 5(2), 131-144.

Blinne, K. C. (2014). Awakening to lifelong learning: Contemplative pedagogy as compassionate engagement. Radical Pedagogy, 11(2).

Blinne, K. C. (2013). Start with the syllabus: HELPing students learn through class content collaboration.College Teaching, 61(2): 41-43.

Blinne, K. C. (2012). Making the familiar strange: Creativity, culture, and storytelling in the communication classroom. Communication Teacher.

Blinne, K. C. (2012). (Re)storying illness identity: A five-element perspective. Health Communication, 27(3), 314-317.

Andrew Bottomley

Degrees:
Ph.D. in Media and Cultural Studies, University of Wisconsin, Madison
M.A. in Media and Cultural Studies, University of Wisconsin, Madison
B.A. in Media Studies and Urban Studies, Hunter College

Course History:
Digital Storytelling
Intro to Audio Production
Art of the Motion Picture
Film Genres
Research Methods in Mass Media
Television Criticism (Special Topics)
Participatory Media
New Media Practices

Select Publications:
My research is concerned with the social and cultural dimensions of communication technologies, in particular, the internet and broadcast radio, podcasting, recorded music, and other sound media. The primary focus of my work is on the history of new and emerging media, especially during moments of technological convergence and transference when so-called “old” and “new” media collide.

I have published research in numerous academic journals, including Quarterly Review of Film and Video, Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television, Creative Industries Journal, Journal of Popular Music Studies, and Popular Music and Society. Recently, I was invited to guest edit a seven-article symposium on podcasting for the Journal of Radio & Audio Media(Volume 22, Issue 2; November 2015), which was the first-ever special issue dedicated to podcasting in a media studies journal. For my article on Welcome to Night Vale and the revival of radio drama, I was honored with the award for the 2015 Outstanding Article Published in the Journal of Radio and Audio Media from the BEA’s Radio and Audio Media Division. I have served on the editorial board of the film and media journal The Velvet Light Trap, and I was one of the founders and a longtime managing editor of the recently retired collaborative media studies blog Antenna: Responses to Media & Culture. Currently, I am the co-chair of the Radio Studies Scholarly Internet Group of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies(SCMS). In 2015-16, I was part of SoundStudies@UW, an interdisciplinary team at UW-Madison that won a Center for the Humanities grant to organize a Borghesi-Mellon Workshop in the Humanities on the subject of sound studies; we hosted monthly public events on campus throughout the 2015-16 school year and they will continue to do so without me throughout 2016-17.

Prior to entering academia, I was a journalist and the co-founder, publisher, and editor-in-chief of the underground music, arts, and entertainment magazine (or “zine”) Skyscraper. I held a number of other positions in the music industries, including running a small independent record label and tour managing bands. I also worked in the film industries with the non-profit film preservation and media literacy organization The Film Foundation (affiliated with the Directors Guild of America). I worked on the productions of several documentary films, including No Direction Home: Bob Dylan(2005) and the seven-part PBS film series Martin Scorsese Presents The Blues (2003). For many years, I hosted a music radio show called "The Way Out" on the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s student radio station, WSUM.

Professional Interests:
Radio and Podcasting
Internet and Digital Media
Media History
American Film and Television

Hobbies and Personal Interests:
Record Collecting
Gastronomy
New York Yankees Baseball

Nathaniel Bouman

Degrees:
M.F.A. in Film, Columbia University
B.A. in English, Vassar College

Course History:
Introduction to Media Law and Regulation
Writing for Radio, TV, and Film
Intro to Video Production
Basic Motion Picture Production
The Art of the Motion Picture
Great Films of Great Directors
Writing Scenes & Shorts for the Screen
Documentary Tradition
Advanced Video Production
Micro-Budget Documentary Filmmaking (Special Topics)

Professional Interests:
Documentary production
Screenwriting
Cinematography
The experimental and documentary work of the filmmaker Werner Herzog
Mass media's role in the social construction of reality

Hobbies and Personal Interests:
Apples
The Flanks (greatest dirty-country-folk band ever)
Craft distilleries
Good books
Building stuff of questionable aesthetic or practical value

John Chiang

Degrees:
Ph.D. in Communication & Sociology, SUNY Albany
M.A. in Communication, SUNY Albany
M.A. in Humanistic Psychology, Duquesne University
M.A. in English Literature, Yunnan University, China
B.A. in English Language & Literature, Anhui University, China

Course History:
Intercultural Communication
Interpersonal Communication
Communication & Conflict
Introduction to Human Communication
Interviewing
Argumentation
Speech Composition and Presentation

Rhetoric
English Literature
Comparative Poetics
Literary Theory
Organizational Communications

Recent Publications:
Chiang, S.-Y. (2016). “Is this what you’re talking about?”: identity negotiation in international teaching assistants’ instructional interactions with US college students. Journal of Language, Identity, and Education. 16(2): 114-128

He, J.-J. & Chiang, S.-Y. [corresponding author] (2016). Challenges to English-medium instruction (EMI) for international students: a learners’ perspective. English Today 32(4)

Chiang, S.-Y. (2015). Power and Discourse. In K. Tracy, C. Ilie, & T. Sandal (Eds.). International Encyclopedia of Language and Social Interaction. Wiley-International Communication Association

An, R. & Chiang, S.-Y. [corresponding author] (2015). International students’ culture learning and cultural adaptation in China. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development.36(7): 661-676.

Chiang, S.-Y. (2015). Cultural adaptation as a sense-making experience: international students in China. Journal of International Migration and Integration. 16(2):397-413.

Chiang, S.-Y. (2013). ‘The word isn’t there!’: a Foucauldian approach to power negotiation in an instructional interaction across linguistic and cultural boundaries. Critical Discourse Studies. 10(3): 298-311.

Chiang, S.-Y. (2012). “You are trying to make it a racial issue!”: Race baiting and social categorization in recent US immigration debates. In Celine-Marie Pascale (ed.) Social Inequality & the Politics of Representation: A Global Landscape (pp.81-95).

Summer Cunningham

Degrees:
Ph.D. in Communication, University of South Florida
M.A. in Communication, Arizona State University
B.A. in Communication, Arizona State University

Course History:
Intro to Communication
Communication Theory
Understanding Communication Research
Gender and Communication
Communication and the Body
Interpersonal Communication
Intercultural Communication
Researching Relationships

Professional Interests:
Creative, critical, and qualitative methodologies
Social justice, resistance, activism, and transformation
Embodiment, connection, relationality

Hobbies and Personal Interests:
Dancing: swing, salsa, blues, and potentially tango
Hiking: in the desert, in the woods, and through the city
Living room guitar playing (a solo endeavor, mostly)
Macaroni (my dog) and Garfield (my cat)

Selected Publications:

2016. “A Lonely Discourse.” Departures in Critical Qualitative Research, 5.1, 8-22.

2016. “‘Mom’s School’ by Ben: An Epistemology of Falling Objects.” Mothers and Sons: Centering Mother Knowledge. Eds. Besi Brillian Muhonja and Wanda Thomas Bernard. Toronto: Demeter Press., 161-174.

2013. “How Higher Education Became Accessible to Single Mothers: An Unfinished Story.” Mothers in Academia, Eds. Kristin K. Isgro and Mari Castañeda. New York: Columbia University Press. 181-190.

Raúl Feliciano Ortiz

Degrees:
Ph.D. in Media Studies, University of Western Ontario (Canada)
M.A. in Mass Media and Culture, Universidad del Sagrado Corazón (Puerto Rico)
B.A. in Political Science, University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez

Course History:

Introduction to Media Studies
Media Inquiry
Media Law and Policy
Digital Storytelling
Mass Media and Celebrity
Media Literacy Education (Special Topics)
Media and Culture
Participatory Media
New Media Practices

Publication:
Feliciano Ortiz, R.J., Alvarez, E.F. “And in the rainbow corner”: Orlando Cruz and performances of masculinity, homonormativity, and liberation. Lat Stud (2022). https://doi.org/10.1057/s41276-022-00392-1

Hobbies and Personal Interests:
Road trips/traveling
Boxing, college football, and Olympic sports
Consuming media

Laura Felschow

Degrees:
Ph.D. in Media Studies; minor in Women’s and Gender Studies, University of Texas, Austin
M.A. in Media Studies; minor in Women’s and Gender Studies, University of Buffalo
B.F.A. in Film Production; minor in Animation, Syracuse University

Course History:
Introduction to Television
Digital Storytelling
Media and Culture
Art of the Motion Picture
Histories of Animation (Special Topics)

Greg Hummel

Pronouns: He/they

Degrees:
Ph.D. in Communication Studies: Critical Intercultural Communication, Gender/Sexuality Communication, Rhetoric and Performance Studies, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale
M.A. in Communication Studies: Rhetoric and Civic Engagement, Colorado State University
B.A. in Communication Studies: Leadership & Social Influence; minor in Gender & Women’s Studies, Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania

Course History:
Perspectives on Communication
Public Speaking
Presentational Speaking
Argumentation
Gender and Communication
Intercultural Communication
Rhetorical Criticism
Speaking for Social Change

Selected Publications:

Hummel, Greg. "Dancing with My Gender Struggle: Attempts at Storying Queer Worldmaking." Gender Futurity, Intersectional Autoethnography: Embodied Theorizing from the Margins, edited by Amber L. Johnson and Lore/tta LeMaster, Routledge, 2020, pp. 96-109.

LeMaster, Lore/tta and Greg Hummel. "We, Bully: On Politicizing Compulsory Bullying. " Communication Education 67.4 (2018): 520-527. Print.

Hummel, Gregory Sean, and Satoshi Toyosaki. “Duoethnography as Relational Whiteness Pedagogy: Human Orientation Toward Critical Cultural Labor.” International Review of Qualitative Research 8.1 (2015): 27-48.

Professional Interests:
Intersectionality, identity, and social justice activism
Critical cosmopolitanism, transnationalism, and global-local dialectics
Critical and participatory rhetorics
Energetic communication
Qualitative, critical, and performative modes of communication inquiry

Hobbies and Personal Interests:
Intersectional feminist activism
Finding ways to keep my cat from scratching me
Painting my nails with all of the glitter
Traveling, hiking, and communing with nature
Meditating and mindfulness practices

Other interests:
Former Editor and Current Editorial Board Member of Kaleidoscope: A Graduate Journal of Qualitative Communication Research

Chelsea McCracken

Degrees:
Ph.D. in Film Studies, University of Wisconsin, Madison
M.A. in Film Studies, University of Wisconsin, Madison
B.A. in Film Studies, Mount Holyoke College

Course History:
Media Inquiry
Digital Storytelling
Introduction to Video Production
Art of the Motion Picture
Senior Seminar in Media Studies
Media Industries

Bryan Picciotto

Degrees
Ph.D. in Communication, University of Maine
M.A. in Communication, SUNY Brockport
B.A. in Communication, Roberts Wesleyan College

Course History
Rhetoric
Public Speaking
Intro to Communication
Environmental Communication

Selected Publications
2019. “Constitutive Characters.” Atlantic Journal of Communication, Vol. 27, No. 4. Coauthored with M. Elizabeth Thorpe.

2018. Book Review: Under Pressure: Coal Industry Rhetoric and Neoliberalism. Rhetoric Society Quarterly, Vol. 48, No. 2.

2016. “From the Ground to the Clouds: Minimalist and Maximalist Footwear in the Sport of Running.” Explorations in Media Ecology, Vol. 15, No. 3 and 4. (Awarded top student paper at the 2016 Media Ecology Convention in Bologna, Italy.)

Selected Presentations
2022. “Walkability as Rhetorical Placemaking: Negotiating Space, Movement, and Power in the City.” 20th Biennial Conference of the Rhetoric Society of America.

2019. “Rhetorical Tensions: Biograms of Hiking Mount Katahdin.” 105th Annual National Communication Association Convention (Environmental Communication Division).

2018. “Atmospheric Affects: Blurring the Boundaries of Bodily Dis/Ability.” Presented at the Capacious Conference: Affect Inquiry/Making Space.

Professional Interests
Rhetorical theory and criticism
Environmental communication and sustainability
Qualitative and ethnographic methodologies
Tourism and space/place studies
Identity and material culture

Hobbies and Personal Interests
Traveling, hiking, and being outdoors
Writing and getting lost in thought
Cooking vegetarian dishes
Playing with photography
Supporting local artists, farmers, and brewers
Connecting with my Ukrainian and Italian roots

Gayane Torosyan

Degrees:
Ph.D. in Mass Communications, University of Iowa
M.A.P. in Journalism, University of Iowa
B.S. in Mathematics, Yerevan State University, Armenia

Course History:
Understanding Media
Media Inquiry
Journalism
Writing for Radio, Television, and Film
Reporting
Audio Production
Mass Media and Culture
Advanced Journalism
Participatory Media
Advanced Audio Production
Public Speaking
Discussion

Other Information:
Trilingual (Armenian, Russian and English) Please visit my personal website.

Recent Publications:
EARwitness Testimony: Applying Listener Perspectives to Developing a Working Concept of “Localism” in Broadcast Radio

Renegotiating media in the post-Soviet era: western journalistic practices in the Armenian radio programme Aniv

An Imperfect Mirror: Analysis of Armenian and Azerbaijani Media Coverage of Recent Diplomatic Initiatives

G Torosyan, E Schwartz - poliscimedia.com Abstract Using a propaganda model, this study explores media coverage in Armenia and Azerbaijan regarding the war around Nagorno-Karabakh and the context of the recent diplomatic efforts between Turkey and Armenia. Based on interviews with media workers ... Related articles

G. Torosyan - In the Shadow of Borat. Taboo: the Journal of Culture and Education

10-17-2013 "Nobody Wants to Eat Them Alive:” Ethical Dilemmas and Dual Media Narratives on Domestic Rabbits as Pets and Commodity.

Professional Interests:
International media practices and training
Broadcast media, radio broadcasting
Intercultural communication
Collaborated with NPR on several projects
Created and hosted an award-winning news magazine on Iowa Public Radio

Hobbies and Personal Interests:
Visiting my daughters in New York City and Phoenix
Digital audio editing
Cooking and baking
Outdoor jogging and mountain-hiking
Playing and listening to piano

Tim Welch

Degrees:
M.Ed. in Curriculum Development, St. Michael's College, Vt.
B.A. in English Literature, St. Michael's College, Vt.

Course History:
Writing for Business & the Professions
Intro to Communication
Public Relations
Public Speaking
Interviewing
Small Group Communication
Organizational Communication
Persuasion
Understanding Mass Communications
Media Writing
Intro to Audio Production
New Media
Reporting
The History of Broadcasting & the Internet
TV & Radio Production
Broadcast Journalism
Senior Seminar in Mass Media Communications

Other Information:
He enjoys making analogies for students of Communication & Media from his experiences in business and the worlds of television and radio broadcasting, advertising and public relations.

Professional Interests:

• He has operated a PR firm and Video Production company in Saratoga Springs, NY for the past twenty-five years
• Writes, narrates and produces customized DVDs and Exhibit videos for the New York State Military Museum & other organizations and businesses
• President of U.S. Grant Cottage Historic Site
• Produces audiobooks for Audible.com and iTunes.
• Audio Book Samples
• For a dozen years he was a TV Reporter and Weatherman
• Radio station News Director
• Here are some examples of educational videos from Tim's YouTube Channel:
• The History of U.S. Grant
• Welch Communications
• Windows Phone App Tutorial
• Realtor's Check List

Hobbies and Personal Interests:
Sailing
Skiing
Reading
Dog Walking

Diana Willis

Degrees:
M.S.Ed., M.S.Ed. Hunter College
B.A. in Media Studies

Course History:
Introduction to Communication
Public Speaking
Argumentation
Small Group Communication
Persuasion
Public Relations
Strategic Communication

Caroline Wilson

Pronouns: she/her

Degrees:
Ph.D. in Communication, Ohio University
M.A. in Communication, Ohio University
B.A. in Communication, Campbell University

Course History:
Organizational Communication
Health Communication
Interviewing

Selected Publications:
Wilson, C. E., Peterson, B. L., & Taylor, S. J. (2022). Catalyzing social change through disruptive storytelling. In Peterson, B. L. & Harter, L. M. (Eds.). Brave space-making: The poetics and politics of storytelling. Kendall Hunt.

Wilson, C. E., & Farmer, J. D. (2022). Lessons learned struggling to identify positive deviants in a rural southern community. Ohio Communication Journal, 61, 44–61.

Selected Presentations:
2023. This IS about you: Sensemaking a parent’s substance use disorder through layered autoethnography. Annual Southern States Communication Association Convention.

2022. Deconstructing narratives of place, stigma, identity, and substance use in Appalachia. 108th Annual National Communication Association Convention.

2022. Disrupting traditional placemaking and organizing practices: Faith-based nonprofit organizing in rural Appalachia. Annual Eastern Communication Association Conference, co-authored with Brittany Peterson & Samuel Taylor (Ohio University).

2021. Walking together as interview method. Annual Appalachian Green Teachers Conference, co-presented with James Pepper Kelly (Ohio University).

2019. Lessons learned struggling to identify positive deviants in a rural southern community. 105th Annual National Communication Association Convention, co-authored with J. Dean Farmer (Campbell University).

Professional Interests:
Organizational communication
Place-based social change movements
Narrative and ethnographic methodologies
Narrative health communication
Appalachian communication and culture
Hobbies and Personal Interests
Songwriting and playing instruments
Hiking, paddling, camping, doing anything outdoors
Traveling anywhere and everywhere
Dancing (badly)
Thrifting​​​

Kristin Barnett-von Korff

Degrees:
M.S. in Childhood Education, CW Post, Long Island University, Brookville, NY
B.A. in Communication, Broadcasting Management and Production, SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz, NY

Course History:
Public Speaking
Introduction to Communication

Films and TV Shows:
Location Manager, “The Silence” Independent Film, Schoharie County, NY (2024)
Professional Driver for Camera Vehicle “The Last Ride” Independent Film, Schoharie County, NY (2023)
Camera Operator and Continuity for “Loosers in Love” Independent Film, NYC, Queens and Westchester, NY (2000)
Camera and Teleprompter Operator -- WABC-TV (NY) Eyewitness News, Regis and Kathy Lee Show, El’ Tiemo, Here and Now, ABC Shows and Specials. (1990-1993)
Many Corporate videos and TV commercials (1990-1999)

Video Game Industry Expert:
Quoted in: Bloomberg News, Los Angeles Times, La Repubblica Italia, The London Times, Miami Herold, New York Post, The New York Times, KTLA-TV, WABC-TV, WCBS-TV and WNBC-TV. (1996-2002)

Presented at E3 in Los Angeles, when Pikachu was introduced to the world on the Pokémon Red and Green Generation I platform. (1996)

Hobbies and Personal Interests:
Shooting and Editing
Photography
Television and Video Game History
Supporting local farmers, brewers and crafters
Riding and caring for my horses
Kayaking, hiking and escaping on my farm, with my dogs

Matthew has been teaching for SUNY Oneonta since 2010 and is a 2008 alum. He served as the mayor of his hometown Middleburgh and owns the Mountain Eagle newspaper.

Stacy Branigan

Degrees:
M.Ed. in Adult and Community College Education, North Carolina State University
B.A. in English, Radford University

Course History:
Public Speaking

Jonathan Bullinger

Degrees:
Ph.D. in Media Studies, Rutgers University
M.A in Sociology, California State University, Northridge
B.S. in Television/Radio, Ithaca College

Course History:
Introduction to Communication
Public Speaking
Media Writing
Media Inquiry
Media and Culture
Senior Seminar in Media Studies

Jim Calhoun

Degrees:
M.A in Special Education, City University
B.S. in Criminal Justice, Appalachian State University

Course History:
Introduction to Communication
Public Speaking

Callie Cash

Degrees:
M.A. in Communication, University of Delaware
B.A. in Communication Studies and English, Bridgewater College

Course History:
Introduction to Communication
Argumentation
Small Group Communication
Interpersonal Communication

Kathleen Dwyer

Degrees:
M.A. in European History, SUNY Binghamton
M.A.T. in Secondary Social Studies, SUNY Binghamton
B.A. in English Literature, Nazareth College
B.A. in History, Nazareth College

Course History:
Introduction to Communication
Public Speaking
Interviewing

Timothy C. Knight

Degrees: M.A. in Political Communication, UAlbany (2020); B.S. in Communication, SUNY Cobleskill (2017).

Course History:

Public Speaking

Professional Interests: Grounded Research Theory, Ethnography, Creation of place/space through decision making and communication.
Hobbies and Personal Interests: Reading Revolutionary War/Civil War Histories; Doom scrolling Twitter; Spending time with my wife and three pet rabbits; Badly singing Sea Shanties in Montreal.

Margot Reynolds

Degrees:
M.A. in English, Simmons College
M.A.T. in Elementary Education, Simmons College
B.A. in English, Middlebury College

Course History:
Introduction to Communication

Mark Simonson

Course History:
Public Speaking
Interviewing
Media Writing
Journalism
Writing for the Newspaper
Reporting

Degrees:
Ph.D. Organizational Communication In-Progress (University at Albany)
M.A. Organizational Communication (University of Albany)
B.S. Business (University of Albany)

Course History:
Contemporary Conversations in Communication: Social Media
Persuasion
Creating Persuasive Campaigns
Organizational Communication
Public Relations
Advertising Strategy & Planning
Intercultural Communication
Public Speaking
Honors Public Speaking
Introduction to Communication
Mass Media Law
Theories of Communication
Survey of Communication
Writing for the Media
Business Communication
Small Business Management
Communication Development in Children
Student Success
Introduction to University Education

Al Winne

Degrees:
M.S. in English Education, SUNY Oneonta
B.A. in Literature and Speech Communications, SUNY Oneonta

Course History:
Introduction to Communication
Public Speaking