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School of Communication Lara Needham, Ph.d. Dean, School of Communication; B.A., Communication, Hanover College; M.A., Public Communication, American University; Ph.D., Health Communication, University of Kentucky Teaching/research interests: Public communication, including public relations and campaigns, media and children, health communication and political communication; Public speaking and rhetoric, including per- suasion, business communication and basic public speaking. Lara Needham has more than a decade of experience in the field of communication as a health researcher, writer, speaker and educator. Her research includes an examination of the impact of physician’s persuasive messages on older women’s mammography noncompliance. She is also the founder and CEO of BabyPro, an award-winning children’s media company that produces sports-themed DVDs for babies and toddlers. BabyPro’s products have appeared in numerous national media outlets including Parenting and Scholastic magazine, and have received fifteen national awards. Needham teaches classes in Public Relations, Children and Media, Mass Media and Politics, Public Speaking and Business Communication. KyLe S. BarNett, Ph.d. Assistant Professor; B.A., English and Philosophy, Indiana University-Indianapolis; M.A., American Culture Studies, Bowling Green State University; Ph.D., Radio-Television-Film, University of Texas-Austin Teaching/research interests: media studies (popular music, film, radio, television), media industry studies, critical/cultural studies, and urban studies. Kyle Barnett’s current research focuses on cultural production and genre formation in the U.S. record- ing industry. He is a former Co-Editor of The Velvet Light Trap film studies journal, former Graduate Editor of Flow: A Critical Forum for Television and New Media. Publications include “Furniture Music: The Phonograph as Furniture,” which appeared in the Journal of Popular Music Studies in Fall 2006 and “The Recording Indus- try’s Role in Media History” in the Convergence Media History Anthology (Routledge Press, 2009). Barnett is a research fellow at Bellarmine’s Institute for Media, Culture, and Ethics. He teaches classes in Media and Society, Broadcasting History, Film Studies, Popular Music, and Sound Across Media. GaiL r. hensoN, Ph.d. Professor; B.A., English, DePauw University; M.A., English, University of Louisville; Ph.D. English, University of Louisville Teaching/research interests: End-of-life communication; media effects on children,communication and the elderly, intercultural communication, international communication, and educational policy especially regarding literacy. Gail Henson, Professor and Chair, founded Bellarmine’s Department of Communication in 1987. Hen- son’s academic interests in end-of-life communication, communication and the elderly, and intercultural communication are reflected in her research, teaching, as well as service to a great number of organiza- tions, including Louisville’s Metro Healthy Communities Initiative, Highland Community Ministries, and Bellarmine’s Multiculturalism Task Force. Dr. Henson’s publications include “Managing Anger within Healthcare Systems: Necessary Strategies for Quality” in the Proceedings of International Conference on Healthcare Systems, “Communicating Last Things: Strategies for Teaching about Death and Dying Through Art, Music, and Literature,” in Proceedings of Hawaii International Conference on the Arts and Humanities, and “The Effects of Television on Children and Adolescents” in the Basic Handbook of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (John Wiley Publishers, 1999). She is also the author of The Gentle Agitator: An Oral Biography of Dr. Samuel Robinson (2008, Bellarmine University Press). KimBerLy a. ParKer Ph.d. Associate Professor Kimberly A. Parker (Ph.D., University of Oklahoma, 2004) is an Associate Professor in the School of Communication. Dr. Parker has 15 years of experience as a Health Advocate and Researcher. She received her Ph.D. in Interpersonal/Social Influence with an emphasis in Health Communication. Kimberly taught as a Graduate Teaching Assistant at the University of Oklahoma, as Assistant Professor at Georgetown Col- lege and as Assistant Professor at the University of Central Oklahoma. She has taught Principles of Comm- unication, Public Speaking, Statistics, Persuasion, Interpersonal Communication, Research Methods, Communication Theory, Social Marketing, Health Communication, Gender, Conflict, Integrated Marketing Communication and Business Communication. Dr. Parker’s research interests include health communication and particularly adolescent sexual comm- unication. Most recently, her interest has been in applying Politeness Theory to adolescent sexual comm- unication. She is also interested in resistance to influence and is particularly interested in extending our knowledge of Inoculation Theory. Dr. Parker’s most recent inoculation work is soon to be released in Health Communication. Kimberly’s work has appeared in Human Communication Research, Communication Quar- terly, Health Communication, Central Business Review, The International Journal of the Image, Communication Studies and other publications. In addition to her academic work and teaching, Kimberly worked for the Institute for Child Advocacy for seven years. She worked for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) project aimed at reducing teen pregnancies. Dr. Parker served as the Health Communication/Social Marketing Liaison and worked with faith initiatives. In particular, Kimberly coordinated the Teen Outreach Program (TOP), a program aimed at reducing school dropout and teen pregnancy rates and improving school achievement. moira o’Keeffe Ph.d. Assistant Professor / B.A., Liberal Arts with a concentration in Media Studies, New School for Social Research; M.A., Broadcasting, Telecommunication and Mass Media, Temple University; Ph.D., Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania. Teaching/research interests: Visual communication, film and media studies, cultural studies, and digital media. Moira O’Keeffe’s research deals with the cultural influence of popular entertainment media. Her current project focuses on the impact of how science is portrayed in fictional films and television programs. She has presented portions of this work at the 2008 National Communication Association Doctoral Hon- ors Seminar and the 2008 Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference. Her article about the formal features of Argentine documentaries, “Evidence and Absence: Documenting the Desaparecidos of Argen- tina” was published in Communication, Culture and Critique in 2009. ruth r. WaGoNer, Ph.d. Director of Graduate Studies; Professor; B.A., History, Bellarmine University; M.A., Rhetoric and Public Address, Western Kentucky University; Ph.D., Organizational and Interpersonal Communication, University of Kentucky Teaching/research interests: organizational communication (how people use communication to get work done), critical thinking skills (identifying most important issues, linking premises and conclusions with evidence), and opening statements in trials. Ruth Wagoner was inducted into the Hall of Fame for the American Mock Trial Association in 2007. She is Director of Graduate Studies for the Master of Arts in Communication. She has won several teach- ing awards and is included in Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers. Publications include “ “How Supervisors Convey Routine Bad News: Facework at UPS,” Southern Communication Journal, Spring, 1999. Presentations include “Storytelling in Opening Statements of Courtroom Trials,” Speech Communication Association National Convention, Fall, 1992 and “Mock Trial as a Tool for Teaching Critical Thinking,” National Com- munication Association Meeting 2004. Wagoner’s current research interest is in how mock trial develops critical thinking skills. Regular Part-Time Faculty: Kimberly Conley, Linda Raymond, James Wagoner, Ann Zeman, Gary Fogle, Anita Tyler, Raymond Bailey, and Camille Olmstead. 2001 Newburg Road | Louisville, KY 40205 | www.bellarmine.edu.