Communication News FALL 2017 Journalism alumna awarded n in-depth series written While she was a student, Ryley by Sarah Ryley (BA- interned at the Detroit News, journalism, 2006) for Oakland Press and Brooklyn the New York Daily Daily Eagle. She also served as ANews in collaboration with Pro- editor-in-chief of The South Publica won the 2017 Pulitzer End, WSU’s student newspaper. Prize for public service, the most “When your instructors and prestigious award in journalism. mentors are great journalists The series exposed the New York themselves, you’re taught very Police Department’s widespread solid news values — straight, abuse of eviction rules to force fair and factual journalism,” hundreds of people — many of Ryley said. them poor minorities — from Ryley is now working as an their homes over alleged criminal investigative reporter covering activities. gun policy for The Trace, an The investigation, which independent nonprofit journal- detailed and analyzed more than ism startup dedicated to shining 1,100 cases, led to the passage of a light on American gun violence. 13 laws intended to create pro- As an investigative reporter tections for the accused, an inter- covering hot-button issues, Ryley nal NYPD investigation, and a believes in the importance of class-action civil rights lawsuit. research and data, and is optimis- Ryley, 36, a native of Toledo, to have incredible mentors.” Sarah Ryley won the tic about the future of journal- Ohio, and a graduate of North- Those mentors included jour- 2017 Pulitzer Prize ism. “You have to believe that ville High School, credits Wayne nalism instructors M.L. Elrick for public service for there will always be an appetite State for her professional and Darci McConnell, journal- a series that exposed for fair and factual information,” development. ism head Jack Lessenberry, and the New York Police she said. “There will always be “Studying in Detroit helped the late Ben Burns. Department’s abuse people who want to make prepare me as a reporter,” Ryley “Sarah was and is one of the of eviction rules. informed decisions. I believe said. “I wanted to report on best and most driven young we’re seeing a resurgence toward urban issues, urban develop- investigative reporters I have investigative efforts and an ment and social justice, and known,” Lessenberry said. “I am emphasis toward data-based Wayne State provided a lot of delighted by her Pulitzer — but journalism.” oppor­tunity to do so. I was lucky not really surprised.” In addition to her work on the Pulitzer-winning series, Ryley has reported on racial dis- Another Pulitzer finalist parity in summonses, the surge Sarah Ryley is not the only Warrior with a 2017 Pulitzer presence. in fare-evasion arrests, police Terry Parris Jr. (BA-journalism, 2008) was nominated as a finalist for the misconduct, sexual abuse trials, explanatory reporting award. Parris, along with a team of colleagues flaws within the Department of from ProPublica, was recognized for the series “Machine Bias,” which Homeland Security’s visa process outlined Facebook’s algorithms, its use of personal data, and the and more. Her work also has platform’s system that allows advertisers to exclude specific groups been recognized by the New York based on race, gender and other sensitive factors that are prohibited State Association by federal law in housing and employment. and the Newswomen’s Club of New York, among others. • FROM THE CHAIR | LEE WILKINS

Exceptional accomplishments

Department of Communication ne of the delights of the academy is being able to support faculty mem- 585 Manoogian Hall bers as they move forward in their careers. Only slightly less delightful Detroit, MI 48201 Ois being able to acknowledge past exceptional work. This newsletter is 313-577-2943 filled with reports of both. I’ll begin at the top: Dean Matt Seeger, Ph.D., who at this conference will [email protected] receive a career award for his research, has made remark- About us able contributions to the College of Fine, Performing The Department of Communication and Communication Arts, including raising more than is part of Wayne State’s College of Fine, $30 million to support the efforts of four departments. Performing and Communication Arts. This acknowledgment from the National Communica- With approximately 630 undergraduate tion Association demonstrates that although Dean Seeger majors and 150 graduate students, the takes pride in collegewide accomplishments, his heart and department is diverse and dynamic, mind are committed to scholarship in his own academic featuring programs in communication discipline. studies, media arts and studies, film, At the early end of the continuum, Assistant Professor journalism, public relations, and dispute Elizabeth Stoycheff, Ph.D., in just the fourth year of her academic career, pro- resolution. duced a paper that was named the best study published by Journalism and Mass Our students experience the benefit Communication Quarterly in 2016. Most of us will go our entire careers without of a world-class education in a real-world such an accolade. Stoycheff also received a collegewide teaching award and context. The department comprises a nationally competitive externship. 30 tenure and tenure-track faculty and Associate professorship is often — rightly — considered the doldrums of 35 part-time faculty with strong back- academic life. But, Associate Professors Kat Maguire, Ph.D., and Fred Vultee, grounds in both scholarly and profes- Ph.D., both won campuswide awards this year: Maguire received the President’s sional approaches to communication. Award for Excellence in Teaching; Vultee was named the campus’s outstanding graduate faculty mentor. Communication News All of the accomplishments listed in the following pages — from numerous Produced by the Department academic and teaching awards to multiple book projects, papers and presenta- of Communication tions — have emerged during a time of disruption in higher education in general Department Chair: Lee Wilkins and at Wayne State in particular. Editor/Designer: Sheila Young Tomkowiak This year, the communication department will begin adapting to a new gen- eral education architecture. We will be given the opportunity to attract — but not require — students to enroll in communication courses, a challenge that will require new skills, like marketing, that go beyond teaching prowess. Budgetary constraints and declining enrollments also present challenges, especially in an era of dwindling federal grant dollars. Often when confronted with uncertainty, we seek a “home base” in our academic specialties. I believe that in the face of change and risk, we should do only those things that we believe will cause the least harm to individuals, organizations and the project at large. This approach has been borne out in a year where research productivity has meant putting books on library shelves and where teaching excellence has been widely acknowledged. As for how well it works going forward … stay tuned.

— Lee Wilkins

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Award was a lifetime in the making

ack Lessenberry, journalism Muslim Community Council, the capstone course, Issues in area head, received a number and his column in the Metro News Media Management, and Jof honors this year, includ- Times, “Politics and Prejudices,” supervises all internships for the ing a lifetime achievement was named the best alternative Department of Communication. award from the Metropolitan political column in the nation He also is senior news ana- Detroit Society of Professional for the fourth time. lyst for Michigan Public Radio, Journalists. Lessenberry’s book The Peo- delivering daily essays and com- “It is a wonderful honor, but ple’s Lawyer: The Life and Times mentary on state issues. He is two men I admired — George of Frank J. Kelley was chosen as or has been a writer for many Cantor and George Puscas — got a Michigan Notable Book of the national and regional publica- this award in recent years, and Year by the State Library of Jack Lessenberry: tions, including Vanity Fair, died within a few months after Michigan. “It is an extremely Esquire, George, the New York receiving it,” Lessenberry said. He was also elected president nice honor, to be Times, , and “I have decided not to con- of the Historical Society of Mich- recognized by your . Currently, tinue that tradition.” igan, which was founded in 1828 peers in this way.” he is a contributing editor and It’s been a busy year for Less- and is one of the nation’s oldest columnist for the Metro Times, enberry, who has been a full-time such societies, and promoted to the Traverse-City Record Eagle, faculty member since 1994. He senior lecturer. Dome Magazine and the Toledo received a Fairness in Media Lessenberry primarily teaches Blade, where he also is writing award from the Michigan journalism history and law and coach and ombudsman. •

Kelly Jakes takes rhetoric to a higher note

ssistant Professor Kelly Jakes, Ph.D., combines A her love of popular song with her scholarly research to prove a point: Music provides a way to develop and maintain cul- tural and political diversity. This interdisciplinary insight has found of rhetoric to uncover the ways swing, classical and scat. a natural home in Detroit and in marginalized and repressed “It’s just a lot of fun. It feels the Department of Communica- people use pop culture to resist like a rock concert sometimes,” tion, where Jakes teaches public oppression. Jakes said. “Rearranging Handel address and explores social move- But she never abandoned is a fun way to feature a more ments while conducting archival her love of performing and now diverse sound and really break research on the uses of popular is a member of the Rackham through the classical barrier.” music during World War II. Choir, Detroit’s oldest commu- Jakes believes it is important A communication studies fac- nity choir. She was onstage at that she continue to sing because ulty member since 2014, Jakes the Detroit Opera House with it helps her stay connected to didn’t set out to be an academic. the nearly 80-person choir for Kelly Jakes is a member her writing subjects. “If I write She first hoped to be an opera the 15th anniversary of the of the Rackham Choir, about music and I’m not per- singer. But while she was taking a group’s rendition of “Too Hot Detroit’s oldest forming music, I feel like I’m a course on the rhetoric of the civil to Handel,” conducted by community choir. fraud, somehow,” she said. “It is rights movement, Jakes decided Suzanne Acton. This annual important to me to have some to transition into academia. She concert infuses Detroit-inspired type of interaction with the sub- realized that she could combine styles of jazz and gospel while ject that I am studying. It keeps her love of music with the study showcasing touches of blues, me grounded.” •

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2017 Arts Achievement Awards recognize dedication and advocacy

he College of Fine, Per- Susan F. Rossen, right, Career Achievement forming and Communi­ has spent much of Award: Music Tcation Arts honored five her career in museum Violinist and native Detroiter alumni and former students publishing. Charlotte Merkerson began play- with its 2017 Arts Achievement ing violin at age 6, and by age 8 Awards for dedication to the arts was playing in the All City Junior and communication and for Orchestra. At 15, she was achievements in their fields. awarded a scholarship to study violin with Mischa Mischakoff, Career Achievement concertmaster of the Detroit Award: Communication Symphony Orchestra. Don Gonyea is a political corre- But she didn’t decide to play spondent for NPR who spends industry, the development professionally until college. She much of his time traveling of alternative fuel and hybrid- began at Wayne State in 1967 throughout the United States powered automobiles, Jack and studied violin with Morris covering campaigns, elections Kevorkian’s assisted-suicide cru- Hochberg, the former assistant and the political climate. He was sade, and the 1999 closing of concertmaster for the DSO. NPR’s White House Correspon- Detroit’s classic Tiger Stadium. Merkerson’s first professional dent during George W. Bush’s A native of Monroe, Gonyea is engagement was with the Phoenix administration and was at the an honors graduate of Michigan Symphony in 1978, where she White House on the morning of State University. was second violin principal. The Sept. 11, 2001, providing live following year, she returned to reports following the evacuation Career Achievement of the building. Award: Art and Art History Gonyea got his start with Susan F. Rossen is an educator, NPR in 1986, working from curator and museum publisher the Wayne State studio of and the first publisher at the WDET-FM. He reported Detroit Institute of Arts. Rossen, on labor unions and the auto who earned a master’s degree in art history from Wayne State in 1971, directed the publications department at the Art Institute of Chicago for 28 years. During her tenure there, she shepherded more than 200 publications into print, a number of which garnered awards for content, design and production. Rossen has been active in the field of museum publishing, organizing national and inter­ national conferences, teaching, writing and lecturing about the role of publishing in museums. Currently, she is a museum- Charlotte Merkerson was Don Gonyea is a political publishing consultant and free- concertmaster at the Michigan correspondent at NPR. lance editor. Opera Theatre.

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Detroit and soon won a position Education Association, Ameri- as concertmaster at the Michigan cans for the Arts, Michigan Youth Alumni notes Opera Theatre. Some of her most Arts, and the Association for Christiana Lumaj (BA-public relations, 2016) was named memorable performances there Supervision and Curriculum executive communications coordinator after less than a year include the Three Tenors’ perfor- Development. at Ford Motor Co. She now reports to fellow WSU alumnus mance at Tiger Stadium, and five Raymond Day, group vice president of performances as concertmaster CFPCA Arts Advocacy communications at Ford. with Luciano Pavarotti, one of Award Lumaj began at Ford as a product which was for the opening of the William “Bill” Prady is the four- launch and events coordinator in Detroit Opera House. time Emmy-nominated executive May 2016. producer of The Big Bang Theory, In her new role, she works on story- which he co-created in 2007. telling and stakeholder engagement. Prady got his start working at Her responsibilities include working Jim Henson Productions in with Day to provide direct communications support — 1983. Following that, he wrote including managing global positioning, engagements and for a number of television com- briefings — for Ford executives. edy and drama series. His first “I was incredibly excited and humbled when the leader- produced episode of series ship team entrusted me with this great opportunity and tele­vision was an episode of responsibility,” Lumaj said. “I attribute this quick growth Married ... With Children in within the company to the strong CFPCA public relations 1991; his first staff writing job program I was a part of at Wayne State University. The end- was on the HBO series Dream less opportunities and top-notch faculty within the program Phillip W. Moss is a department On in 1995. Prady joined the truly prepared me for the real world.” chair at University Liggett School. writing staff of Dharma & Greg in 1997, rising to executive pro- Christy Bonstell (BA- Career Achievement ducer and taking over as show- journalism, 2004), a former Award: Theatre runner (industry slang for the job reporter for The Detroit News, Phillip W. Moss, Ph.D., is the that combines head writer and has published her first novel, chair of the creative and perform- executive producer) in 2001. He The Undertow. ing arts department at University is a graduate of Cranbrook in Liggett School in Grosse Pointe Bloomfield Hills and attended Woods. He oversees curriculum Wayne State. • 2016–17 Ph.D. graduates and staff development in drama, • Avery Henry, assistant professor, music and visual arts for a pro- Southeast Missouri State University gram that spans pre-K through • John Koch, lecturer/assistant director of debate, 12th grade. Moss has teaching Vanderbilt University responsibilities in grades 6–12 • Renata Kolodziej-Smith, lecturer, and directs extracurricular pro- University of Central Florida grams in drama for grades 3–12. • Marta Lucakovic, visiting assistant professor, He teaches courses in acting, Furman University directing, scenic design, film, ani- • Bethany (Weaver) Petry, assistant professor, mation and software tools. Moss, Florida Gulf Coast University who earned his doctorate in art • Debbie Sellnow-Richmond, assistant professor, education at Wayne State, is a Columbus State University member of the Educational The- • Stephanie Wideman, visiting assistant professor, atre Association/International Bill Prady is executive producer of SUNY Oswego Thespian Society, National Arts the TV series The Big Bang Theory.

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WSU film nominated for Student Academy Awards

or the first time, a Wayne the best work possible on State film was nominated the film, and he was a joy F for the Student Academy to work with. He did a Awards. Free the Wall, produced masterful job of shooting by Darryl Shreve (MA, 2017) the project and crafting as his master’s the story in the editing thesis, was one of room. Free the Wall is a seven contenders really well-executed film. in the Documen- He should be very proud tary Category A still from the camera and editing software. So, of it. I know I am.” Shreve (Domestic Film documentary Free the covering a topic like graffiti felt The documentary was shot Schools) for the 2017 awards. Wall, which explores the more like a homecoming.” primarily in Detroit, Philadel- Free the Wall addresses three counterculture nature The Student Academy Awards phia and Toledo, Ohio. Detroit’s questions: Is graffiti art? Is it van- of street art. were established in 1972 to sup- Murals in The Market, Philadel- dalism? What are communities port and encourage excellence in phia’s Mural Arts Project and doing to resolve related conflicts? filmmaking at the collegiate level. Toledo’s Young Artists at Work The film chronicles the experi- Past winners have gone on to provided a rich backdrop for the ences of six street artists and receive 46 Oscar nominations and film’s content. delves into the history and future have won or shared eight Acad- “It’s a huge honor to make it to of graffiti, looking at its counter- emy Awards. They include John the final round of the Student culture nature and how street art Lasseter, Pete Docter, Trey Parker, Academy Awards, and I feel privi- has evolved into forms that now Robert Zemeckis, and Spike Lee. leged to have represented Wayne attract mainstream audiences. Shreve credits Associate Profes- State University in that endeavor,” Shreve interviewed business sor Kelly Donnellan for providing Shreve said. “I had a great deal of owners, police officials, street valuable tips and said she offered practical experience in the field artists, muralists and fine-art great assistance in her advisory of production before pursuing coordinators across several states. role on the project. He said he my master’s degree, but not much Free the Wall explores freedom was honored when he learned that theoretical. Going back to school of expression and how art can Donnellan had submitted his removed the blinders from con- give a voice to the voiceless. piece to the academy. cepts and theories that I most “As an artist at heart, I have “When Darryl proposed his likely would not have discovered always been drawn to visual thesis project on graffiti and street on my own. I believe our educa- mediums of expression,” Shreve art,” Donnellan said, “it was such tional journey doesn’t end with said. “When I started in the film/ a visual topic, I could totally ‘see’ that first piece of paper, but that video industry, I merely swapped the film that he wanted to do. we must constantly redevelop and a paintbrush and canvas for a Darryl was really motivated to do in some cases reinvent ourselves.” •

Emmy winners Darryl CFPCA promo video Shreve (left), earns local Emmy Lezlie Hart hree graduate students promotional video “Be Inspired.” and Jeff and two alumni were part Working in collaboration with Keene. Tof a team that received an University Television, doctoral Emmy from the Michigan student Nick Smith, master’s stu- National Academy of Television dent Tyler Short and Angela Wat- Arts and Sciences in June for the son (MA, 2017) were part of an

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Freep Film Festival: Lights, camera, participation

ayne State had a Anderson, area head for media strong presence at the arts and studies, is credited as an W 2017 Freep Film Festi- executive producer. val. The four-day festival features Two current students — documentary films — particularly Samantha Mannino and Mason those with strong connections Holdwick — helped manage the to Detroit or Michigan — along archiving of home-movie footage with post-film panel discussions included in 12th and Clairmount, and other events geared toward a documentary about Detroit’s Detroit’s film community. tumultuous summer of 1967, Department of Communica- its causes and aftermath. They tion students, alumni and faculty worked under a directed study worked on films selected for the led by Masters Program Director festival and participated in panel Karen McDevitt, Ph.D., who discussions. earned a screen credit for her Ryan Clancy (MA-candidate, coordinating efforts. Home- media studies) explored the larg- movie footage donated by metro est collection of Mies van der Detroiters became the backbone Rohe-designed homes, located of the documentary. in Detroit’s Lafayette Park, in his Rivera participated in a panel film,A Poem of Glass and Steel. discussion, “Creativity Matters: The project narrates the experi- Communication Careers in the Film and Creative ence of living in an iconic and department members Industries,” presented by the rapidly changing neighborhood. worked on films shown Michigan Film and Digital Jasmine Rivera, part-time at the 2017 Freep Film Media Office. faculty member and Kresge Arts Festival, including (from Anderson moderated a discus- Fellow, directed American Prophet, top) American Prophet, sion with African-American labor a docudrama set in 1968 that A Poem of Glass and Steel activists following the screening tells the story of Detroit Bishop and 12th and Clairmount. of the 1970 documentary Finally Thomas Gumbleton, who as Got the News, which looked at a young man was appointed to the activities of the League of a position of authority — and Revolutionary Black Workers whose leadership was needed to crew include Greg Meyering, inside and outside Detroit’s auto guide a community in a time of James Wright, Hayward Craw- plants. She also moderated a great upheaval and social change. ford, Litong Zhen, Samuel Kim panel discussion with 12th and Alumni on the film’s production and Robert Monarch. Juanita Clairmount filmmakers.•

eight-person team that pro- effort. Watson produced the The video was created to “The marketing team at duced the recruitment video for video and set up locations; showcase CFPCA’s creative pro- Wayne State does a great job of the College of Fine, Performing Short captured aerial footage grams and the many connec- telling stories about the univer- and Communication Arts. using a drone and helped with tions throughout Detroit that sity in an honest and compel- Alumni Darryl Shreve (MA, other shooting and editing the college’s students are ling way — every time,” said 2017), associate director at chores. Kelly Driscoll and afforded. “Be Inspired” was Art Lionas, director of media University Television, and Lezlie Hart from the CFPCA nominated in the category content at University Televi- Jeffrey Keene (MA, 2013), dean’s office also were instru- “Promotion — Program – sion. “So, it’s very gratifying to also from University Television, mental in the project. Dean Single Spot” and was up against be recognized by our peers for participated in the project. Matt Seeger, Ph.D., served as Michigan State University’s taking that honest approach.” • The project was a team script director. entry, “Your Tomorrow.”

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Dean Seeger wins award for applied communication scholarship Faculty team completes WHO project Matthew W. Seeger, Ph.D., dean of the College of Fine, Performing and The World Health Organization project “Evidence Syntheses Communication Arts and professor in the Department of to Support the Guideline on Emergency Risk Communica- Communication, received the National Communication tion” was successfully completed by a faculty team consist- Association’s 2017 Gerald M. Phillips Award for Distin- ing of Pradeep Sopory, Ph.D., and (in alphabetical order) guished Applied Communication Scholarship. Stine Eckert, Ph.D.; Julie Novak, Ph.D.; Donyale Padgett, Seeger was honored for research on crisis communi­ Ph.D.; and Lee Wilkins, Ph.D. cation, particularly health-related crisis communication, The team was assisted by communication graduate student Seeger and has received more than $5 million in external funding. Ashleigh Day as well as (in alphabetical order) Fatima Barakji, His work has placed him in highly visible and influential positions within Javier Guzman-Barcenas, Juan Liu and Jacob Nickell. a number of organizations, including the World Health Organization, The WHO project focused on communication related to U.S. Food and Drug Administration, and U.S. Centers for Disease Control public health emergency events, such as earthquakes, emerg- and Prevention. ing infectious diseases, hurricanes, industrial accidents and Seeger has authored or co-authored a significant number of books, terrorism. book chapters and journal articles that place communication as a theoretical explanation for developing and implementing crisis applications. The NCA noted Seeger’s ability to create a direct path from research to application as Maguire receives a hallmark of his record. excellence award Given annually, the Gerald M. Phillips Award is presented to scholars for teaching responsible for authoring bodies of published research and creative schol­ For the third time since 1977, a arship in applied communication. faculty member in the Department of Communication has received Stoycheff racks up multiple honors the President’s Assistant Professor Elizabeth Stoycheff, Ph.D., received two national honors Award for Excel- within the space of a week in May. Her article “Under Sur- lence in Teaching. veillance: Examining Facebook’s Spiral of Silence Effects in Associate Profes- the Wake of NSA Internet Monitoring” was named the best sor Kat Maguire, article published in 2016 in Journalism and Mass Communi­ Ph.D., who has cation Quarterly. She also was named a Scripps-Howard Maguire served as commu­ Foundation visiting professor. The foundation sends faculty nication studies area head for the Stoycheff to newsrooms for two-week externships in digital media. past five years, accepted the award Stoycheff visited The Post and Courier in Charleston, South Carolina. from Wayne State Provost Keith Stoycheff, who is completing her fourth year as a Wayne State faculty Whitfield in a May ceremony. member, also received the College of Fine, Performing and Communica- Maguire was nominated by the tion Arts award for outstanding teaching. She teaches reporting and fea- department with supporting letters ture writing at the undergraduate level, as well as graduate classes on from four students, including a suc- media and democracy, and big data. cessful doctoral graduate and two undergraduate students. Each Vultee named outstanding graduate mentor praised Maguire’s enthusiasm for Associate Professor Fred Vultee, Ph.D., who serves as the communication teaching, ability to connect theo- department’s graduate student director, was named out- retical concepts to the lives of stu- standing graduate faculty mentor on campus for 2017. dents, and genuine care of those Vultee is the first faculty member in the department to students both inside and outside receive this award. He teaches a variety of courses at both the classroom. the graduate and undergraduate level, including news editing, introduction to doctoral studies and political com- Vultee munication — his research focus.

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Stine Eckert • Eckert S, Sopory P, Day A, By the book Wilkins L, Padgett D, Novak J, Department of Communication members P. Patterson, L. Wilkins, C. Painter; Roman & Gamhewage G. “Health-Related have been busy this year with book projects. Littlefield, 2018. Disaster Communication and The following titles are under contract, with • Strains of Dissent: Popular Music and Everyday Social Media: Mixed-Method anticipated publication dates through 2019. Resistance in WWII France, 1940–1945, K. Jakes; Systematic Review,” Health • Effective Crisis Communication, fourth edition, Michigan State University Press, 2018. Communication, 2017. R. Ulmer, T. Sellnow, M. Seeger; Sage, Octo- • Handbooks of Workplace Bullying, Emotional • Eckert S. “Fluid Public Clusters ber 2017. Abuse and Harassment, Volume 4, editors in Western Democracies: Political • Building Your Voice: Powerful Public Speaking in P. D’Cruz, E. Noronha, L. Keashly, S. Tye- Women Bloggers in the United the 21st Century, B. Hensley with contributors Williams; Springer, 2018. States, United Kingdom, Ger- N. Prephan, J. Cobb, A. Mixon; Great River • Organizational Communication Theory and many and Switzerland,” Blue Book Publishing, 2017. Practice: Current Trends and Future Directions, of Media and Gender, Report on the • Communication in Times of Trouble, M. Seeger, J. McDonald, R. Mitra; Routledge, 2019. Development of Media and Gender T. Sellnow; Wiley, March 2018. • Yankee Reporters and Southern Secrets: in China (2015–2016), 2017. • A Media Framing Approach to Conflict, Crisis Journalism, Open Source Intelligence and • LaPoe V, Carter CO, Eckert S. and Threat: Security as Storytelling, F. Vultee; the Coming of the Civil War, M. Fuhlhage; “LinkedIn Is My Office; Facebook Routlege, 2018. Peter Lang, 2019. My Living Room, Twitter the • Media Ethics: Issues and Cases, ninth edition, Neighborhood Bar: Media Schol- ars’ Liminal Use of Social Media for Peer and Public Communica- Newest faculty Brandon Hensley • Hensley BO. “Debt(s) We Can’t tion,” Journal of Communication member • Hensley BO. “Co-creating Walk Out On: National Adjunct Inquiry, 2017. Anita Mixon, Ph.D., has Communities of Adjunct Faculty: Walkout Day, Complicity, and the • Eckert S, Gerring N, Jun K-N, Lean joined the Department Mobilizing Adjunct Voices Neoliberal Threat to Social Move- SF, Lacouture M, Liu J, Walter A. of Com- Through Connective Storytell- ment in the Academy,” in The “Strengthening Women’s Civic munica- ing,” in Adjunct Faculty Voices: Neoliberal Agenda and the Student and Political Participation: A Syn- tion as Cultivating Professional Develop­ Debt Crisis in U.S. Higher Education, thesis of the Scholarly Literature,” assistant ment and Community at the Front Routledge, 2017. White Paper, USAID, 2017. professor Lines of Higher Education, Stylus • Hartlep ND, Hensley BO, • Eckert S. “Fighting for Recogni- and basic Publishing LLC, 2017. Eckrich, LT. “Reflections on tion: Online Abuse of Women Mixon course • Collier DA, Hensley BO, Hartlep, the Future: Setting the Agenda Bloggers in Germany, Switzer- director. Mixon comes to ND. “Americans ‘Support’ the for a Post-­Neoliberal U.S. Higher land, the U.K. and U.S.,” New WSU from the University Idea of Tuition-Free College: Education,” in The Neoliberal Media & Society, 2017. of Illinois, where she An Exploration of Sentiment and Agenda and the Student Debt • Steiner L, Eckert S. “The Dem­ earned multiple teaching Political Identity Signals Other- Crisis in U.S. Higher Education, ocratic Potential of Feminist honors as a graduate wise,” Journal of Further and Routledge, 2017. Twitter,” in Race and Gender in student. She completed Higher Education, 2017. • Hensley BO. “Brain Dead: Words Electronic Media: Content, Context, her doctorate in the • Hartlep ND, Hensley BO, Wells as Weapons in the Cultural Sanc- Culture, Routledge, 2017. spring of 2017. KE, Brewer TJ, Ball D, McLaren P. tioning of Bullying Practices,” in • Eckert S, Steiner L. “How “Homophily in Higher Education: Critical Storytelling in Uncritical to Cover Rape? U.S. Journalists’ Historicizing the AERA Member- Times: Students Share Their Stories, Critiques of Rolling Stone’s Cam- to-Fellow Pipeline Using Theories Sense Pub­lishers, 2017. pus Rape Story,” Media Report to of Social Reproduction and Social • Hensley BO. Preface, in Critical Women, 2016. Networks,” Policy Futures in Educa­ Storytelling in Uncritical Times: • Eckert S, Steiner L. “Feminist tion, 2017. Students Share Their Stories, Uses of Social Media,” in Defin­ • Hartlep ND, Eckrich LT, Hensley Sense Publishers, 2017. ing Identity and the Changing BO, eds. The Neoliberal Agenda • Hartlep ND, Hensley BO, Scope of Culture in the Digital Age, and the Student Debt Crisis in U.S. Jennings ME, Braniger CB, eds. IGI Global, 2016. Higher Education, Routledge, 2017. Critical Storytelling in Uncritical

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Times: Students Share Their • Member, National Communi- • Mitra R. “Organization of Stories, Sense Publishers, 2017. cation Association Bernard J. Research Reports,” in The SAGE • Hensley BO. “Lifting the Brommel Award for Outstanding Encyclopedia of Communication Dumbbells of Whiteness and Scholarship or Distinguished Tenure for two Research Methods, Sage, 2017. Hegemonic Masculinity,” in Service in Family Communica- Associate Professor Kelly Unhooking From Whiteness: tion (nominated and selected Donnellan, Ph.D., says it Pradeep Sopory Resisting the Esprit de Corps, by the NCA’s 2016 Committee took her only 14 years to • Sopory P. “Metaphor in Health Sense Publishers, 2016. on Committees and Legislative get tenure. Associate Pro- and Risk Communication,” in The Assembly), 2017–19. fessor Stephanie Tong, Oxford Encyclopedia of Health and M. Rosie Jahng Ph.D., notes that publish- Risk Message Design and Processing, • Jahng MR, Hong S. “How Rahul Mitra ing something every Oxford University Press, 2017. Should You Tweet? The Effect Peer-reviewed publications three months, plus land- External grants of Crisis Response Voices, • Mitra R, Buzzanell PM. ing a three-year, • National Science Foundation Strategy, and Prior Brand “Imple­menting Sustainability in $850,000 National Sci- Research Traineeship Program, Attitude in Social Media Crisis Organizations: How Practitioners ence Foundation grant, Transformative Research in Urban Communication,”­ Corporate Discursively Position Work” had the same outcome. Sustainability Training, 2017–22. Reputation Review, 2017. [published online ahead of print Together, Donnellan Funding: $2,999,976. August 6, 2017], Management and Tong represent the Kat Maguire Communication Quarterly. doi: breadth of the tenured Elizabeth Stoycheff Honors and awards 10.1177/0893318917724234. faculty in the communi- • Stoycheff E, Wibowo K, Liu J, • Co-recipient of the 2017 Distin- • Mitra R, Fyke J. “Purpose-Driven cation department as Xu K. “Online Surveillance’s guished Article Award from the Consultancies’ Negotiation well as some firsts. Don- Effect on Other Extraordinary Family Communication Division of Organizational Tensions,” nellan is the first creative Measures to Prevent Terrorism,” of the National Communication Journal of Applied Communication artist to receive tenure; Mass Communication & Society, Association for the publication Research, 2017. Tong’s extramural fund- forthcoming. “Contradictions and Praxis Con- • Mitra R, Buzzanell PM. “Com­ ing is the single largest • Stoycheff E, Pingree R, Peifer J, textualized by Wartime Deploy- municative Tensions of Mean- grant ever received by Sui M. “Agenda Cueing Effects ment: The Wives’ Perspective ingful Work: The Case of the College of Fine, Per- of News and Social Media,” Revealed Through Relational Sustainability Practitioners,” forming and Communi- Media Psychology, forthcoming. Dialectics,” co-authored with Human Relations, 2017. cation Arts. Both were • Stoycheff E, Nisbet EC, E. Sahlstein and L. Timmerman, • Mitra R. “Sustaining ‘Green formally granted tenure Epstein D. “Differential Effects November 2017, Dallas. Consumption,’” in Cases in at the conclusion of the of Capital-Enhancing and • Competitively selected to partic- Organizational and Managerial 2016–17 academic year. Recreational Internet Use on ipate in the inaugural Mid-Career Communication: Stretching Bound­ Citizens’ Demand for Democ- Scholar’s Writing Retreat, National aries, Routledge, 2016. racy,” Communication Research, Communication Association, Invited encyclopedia entries forthcoming. June 26–30, 2017, Orange, CA. • Mitra R. “Sustainability and • Stoycheff E, Liu J, Wibowo KA, • Recipient, Competitive Graduate Sustainable Development,” in Nanni DP. “What Have We Research Assistantship in the International Encyclopedia of Orga­ Donnellan Tong Learned About Social Media Arts and Humanities, Graduate nizational Communication, Vol. 4, by Studying Facebook? School, Wayne State University. Wiley-Blackwell, 2017. A Decade in Review,” New Funding for a 12-month GRA • Mitra R, Fyke J. “Popular Culture Media & Society, 2017. during the 2017–18 academic and Organizational Communica- year (with Robert Matheny). tion,” in International Encyclopedia Stephanie Tong • Chair, Family Communication of Organizational Communication, • Rochadiat AMP, Tong ST, Novak Division and Division Represen­ Vol. 4, Wiley-Blackwell, 2017. JM. “Online Dating and Court- tative, Legislative Assembly of • Mitra R. “Academic Journals,” ship Among Muslim American the National Communication in The SAGE Encyclopedia of Com­ Women: Negotiating Technology, Association, November 2017, munication Research Methods, Religious Identity, and Culture,” Dallas. Sage, 2017. New Media & Society, 2017.

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• DeAndrea DC, Tong ST, Lim Y-S. Kelly Young Lee Wilkins “What Causes More Mistrust: • Young K. “What Government • Wilkins L. “Advertising Ethics: Profile Owners Deleting User- Can Do Because Government Applying Theory to Core Issues Generated Content or Website Three for three Must Do More: President William and Defining Professional Contributors Masking Their Alicia Nails, J.D.; Shelly J. Clinton’s February 15, 1993, Excellence,” in Ethics Today, Identities?” Information, Com­ Najor, Ph.D.; and Colleen Address Before a Joint Session Routledge, 2016. munication, and Society, 2017. Ezzeddine, Ph.D., each of Congress,” in Mr. Speaker: • Carpenter CJ, Tong ST. “Rela­ spearheaded a successful The President of the United States, Fred Vultee tional Distancing and Termina- learning community CreateSpace, 2017. • Vultee F, Wilkins L, guest eds. tion Between Online Friends: proposal for the next • Young K. “Bill Clinton “Duties, Rights and Election- An Application of the Invest- academic year. Second Inaugural Address, Night Pizza: Toward an Agenda ment Model,” in the proceed- The communication 1/20/1997,” in I Solemnly of ‘What Journalists Are Owed’” ings of CHI ’17: ACM Conference department submitted Swear: Presidential Inaugural [introduction], Journalism Studies on Human Factors in Computing three proposals, and all Addresses of the Last Forty Years, [special issue: What Are Journal- Systems, Denver, 2017. were funded. According CreateSpace, 2017. ists Owed?], 2017. • Tong ST, Hancock JT, Slatcher to the award letters, • Young K. “GOP Primary Debate RB. “Online Dating System there were $1 million #11: Detroit, Michigan, March Design and Relational Decision- in requests but only 3, 2016,” in Debating the Donald, Making: Choice, Algorithms, $500,000 in funding. CreateSpace, 2016. and Control,” Personal Relation­ ships, 2016.

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ine faculty members, one doctoral the bombing of the offices of the French Graduate students worked as members candidate, 10 doctoral students magazine that published cartoon images of various faculty-led research teams that Nand five master’s students have of Muslims. produced peer-reviewed work accepted authored or co-authored peer-reviewed • Examination of tweets from scientists for ICA conference presentation. These papers accepted by the discipline’s most as they were dealing with the Flint water include a research team headed by Assis- competitive global conference, the Inter­ crisis. tant Professor Stephanie Tong, Ph.D., that national Communication Association. • Communicating about sustainable investigates broadly individual responses resource management. to computer-mediated communication — Individually authored papers specifically online dating — and included The ICA accepted individually authored Competitive panels doctoral students Elena Corriero, Rob papers from Assistant Professors Michael A five-member research team amassing Matheny, Annisa Rochadiat, and Kunto Fuhlhage, Ph.D., Rosie Jahng, Ph.D., and systematic literature reviews for the World Wibowo. Communication master’s students Rahul Mitra, Ph.D.; Professor and Chair Health Organization had a competitive panel involved in the project include Rachelle Lee Wilkins, Ph.D.; and doctoral candidate accepted by the ICA. Those faculty mem- Prince, Allison Elam and Will Cooper. Juan Liu. Paper topics included: bers are Associate Professors Pradeep A research project led by Eckert focused • Historical analysis of news coverage of Sopory, Ph.D.; Julie Novak, Ph.D.; and Don- on how Muslims in Detroit represent them- secession prior to the American Civil War. yale Padgett, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Stine selves in an online environment. The team • Computer-mediated communication. Eckert, Ph.D., and Wilkins also worked on included doctoral students Jade Metzger, • A theoretical examination of the intersec- the WHO research team. Doctoral students Holly Reiss, Sean Kolhoff and Sydney O’Shea tion of law and ethics on the issue Ashleigh Day and Fatima Barakji and doctoral Wallace, plus master’s students Fatima of privacy. candidate Liu are listed as contributors and Ibrahim and Savannah Lee. • Content analysis of media coverage on co-authors on the WHO project.

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