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Dr. Rudolph E. Busby is former Chair of the Department. He teaches courses in Rhetorical Theory, Rhetorical Criticism, Persuasion, and Communication Theory. He also regularly teaches Introduction to Graduate Studies and the graduate seminar on Rhetorical and Communication Theory. Dr. Busby is well known on campus for extraordinary service on university boards, committees, and special task forces. [ more] |
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Dr. Carolyn Chaney is a specialist in Language and Social Interaction. When in residence in the spring semester, she teaches Language for Teachers, Spoken English (a pronunciation class for non-native speakers), Children's Communication, and American Phonetics (a class teaching the International Phonetic Alphabet). Dr. Chaney has completed a long-term study of the relationships between children's language development and reading. [ more] |
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Dr. Victoria Chen's teaching and research interests include interpersonal and intercultural communication, semiotics, systemic inquiry, public dialogue facilitation, and the theory of coordinated management of meaning (CMM). She has published work on the construction of cultural identity, theoretical development of CMM, and critical dialogue. Victoria is a co-editor of Our Voices: Essays in Culture, Ethnicity, and Communication (Roxbury, 2004). She has served on several editorial boards for professional journals including Communication Theory, Communication Studies, Southern Communication Journal, and Communication Education. [ more] |
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Dr. Jensen Chung is from Taiwan. The author of Leadership Speech Making and the forthcoming The Chi of Communication, Dr. Jensen Chung is recognized as an expert on Leadership Communication in the U.S. Dr. Chung teaches Organizational Communication, Corporate Communication, and Leadership Communication courses primarily, but he also has published journal articles in inter-cultural and political communication. Before joining SF State, he founded many organizations, including a newspaper which is running well. He is writing his third book related to Leadership Communication. [more]
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Dr. Mindi Golden (B.A., Humboldt State University; M.A., San Jose State University; Ph.D, University of Utah) is an Assistant Professor in the Communication Studies Department at SF State. She teaches courses in Interpersonal Communication, Family Communication, Communication & Aging, Communication Theory, and Nonverbal Communication. Dr. Golden’s research focuses on identity and social support. She is especially interested in issues affecting caregivers of persons with Alzheimer’s and other dementia-causing diseases. [more]
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Dr. Rick Isaacson is Director of our Internship Program and he has placed hundreds of our students in communication-related internships, many of which lead to regular employment after graduation. Students who want to ensure having good communication careers register for the Internship Program and ask Dr. Isaacson's help in choosing from the many placements that are available. Dr. Isaacson also teaches in the areas of public speaking, persuasion, group discussion, rhetoric of the media, and service learning. [more]
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Dr. Lee Jenkins is a multifaceted scholar and teacher. She is the author of six plays, including "A Credit to her Country" a play about the treatment of lesbians in the military. Dr. Jenkins not only writes and produces plays, she also teaches her students how to write and perform, taking live conversation and transforming the words of real people into performance art. Her field research skills have also served the community, for example the Oral History Project for the SS Jeremiah O'Brian. In addition to Field Research and Performance Studies, Dr. Jenkins also teaches courses in Gender and Sexual Identity and Communication. [more]
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Dr. Amy K. Kilgard is a performance artist, director, and scholar with an emphasis in performance studies. Her recent performance work and research is focused on everyday and aesthetic performances of consumerism. For example, she has examined her own and others' work experiences at Walt Disney World in a show she directed, Slippin' Mickeys, and she has explored the performances of retail clerks in solo performance work such as "Hitting the Bull's Eye" and "Target Practice." She is currently embarking on a major performance ethnography exploring people's embodied experiences of shopping. [ more] |
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Dr. Karen E. Lovaas (Ph.D. in American Studies, University of Hawaii) is Associate Professor of Communication Studies with an emphasis in Critical Theory. Her teaching and research are in the areas of gender, sexuality, culture, the prison industrial complex, conflict, and critical pedagogy. She is currently serving as the department's Basic Course Director and is co-chairing the university’s Liberal Studies Council. Karen’s most recent publications are three books and an encyclopedia entry. She co-edited the anthology, Sexualities and Communication in Everyday Life (Sage, 2007) with department colleague Lee Jenkins. LGBT Studies and Queer Theory: New Conflicts, Collaborations, and Contested Terrain (Haworth Press, 2006) was co-edited with SFSU colleagues John Elia and Gust Yep. Queer Theory and Communication, with Gust Yep and John Elia came out in 2003 (Haworth).[ more] |
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Dr. Larry Medcalf (Ph.D, Indiana 1978) teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in Rhetorical Theory, Criticism, and American Public Address, including Communication Criticism, Rhetorical Theory, American Dissent, The Rhetoric of Feminist Movements, and Rhetoric and Social Process. Dr. Medcalf is a past chair of the department, and currently serves as the Academic Senate representative to the Cesar Chavez Student Center Governing Board. In his other life Larry coaches two youth baseball teams, one 5 and under soccer team, and has been the 11-12 all-star baseball coach for the San Francisco Youth Baseball League. In his fantasy life, after winning the Lottery, he plans to volunteer to be a roadie for the next Bob Dylan European tour. [more]
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Dr. Gerianne Merrigan teaches courses in Organizational and Instructional Communication, and Research Methods. She favors the use of multiple methods for studying communication, and has co-authored a textbook (with C. Huston) called "Communication Research Methods". The book's 2nd edition will be published by Oxford University Press in 2008-2009. Geri also facilitates training and development programs that help members of Bay Area organizations develop skills in team-building, communication between supervisors and subordinates, and resolving conflicts productively. Dr. Merrigan is an active advisor at the graduate and undergraduate levels. She is the Chair of the Department. [more]
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Christina Sabee |
Christina M. Sabee, Assistant Professor of Communication Studies, teaches courses in quantitative research methodologies and interpersonal communication. She holds the Ph.D. in Communication Studies from Northwestern University. Her research interests include conflict management and mediation processes; her recent projects focus on student teacher grading conflicts, and on privacy management and the role of the Internet in interactions between health care providers and patients. |
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Dr. Susan B. Shimanoff's research has focused on identifying and explicating the role of communication rules in everyday interactions, and on the role of gender in communication. The theoretical foundations of this research appeared in her book, Communication Rules: Theory and Research (Sage, 1980), which was honored as the Book of the Year by the Speech Communication Association. Her more recent research has been concerned primarily with rules for expressing emotions, small group interaction, and facework. Her research on the role of gender in communication has been concerned with sexist language, politeness, emotional expressiveness and responsiveness, leadership, and facework. [ more] |
Joe Tuman |
Joseph S. Tuman (just ‘Joe’) is Professor of Political and Legal Communications in the Department of Communication Studies at San Francisco State University, where he has taught and researched for twenty years. Having published extensively in the field of political and legal communications, his work includes books such as the critically acclaimed Communicating Terror: The Rhetorical Dimensions of Terrorism (Sage Publications, 2003), and Freedom of Speech in the Marketplace of Ideas (St. Martin’s Press, 1997, co-authored with Doug Fraleigh), as well as a large number of articles published in national and international scholarly journals. His newest book, Political Communications in American Campaigns (Sage) will be released in early fall of 2007. [ more] |
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Shawn Whalen is a lecturer and the director of San Francisco State University's Forensics Team. Shawn's areas of specialization include Argumentation, Rhetorical Theory and Criticism, and Cultural Studies. Shawn directs a broad-based Forensics Team that has consistently achieved national success in both debate and individual speaking events. Shawn is also active in regional and national forensics organizations and was the president of collegiate debate's national governing body (Cross Examination Debate Association) in 2003. He received the NCFA (Northern California Forensics Association) Distinguished Service Award for 2006-2007. [more]
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Leah Wingard (Ph.D. University of California, Los Angeles, 2006) is a Language and Social Interaction scholar and she teaches courses that often use analyses of naturally occurring interaction. She currently teaches: Research Methods in Language and Social Interaction, Discourse in Interaction, Family Communication, Children’s Communication and Social Semiotics. In her research, Dr. Wingard analyzes structures of everyday talk from both conversation analytic and discourse analytic perspectives and is interested in furthering the use of multiple-method approaches to communication studies research. [more]
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Gust A. Yep (Ph.D., University of Southern California) is Professor of Communication Studies and Human Sexuality Studies at San Francisco State University. He is currently Editor of the National Communication Association (NCA) Non-Serial Publications (NSP) Program, a book series published by NCA. Professor Yep teaches numerous classes. At the undergraduate level, he teaches courses on communication, culture, gender, sexuality, and health; interpersonal communication; and, rhetoric of the media. [more]
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