Gust A. Yep (Ph.D., University of Southern California) is Professor of Communication Studies at San Francisco State University. Although firmly grounded in communication, his teaching and research is interdisciplinary. As such, his work has ties with ethnic studies, human sexuality studies, and women and gender studies. In 2006-08, he served as the 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; communication and masculinities; interpersonal communication; and, rhetoric of the media. At the graduate level, he teaches several seminars including Introduction to Graduate Studies in Communication, Sexual Identity and Communication, Communication and Culture, and Field Research Strategies. He is currently a faculty member of the Metropolitan Health Academies (MHA), a program sponsored by Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE) and designed to provide access and training for mostly first-generation college students interested in health equity and social justice.

Dr. Yep has been recognized for his outstanding teaching, advising, and mentoring. He was nominated for the “Outstanding Professor Award” in 1992-93, 1993-94, and 1994-95 at California State University, Los Angeles before joining the faculty at SF State. He was named “Outstanding American Educator” in Who's Who Among America's Teachers (1994) and nationally recognized for his teaching and mentoring in the “Teachers on Teaching” Series at the 83 rd Annual Meeting of the National Communication Association in 1997. In 1999, Dr. Yep was selected as the university-wide nominee for the Carnegie Foundation “U.S. Professors of the Year” Award. More recently, in 2008, the National Communication Association honored him as an outstanding teacher in the “NCA Spotlight Teacher Series: Honoring the Pedagogy of Gust Yep” program held at its 94 th Annual Meeting in San Diego, CA.

Dr. Yep is a prolific researcher and his work has been supported by a number of research grants. He has three active research programs: (1) Communication at the intersections of culture, race, class, gender, and sexuality; (2) Communication in HIV/AIDS programs in communities of color; and, (3) Queer Theory and Communication.

Two of his books were published in 2003. He co-authored Privacy and Disclosure of HIV in Interpersonal Relationships: A Sourcebook for Researchers and Practitioners (Lawrence Erlbaum), which was nominated for the “Book of the Year” Award by the International Communication Association and the “Book of the Year” Award by the Applied Communication Division of the National Communication Association.

Dr. Yep was the lead editor of Queer Theory and Communication: From Disciplining Queers to Queering the Discipline(s) (Harrington Park/Haworth Press). The volume introduced queer theory to the communication discipline.

More recently, Dr. Yep co-edited LGBT Studies and Queer Theory: New Conflicts, Collaborations, and Contested Terrain, published in 2006. This is the second volume of a trilogy in the Gay and Lesbian Studies Series published by Harrington Park/Haworth Press. The third volume, co-edited with Dr. John Elia, is already under way.

In addition, Professor Yep's research has been published in numerous communication and interdisciplinary journals and anthologies.

His work has appeared in the following scholarly journals:

• AIDS Education and Prevention;
• CATESOL Journal;
• Communication Quarterly;
• Feminist Media Studies;
• Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences;
• International and Intercultural Communication Annual;
• International Quarterly of Community Health Education;
• Journal of American College Health;
• Journal of Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Identity;
• Journal of Health Communication;
• Journal of Homosexuality;
• Journal of Lesbian Studies;
• Journal of Social Behavior and Personality;
• Rhetoric & Public Affairs, and
• Southern Communication Journal, among others.

Dr. Yep’s research has also appeared as chapters in books such as:

• Transformative Communication Studies: Culture, Hierarchy and the Human Condition (Troubador);
• Emerging Perspectives in Health Communication (Routledge);
• Queer Popular Culture (Palgrave-Macmillan);
• Whiteness, Pedagogy, Performance: Dis/placing Race (Lexington);
• Critical Thinking About Sex, Love, and Romance in the Mass Media: Media Literacy Applications (Lawrence Erlbaum);
• Communicating Ethnic and Cultural Identity (Rowman & Littlefield);
• Media-Mediated AIDS (Hampton Press);
• National Days/National Ways (Greenwood Press);
• Handbook of Health Communication (Lawrence Erlbaum);
• Group Communication in Context: Studies of Bona Fide Groups (Lawrence Erlbaum),
• Race/Gender/Media: Considering Diversity Across Audience, Content, and Producers (Allyn and Bacon);
• Queer Families, Queer Politics: Challenging Culture and the State (Columbia University Press);
• Addressing Homophobia and Heterosexism on College Campuses (Harrington Park Press);
• Overcoming Heterosexism and Homophobia: Strategies that Work (Columbia University Press);
• Balancing the Secrets of Private Disclosures (Lawrence Erlbaum);
• Readings in Intercultural Communication: Experiences and Contexts (McGraw-Hill);
• Explaining Illness: Theory, Research, and Strategies (Lawrence Erlbaum);
• Power in the Blood: A Handbook on AIDS, Politics and Communication (Lawrence Erlbaum);
• Progress in Preventing AIDS? Dogma, Dissent, and Innovation: Global Perspectives (Baywood);
• Communicating about Communicable Diseases (Human Resource Development Press);
• Confronting the AIDS Epidemic: Cross-cultural Perspectives in HIV/AIDS Education (Africa World Press);
• Women and AIDS: Negotiating Safer Practices, Care, and Representation (Harrington Park Press); and,
• Hispanic Psychology: Critical Issues in Theory and Research (Sage), among others.
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He also has forthcoming essays in the following volumes:

• Handbook of Communication Theory (Sage);
• Sexual Sports Rhetoric: Historical and Media Contexts of Violence (Peter Lang);
• Communicating Masculinity and Race, among others.  

Dr Yep is active on campus, in the community, and in the communication discipline. In addition to a number of community service awards, he was honored as a founding member of the Gamma Psi Chapter of Phi Beta Delta, an Honor Society for International Scholars.

Professor Yep was the founding chair of the NCA Latina/o Communication Studies Division, chair of the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Communication Studies Division, and chair of the La Raza Caucus. He has also been active in the NCA International and Intercultural Communication Division and the Asian and Pacific American Communication Studies Division. In addition, Dr. Yep was chair of the Intercultural Communication Interest Group and chair of the Health Communication Interest Group of the Western States Communication Association.

In 2002, Professor Yep was invited to deliver a keynote at the 88 th Annual Meeting of the National Communication Association in New Orleans. In 2006, he received the National Communication Association Randy Majors Memorial Award for Outstanding Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Scholarship in Communication.

Dr. Yep has served on several editorial boards including Communication Studies, Communication Yearbook, the International and Intercultural Communication Annual, and the Journal of Homosexuality, among others. He is currently an associate editor for the Journal of International and Intercultural Communication, a new NCA journal.