Department Faculty
Tenure-Line | Career-Line | Asia Campus Career-Line | Instructors and Adjunct | Postdoctoral Fellows
Mark Bergstrom, Ph.D.
Associate Professor and Director of the Taft Nicholson Center for Environmental Humanities
2620 LNCO | (801) 581-5897
mark.bergstrom@utah.edu
Danielle Endres, Ph.D.
Professor and Director of the Environmental Humanities Program
2611 LNCO | (801) 581-6889
danielle.endres@utah.edu
Rachel Alicia Griffin, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
2862 LNCO | (801) 213-3420
rachel.a.griffin@utah.edu
Chris Ingraham, Ph.D.
Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies
2868 LNCO
chris.ingraham.utah.edu
Jakob D. Jensen, Ph.D.
Professor and Associate Vice President for Research for the University
2856 LNCO | (801) 585-5918
jakob.jensen@utah.edu
Kimberly Kaphingst, Sc.D.
Professor and Associate Chair
2523 LNCO | (801) 581-6888
kim.kaphingst@hci.utah.edu
Sean T. Lawson, Ph.D.
Professor and Director of the Communication Institute
2920 LNCO | (801) 585-7127
sean.lawson@utah.edu
Michael Middleton, Ph.D.
Associate Professor and Associate Dean for Research in the College of Humanities
2517 LNCO | (801) 581-6454
m.middleton@utah.edu
Helene Shugart, Ph.D.
Professor and Associate Dean for The Graduate School
2860 LNCO | (801) 581-5686
h.shugart@utah.edu
Jeannie Hunt, Ph.D.
Associate Professor Lecturer and Associate Director of Forensics
2514 LNCO
jeannie.hunt@utah.edu
Curtis Newbold, Ph.D.
Clinical Associate Professor in Strategic Communication
2612 LNCO
curtis.newbold@utah.edu
Melissa Parks, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor (Lecturer) and Associate Director at the Taft-Nicholson Environmental
Humanities Center
2611 LNCO & FD 618B 224 | (801) 581-6888
melissa.m.parks@utah.edu
Marcie Young-Cancio, M.S.
Clinical Assistant Professor
2425 LNCO | (801) 581-6889
marcie.young.cancio@utah.edu
Utah Asia Campus Career-Line Faculty
Instructors and Adjunct Faculty
J. Kevin Bischoff, M.B.A
Associate Adjunct Professor
2512 LNCO (801) 913-2653
kevin.bischoff12@gmail.com
Melissa Parks
- Environmental Communication
- Science Communication
- Ecocultural Communication
- Field Education
June-Young Lee
- Journalism & News Media
- Mass Communication
- Political Communication
- New Media Effect
Logan Gomez Areas of Specialization:
- Rhetorical Theory and Criticism
- Critical Race Studies
- Black Feminism
- Cultural Studies
- Social Movements
Leandra Hernandez Areas of Specialization:
- Journalism and Culture
- Media Ethics
- Health Communication
- Feminist and Gender Studies
Dalaki Livingston Areas of Specialization:
- Indigenous Methods
- Pop Culture
- Deliberation
- Health Communication
Marcie Young Cancio Areas of Specialization:
- Journalism Writing and Editing
- Collaborative Journalism
- Non-profit News
- Newsroom Management
- Media Literacy
Mark Bergstrom Areas of Specialization:
- Interpersonal communication
- Communication and aging
- Health communication
- Research methods and statistics
J. Kevin Bischoff Areas of Specialization:
- Advertising/branding strategies
- Corporate communication
- Writing for media and public relations
- Public speaking
Suhi Choi Areas of Specialization:
- Social Memory
- Critical/Cultural Studies
- Grief Communication
- Journalism and Media Studies
Kevin Coe Areas of Specialization:
- Political communication
- News media
- Public opinion
- Presidential discourse
- Religion and American politics
Ann L. Darling Areas of Specialization:
- Instructional communication
- Communication education
Kevin M. DeLuca Areas of Specialization:
- Environmental communication
- Environmental activism
- China's emerging public sphere
- Visual rhetoric
- Social Movements
Danielle Endres Areas of Specialization:
- Rhetoric
- Environmental communication
- Social movements
- Science communication
- Indigenous communication
Glen M. Feighery Areas of Specialization:
- Applied ethics in media
- Journalism history
- Environmental journalism
- News coverage of religion
Isabelle Freiling Areas of Specialization:
- Science communication
- Political communication
- Media use
- Media effects
- Misinformation
- Social media
Rachel Alicia Griffin Areas of Specialization:
- Critical race theory
- Black feminist thought
- Popular culture
- Sexual violence
Avery Holton Areas of Specialization:
- Digital and social media
- Journalism
- Health and disabilities communication
Jeannie Hunt Areas of Specialization:
- Argumentation
- Communication Pedagogy
- Forensics
- Gender Studies/Sexual Violence
- Ruralism
Chris Ingraham Areas of Specialization:
- Rhetorical Theory and History
- Creative and Curatorial Culture
- Digital Media
- Environmental Communication
- Affect Theory
Jakob D. Jensen Areas of Specialization:
- Health communication
- Strategic health communication
- Cancer communication
- Mass communication
Robin E. Jensen Areas of Specialization:
- Health and science communication
- Qualitative and rhetorical research methods
- Reproductive health
- Rhetoric of science, technology, and medicine
- Rhetorical history
- Sex and gender studies
Kimberley Kaphingst Areas of Specialization:
- Health literacy
- Cancer communication
- Public health genomics
Andy King Areas of Specialization:
- Cancer communication
- Strategic health communication
- Visual persuasion
Sean T. Lawson Areas of Specialization:
- Science and technology studies
- Critical military, war, and security studies
- Cybersecurity
Tae Kyoung Lee Areas of Specialization:
- Health communication
- Persuasion
Crystal Lumpkins Areas of Specialization:
- Community-based participatory research
- Implementation and dissemination science research
- Public Health Communication
- Cancer Disparity and Health Equity Communication
- Genetic Risk Communication
Benjamin Lyons Areas of Specialization:
- Science Communication
- Political Communication
- Public Opinion
- Misinformation
Michael Middleton Areas of Specialization:
- Argumentation
- Public discourse
- Debate
- Political advocacy
- Social movements
Jacob Nelson Areas of Specialization:
- News audiences
- News production
- Audience engagement
Curtis Newbold Areas of Specialization:
- Visual communication
- Information design
- Strategic communication
- Business & professional communication
Kent Alan Ono Areas of Specialization:
- Rhetoric
- Cinema and Media Studies
- Critical/cultural studies and Ethnic Studies
- Asian American Studies
Helene Shugart Areas of Specialization:
- Rhetoric
- Media and cultural studies
- Health communication
David J. Vergobbi Areas of Specialization:
- Mass communication law
- Freedom of expression
- Media ethics
- Journalism history
Sara K. Yeo Areas of Specialization:
- Science communication
- Risk communication
Jason Jordan Areas of Specialization:
- Communication Pedagogy
- Ruralism
- Cultural Studies
- Rhetoric
- Argumentation
Natasha Seegert Areas of Specialization:
- Visual Rhetoric
- Environmental Communication
- Human-Animal Relationships
- Media and Popular Culture
Jeffrey Hedrick Areas of Specialization:
- Digital Journalism/Technology
- Scholastic Journalism
- Fake News Issues
- Public Relations
- Constitutional Law
Jaehyeon Jeong Areas of Specialization:
- Critical Cultural Studies
- Media Industry Studies
- Global Communication
- Visual Communication
- Nationalism/National Identity
C.H. Kim Areas of Specialization:
- Marketing Communication
- Advertising
- Brand Management
- Consumer Psychology
Sejin Kim Areas of Specialization:
- Strategic Communication
- Strategic Message Design
- Information Processing
- Public Campaigns
- New Technology
Donald MacAngus Areas of Specialization:
- Media Law and Ethics
- Native American History
- Social Work
- Writing and Rhetoric
- Mediation and Problem Solving
Craig Wirth Areas of Specialization:
- Video Production
- TV Journalism
Yomna Elsayed Areas of Specialization:
- Technology
- Digital Humanities
- Cultural Studies
- Media Studies
- Social Movements
Helen Lillie Areas of Specialization:
- Health Communication
- Communication & Emotion
- Resilience
- Narrative Persuasion
