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Communication Arts Faculty

Dr. Sonja M. Brown Givens (Ph. D., University of Georgia, 2001; M.A., California State University, Fresno, 1998; B.A., California State University, Fresno, 1996)

Teaching Assignments: interpersonal communication, small group communication, nonverbal communication, foundations of human communication, communication research methods; race, gender & media; public speaking

Research Interests: racial stereotypes & media, cognitive processes and social decision making

Service Highlights: Advisor, Black Student Association; UAH Faculty Senator; journal reviewer for Media Psychology; search committee member & chair; National Communication Association submission reviewer, panel respondent, & panel chair



Dr. Julie E. Ferris, Ph.D. (Journalism and Mass Communications), University of Iowa, 2003; M.A. (Rhetoric) Eastern Illinois University, 1998; B.A. Speech Communication, Eastern Illinois University, 1997; B.S. Sociology, Eastern Illinois University, 1997

Teaching Assignments: newswriting, advanced newswriting, business and professional communication, public speaking, mass media in America, women orators, persuasion, communication theory, media representation, senior seminar, special topics in communication

Research Interests: critical cultural studies, corporeal theory, mass mediated images of women, poststructuralist theories, feminist scholarship

Service Highlights: Member, International Communication Association; Panel Reviewer, Feminist Scholarship Division; Member, National Communication Association; Panel Reviewer, Student Division; Member, Graduate Faculty; Faculty Sponsor, Lambda Pi Eta; Reviewer, Journal of Communication Inquiry; Reviewer, Oral History Review; Member, faculty search committee, textbook review committee; Member, Publications Board



David Harwell, MFA (Theatre Design and Technology), University of Illinois, 1991; BFA (Theatre), University of Montevallo

Teaching Assignments: theatre appreciation, acting, play production, stage design, theatre history

Research Interests: theatre architecture, ancient Greek production techniques, the Realistic movement in theatre, Off-Broad-late 20th century theatre, theatre marketing, 21st century stage lighting techniques, southern playwrights, HB studio acting innovations, 20th century stage design

Service Highlights: Mr. Harwell took a theatre class to New York City to stage a play



Chris Paul, Ph.D. , M.A. (Communication Studies), University of Minnesota, 2005, 2001; B.A. (Computer Studies and Political Science), Macalester College, 1999

Teaching Assignments: rhetorical theory, computer-mediated communication, rhetoric of the web, rhetorical criticism, feminist theory, business and professional communication, public speaking

Research Interests: new media, rhetorical analysis of web sites, computer-mediated communication, rhetorical theory, feminist theory

Service Highlights: Advisor of the New Media Consortium; member of the National Communication Association and Association of Internet Researchers.



Dr. Clarke Rountree, Ph.D. (Rhetorical Studies), University of Iowa, 1988; M.A. (Rhetorical Studies) University of Iowa, 1985; B.A. (Political Science), University of Alabama in Huntsville, 1983

Teaching Assignments: rhetorical criticism, women orators, legal argument, senior seminar, public speaking, business and professional communication, communication for engineers, communication internship

Research Interests: judicial rhetoric, political rhetoric, Burkean rhetorical theory, argument theory, rhetoric and race, religious discourse

Service Highlights: Co-Editor, KB Journal; Co-Editor, Kenneth Burke Society; member of UAH Graduate Faculty, National Communication Association, Kenneth Burke Society, and Southern States Communication Association; former member of editorial boards for Quarterly Journal of Speech, Communication Studies, Southern Communication Journal; former advisor to The Exponent, Omicron Delta Kappa; former Faculty Senator; member or chair of several search, faculty reappointment, and faculty promotion and tenure committees



Stephanie Noggle, M.A. (Speech Communication), University of Alabama, 2005; BA (Public Relations), University of Alabama

Teaching Assignments: business and professional communication, public speaking, interpersonal communication

Research Interests: Societal and behavioral impact of extensive Internet use; distinguishing deceptive cues

Service Highlights: Chili cookoff coordinator

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