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Communication Arts Faculty

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

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

Eletra Gilchrist, Ph.D. (Communication), University of Memphis, 2004; M.A. and B.A. (Communication Studies), University of Alabama, 2001, 1999

Teaching Assignments: media writing, communication methods, persuasion, public speaking

Research Interests: communication pedagogy; compliance-seeking strategies

Service Highlights: Officer in the African American Communication Division of NCA; Panel respondent, chair, and reviewer

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

Kristin Scroggin, M.A. (Communication Studies), University of Alabama, 2005; BA (Speech Communications), University of Montevallo , 2000

Teaching Assignments: business and professional communication, public speaking, foundations of human communication, small group communication