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Department News

Faculty and students in the Department of Communication Studies are actively involved in a broad number of research projects, presentations, publications, programs, grants, and other activities. The news below highlights recent accomplishments in the Department.

2010-11 News Highlights 

Good News--Spring/Summer 2011

Click here to read about some of the recent accomplishments of our faculty, students, and alums...

Scholarships available (Deadline for all is 1 PM March 29th)

• Burt and Patsy Meisel Scholarship (pdf)
• Wolff Family Scholarship (pdf)
• Larry Schnoor Forensics Scholarship (pdf)

Upcoming Presentation...Tuesday, March 22nd

 Dr. Dan Cronn-Mills to present...

Department of Communication Studies                              November 2010

Participation at Local, Regional and National Conferences

FACULTY:

Dr. Dan Cronn-Mills:

Communication and Theatre Arts of MN

Opportunities and Challenges: How Far Do We Go with Communication Studies Online?

Opportunities and Challenges: Assessing Behavioral/Performance Objectives in Online Learning

Opportunities and Challenges: Mediated Communication as a Sub-Field of Communication Studies

Nebraska Speech Communication and Theater Association

Keynote Speaker: The Unwritten Rules in Competitive Forensics

Presenter: The Power of Visualization in Speaking and Performing

Presenter: The First Amendment in the Public Schools

NCA Agenda:

NCA 2011 Nominating Committee Meeting

American Forensic Association National Council

American Forensic Association National Business Meeting

AFA-NIET Committee Meeting

Masters Education Section (NCA) taskforce to construct an online searchable database of all masters programs in communication.

In discussions with the States Advisory Council of NCA for ways to broaden their online scope and reach.

Stepped down as editor of the journal Speaker & Gavel after 14 years at the helm. He has agreed to stay on as an associate editor with the journal.

Associate editor of the Journal of Intercultural Communication Research.

Webmaster for the Emeritus/Retired Section of NCA.

Sachi Sekimoto, Assistant Professor

Top Student Paper Award in the International and Intercultural Communication Division for the paper

“Theorizing Identity in the Globalized World: Toward a Multimodal Approach”

Dr. Deepa Oommen

Oommen, D. (November 2010). Exploring the communicative implications of LMX relationships using social identity theory. Paper presented at the Organizational Communication Division of the 96th Annual National Communication Association Convention, San Francisco, CA.

Oommen, D. (November 2010). An analysis of the relationship between religiousness, self-construal  and conflict styles. Paper presented at the Religious Communication Association Division of the 96th Annual National Communication Association Convention, San Francisco, CA.

Croucher, S. M., Holody, K., Anarbaeva, S., Braziunaite, R., Oommen, D., Spencer, A. T., Garcia-Michael, V., & Yoon, K. (November 2010). Religion and the relationship between verbal aggressiveness and argumentativeness. Top paper presented at the American Forensics Association Division of the 96th Annual National Communication Association Convention, San Francisco, CA

Larry Schnoor, Professor Emeriti

Chair of the Emeriti/Retired Section of the National Communication Association.

GRADUATE STUDENTS:

Laura Pelletier

GIFTS presentation at the National Communication Association

Ben Walker

NCA

Presented "Facebooking in Class: Computer Mediated Communication" at a GIFTS session

Panelist for "How Many Legs Counted?: Evaluating the Current AFA-NIET Qualification System"

Panelist for "Socializing the New Graduate Teaching Assistant: Building Bridges Between Personal and Professional Expectations"

Elected Nominations Officer for the Argumentation and Forensics Division

Elected onto the Nominating Committee for the Basic Course Division

Paper reviewer (Basic Course Division, Argumentation and Forensics Division, Instructional Development Division

Scholarships:

Dr. Kristen Cvancara received a scholarship from the Office of the President at MSUM to participate in the Greater Mankato Leadership Institute.

Publications

Stables, G., Barnes, A., Cronn-Mills, D., Easley, T., Keenan, V., Morris, E., & Sandoz, ML. (2010). Consolidating debate governance. In A. D. Louden (Ed.), Navigating opportunity: Policy debate in the 21st century (181-197). New York, NY: IDebate Press

Sandmann, W. (2010). Who owns knowledge: Media convergence and the college classroom. In S. Drucker & G. Gumpert (Eds.), Regulating convergence (pp. 175-188). New York: Peter Lang

Larry Schnoor has an article in the National Forensic Journal, Volume 26 Spring/Fall 2008 which was just published. The article is written along with Dr. Brendan Kelly and Prof. Tressa Kelly at the University of West Florida.

Sara Jones's (Former MA student) paper "Thinking Globally, Acting Locally:  Northern Ugandan Women and The Open Cage" was recently accepted for publication in the journal Women & Language.  An earlier version of the paper was selected as a Top-four paper by the Organization for Research on Women and Communication, and will be presented at the Western Communication Conference this spring.

Upcoming Presentation...