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Updates from our all-star professors, researchers and innovators for fall 2019.

Advertising, Public Relations and Media Design

Instructor Trina Arnett, who specializes in business and marketing analytics and has spent her 28 year career in and around ad agencies, joined the faculty this fall.
Senior Instructor Mindy Cheval, director of CMCI CommRAP, completed her first year as co-chair of the ��«��Ƶ Campus Residential Academic Program Council, in which she oversees faculty and staff programming and community building for the 10 campus RAPs.
Professor of Practice Dawn Doty served as a judge for the prestigious PRWeek Outstanding Student Award and PRSSA Bateman Case Study competition.
Assistant Professor Jolene Fisher attended the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) conference in Toronto, where she presented papers on digital games and democracy in Africa, organizational transparency, and personal influence in public relations. She also co-directed the International Strategic Communication Global Seminar program in Paris.
Associate Professor Harsha Gangadharbatla completed his year as the chair of two departments: APRD and DCMP. He looks forward to his sabbatical and catching up on his research projects this coming year.
Associate Professor Glenn Griffin was a keynote speaker in June at the 2019 Catalyst Mastermind Summit for public communicators in San Antonio. He is working on a new book project about advertising’s role in promoting social good.
Assistant Professor Toby Hopp published scholarly articles on uncivil political communication, online news use and organizational transparency. He also co-directed CU’s Education Abroad program in Paris.
Instructor of Technology Joseph Labrecque joined the faculty in August. He recently presented a few sessions on collaborative video technologies, creative software and rich media platforms at the Adobe Education Leaders Summit in San Francisco.
Professor of Practice Dan Ligon, an ATLAS fellow, became the faculty advisor for CU ��«��Ƶ’s chapter of AIGA, the American Institute of Graphic Arts. He helped lead CU students to another third-place finish in the 2019 Young Ones One Show competition.
Associate Professor Kelty Logan presented “Protecting the NRA Brand during a Time of Crisis: A Damage Control Strategy Informed by Social Identity Theory” at the 2019 American Academy of Advertising Conference. The study analyzed NRA advocates’ tweets following the 2018 mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.
Assistant Professor Erin Schauster conducted multiple studies on the moral development of media professionals using experiments and interviews with journalists, as well as advertising and public relations practitioners. She presented the results––which will be published in Journalism Practice––at AEJMC Washington, D.C., in 2018, and at AEJMC in Toronto.
Associate Professor David Slayden is the executive director of the professional master’s degree program in interaction design. Students in the project-based program choose an emphasis in either brand design or experience design.
Professor Krishnamurthy Sriramesh delivered a keynote address in May at the Communication Forum in Zagreb, Croatia. The third edition of his PRIDE award-winning Global Public Relations Handbook will be released in November 2019. He is guest editing Corporate Communication: An International Journal, published by Emerald.
Professor Burton St. John, along with Wie Yusuf, published “Perspectives of the Experts and Experienced on Regional Adaptation for Sea Level Rise,” in Coastal Management. His book, Case Studies in Public Relations Strategy, was named one of this year's top publications about PR by Book Authority.
Visiting Professor Michael Stoner helped lead the Advanced Campaigns class to a third-place finish at District 12’s National Student Advertising Competition. Their Wienerscnitzel campaign, "Dare to Dog," was awarded Best Campaign and Best Plans Book by the American Advertising Federation.
Professor Seow Ting Lee’s research in strategic communication recently produced two refereed journal articles and three book chapters. She is currently working on research projects focusing on public relations, place branding and public diplomacy, and health communication.
Assistant Professor Christopher Vargo became the director for an advertising and marketing specialization offered in the Leeds Master's in Business Analytics graduate program, in collaboration with CMCI. He also became editor-in-chief of The Agenda Setting Journal, founded by seminal theorists Donald Shaw and Maxwell McCombs.
Associate Professor Erin Willis was awarded tenure and attended the AEJMC conference in Toronto, where she presented the paper, "A Crisis in Pictures: Visual Framing of the Opioid Epidemic by the Cincinnati Enquirer." She also published papers in Health Communication and the Journal of Sport Rehabilitation.

Associate Professor Glenn Griffin

Associate Professor Kelty Logan

Senior Instructor Sara Jamieson

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Communication and Society Residential Academic Program

Senior Instructor Kendra Gale, associate director of CommRAP, received Payden funding to integrate metacognitive learning practices into her first-year courses. She was selected as a CMCI inclusive pedagogy ambassador and is developing the first consumer insights course to be taught in London in May 2020.
Instructor Sara Jamieson assumed the faculty founding director role of the Connections: CMCI Summer Academy for high school students. Over the summer, she enjoyed reconnecting with her field research site in Colombia.

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Communication

Associate Professor John Ackerman helped to design and deliver the first city-based, applied rhetoric project for the Rhetoric Society of America. He also delivered the soon to be published keynote address, premised on city and campus fieldwork and data analysis.
Professor Karen Ashcraftlaunched initiatives as CMCI's new associate dean of diversity, equity and inclusion. She published research on "the feel of difference" at work and presented keynote and plenary talks on the "inclusion turn" in workplace diversity discourse at international universities and conferences.
Associate Professor David Boromisza-Habashi continued his work with the For Digital Dignity Project, a five-year research endeavor that seeks to identify both extreme online speech and its potential accountability measures. He is also investigating how American-style public speaking is spreading around the world.
Assistant Professor Joelle Cruz received the 2019 CGSA Mentor of Excellence Award at CU ��«��Ƶ. She also received the 2018 Outstanding Article award from the Organizational Communication Division at the National Communication Association and the 2019 Outstanding Article award at the International Communication Association.
Associate Professor Lisa Flores had a book and an essay accepted for publication. She also delivered a keynote address and continued her role as the book review editor for the Quarterly Journal of Speech and the forum editor for Women’s Studies in Communication.
Professor Larry Frey published chapters on applied communication and sexual fantasy communication. His communication activism perspective was featured in a communication theory textbook. He also gave nine convention and university presentations and directed an undergraduate honors conference paper.
Assistant Professor Laurie Gries published “Writing to Assemble Publics: Making Writing Activate, Making Writing Matter," in February's issue of College Composition and Communication. She also presented a keynote at the Critical Visualities 2019 conference, and led the workshop, Visual Material Rhetorics in the City, for Rhetoric Society of America. Her co-authored essay, “The Racial Politics of Circulation,” was accepted for publication in Rhetoric Review.
Senior Instructor Ruth Hickerson is the faculty director for Pathways to Excellence, CMCI's summer bridge program. She is focused on retention and persistence among first-generation students, students with learning differences, nontraditional students, students experiencing economic hardship and students otherwise underrepresented on campus.
Assistant Professor Jody Jahn received a 2018 CU Provost Faculty Achievement Award. She is partnering with local wildland urban interface neighborhoods to better understand how residents communicate with their neighbors about wildfire danger and encourage each other to take preventive measures.
Associate Professor Matt Koschmann was a 2018 Fulbright Scholar and visiting researcher at Ateneo de Manila University in the Philippines studying housing resettlement projects. He is also co-principal investigator on a new three-year National Science Foundation grant studying housing reconstruction in the Philippines and Puerto Rico following natural disasters.
Professor Tim Kuhn is beginning his second year as chair of CMCI Faculty Council and co-published an organizational communication textbook with Dennis Mumby of the University of North Carolina. He continues his line of scholarship, which argues for treating organizing and communicating as far messier than we typically understand.
Senior Instructor Jeff Motter worked with undergraduate students to organize the biggest TEDxCU event yet, which was attended by over 750 people. His co-authored book, Rooted Resistance: The Rhetorical Struggle for Agrarian Place in Modern American Culture, has been accepted for publication with the University of Arkansas Press.
Assistant Professor Tiara Na’puti spoke at the United Nations last October to petition for Guam's/Guåhan's decolonization. She was also awarded a Waterhouse Family Institute research grant to collaborate with indigenous communities responding to U.S. militarization and environmental justice in the Mariana Islands archipelago.
Associate Professor Phaedra C. Pezzullo won the 2019 campuswide Green Faculty Sustainability Award for her service work advocating for a just transition and creative climate communication. She also gave a keynote at the Colorado Mountain College Steamboat Springs Sustainability Conference.
Scholar-in-Residence Lori Poole joined the faculty in fall 2019. She has a specialty in organizational communication.
Assistant Professor Natasha Shrikant co-edited a special issue of the Journal of International and Intercultural Communication, a flagship journal in its field that focuses on language's role in understanding race, ethnicity and culture. She is starting a new project analyzing discourses surrounding refugees and immigration.
Professor Peter Simonson continued his role as department chair, meeting alumni and working with colleagues across CMCI. He was a faculty fellow for the Center for Western Civilization, Thought and Policy, whose annual theme was rhetoric and truth, and spoke at a conference on media, art and borders in Windsor, Ontario.
Instructor Christy Sims joined the department in June as its director of online programs. She is also facilitating the rollout of the department's online degree completion program in collaboration with Continuing Education.
Senior Instructor Jamie Skerski continues to work on building community around the undergraduate program in her role as associate chair of undergraduate studies. Her new course, Communication, Culture and Sport, is part of CMCI's new sports media minor.
Associate Professor Leah Sprain completed a yearlong sabbatical, during which she pursued her collaborative work with the city of ��«��Ƶ and its sustainable energy initiatives.
Associate Professor Ted Striphas became editor-in-chief of Cultural Studies, the field's flagship journal. He is entering his final year as associate chair of graduate studies and is completing work on his book, Algorithmic Culture.
Professor Bryan Taylor published the co-edited Routledge Handbook of Communication and Security and concluded his five-year term as faculty director of the campus Peace, Conflict, and Security certificate program. He also designing a course on organizational culture for the online Master of Science in Organizational Leadership program.
Associate Professor Cindy White associate dean for undergraduate curriculum and programs, has been involved in campus initiatives to improve student success and retention. She also was a member of the review team for the Communication, New Media and Journalism study abroad program in Seville, Spain.

Assistant Professor Joelle Cruz

Associate Professor Matthew Koschmann

Assistant Professor Tiara Na’puti

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Critical Media Practices

Associate Professor Reece Auguiste presented a paper on African archives and multimedia arts and conducted a seminar on the essay film and African documentary practice at the University of Witwatersrand's RE-Framing Africa: Restructuring the Self conference in South Africa. He presented work in the OnFilm series at the University of Rochester, and a paper on co-creation in documentary film practices at the University of Southern California's Visible Evidence XXVI conference.
Assistant Professor Betsey Biggs returned from Greenland where she recorded climate change images and sounds for her music film, MELT: The Memory of Ice, funded by a de Castro Award, the Graduate Center for the Arts and Humanities and crowd-sourced donations. She also earned a CHA Faculty Fellowship through the Center for Humanities and the Arts and performed laptop improv at Musical Ecologies in New York City.
Instructor Patrick Clark is collaborating with mental health researchers at CU Anschutz to produce mindfulness exercises using virtual reality. This fall, he's presenting at conferences for Colorado Learning and Teaching with Technology, the Broadcast Education Association and the Oral History Association. His series of microcopy images, Micro / Graph, was featured in the Over and Understories exhibition at the ��«��Ƶ Public Library.
Instructor Eric Coombs Esmail, director of the Center for Documentary and Ethnographic Media, along with the center's Associate Director and Instructor Christian Hammons, premiered the short documentary Messengers at the IFS Los Angeles Film Festival and began production on a new feature documentary funded in part by the Center for Humanities and the Arts and the de Castro Award. Their short film Lemonade screened at the Lone Star Film Festival and other venues. They also contributed to a successful Research and Innovation Office Seed Grant for the Center for Documentary and Ethnographic Media.
Assistant Professor Erin Espelie co-faculty director of the Nature, Environment, Science and Technology Studio for the Arts (NEST), co-curated the exhibit Documenting Change: Our Climate (Past, Present, and Future) at the CU Art Museum. She also had solo film shows in London, Montreal and Albuquerque, New Mexico, and was featured in Sublimity as Document, published in 2019 (Oxford University Press).
Associate Professor Tara Knight, co-faculty director of NEST, screened her new short animation, Unsettled, at festivals in Ottawa, London, Montreal, Zagreb, Croatia; and Annecy, France. The film received a Director's Choice Award as part of the touring program for the 2019 Black Maria Film Festival exhibiting across the U.S.
Scholar-in-Residence Hugh Lobel released MSDP: a free, open-source platform for multimedia synthesis, design and performance. He presented workshops on the software at two conferences: SEAMUS Berklee and MOXSonic at the University of Central Missouri. He also composed and performed a collaboration with Artist-in-Residence Chrissy Nelson at The Current faculty showcase concert, and performed with the ��«��Ƶ Laptop Orchestra.
Scholar-in-Residence Jorge Perez-Gallego presented work at the Colorado Creative Summit and in The Hopper Magazine and curated NEST-sponsored exhibitions for Steamboat Creates, SEEC and the ��«��Ƶ Public Library. His science education collaboration earned funding from the NSF Advancing Informal STEM Learning Program.
Professor Teri Rueb, department chair, presented a workshop and research talk at the University of Brighton and is developing a mobile app to elaborate on the scaled solar system with Fiske Planetarium. She also contributed to a successful Research and Innovation Office Seed Grant for the Center for Documentary and Ethnographic Media.
Instructor Jason Sanford continues to invent, record with and perform using his unique sculptural musical instruments. His 12th studio album is in the works, and an interview with him was recently featured on Bandcamp Daily.
Assistant Professor Stephanie Spray is in post-production for her film, Edge of Time, which was awarded a Sundance Institute and Science Sandbox grant. She is in production for another film, Patagonia Park, which won a Catapult Film Fund grant. She also contributed a chapter to the Routledge Handbook of Ethnographic Film and Video (2020).
Instructor Andrew Young presented his project, “'Dark Tourism' and Rwandan Media Industries: Promoting Nation and the Mythology of Memory," at the national 2019 APCA/ACA Conference. He is currently working on his book project exploring discourse in contemporary Rwandan media.

Assistant Professor Betsey Biggs

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Information Science

Assistant Professor Danielle Albers Szafir models how people interpret visual information to create more effective visualization systems, including interactive machine learning and augmented reality applications funded by the NSF, U.S. Air Force, and industry partners.
Professor William Aspray is co-editing a book on informational aspects of where to live in America, while he also continues to write about fake facts.
Associate Professor Lecia Barker is studying the information and information sources that persuade computer science faculty to try out new teaching practices. She is also studying computing undergraduate students' sense of belonging and professional identity.
Assistant Professor Jed Brubaker is working to make the internet a kinder place. Along with his students in the Identity Lab, he is researching ways to humanize algorithms and combat bias, create safer online spaces, design for our digital afterlives and support marginalized groups through projects funded by the National Science Foundation, Facebook and Mozilla.
Professor Robin Burke is serving as department chair. He studies recommender systems and other personalized information systems, with the aim of improving their ability to serve multiple stakeholders, deliver fair and diverse outcomes, and provide transparency to end users and others.
Assistant Professor Laura Devendorfis creating a series of woven fabrics and design tools that integrate craft and technology. Her Unstable Design Lab students are creating new techniques to engage personal data as well as programs for recycling textiles with embedded circuitry.
Assistant Professor Casey Fiesler and her students in the Internet Rules Lab are conducting research related to technology ethics, ethics education and creating safer online communities, with support from the NSF and Mozilla.
Assistant Professor Brian Keegan and his students are conducting research on news applications in conversational interfaces, using online gaming data to understand team decision-making, building "family trees" of online subcommunities, and the role of data science in the cannabis industry.
Professor Leysia Palen examines how weather hazard risk communication is conducted between the public and authorities over information and communication technology. She and her students partner with NCAR and NOAA, and are funded by the NSF.
Assistant Professor Michael Paul recently published a book about how data science and social media can solve new problems in public health.
Assistant Professor Ricarose Roque directs the Creative Communities research group, which designs and studies ways to engage youth and families in inclusive and creative learning experiences with computing. The group is supported by the National Science Foundation, the Institute of Museum and Library Services, and the Office of Outreach and Community Engagement at CU.
Scholar-in-Residence Roshanna P. Sylvester is a historian of childhood in the early space age. Her research project, A Sky Full of Stars, features letters by Soviet and American kids to the first astronauts and cosmonauts. She publishes for scholarly and public audiences, and is working on a planetarium show.
Assistant Professor Amy Voida is studying the role of data and technology in the nonprofit sector—including the demands of big data aggregation in human service organizations, the challenges and benefits of crowdfunding for charities, and framing strategies for data in advocacy work.
Assistant Professor Stephen Voida is studying, designing and evaluating personal informatics and collaboration technologies in a variety of challenging use contexts, including the management of chronic health conditions like bipolar disorder and in distributed digital humantarian networks.
Instructor Jason Zietz is interested in teaching various aspects of computing and how computational systems can be designed to support personal and societal well-being.

Assistant Professor Laura Devendorf

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Intermedia Art, Writing and Performance PhD Program

Professor Mark Amerika founding director of IAWP, was featured in several international art exhibitions. His commissioned artwork, Crapshoot, was included in the exhibition Writing the History of the Future at the ZKM | Karlsruhe Museum of Contemporary Art, and his work of net art, GRAMMATRON, was included in the exhibition Web-Retro at the Seoul Museum of Art.
Associate Professor Lori Emerson is working on two book projects, including The Lab Book: Situated Practices in Media Studies and Other Networks. She serves as founding director of the Media Archaeology Lab, and recently co-organized a symposium at CU ��«��Ƶ called What is a Feminist Lab, which featured seven renowned feminist scholars/artists with extensive experience in labs.

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Journalism

Instructor Jared Bahir Browsh's essay on American nationalism in the World Cup is scheduled to be released in the book, Nationhood, Nationalism, and Sport in December 2019.
Associate Professor Angie Chuang received an IMPART fellowship to research news coverage of the Trump administration’s proposed 2020 Census citizenship question. The chapter will be part of her forthcoming book, American Otherness. Chuang's essay, “The Listening Post and the Chicken Truck,” appeared in Reporting Inequality: Tools and Methods for Covering Race and Ethnicity, published in March (Taylor & Francis).
Senior Instructor Paul Daugherty led students in his Art of Visual Storytelling class to contribute pieces to the Water Desk, part of a new initiative by the Center for Environmental Journalism (CEJ). He also packaged student video projects to air on CPT-12, a PBS station in Denver.
Assistant Professor Patrick Ferrucci published several research articles, which he spoke about with the Columbia Journalism Review, NPR, CPR and other outlets. He is completing a book on nonprofit journalism, and a project on the intersection of democracy, social media and journalism. He is also faculty director of CMCI's recently launched sport media minor.
Senior Instructor Steve Jones, assistant dean for student success, entered his fifth decade teaching at CU ��«��Ƶ and his third overseeing Buff Sports Live, which was formerly CU Sports Magazine.
Associate Professor Hun Shik Kim's, who researches broadcast journalism and war and conflict reporting, recently published journal articles and book chapters on journalism and public diplomacy. He is currently researching electoral debates in South Korea and ongoing relations between the U.S. and North Korea, including political summits and the prospects of denuclearization processes.
Assistant Professor Christine Larson's research on women authors of color was published in a new book, Voices: Exploring the Shifting Contours of Communication, published by the International Communication Association. Her chapter, “The Color of Romance: Gatekeeping in the Age of Digital Media,” explored underrepresentation among fiction authors of color.
Professor Michael McDevitt completed his book: Where Ideas Go to Die: Journalism, Anti-intellectualism, and the Decline of American Democracy. It will be published by Oxford University Press in spring 2020.
Instructor Chuck Plunkett, director of CU News Corps, published columns in The Colorado Sun, presented a TEDxMileHigh talk on the importance of local news, and spoke with national and international outlets. He's developing a fact checker for Colorado media and collaborating with the Colorado Media Project to advance support of public funding for local news.
Scholar-in-residence Hillary Rosner joined the faculty this fall and is interested in environmental journalism.
Associate Professor Kathleen M. Ryan's book, Pin Up! The Subculture, is slated to be published in late 2019. She also completed chapters for The Handbook of Visual Communication and The Handbook of Ethnographic Film and Video.
Associate Professor Elizabeth Skewes is department chair, as well as interim chair of the Department of Advertising, Public Relations and Media Design. Her book proposal about media coverage of school shootings, which she will work on with a PhD student, was selected for a contract by AEJMC and Peter Lang Publishing through the competitive Scholarsourcing project. She also continues to work with colleagues on the efficacy of immersive storytelling methods.
Assistant Professor Ross Taylor's project on at-home pet euthanasia was published worldwide and viewed by millions. It was also featured on the cover of Visual Communication Journal and received a de Castro Award for his continued work on the human-animal bond.
Professor Jan Whitt won the Elizabeth D. Gee Memorial Lectureship Award, which honors a female faculty member in the CU system. Whitt published Untold Stories, Unheard Voices: Truman Capote and In Cold Blood (Mercer University Press).
Professor Tom Yulsman, director of the CEJ, helped secure a $750,000 grant from the Walton Family Foundation to establish an independent news organization focusing on Western water issues. Since its establishment at CMCI’s CEJ, the Water Desk provides opportunities for students, grants for journalists and support for news organizations.

Associate Professor Angie Chuang

Instructor Jared Bahir Browsh

Associate Professor Kathleen M. Ryan

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Media Studies

Associate Professor Shu-Ling Chen Berggreen is continuing her research into media’s mythic storytelling in the conceptualization and commodification of tea.
Professor Andrew Calabrese, associate dean for graduate programs and research, taught a graduate seminar on media, culture and society at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, in May. He’s producing the documentary film Grain Changers about the emergence of local and regional grain economies, is on the board of the Flatirons Food Film Festival, and is a founding board member of the Colorado Grain Chain, a new nonprofit dedicated to rebuilding a statewide heritage grain economy.
Associate Professor Nabil Echchaibi, founding chair and associate director of the Center for Media, Religion and Culture (CMRC), organized a seminar with scholars in media and religious studies in Morocco in June. His article, "(B)orders of Immobility: Politics of Movement and Poetics of the Frontier" will be published later this year.
Instructor Steven Frost continued his interdisciplinary textile research as Unstable Design Lab's resident artist. He was selected for next summer's PlatteForum's residency program and is part of a fall 2020 exhibition at the ��«��Ƶ Museum of Contemporary Art. Frost was also recently appointed as a library commissioner for ��«��Ƶ.
Professor Stewart Hoover, director of CMRC, co-directed a research seminar in conjunction with the Fes Festival of World Sacred Music in Morocco in June. It brought together leading media and religion scholars to consider the cultural politics of religious expression.
Associate Professor Polly McLean delivered 14 public talks on her new book. She was also elected co-chair of the CU system's Faculty Council Women’s Committee.
Professor Janice Peck wrote a chapter, “Historical Approaches to Media and Communication Studies,” for Handbook of Media and Communication Research (Klaus Bruhn Jensen, ed.). She is working with former doctoral advisees Anne Subijanto and Brice Nixon on a project about the contributions of Raymond Williams to media studies.
Instructor Samira Rajabi is returning to ��«��Ƶ to assume her new position in the Department of Media Studies. She just completed a fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania's Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication in Philadelphia.
Assistant Professor Sandra Ristovska published four articles and chapters and delivered four conference papers and invited talks. The Cardozo Law Institute in Holocaust and Human Rights hosted the launch of her book, Visual Imagery and Human Rights Practice. Her latest book, Seeing Human Rights: Video Activism as a Proxy Profession, is supported by a de Castro Award.
Assistant Professor Nathan Schneider is a recipient of an Open Society Foundations Fellowship as well as a CU ��«��Ƶ Research and Innovation Seed Grant for the new Media Enterprise Design Lab, which he founded last year.
Associate Professor Rick Stevens' second edition of Captain America, Masculinity, and Violence: The Evolution of a National Icon was published in October. In July, he delivered the keynote address at the inaugural Paramount Science Fiction Film Festival in Abilene, Texas.
Professor Michael Tracey continued to work on a book of essays dealing with reading, literacy and culture. He is also penning a long essay with the working title, “Tribe.”
Scholar-in-Residence Hunter Vaughan published his book, Hollywood's Dirtiest Secret with Columbia University Press. He served as co-editor for the Journal of Environmental Media and was Co-PI on a global AHRC grant to develop a green media production network.

Instructor Steven Frost

Associate Professor Polly McLean

Associate Professor Rick Stevens

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Updates from our all-star professors, researchers and innovators for fall 2018.

Advertising, Public Relations and Media Design

Senior Instructor and Director of CMCI CommRAP Mindy Cheval was recently named co-chair of the ��«��Ƶ Campus Residential Academic Program Council. In this position she will oversee faculty and staff programming and community building for the 10 campus RAPs.
Visiting Professor of Practice Jennifer Colman served as the marketing chair and a board of trustees member for a local K–12 nonprofit.
Visiting Professor of Practice Jeff Curry joined the faculty in fall 2017. He’s a board member of the Dairy Arts Center and is leading a team to reimagine the future of contemporary art in ��«��Ƶ.
Professor of Practice Dawn Doty developed a daylong portfolio and resume review session for PRSSA members and APRD students with global communications experts from PR Week’s 2018 Agency of the Year, Weber-Shandwick, as well as Ketchum, the winner of PR Week’s prestigious “Campaign of the Year” with client Frito-Lay North America.
Assistant Professor Jolene Fisher received funding from the Arthur W. Page Center to study the use of transparent communication in public relations and co-directed the first International Strategic Communication Global Seminar program in Paris, France.
Chair and Associate Professor Harsha Gangadharbatla advised a team of students who took second place in the district in the National Student Advertising Competition (NSAC).
Associate Professor Glenn Griffin is writing a second book, tentatively titled Rounding Up: How Advertising Can Help Brands Do Business and Do Good. In May, his co-authored research on the use of experimental technologies in award-winning advertising was presented at the International Communication Association conference in Prague, Czech Republic, and he was the keynote speaker at the 2018 Certified Public Communicators Conference in Dallas, Texas, in July.
Assistant Professor Toby Hopp published several articles on issues relating to the use of digital technologies and citizen engagement. He also received funds from the Arthur W. Page Center to study disinformation environments.
Professor Seow Ting Lee’s recent research in health communication and public relations produced three journal articles, two book chapters and five papers for the International Communication Association (ICA) and Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) conferences. She was promoted to full professor in May 2018.
Professor of Practice Dan Ligon joined the faculty in 2016 and helped lead CU to its highest finish ever in the One Show Young Ones competition 2018.
Associate Professor Kelty Logan returned from sabbatical and is researching the rhetorical strategies employed by brands in crisis.
Assistant Professor Erin Schauster received a Faculty Teaching Fellowship from NEST, the Nature, Environment, Science and Technology Studio for the Arts, for the cross-disciplinary course The Art & Strategy of Science Communication: Branding Climate Change, and published several articles on advertising and public relations education, ethics, practices and international perspectives.
Associate Professor David Slayden is executive director of CMCI Studio, a collective of thinkers and doers that innovates at the crossroads of technology, design and creativity.
Professor of Practice David Smail judged the 2018 Young Ones Portfolio competition and is an advisor for the Denver chapter of the One Club.
Professor Krishnamurthy Sriramesh in the past year has published three refereed articles and four book chapters while also working on the manuscript for the third edition of The Global Public Relations Handbook: Theory, Research, and Practice, which is almost completed (32 chapters in all) for publication by Routledge, New York.
Professor Burton St. John, who arrived at CMCI in fall 2018, published three books and two journal articles in 2017, with one book as a finalist for AEJMC’s Tankard Award in 2018.
Visiting Professor of Practice Michael Stoner recently attended the National Student Advertising Competition hosted by the AAF. He employed six APRD student interns working during the summer at his agency, YR1—all busy developing strategy, websites, videos, TV spots, collateral, social media and PR on behalf of four clients.
Assistant Professor Christopher Vargo received the Paper of the Year award from Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly for a 2016 article. He also published five articles in various journals, and his work appeared in the Journal of Communication and Social Science & Medicine.
Assistant Professor Erin Willis published two articles in top health communication journals, completed her Master of Public Health degree and will present several papers at the 2018 AEJMC conference.

Assistant Professors Jolene Fisher and Toby Hopp accompanied students on visits to nine strategic communications agencies in Paris over the summer for the International Strategic Communication Global Seminar. The group of 25 students visited cultural landmarks throughout the city, and in other areas of France and Belgium. Above, senior media design student Dream Brewer looks at a Mark Rothko painting at the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris.

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Communication

Associate Professor John Ackerman drafted an academic futures proposal on writing across the curriculum and has a new article in press.
Professor and Associate Dean of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Karen Ashcraftcelebrated the publication of a new book co-written with Professor Tim Kuhn and other colleagues; had fun teaching a new senior seminar and delivering talks on diversity and affect; and looks forward to her stint as CMCI’s first associate dean of diversity, equity and inclusion.
Associate Professor David Boromisza-Habashi was granted a sabbatical and is writing an intercultural communication textbook.
Professor Emeritus Bob Craig published two essays and presented the 2018 Leonardo Da Vinci Lecture at the University of Oregon in Portland on the topic “Communicating a Pluralistic Universe.”
Assistant Professor Joelle Cruz published two articles, delivered keynote addresses at Copenhagen Business School (CBS) in Denmark and Metropolitan State University in Denver, and led two workshop/seminars at CBS.
Associate Professor Lisa Floresdelivered a keynote address for the 2017 Samuel L. Becker Memorial Conference at the University of Iowa, presented several talks around the country, was invited to be an international reference group member of a grant project at the UiT The Arctic University of Norway and had two essays accepted for publication.
Professor Larry Frey had five publications, gave 15 convention presentations and was appointed as a Communication Research Fellow in the Hugh Downs School of Human Communication at Arizona State University.
Assistant Professor Laurie Gries gave a number of invited talks based on her award-winning book Still Life with Rhetoric, completed a recently published co-edited collection titled Circulation, Rhetoric, and Writing and successfully negotiated fourth-year review.
Professor Emeritus Jerry Hauser delivered a plenary lecture at the Rhetoric Society of Europe conference in Norwich, England, and retired as editor of Philosophy & Rhetoric after editing its 50th anniversary issue.
Senior Instructor Ruth Hickerson was named the new director of CMCI’s Pathways to Excellence—a summer bridge program for first-generation and underrepresented students—and was promoted to the rank of senior instructor.
Assistant Professor Jody Jahn published two articles and two chapters about safety-related communication in wildfire response operations in the U.S. and Sweden; she has now turned her attention toward analyzing ethnographic data and mapping community census survey data—both from Nederland, Colorado—regarding the community’s wildfire preparation activities.
Associate Professor Matt Koschmann received a Fulbright Scholars Award to the Philippines for his sabbatical research, where he was a visiting scholar at Ateneo de Manila University during the 2018 spring semester.
Professor Tim Kuhn served as associate chair for the department’s undergraduate program and will begin a stint as chair of CMCI’s Faculty Council this year. During the past year, he published a few articles on organizational communication, knowledge and work; was elected vice chair of the Organizational Communication division of the International Communication Association; and served as associate editor for the interdisciplinary academic journal Human Relations.
Senior Instructor Jeff Motter was promoted to the rank of senior instructor and continues to work with undergraduates in ��«��ƵTalks.
Assistant Professor Tiara Na’puti spoke at the United Nations during the decolonization meetings in October 2017 and published two research articles on indigenous communication in the U.S. territory of Guam/Guåhan.
Associate Professor and Director of the Center for Communication and Democratic Engagement Phaedra Pezzullo published the fifth edition of her textbook, Environmental Communication and the Public Sphere, and gave talks in Shanghai and Beijing, where she initiated a co-edited collection on China and green publics.
Assistant Professor Natasha Shrikant published three articles comparing how white and minority business people navigate race, ethnicity and politics through their daily business interactions, and she became secretary of the Language and Social Interaction Division of the International Communication Association.
Chair and Professor Peter Simonson delivered CMCI’s 2018 Payden Lecture, published an article on democratic hope after Obama, and enjoyed the opportunity to meet and correspond with communication alumni during his first year as department chair.
Senior Instructor Jamie Skerski became the new associate chair for undergraduate studies. In April, she gave a TEDxCU talk on “Tomboys and Gender Rebellion.”
Associate Professor Leah Sprain was promoted to associate professor with tenure, won a Provost’s Faculty Achievement Award, published several articles and began a yearlong sabbatical, during which she will pursue her collaborative work with the city of ��«��Ƶ and its sustainable energy initiatives.
Associate Professor Ted Striphas was interviewed by journalists in Australia, Brazil and Denmark about his upcoming book, Algorithmic Culture. He also developed professional connections in China and enjoyed his first year as the department’s associate chair of graduate studies.
Professor Bryan Taylor is co-editing a planned Handbook of Communication and Security, working to develop more robust communicative explanations of nuclear deterrence, and is continuing to direct CU ��«��Ƶ’s Peace, Conflict and Security program.
Professor Emeritus Karen Tracy presented papers in Bologna, Italy, and Prague, Czech Republic, published an article and chapter, and recently signed a contract to write a text about grounded practical theory with Professor Emeritus Bob Craig.
Associate Professor and Associate Dean for Undergraduate Curriculum and Programs Cindy White completed her third year as CMCI’s associate dean for undergraduate programs and curriculum, and participated in the national first-year college experience conference.

The Pathways to Excellence program offers first-generation and underrepresented students the opportunity to gain handson training with technology and media creation. Senior Instructor Ruth Hickerson is the program’s new director. Above, student Josh Bustillos works with a camera during the 2017 summer program. Photo by senior journalism student Katie Pickrell.

Pathways Website

Associate Professor Matt Koschmann developed the online Group Communication and Decision-Making Simulation, where a citizen task force can work together to develop a fire mitigation plan for a fictional mountain community. The simulation offers participants a realistic group experience within a managed setting that allows for learning and discovery.

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Communication and Society Residential Academic Program

Senior Instructor Kendra Gale became associate director of the Communication and Society Residential Academic Program. Her branding class worked on projects for Rowdy Mermaid Kombucha and Bobo’s Bars.
Instructor Sara Jamieson received a Women Who Make a Difference Award from CU’s Women’s Resource Center and is working toward completing a book based on her research with indigenous Wayuu women in Venezuela and Colombia titled Initiations of Urban Wayuu Women: Creating Moral Bodies and Preserving Culture in Venezuela, under contract with the University of Nebraska Press.

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Critical Media Practices

Associate Professor Reece Auguiste participated in a film retrospective of his work at the Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival in Ithaca, New York, and presented his film Twilight City at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. He screened the films Duty of the Hour and Stillness Spirit at Jo’Burg Film Festival in Johannesburg, South Africa, and presented at the Conference Reframing Africa Workshop: Modernity, Cinema and Africa at the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg.
Assistant Professor Betsey Biggs recently received a de Castro Research Award to help support her new creative project, melt, a feature-length experimental music film/performance and meditation on ice based on psychogeographic fieldwork and community collaboration in the Arctic. Her sonic virtual reality work, Souf, premiered at Florida State University in spring 2018.
Professor Emeritus Daniel Boord’s film Contigo was included in the Faculty Exhibition: 2017 at the CU Art Museum.
Instructor Eric Coombs Esmail served as cinematographer and sound designer for the forthcoming short film Lemonade, and completed principal photography for a documentary short and VR experience titled Messengers. He also presented as a panelist at the Denver Film Festival in a discussion on artist-run film labs. He partnered with his colleague, Instructor Christian Hammons, to form the media production startups Wolf Tung Media and Deranged Penguin Productions.
Instructor Patrick Clark designed virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) experiences as part of CU ��«��Ƶ NEXT. He is also working on a project funded by the National Association of Broadcasters that develops protocols to test the efficacy of documentary storytelling in a variety of formats, including VR, AR and interactive documentary.
Assistant Professor, Associate Director of the Center for Environmental Journalism (CEJ) and Co-director of NEST Studio for the Arts Erin Espelie completed three short films, including Inside the Shared Life, which premiered in June at the Edinburgh International Film Festival. She has two forthcoming book chapters, one on the aesthetics of black mirrors (Lexington Books) and another on the ethics of image making in the Anthropocene (Bloomsbury Press).
Interim Chair and Associate Professor Harsha Gangadharbatla (see APRD).
Instructor Christian Hammons wrote, produced and directed the short film Lemonade and created the media production startups Deranged Penguin Productions and Wolf Tung Media with Instructor Eric Coombs Esmail.
Associate Professor and Co-director of NEST Tara Knight animated the video projection design for the world premiere of Ballast, a new play about the transgender experience. Her new animated short film, Unsettled, will premiere at the Ottawa Animation Festival in fall 2018.
Scholar in Residence and Associate Director for NEST Jorge Perez-Gallego was a member of the opening team at the Phillip and Patricia Frost Museum of Science in Miami, Florida, and is co-PI of an NSF-funded project leveraging Minecraft as an informal learning environment for young people.
Professor Teri Rueb opened three major site-specific mobile media installations in 2017, including Fens, commissioned by the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Boston as part of the exhibition, Listen Hear: The Art of Sound; Times Beach, set in the Buffalo Outer Harbor; and Of Land and Dreams.
Assistant Professor Stephanie Spray is in post-production for her feature-length documentary, Edge of Time, which she shot aboard the JOIDES Resolution, a scientific drilling ship funded by the International Ocean Discovery Program with National Science Foundation funding, over the course of 10 weeks in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. She received a Faculty Fellowship from the Center for Humanities and Arts for 2018–19 and a de Castro Faculty Research Award from CMCI for her new film, Patagonia Park.
Instructor Andrew Young spoke on his research into Rwandan media and ethics at the Media Research and Practice Colloquium and published his article, “Peter Gunn and Social Fissure on U.S. Network Television: Radicalism, Regressivism, and the Machinery of Night” in Critical Studies and Television.

Associate Professor Reece Auguiste’sStillness Spirit is an experimental essay film about the largest private collection of African art in Colorado. Composed of a series of long takes interspersed with photographs of pieces from the collection, the film emphasizes movement, time and space, and is structured so viewers may experience the collection as if they were walking through a gallery of African art. Photo courtesy of Reece Auguiste.

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Information Science

Professor William Aspray is collaborating on a history of computing at the National Science Foundation and also on a book on fake facts in American history.
Associate Professor Lecia Barker is studying the information and information sources that persuade computer science faculty to try out new teaching practices. She also recently constructed a survey to study students’ sense of belonging and professional identity in computing-related majors. The information can be used to diagnose how well a department is retaining its majors.
Assistant Professor Jed Brubaker is working to make the internet a kinder place. Along with his students in the Identity Lab, he is researching ways to humanize algorithms, design for our digital afterlives and support marginalized groups through projects funded by the National Science Foundation, Facebook and Mozilla.
Assistant Professor Laura Devendorfexplores how feminist theory can inform the processes and outcomes of design. She is conducting research on the histories and futures of “smart” textiles.
Assistant Professor Casey Fiesler is conducting empirical studies of internet research ethics, funded by the National Science Foundation. She is also working on strategies for making online communities more inclusive and safe, with fandom as one case study.
Assistant Professor Brian Keegan is using online game data to design more effective teams, exploring the potential to use conversational interfaces like Alexa for data collection and storytelling, and researching how the emerging cannabis industry is employing data science.
Chair and Professor Leysia Palenis examining the generation of information infrastructures and the use of social media in extreme weather hazard events in projects that are funded by the National Science Foundation.
Assistant Professor Michael Paul recently published a book about how data science and social media can solve new problems in public health.
Assistant Professor Ricarose Roque is designing and studying ways to engage youth and families in inclusive and creative learning experiences with computing with support from the Institute of Museum and Library Services and the Office of Outreach and Community Engagement at CU.
Assistant Professor Danielle Szafir is modeling how people interpret visual information to create scalable and more effective visualization systems, interactive machine learning solutions and augmented reality applications funded by the National Science Foundation and the U.S. Air Force.
Assistant Professor Amy Voida is studying the role of data and technology in the nonprofit sector—including the demands of big data aggregation in human service organizations, the challenges and benefits of crowdfunding for charities, and framing strategies for data in advocacy work.
Assistant Professor Stephen Voida is studying, designing and evaluating personal informatics and collaboration technologies in a variety of challenging use contexts, including the management of chronic health conditions like bipolar disorder, and in distributed digital humanitarian and crisis response networks.
Instructor Jason Zietz joined the faculty this fall. Along with his strong interests in teaching various aspects of computing, he is interested in how computational systems can be designed to support personal and societal well-being.

Assistant Professor Ricarose Roque leads Family Creative Learning workshops to help students and parents learn together through the use of creative technologies. The workshops are designed to build on families’ relationships and cultural backgrounds, and to strengthen their social support and expertise around computing.

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Intermedia Art, Writing and Performance PhD Program

Professor and Director of IAWP Mark Amerika’s work was featured in international exhibits, including GlitchMix, not an error, in Havana, Cuba, and Beyond GRAMMATRON: 20 Years into the Future, in London, England. His latest book, remixthecontext, was published in 2018 by Routledge.
Associate Professor Lori Emerson is working on two book projects, including The Lab Book: Situated Practices in Media Studies and Other Networks. Emerson also serves as founding director of the Media Archaeology Lab. She recently discussed the MAL and her two book projects in Mexico City, Mexico; Chapel Hill, North Carolina; and Mainz, Germany.

In June, installation artist and Associate Professor Michael Theodore performed with sound artist Francisco López at the Issue Project Room in Brooklyn, New York. Above, Theodore performs electric guitar and electronics during the sold-out event, which earned a Critic’s Pick by The New York Times. Photo by Brooke Biondi courtesy of the ISSUE Project Room.

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Journalism

Scholar in Residence Jared Bahir Browsh joined the faculty in January 2018 after earning a PhD in media studies, and graduate certificates in comparative ethnic studies and women and gender studies. In addition to his teaching duties, he is serving as the general manager of Radio 1190.
Associate Professor Angie Chuang is using a de Castro Research Award to research news media representations of whiteness in the 2017 Charlottesville white nationalist rally and counterprotest. The study will be a chapter in her book-in-progress on identity in news media, American Otherness.
Senior Instructor Paul Daugherty leads the award-winning CU Science Update documentary series, which has a show in production about tiny satellites called CubeSats.
Assistant Professor Patrick Ferrucci published results of his research on how technology and economics are affecting journalism practice. The Nieman Lab at Harvard University named one study among the most interesting of early 2018. He also gave a TED Talk at TEDxMileHigh in June.
Senior Instructor and Assistant Dean for Student Success Steve Jones entered his fifth decade of teaching at CU ��«��Ƶ and his third decade of overseeing Buff Sports Live, which was formerly CU Sports Magazine.
Associate Professor Hun Shik Kimrecently published “Korean Journalism: From Partners of Political Power to Adversarial Agents of Social Change” in the book Communication, Digital Media, and Popular Culture in Korea. A second book chapter on the history of Korean journalism with an annotated bibliography is part of Korean Communication, Media and Culture.
Instructor and Associate Director of the CEJ Michael Kodas’ book, Megafire: The Race to Extinguish a Deadly Epidemic of Flame, won the 2018 Colorado Book Award for general nonfiction.
Assistant Professor Christine Larson is analyzing gender, ethnic and racial diversity in opinion writing and book publishing. She’s also finishing a book proposal about women, innovation and book publishing.
Professor Michael McDevitt explores the relationship of anti-elitist populism to news media in his forthcoming book, Intellect in Journalism: Where Ideas Go to Die (Oxford).
Assistant Professor Mei-Ling McNamara produced and co-directed a multimedia Guardian U.K./U.S. exclusive investigation on the trafficking of incarcerated women out of U.S. jails and prisons, which was published and broadcast in June based on a year of research and reporting in Massachusetts, Florida and Texas. She also presented the work at the AEJMC conference in August.
Instructor and News Corps Director Chuck Plunkett received a 2018 John Aubuchon Press Freedom Award and won the University of Denver’s Journalism in the Public Interest Award, the American Civil Liberties Union Larry Tajiri Memorial Media Award for journalistic freedom and integrity in Colorado, and the Colorado Association of Libraries’ Julie J. Boucher Community Honor Roll for Intellectual Freedom Award for his “News Matters” perspective section that called on the ownership of The Denver Post to reform its practices across all its newspaper holdings.
Associate Professor Kathleen Ryan received a yearlong grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to update the website “Homefront Heroines: The WAVES of World War II” in time for the 75th anniversary of the end of the war.
Chair and Associate Professor Elizabeth Skewes and colleagues Kathleen Ryan and Pat Clark were awarded a $15,000 PILOT Innovation grant from the National Association of Broadcasters for a research project on immersive storytelling.
Assistant Professor Ross Taylor led the sixth annual The Image, Deconstructed, a three-day workshop on photojournalism. One of Taylor’s photographs was chosen for the American Photography 34 Photo Annual Book, and a documentary project was awarded first place for this year’s AEJMC VisCom Division creative works competition.
Dean Emeritus Paul Voakes is under contract, with co-authors Paula Ellis and Dean Lori Bergen, to write a reporting textbook that reimagines the role of journalism in the digital age. Cognella Academic Publishing plans to publish the book in 2021.
Professor Jan Whitt won the Elizabeth D. Gee Memorial Lectureship Award, which honors a female faculty member in the CU system for her efforts to advance women in academia, and her interdisciplinary scholarship and distinguished teaching. Whitt published Untold Stories, Unheard Voices: Truman Capote and In Cold Blood (Mercer University Press).
Professor and Director of the Center for Environmental Journalism Tom Yulsmanoversaw a successful grant proposal for $2.47 million to Cindy Scripps to fund the Ted Scripps Fellowships in Environmental Journalism for the next five years, and he traveled to Tromsø, Norway, to cover the Arctic Frontiers conference for Discover magazine and other publications.

Senior Instructor Steve Jones entered his third decade overseeing CU ��«��Ƶ’s student-run sports television show, Buff Sports Live. He also teaches television production and directing for the university’s student-produced newscast, NewsTeam ��«��Ƶ, along with Instructor Paul Daugherty.

In her interactive documentary project Homefront Heroines: The WAVES of World War II,Associate Professor Kathleen Ryan examines the women who were part of the Navy’s WAVES program, short for Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service. Ryan is also the recipient of this year’s Payden Award for excellence in teaching and research or creative work. The award is named after William R. Payden (Jour’57), who established the Payden endowment in 2010.

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Media Studies

Associate Professor Shu-Ling Chen Berggreen is continuing her research into media’s mythic storytelling in the conceptualization and commodification of tea.
Professor and Associate Dean of Graduate Programs and Research Andrew Calabrese published a journal article in The Communication Review titled “Human Need as a Justification for Communication Rights,” and an article in the journal Communication +1 titled “Caveat Emptor! The Rhetoric of Choice in Food Politics.”
Chair, Associate Professor and Associate Director of the Center for Media, Religion and Culture Nabil Echchaibi published a chapter titled “Unveiling Obsessions: Muslims and the Trap of Representation” in Re-Scripting Islam: Reporting on Muslims and Their Faith and presented at conferences in Vienna, Austria; Prague, Czech Republic; and Utrecht, Netherlands.
Instructor Steven Frost curated and participated in a night of performances at the Denver Art Museum, presented a lecture titled “Pink It and Shrink It: How the Firearm Industry Markets to Women” at the Museum of Craft and Folk Art in Los Angeles, California, and had a solo exhibition at the Creative Arts Coalition to Transform Urban Space in Long Beach, California.
Professor and Director of the Center for Media, Religion and Culture Stewart Hooverwas inducted as a fellow at the 68th annual International Communication Association Conference in Prague, Czech Republic, and he published “Conjuring Religion in the Media Age and in Media Scholarship” in The Inclusive Vision: Essays in Honor of Larry Gross.
Associate Professor Polly McLean published the book Remembering Lucile: A Virginia Family’s Rise from Slavery and a Legacy Forged a Mile High.
Professor Janice Peck co-edited a special issue of the journal Communication +1 focused on the intersection of culture, media and policy. She co-wrote the issue’s introductory essay, “Media:Culture:Policy, or What we talk about when we talk about (cultural) policy.” She also finished her appointment as associate dean of graduate studies and research.
Assistant Professor Sandra Ristovska published an article titled “Expanding the Epistemological Horizon: Institutionalized Visual Knowledge and Human Rights” in the 25th anniversary issue of the journal Javnost - The Public. Her book chapter, “The Purchase of Witnessing in Human Rights Activism,” was published in The Routledge Companion to Media and Activism. Her co-edited volume Visual Imagery and Human Rights Practice is coming out with Palgrave this fall.
Assistant Professor Nathan Schneider’s new book, Everything for Everyone: The Radical Tradition that is Shaping the Next Economy, was published in September. In the fall, he helped organize the Colorado Shared Ownership Summit, a gathering of the state’s cooperatives, employee-owned businesses, credit unions and more.
Associate Professor J. Richard Stevens published a book chapter titled “Plastic Military Mythology: Hypercommercialism and Hasbro’s G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero.”
Professor Michael Tracey published an essay in May on the social and cognitive origins of contemporary populism in Humanities and Social Science, and submitted an article on the cultural and cognitive origins of suicide bombers.

Artist and Instructor Steven Frost tells the stories of hidden histories through objects and performance. In March, he did a full-day artist takeover at the Denver Art Museum as part of the Untitled Final Fridays program. Photo by Jay Schubert of Supernova Photography.

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Updates from our all-star professors, researchers and innovators for summer/fall 2017.

Advertising, Public Relations and Media Design

Professor of Practice Mindy Cheval is the interim director of CMCI’s CommRAP program and recently developed and taught a semesterlong course on sexual assault communication.
Professor of Practice Jennifer Colman joined the faculty this fall, having spent the previous six months teaching at CU ��«��Ƶ and working as a freelance brand strategist for ad agencies in New York and San Francisco.
Professor of Practice Jeff Curry joined the faculty this fall and is driving an initiative to broaden contemporary art in ��«��Ƶ to include design, technology and creativity from industry and academia.
Professor of Practice Dawn Doty is the faculty adviser for CU’s PRSSA student chapter and helped the chapter raise money to attend its first national conference this fall in Boston.
Assistant Professor Jolene Fisher published three articles exploring issues of digital games, gender and international development.
Chair and Associate Professor Harsha Ganga was elected vice president of the American Academy of Advertising (AAA) for 2017–18.
Associate Professor Glenn Griffin joined the faculty this fall after leading the undergraduate advertising creative program for six years at the University of Alabama.
Assistant Professor Toby Hopp published several research articles examining the factors influencing online political incivility.
Associate Professor Seow Ting Lee published a paper on health information seeking in Health Communication and presented three papers at the 2017 International Communication Association’s annual conference.
Professor of Practice Dan Ligon, an awarded-winning, 25-year veteran of the advertising industry, joined the faculty in 2016.
Associate Professor Kelty Logan published research regarding the phenomenon of social media fatigue and the implications for advertisers.
Assistant Professor Erin Schauster conducted research on emerging trends in advertising and public relations (in press) and published an article on the ethical implications of these practices.
Associate Professor David Slayden launched the strategic communication design master’s degree program and serves as the executive director.
Professor of Practice David Smail accompanied the college’s Young Ones competition finalists to New York and orchestrated the Dairy Show’s return to the Dairy Arts Center.
Assistant Professor Chris Vargo published articles in five top-tier communication journals using computational social science and big-data analytics.
Assistant Professor Erin Willis presented two papers on health communication at this year’s Association for Educators in Journalism and Mass Communication conference in Chicago.

Every aspect of the new studio space supporting the Strategic Communication Design master’s program was designed to be adaptable.

Located in the heart of downtown ��«��Ƶ, the space can be turned from a classroom into a photography studio, event space or even a walk-in art installation, with images projected across vast, blank walls. In courses like Design Sprints, students create products, services and experiences for clients including Uber, Allstate Insurance, Microsoft and ESRI, among others.

From the tools students use to the lessons they learn working with industry leaders, SCD is a graduate program designed to evolve at the pace of the globally connected creative economy.

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Communication

Associate Professor John Ackerman wrote, revised and now has in-press three chapters in collections devoted to ecological and rhetorical justice.
Professor Karen Ashcraft had a productive sabbatical year during which she completed a collaborative book, drafted several articles and delivered international talks, all around themes of work, power and affect in the contemporary economy.
Associate Professor David Boromisza-Habashi became a tenured associate professor and vice chair of the Language and Social Interaction Division of the International Communication Association.
Assistant Professor Joelle Cruz joined the department and published her findings on social movements and indigenous organizing in postconflict Liberia.
Associate Professor Lisa Flores completed her term as director of graduate studies and received the Rose B. Johnson Article of the Year award, with co-author Christy-Dale L. Sims, from Southern Communication Journal.
Professor Larry Frey became the co-editor of a new book series on communication for social justice activism for the University of California Press.
Assistant Professor Laurie Gries gave a number of invited talks based on her award-winning book Still Life with Rhetoric and completed a forthcoming co-edited collection titled Circulation, Rhetoric, and Writing.
Instructor Ruth Hickerson delivered the keynote address, “Raising Awareness and Removing Barriers: Communication Practices That Foster Inclusion and Engagement,” at the Rockwell Automation on the Move technology and trade expo in Denver.
Assistant Professor Jody Jahn began work on her $346,000 research grant, received an Article of the Year award from Management Communication Quarterly, had top papers at both the National and International Communication Association conventions, and successfully passed fourth-year review.
Associate Professor Matthew Koschmann received a Fulbright Scholars Award to be a visiting scholar at Ateneo de Manila University in the Philippines for the spring 2018 semester.
Professor Tim Kuhn served as associate chair for the department’s undergraduate program, published a book on working and organizing (with CU’s Karen Ashcraft and University of Montreal’s Francois Cooren), and was an associate editor at Human Relations, an international and interdisciplinary academic journal devoted to the study of social relations at and around work.
Instructor Jeff Motter was part of a team at the Kettering Foundation that developed a National Issues Forum discussion guide on food access.
Assistant Professor Tiara Na’puti joined the department and received the Constance Rourke Prize Finalist Mention for the best article published in American Quarterly.
Associate Professor Phaedra Pezzullo published the fourth edition of Environmental Communication and the Public Sphere, became director of ��«��ƵTalks and gave multiple talks on climate justice.
Assistant Professor Natasha Shrikant joined the communication faculty in August 2016 and is submitting research findings about communication and race in institutional contexts for publication.
Chair and Professor Peter Simonson was promoted to full professor, became chair of the department, and received CMCI’s Payden Award for excellence in teaching, research and service.
Senior Instructor Jamie Skerski led her Persuasion & Society students in pitching communication strategies to local and global brands, including Microsoft and Skratch Labs.
Assistant Professor Leah Sprain co-organized a symposium on energy democracy co-sponsored by ��«��ƵTalks, the National Science Foundation, the National Communication Association and the University of Utah’s Communication Institute.
Associate Professor Ted Striphas became co-editor of the journal Cultural Studies, the flagship publication in that field, and delivered the keynote address at UCLA’s eighth annual Transforming Hollywood conference.
Professor Bryan Taylor published two essays on communication and security in the Annals of the International Communication Association, taught a new graduate seminar on rhetorical field methods and completed the new edition of Qualitative Communication Research Methods (forthcoming, Sage).
Professor Karen Tracy completed her term as chair of communication and finished her third and last year serving on the VCAC, the committee that makes decisions about promotion and tenure.
Associate Professor and Associate Dean for Undergraduate Curriculum and Programs Cindy White completed her second year as associate dean and participated in the national first-year college experience conference.

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Critical Media Practices

Assistant Professor Reece Auguiste’s Stillness Spirit is an experimental essay film about the largest private collection of African art in Colorado and possibly the third largest in the nation. The film is structured so that viewers may experience the collection as if walking through a gallery of African art.
Assistant Professor Betsey Biggs is collaborating on a long, minimalist, multimedia musical performance and film using time-lapse footage of glaciers, choral composition, field recordings and interspersed texts regarding the cultural changes wrought by global warming. Florida State University recently commissioned Biggs to create an installation about women and noise.
Professor Emeritus Daniel Boord’s film Contigo is included in the Faculty Exhibition: 2017 at the CU Art Museum.
Instructor Eric Coombs Esmail premiered his latest media work at Anthology Film Archives in New York and expanded the educational, curatorial and fundraising activities of the nonprofit media organization Process Reversal, which he co-founded in 2012.
Assistant Professor Erin Espelie has completed two short films, A Net to Catch the Light, which had its West Coast premiere in June at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and Automorphic, which premiered last summer at the Mediamatic gallery in Amsterdam, Netherlands. She is co-principal investigator for a new initiative, the Nature, Environment, Science and Technology (NEST) Studio for the Arts.
Instructor Christian Hammons produced, directed and performed in Tripod: Mead, Bateson, Bali, a live, mixed-media documentary about the anthropologist Margaret Mead, her husband, Gregory Bateson, and their collaboration in Bali in the 1930s.
Associate Professor Tara Knight received a CU ��«��Ƶ Innovative Seed Grant for a sound planetarium project and is co-principal investigator for a new initiative, the Nature, Environment, Science and Technology (NEST) Studio for the Arts.
Assistant Professor Stephanie Spray is in postproduction for her feature-length experimental documentary, The Immortals, which she shot aboard the JOIDES Resolution, a scientific drilling ship funded by the International Ocean Discovery Program with National Science Foundation funding, over the course of 10 weeks at sea in the Indian and Pacific oceans.
Instructor Andrew Young wrote and edited an article in Critical Studies in Television on representing counterculture in Peter Gunn (to be published shortly) and developed a new PhD history course.

Students in the Critical Media Practices degree program develop their personal style as they explore the expressive potential of media. They make media in order to connect to and know the world. And they create and think about media in new ways while learning critical perspectives that place media practices within a broad cultural and historical continuum of innovation. Last year, students in the department created projects covering a wide array of topics and media, including a soundscape of ��«��Ƶ’s Pearl Street Mall, an interview-driven social media campaign across multiple channels and a short film about three Syrian children in the Zaatari refugee camp.

Students can focus in three concentration areas (or they can build their own): documentary media, performance media and sound practices. Within these areas, students work with digital photography, videography, location sound, electronic music, web design, virtual reality and media installation.

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Information Science

Professor William Aspray is writing a book about the history of urban legends (especially 9/11 legends), alternative political facts and mercantile rumors that harm businesses.
Associate Professor Lecia Barker is conducting research on beliefs about privacy of student data in learning management systems as well as teaching practices of computer science content.
Assistant Professor Jed Brubaker is examining how people share their lives through social media, collaborating with social media companies to make the internet a more compassionate place, and exploring what comes after the “user” in user experience.
Assistant Professor Laura Devendorf joined the faculty in January 2017 and spoke on the subject of “Design Futures” at the European Forum Alpbach in August.
Assistant Professor Casey Fiesler has been conducting empirical studies of internet research ethics and gave a TEDxCU talk in April on the subject of copyright and remix.
Assistant Professor Brian Keegan is a computational social scientist examining the structure and dynamics of emergent leadership within a Fortune 50 enterprise social media platform, as well as cross-cultural team formation processes in multiplayer online battle arenas.
Chair and Professor Leysia Palen is examining the generation of information infrastructures and the use of social media in extreme weather hazard events in projects that are funded by the National Science Foundation.
Assistant Professor Michael Paul recently published a book about how data science and social media can solve new problems in public health.
Professor of Practice Rick Robinson is working on a series of talks on how ethnographic research has been adopted, adapted and applied in corporate and industrial settings to design and develop new products and services.
Assistant Professor Ricarose Roque is collaborating with public libraries and community centers to design and study experiences that meaningfully engage children and their families to imagine, invent and learn with new technologies.
Assistant Professor Danielle Albers Szafir is modeling how people interpret visual information to create more effective visualizations and augmented reality applications. She is constructing an interactive analytics system with aerospace engineering researchers to explore large image collections, which is funded by the U.S. Air Force.
Assistant Professor Amy Voida is studying how the demands of big data are affecting the clients and service provision of human service organizations.
Assistant Professor Stephen Voida is conducting a pilot study in collaboration with researchers at the University of Washington to learn how people with bipolar disorder and the members of their extended care networks use data together to track mood changes, identify triggers, and reflect on the effectiveness of medications and long-term clinical treatments.

The human side of data

A few years ago, a group of interdisciplinary computing visionaries set out to design an innovative information science department from the ground up. The result is one of the few programs nationally that offers a four-year degree in the discipline to undergraduates, and one with forward-thinking faculty with connections to Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Twitter, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Federal Emergency Management Agency and many more.

Information Science blends computing with social science and the humanities for a hands-on, interdisciplinary education that investigates all aspects of human-data interaction. Students research how people and organizations interact with technology and information. They design apps, algorithms and user interfaces. They learn to collect, analyze and interpret data. Then they apply that knowledge to their secondary area of concentration to produce a project in, for example, bioinformatics, music informatics or wherever their interests take them.

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Intermedia Art, Writing and Performance PhD Program

Director Mark Amerika’s work was featured in international exhibits, including GlitchMix, not an error in Havana, Cuba, and Beyond GRAMMATRON: 20 Years into the Future in London, England.
Associate Professor Lori Emerson serves as founding director of the Media Archaeology Lab, which houses North America’s largest collection of still-functioning media artifacts from the early 20th century through the 21st century. She recently discussed the MAL at Ignite ��«��Ƶ.

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Journalism

Associate Professor Angie Chuang, joining the faculty in August 2017, led training workshops at NPR in Washington, D.C., on source diversity.
Instructor Patrick Clark coordinated a high-speed-camera workshop sponsored by CMCI and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
Senior Instructor Paul Daugherty leads the award-winning CU Science Update documentary series, which has a show in production about tiny satellites called CubeSats.
Assistant Professor Patrick Ferrucci published results of his research on how newsrooms are using web analytics and social media.
Instructor and Assistant Dean for Student Success Steve Jones entered his fifth decade of teaching at CU ��«��Ƶ.
Associate Professor Hun Shik Kim became faculty director of the Certificate Program in International Media.
Associate Director of the Center for Environmental Journalism Michael Kodas’ new book, Megafire: The Race to Extinguish a Deadly Epidemic of Flame, was released in August 2017.
Assistant Professor Christine Larson, joining the faculty in August 2017, was awarded a PhD in communication from Stanford University.
Professor Michael McDevitt explores the relationship of populism to journalism in his forthcoming book, Where Ideas Go to Die: Anti-intellectualism in American Journalism.
Assistant Professor Mei-Ling McNamara has produced a short documentary and articles on sex trafficking for the British news site The Guardian.
Associate Professor Kathleen Ryan was awarded the top prize for Documentary Feature for her film Pin Up! The Movie at the Bare Bones International Film Festival.
Chair and Associate Professor Elizabeth Skewes is examining media coverage of crime victims and is working on two papers related to coverage of Donald Trump.
Assistant Professor Ross Taylor, joining the tenure track in August 2017, led the fifth annual The Image, Deconstructed, a national, three-day immersive workshop on photojournalism.
Professor Paul Voakes is completing his term as president of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC).
Professor Jan Whitt published the book The Redemption of Narrative: Terry Tempest Williams and Her Vision of the West (Mercer University Press).
Professor and Director of the Center for Environmental Journalism Tom Yulsman led a group of students and faculty to Svalbard, Norway, to report on environmental issues and accompanied a team of journalists across South Africa for a “Green Media Tour.”

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Media Studies

Associate Professor Shu-Ling Chen Berggreen co-wrote an article with doctoral student Art Bamford in Journalism and Mass Communication.
Professor Andrew Calabrese published a journal article in The Communication Review titled “Human need as a justification for communication rights.”
Chair and Associate Professor Nabil Echchaibi published a chapter titled “Unveiling Obsessions: Muslims and the Trap of Representation” in Re-Scripting Islam Reporting on Muslims and Their Faith.
Professor Stewart Hoover spent a semester as a visiting professor at Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania.
Professor Janice Peck was an invited panelist at an international conference on Global Resistance in the Neoliberal University at the City University of New York.
Assistant Professor Sandra Ristovska completed the George Gerbner Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania.
Scholar in Residence Nathan Schneider co-edited a book with Trebor Scholz (The New School) titled Ours to Hack and to Own: The Rise of Platform Cooperativism.
Associate Professor J. Richard Stevens published a book chapter titled “Plastic Military Mythology: Hypercommercialism and Hasbro’s G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero.”
Professor Michael Tracey published an essay titled “The Mature Society” for the website Scholars and Rogues.

In an age when a confession app can be downloaded and people increasingly share their faith through Instagram, podcasts and YouTube, the study of religion is also changing. CMCI’s Center for Media, Religion and Culture (CMRC) recently received a $500,000 grant from the Henry Luce Foundation to support an investigation of the evolving nature of religious scholarship in the digital age.

Stewart Hoover, director of the CMRC, is leading the research effort that brings together scholars, researchers and practitioners to develop new and innovative tools for research and communication. Alongside their research, the project’s team will develop a new web platform designed for academic collaboration, idea development and multiplatform communication, including interactive media.

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