Faculty
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Glenda R. Balas Karolyn Cannata-Winge John N. Carr Mary Jane Collier Patricia Covarrubias Janet Cramer Karen A. Foss Miguel Gandert

Dirk C. Gibson Judith Hendry Dennis F. Herrick Krishna Kandath Pamela Lutgen-Sandvik Virginia McDermott Tema Milstein John G. Oetzel

Ilia Rodríguez Richard Schaefer Jan Schuetz Janet Shiver Olaf Werder Judith White Gill Woodall

Karolyn Cannata-Winge, Lecturer II

M.A., University of Missouri, 1991

Karolyn Cannata-Winge joined the C&J faculty in Spring 2005. She teaches classes in journalism and mass communication and works with the department's academic adviser as the internship coordinator. Previously she was an assistant professor at the University of Missouri School of Journalism and a lecturer at the University of Texas at El Paso. She also has been an assistant design director at the Albuquerque Journal and a features and news designer at the Detroit Free Press. In addition to teaching, she owns Jersey Girl Designs, a freelance design/consulting business. See her profile.

John N. Carr, Visiting Assistant Professor

Ph.D., University of Washington, 2007
J.D., University of Texas, 1993

Dr. Carr’s teaching and research focuses on the discursive spaces – physical and virtual – in which we encounter and negotiate difference. His work on the social uses of public space focuses specifically on the communicative intersections of culture, law, politics, and economics. Dr. Carr also has more than a decade of experience as an attorney. See his profile.

Patricia Covarrubias, Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of Washington, 1999
Office: Room 220, 505-277-2166

Dr. Covarrubias came to UNM in the fall of 2005. She teaches courses in intercultural communication; language, thought, and behavior; global metaphors, and: qualitative research methods with emphasis on the ethnography of communication. A native of Mexico, her current research interests are with American Indian students. Her current work also includes collecting narratives of racism to advance the study of race and communication. She is planning to continue her work with Latinist/Hispanic/Latino/Chicano(a) ways of communicating. See her profile and visit Patricia Covarrubias' home page.

Janet Cramer, Associate Professor

Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 1999
Office: Room 231, 505-277-1906

Dr. Cramer is also director of the Women Studies Department for 2007-08. She has been with the department since 1999. She is faculty adviser for the UNM student chapter of the Association for Women in Communications. She also serves on the board of the UNM Feminist Research Institute. She has 15 years of professional experience in broadcast journalism, advertising, and public relations with broadcast and non-profit organizations in California and Minnesota. See her profile.

Karen A. Foss,

Dr. Foss is on sabbatical for the fall 2007 semester. She was named a Regents Professor in 2006. She has been with the University of New Mexico since 1993. She is a former chair of the Department of Communication and Journalism, former director of graduate studies at C&J, and former director of Women Studies at UNM. In 2005, she received the Gender Scholar of the Year from the Southern States Communication Association. See her profile and visit the Karen Foss home page.

Miguel Gandert,

Miguel Gandert is C&J associate chair. A nationally known photographer, his photographs are usually images of New Mexico and its people. You can see some of Miguel's work regarding the pursuit of happiness on the web. His depiction of the yearly pilgrimage of people to the healing earth of Chimayo, N.M., was recently featured at the Maxwell Museum of Anthropology at UNM. His work appears in his recent collaborative book Nuevo Mexico Profundo Rituals of an Indo-Hispano Homeland. His artwork was displayed recently at the National Hispanic Cultural Center of New Mexico in Albuquerque. See his profile.

Dirk C. Gibson,

Dr. Gibson has long been a national expert on product recalls, and with the publication of two recent books on serial murderers he also has become an expert source for print and broadcast media on the mass communications of serial killers. He teaches in the public relations concentration at C&J. See his profile and visit Dirk Gibson's home page and also his Product Recall Research Group .

Judith Hendry,

Dr. Hendry joined the C&J faculty in 1998 as a visiting professor and joined the permanent faculty in the fall of 2001 as a Lecturer III. She is on the editorial board of the Environmental Communication Yearbook and is past president of the Environmental Communication Commission of the National Communication Association. Her emphasis in environmental communication includes a further emphasis in environmental rhetoric. See her profile and visit Judith Hendry's home page.

Dennis F. Herrick,

Dennis Herrick joined C&J's full-time faculty in the fall of 2001 after teaching part-time for C&J for one semester and for the University of Iowa for two years. He was owner and publisher of a group of weekly newspapers and a shopper in Iowa for 12 years and a newspaper broker for five years. He also was chief of staff for a member of Congress for eight years, and he worked for about 11 years as a daily newspaper reporter. He is adviser to the campus chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists. See his profile and visit Dennis Herrick's course sites at his home page.

Krishna Kandath,

Dr. Kandath started teaching at UNM in Fall 2000. His teaching and research interests are in communication history, philosophy, theory and critical/cultural inquiry. See his profile.

Pamela Lutgen-Sandvik,

Dr. Lutgen-Sandvik joined the C&J faculty in 2005. She was born in Alaska and lived there until moving to Arizona in 2001 for graduate study. Prior to that, she worked in the field of social work where she served as a nonprofit administrator in the fields of substance abuse treatment and women's advocacy. See her profile and visit Pamela Lutgen-Sandvik's home page.

Virginia McDermott,

Dr. McDermott teaches classes that focus on interpersonal communication in personal relationships, as well as the application of interpersonal communication in organizational contexts. She joined the faculty in the fall of 2001. See her profile.

Tema O. Milstein,

Dr. Milstein's teaching and research interests are in culture and
communication, critical cultural inquiry, and environmental
communication. She has more than a dozen years of journalism experience as a reporter and editor in daily, weekly, and monthly print media, and has lived in the Middle East and Asia. See her homepage or her profile.

John G. Oetzel,

Dr. Oetzel is chair of the Department of Communication and Journalism. He is working on two federally funded research projects with professors in public health. He teaches courses in intercultural, health, organizational communication, and research methods. See his profile or visit John Oetzel's home page.

Ilia Rodríguez,

Dr. Rodríguez teaches courses in journalism, media studies and international communication, and she has worked as a journalist for newspapers and Latino publications in Puerto Rico, California, Louisiana and Minnesota. She joined the C&J faculty in the Fall of 2003. See her profile.

Richard Schaefer,

Dr. Schaefer is the undergraduate journalism chair and adviser for 2007-08. He is a former broadcast journalist and a writer of interactive videodisks. His teaching and research interests include digital journalistic technologies, television production practices, information technology policy and the visual aspects of communication, as well as immigration issues. See his profile and visit Richard Schaefer's home page.

Jan Schuetz,

Dr. Schuetz is the graduate director for the M.A. program in the 2007-08 academic year. The author of several books, she teaches C&J 500 and serves on a number of committees. See her profile.

Janet Shiver,

Dr. Shiver teaches classes in public speaking and organizational communication and is the director of all the department's scores of public speaking classes. She taught part-time for C&J for three years prior to joining the full-time faculty. She is owner of Shiver Group, Inc., a business consulting firm. Dr. Shiver worked in Arizona and New Mexico as a business consultant and organization development consultant for more than 12 years. See her profile.

Olaf Werder , Assistant Professor

Ph.D., University of Florida, 2002

Dr. Werder teaches courses in the advertising concentration, and he also is the adviser to the student chapter of the American Advertising Federation. He joined the C&J faculty in the fall of 2002. See his profile and visit Olaf Werder's home page.

Judith White,

Dr. White joined the faculty in fall of 2007. She was assistant director of the Division of Marketing and Communications at Texas A&M University when she obtained her doctorate degree. She comes to UNM with more than seven years of college-level teaching experience. See her profile.

W. Gill Woodall,

Dr. Woodall has served the department for 25 years. He divides his time between Communication and Journalism and the Center on Alcoholism, Substance Abuse, and Addictions (CASAA), a comprehensive research center focused on all aspects of addiction science at UNM. His expertise has focused on health communication, research design and implementation, and nonverbal communication. He has applied this expertise to prevention programs in alcohol and substance abuse in New Mexico and elsewhere. He is a Senior Research Scientist at CASAA and also has served as a grant reviewer for the National Institutes of Health for the past 15 years. See his profile .