M.A., University of Missouri, 1991
Office:
Room 202, 505-277-2115
Karolyn Cannata-Winge is the undergraduate
mass communication chair and adviser for 2008-2009. 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
Office:
Room 237
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.
Karma
R. Chávez, Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Arizona State University, 2007
Office: Room 235
Dr. Chávez came as a communication faculty member in the autumn
of 2008. Her current research generally explores the rhetorics of
marginalized groups in contexts of neo-liberalism. She is most interested
in the relationships between sexuality and immigration. See her profile.
Mary
Jane Collier, Professor
Ph.D., University of Southern California, 1982
Office: Room 214, 505-277-2156
Dr. Collier joined the faculty of C &
J in the spring of 2006. She teaches courses in intercultural communication,
theorizing culture and communication, conflict, and intercultural dialogue
and community building. She has held three previous faculty appointments
and/or served as Chair in Human Communication Studies in the School
of Communication at the University of Denver, Speech Communication and
Theatre at Oregon State University, and California State University,
Los Angeles. Professor Collier has been a Visiting Fellow at the University
of Cape Town, South Africa, and at Birkbeck College at the University
of London. She was editor of volumes 23-25 of The International and
Intercultural Communication Annual, published by SAGE, with themes addressing
cultural difference in discourse, transforming communication about culture,
and intercultural alliances. She is a past-president of the Western
States Communication Association. See her profile.
Patricia
Covarrubias, Assistant Professor
Ph.D.,
University of Washington, 1999
Office: Room 220, 505-277-2166
Dr. Covarrubias came to UNM in 2005 and 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
M. Cramer, Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 1999
Office:
Room 231, 505-277-1906
Dr. Cramer is director of the Women Studies Department and has been
with the C&J department since 1999. 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, Regents
Professor
Ph.D., University of Iowa, 1976
Office:
Room 216, 505-379-0459
Dr. Foss was named a Regents Professor in 2006 and is the associate
chair of C&J for 2008-2009. She has been with the University of
New Mexico since 1993. She is a former C&J chair, 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, Professor
M.A., University of New Mexico, 1983
Office:
Room 262A, 505-277-2205
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.
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,
Lecturer III
Ph.D., University
of Denver, 1994
Office:
Room 226, 505-277-2197
Dr. Hendry is the communication undergraduate
chair and adviser for 2008-2009. She joined the C&J faculty in 1998
as a visiting professor and joined the permanent faculty in 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, Lecturer
II
M.A.,
University of Iowa, 1998
Office:
Room 223
Dennis Herrick joined C&J's full-time
faculty in 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.
Pamela
Lutgen-Sandvik, Assistant
Professor
Ph.D., Arizona State University, 2005
Office:
Room 221
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, Assistant
Professor
Ph.D., University of Illinois, 2004
Office:
Room 206
Dr. McDermott's areas of expertise are interpersonal communication and health communication. Recently, she has focused on stigma reduction efforts addressing perceptions of mental illness. Specifically, she has studied individuals’ preferences for how another should self-disclose a mental illness and how videotaped personal narratives of depression influences people’s perceptions of mental illness. She, in collaboration with colleagues, has developed a survey to assess New Mexican’s perceptions of and preferred interactions with people with a variety of behavioral health issues. The results of this survey will be used to inform a stigma reduction campaign. See her profile.
Tema
O. Milstein, Assistant
Professor
Ph.D., University of Washington, 2007
Office:
Room
226
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 home
page or her profile.
John
G. Oetzel,
Chair and Professor
Ph.D., University of Iowa, 1995
Office: Room 204, 505-277-1905
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.
Dr. Pant joined C&J in the autumn of 2008 and teaches communication
classes. Her research is in the intersection of gender and communication
with a special interest in how subaltern counterpublics are created
and maintained. While teaching methods and theory classes for C&J,
she will also be teaching for the Women Studies Program. There, her
focus will be on Third World Feminism and Globalization. See Dr. Pant's
profile.
Nagesh
Rao, Associate
Professor
Ph.D., Michigan State University, 1994
Office:
Room 236, 505-277-2653
Dr. Rao teaches communication courses.
His research is in the intersection of culture and health, with a
special interest in how our objective and subjective culture shape
our health beliefs, attitudes and behaviors, and vice versa. He joined
the C&J faculty in the autumn of 2008. See his profile.
Ilia
Rodríguez, Assistant
Professor
Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 1999
Office:
Room 234, 505-277-2103
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 2003. See her profile.
Richard
Schaefer, Associate
Professor
Ph.D., University of Utah, 1992
Office:
Room 252
Dr. Schaefer is the undergraduate journalism chair and adviser for
2008-09. 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, Professor
Ph.D., University of Colorado, 1975
Office:
Room 233, 505-277-0573
Dr. Schuetz is the graduate director for the M.A. program in the 2008-09
academic year. The author of several books, she teaches C&J 500 and
serves on a number of committees. See her profile.
Janet
Shiver, Lecturer
II
Ph.D., University of New Mexico
Office:
Room 218, 505-277-2158
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 in 2007. 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, Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of Florida, 2002
Office:
Room 230
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
2002. See his profile and visit
Olaf Werder's home page.
Dr. White was assistant director of
the Division of Marketing and Communications at Texas A&M University
when she obtained her doctorate degree. She came to C&J in 2007
with more than seven years of college-level teaching experience. She
teaches public relations and mass communication classes. See her profile.
W.
Gill Woodall, Professor
Ph.D., University of Florida, 1978
Office:
Room 222, 505-277-2184
Dr. Woodall has served
the department for 25 years.
He divides his time between C&J 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
17 years. See his profile
.