Glenda R. Balas, Chair and Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of Iowa, 1999
Office: Room 129E/Room 206, 505-277-1905
gbalas@unm.edu
Dr. Balas is chair of the Department of Communication & Journalism.
She previously taught at C&J from 2001 to 2007, and for 2008-2010 she was chair of the
Mass Communication Department at Sam Houston State University. She is a Fulbright Scholar
and author of Recovering a Public Vision for Public Television. She is a
fourth-generation New Mexico native. She teaches courses both in communication
and in journalism.
See her profile page.
Karolyn Cannata-Winge, Lecturer II
M.A., University of Missouri, 1991
Office: Room 202
kcwinge@unm.edu
Cannata-Winge brings a unique
teaching experience to her students, with more than 20 years of professional
experience in visual communication, design, journalism, and strategic
communication. She joined the C&J faculty in January 2005. She
teaches classes in multimedia journalism and strategic communication
with an emphasis on visual communication, design, creativity, and teamwork.
Previously, Cannata-Winge was an assistant professor of practice 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/news designer at
the Detroit Free Press. In addition to teaching, she owns
jersey girl designs, a freelance design/consulting business. She
received UNM’s 2009-2010 "Outstanding Lecturer of the Year
Award."
See her profile page.
Mary Jane Collier, Professor
Ph.D., University of Southern California, 1982
Office: Room 214
mjc@unm.edu
Dr. Collier teaches courses in intercultural communication,
theorizing culture and communication,
conflict and transformation, and mediation. She has served as the director of the C&J
Doctoral Program in Communication. Professor Collier has held three previous faculty
appointments and/or served as department 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 page.
Patricia O. Covarrubias, Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of Washington, 1999
Office: Room 220
pocb@unm.edu
Dr. Covarrubias teaches courses in cultural and intercultural
communication; language, thought,
and behavior; global metaphors; qualitative research methods with emphasis on language
and social interaction; and the ethnography of communication. A native of Mexico, her
current research interests are with American Indian uses of communicative silence. Her
current work also includes collecting narratives of racism to advance the study of race
and communication. She also is continuing her work with Latinist/Hispanic/Latino/Chicano(a)
ways of communicating.
See her profile page.
Karen A. Foss, Regents Professor
Ph.D., University of Iowa, 1976
Office: Room 234, 505-379-0459
karen.foss@comcast.net
Dr. Foss has been at the University of New
Mexico since 1993. She has served as chair of the Communication &
Journalism Department, director of graduate studies for C&J, and
director of Women Studies; she currently serves as C&J's associate
chair. She was named Regents Professor at UNM for 2006-2009, Presidential
Teaching Fellow for 2004-2006, and in 2010, received a UNM Faculty
Mentoring Award. She received the Gender Scholar of the Year Award
from the Southern States Communication Association in 2005, Feminist
Scholarship award for 2010 from the Organization for Research on Women
and Communication, and the Robert J. Kibler Memorial Award from the
National Communication Association in 2010.
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Miguel Gandert, Professor
M.A., University of New Mexico, 1983
Office: Room 262A
mgandert@unm.edu
Gandert is 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 at the National Hispanic Cultural Center of New Mexico
in Albuquerque.
See his profile page.
Dirk C. Gibson, Associate Professor
Ph.D., Indiana University, 1983
Office: Room 250
agibson878@msn.com
Dr. Gibson has long been a national expert on product recalls
(see his Product Recall Research Group
web page), and with the publication of two books on serial murderers he also has
become an expert source for print and broadcast media on the mass communications of
serial killers.
See his profile page.
Tamar Ginossar, Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of New Mexico, 2003
Office: Room 216
tginossar@salud.unm.edu
Dr. Ginossar teaches courses in health communication, including a class about health,
culture and diversity as part of the B.A./M.D. program. Additional courses include advanced quantitative research
methods, intercultural communication and organizational communication. Dr. Ginossar has held two previous faculty
appointments at the Department of Communication in Tel Aviv University and as research faculty with the University
of New Mexico School of Medicine. Her research interests focus on health communication and reducing health disparities.
She is particularly interested in how communities and individuals are using new communication technologies for
information exchange and advocacy. She lived and traveled internationally in the Middle East, Europe, Asia, and Latin America.
See her profile page.
Eudaline Cia Hell, Post Doctoral Fellow
Ph.D., University of New Mexico, 2011
Office: Room 232
ephell7@unm.edu
Dr. Hell joined the C&J Department as a full-time faculty
member in Fall 2011. Prior to her studies in the doctoral program at UNM, she received
her B.A. from Henderson State University and her M.S. in communication from Illinois State
University. Patricia’s current research interests are in intercultural and health
communication. She is particularly interested in patient and health care provider
communication and the influence of religious beliefs as a cultural element during the
communication process.
Judith Hendry, Lecturer III
Ph.D., University of Denver, 1994
Office: Room 221
jhendry@unm.edu
Dr. Hendry is the communication undergraduate adviser and
chairs the Undergraduate Communication Committee and the C&J Scholarship Committee.
She joined the C&J faculty in 1998. She is on the editorial board of the
Environmental Communication Journal and is past president of the Environmental
Communication Division of the National Communication Association. Her research
emphasis is in environmental communication with an emphasis in environmental rhetoric,
the public discourse of global warming, and public participation in environmental decision-making.
See her profile page.
Also visit her home page.
Stephen W. Littlejohn, Visiting Lecturer II
Ph.D., University of Utah, 1970
Office: Room 237, 505-450-3526
swlittlejohn@comcast.net
Dr. Littlejohn teaches mediation and interpersonal
communication at C&J, specializing in online education. He has published
several books and articles on communication, conflict, and dialogue. He is
also a professional mediator and facilitator. Dr. Littlejohn was a
professor of communication at Humboldt State University in California
for 26 years.
See his profile page.
Pamela Lutgen-Sandvik, Associate Professor
Ph.D., Arizona State University, 2005
Office: Room 236
plutgen@unm.edu
Dr. Lutgen-Sandvik 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 page.
Also visit her home page.
Tema O. Milstein, Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of Washington, 2007
Office: Room 226
tema@unm.edu
Dr. Milstein's teaching and research interests are in
ecocultural/environmental communication, culture and communication, and critical
cultural inquiry. Milstein is a Fulbright Scholar and a recent UNM Teacher of the Year.
See her profile page.
Also visit her home page.
Ilia Rodríguez, Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 1999
Office: Room 204
ilia@unm.edu
Dr. Rodríguez is the Ph.D. adviser. She 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 page.
Richard Schaefer, Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of Utah, 1992
Office: Room 252, 505-917-9909
schaefer@unm.edu
Dr. Schaefer is the M.A. adviser. 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 page.
Also visit his home page.
Karen L. Schmidt, Visiting Lecturer III
Ph.D., Arizona State University, 1991
Office: Room 227
schmidtk@unm.edu
Dr. Schmidt teaches classes in public speaking, small group communication
and intercultural communication. She has taught for more than 20 years,
including 11 years as a tenured full-time faculty member at Chandler-Gilbert
Community College in Arizona where she served as faculty president.
She also served as chair on several committees and co-chaired the
institution’s student learning outcomes committee and the college
presidential search committee. Prior to moving to New Mexico, she
taught part-time at California State University at Monterey Bay and
Monterey Peninsula College. She also conducted communication workshops
for the City of Monterey’s employee leadership program and consulted
for non-profit organizations.
See her profile page.
Jan Schuetz, Professor
Ph.D., University of Colorado, 1975
Office: Room 233
jschuetz@unm.edu
Dr. Schuetz is the author of several books.
She teaches C&J 500 and serves on a number of committees.
See her profile page.
Janet Shiver, Lecturer II
Ph.D., University of New Mexico
Office: Room 218, 505-277-2158
jshiver@unm.edu
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 page.
Pavel Shlossberg, Post Doctoral Fellow
Ph.D., Columbia University, 2008
Office: Room 235
pshlossb@unm.edu
Dr. Shlossberg joined the C&J Department as a full-time faculty
member in Fall 2011. He teaches courses in media studies, culture and communication, and
international and intercultural communication. His ethnographic research examines the
production and consumption of "Indian arts" as it relates to the politics of race and
culture in central Mexico and the United States. Before coming to UNM, he held term
appointments at the University of Virginia and New York University.
Judith White, Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Texas A&M University, 2006
Office: Room 230
jmw49@unm.edu
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 page.
Todd L. Winge, Visiting Lecturer II
M.A., University of Missouri, 1991
Office: Room 223
twinge@unm.edu
Winge is an experienced multimedia journalist. He has a long
career in journalism, serving as an editor at the Detroit Free Press and as an
online producer on Albuquerque Journal web team. He also taught journalism as
an assistant professor from 1999 to 2004 at the University of Missouri School of
Journalism. He comes to C&J from the New Media & Extended Learning Department
at UNM, where he helped professors develop fully online courses. At C&J, he
teaches reporting, multimedia journalism, web design, and media ethics & law.
See his profile page.
Gill Woodall, Professor
Ph.D., University of Florida, 1978
Office: Room 222
gwoodall@unm.edu
Dr. Woodall is a tenured faculty member of
the department but devotes all of his time to funded research at 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 page.
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