University of New Mexico
Department of Communication & Journalism
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C&J Faculty (Click name to view bio & contact info)

Glenda R. Balas
Mary Jane Collier
Patricia O. Covarrubias
Jaelyn DeMaria
Shinsuke Eguchi
Karen A. Foss
Miguel Gandert
Dirk C. Gibson
Tamar Ginossar

Judith Hendry
Lillian J. Kelly
Stephen Littlejohn
Pamela Lutgen-Sandvik
Susana Martínez Guillem
Tema Milstein
Jessica A. Nodulman
Ilia Rodríguez
Richard Schaefer

Karen L. Schmidt
Jan Schuetz
Julie Shields
Janet Shiver
Myra Washington
David Weiss
Judith White
Todd Winge
Gill Woodall


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Part-time Instructors (Click for bio or email)

Jennifer Bartlit
Lorenda Belone
Marco Briziarelli
Laura Burton
Carolina Contreras
Dohnia Dorman
Carolyn Flynn

Anthony Hatch
Kathy Isaacson
Melissa Juarez
Randall Lantz
Melanie Majors
Kate Nash
Dawn Nordquist

Hannah Oliha
Diane Pressel
Roberto Rosales
Ari Savedra
Pamela Schneider
Toby Smith
Robert Spiegel

Affiliated Faculty (Click for bio info)

Fred Bales
Jean M. Civikly-Powell
Charles Coates
John Condon

Ken Frandsen
Bob Gassaway
Dennis Herrick
Tony Hillerman

Elaine Raybourn
Roli Varma


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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.
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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.
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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.
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Jaelyn DeMaria, Post Doctoral Fellow

Ph.D., University of New Mexico, 2012
Office: Room 262
jdemaria@unm.edu


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Shinsuke Eguchi, Assistant Professor

Ph.D., Howard University, 2011
Office: Room 224
seguchi@unm.edu


Dr. Shinsuke Eguchi's research and teaching interests are in intercultural communication, gender and GLBTQ (Gay-Lesbian-Bisexual-Transgender-Queer) communication studies, Asian and Asian American communication studies, and critical ethnography. Prior to joining the C&J Department in Fall 2012, Dr. Eguchi was a post-doctoral fellow on transnationalism, diaspora, and migration in the communication studies department at University of Denver. He is originally from Japan.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Judith Hendry, Lecturer III

Ph.D., University of Denver, 1994
Office: Room 221
jhendry@unm.edu

Judith Hendry joined the faculty at UNM in 1998 as a Visiting Professor and joined the permanent faculty in the fall of 2001 in a Lecturer III position. She is the author of the textbook, Communication and the Natural World, which is currently being used in classrooms across the country. The courses that she teaches include Environmental Communication, Research Methods, Rhetorical Theory, and Senior Seminar and serves as the faculty advisor for undergraduate communication majors. She is a past president of the Environmental Communication Division of the National Communication Association, and serves on the editorial board of Environmental Communication: A Journal of Nature and Culture. Her research and publications are in the area of environmental communication with an emphasis in environmental rhetoric. She has two passions — teaching and music. Before becoming and academic, she was a professional singer and pianist. She was recently honored as UNM Outstanding Professor.
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Lillian J. Kelly, Lecturer II

M.A., University of Missouri, 2010
Office: Room 254
lkelly02@unm.edu


Lillian is a multimedia storyteller who has held almost every job in newsrooms across media: radio, print and Web. Having grown up in Aztec, N.M., she has strong ties to the Four Corners area and works to document its history, landscape and unique cultural mix. She has studied at San Juan College in Farmington, N.M., and L'Université de Rennes II in Rennes, France. She earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in journalism from New Mexico State University and her Master of Arts degree in photojournalism from The Missouri School of Journalism.



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.
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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.
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Susana Martínez Guillem, Assistant Professor

Ph.D., University of Colorado-Boulder, 2012
Office: Room 232
susanam@unm.edu


Dr. Martínez Guillem is originally from Spain. She came to the United States to start her graduate studies in 2000. Before moving to New Mexico, she spent her time between Europe and the U.S., living in Iowa, Italy, Spain and Colorado. Her research and teaching interests are in critical discourse studies, cultural studies, interpretive and critical approaches to intercultural communication, and rhetorics of immigration, race and racism in the European Union and the United States.
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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.
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Jessica A. Nodulman, Lecturer III

Ph.D., University of New Mexico, 2012
Office: Room 218
nodulman@unm.edu


Dr. Nodulman teaches a variety of communication courses including health communication, interpersonal communication, and organizational communication. She is also the internship coordinator for the department. Her research areas are in sexual health communication, gender and communication, and instructional communication. Dr. Nodulman is also a researcher at UNM's Center on Alcoholism, Substance Abuse, and Addictions (CASAA).



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.
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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.
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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.
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Jan Schuetz, Professor Emerita

Ph.D., University of Colorado, 1975
jschuetz@unm.edu

Dr. Schuetz is the author of several books. She teaches C&J 500 and serves on a number of committees.
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Julie Shields, Assistant Professor

Ph.D., Purdue University, 2009
Office: Room 231
jdshields@unm.edu


Dr. Shields teaches courses in the C&J department, including interpersonal communication, advanced quantitative methods, and health campaigns. Dr. Shields also teaches a health and culture course as part of the B.A./M.D. program. Her research interest is to help families and loved ones be able to better discuss stigmatized issues such as illegal drug use and mental health issues; ultimately helping people to search out the help they need with the support they need. Dr. Shields held a previous faculty appointment in the Department of Communication at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.



Janet Shiver, Lecturer II

Ph.D., University of New Mexico
Office: Room 202, 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.
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Myra Washington, Assistant Professor

Ph.D., University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 2012
Office: Room 235
myrawashington@unm.edu


Dr. Washington's teaching and research interests are in critical media and cultural studies, rhetoric, and both Asian American and African American studies. Her work revolves around representations of race, mixed-race, gender, and sexuality within popular culture. Most recently her research has focused on non-White racially mixed people (specifically Blasians — Black + Asian).



David Weiss, Assistant Professor

Ph.D., University of New Mexico, 2005
Office: Room 222
davidweiss@unm.edu


Dr. Weiss teaches courses in strategic communication, political communication, and media studies. His research interests include media discourse, political and religious communication, and the media and popular culture industries. Before his return to academia in 2000, Dr. Weiss worked in the advertising agency business in New York City for almost two decades. He has taught in Oregon, Ohio, and Montana, and is thrilled to be back at UNM, where he earned his Ph.D. degree in 2005.
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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. She came to C&J in 2007 with more than seven years of college-level teaching experience. She teaches classes in strategic communication and graduate level research methods.
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Todd 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.
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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.
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