Faculty and Staff Profiles

Faculty  

Michael Albrecht

Michael Albrecht

Lecturer in Communication

105 Horton Social Science Ctr
Phone: (603) 862-3344
Fax: (603) 862-1913
E-mail: michaelmario1@gmail.com

 

Education:
B.A., Macalester College, 1988
M.A., Bowling Green State University, 2002
Ph.D., University of Iowa, 2008

Courses Taught:
CMN 455, Introduction to Media Studies
CMN 696, Seminar/New Media and Society

 

 


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Jennifer Borda

Associate Professor of Communication

107 Horton Social Science Center
Phone: (603) 862-3709
Fax: (603) 862-1913
E-mail: jborda@cisunix.unh.edu

Curriculum Vitae

 

Education:
B.A., Villanova University, 1995
M.A., Pennsylvania State University, 1998
Ph.D., ibid., 2002

Courses Taught:
CMN 456, Propaganda and Persuasion
CMN 507, Introduction to Rhetorical Theory and Analysis
CMN 600, Public Speaking as a Civic Art
CMN 607, Persuasion in American Politics
CMN 645, Rhetorical Criticism of Film

Fields of Research:
rhetorical theory and criticism, film criticism, feminist studies

 

 


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Melissa Deem

Associate Professor of Communication

130A Horton Social Science Center
Phone: (603) 862-1902
Fax: (603) 862-1913
E-mail: melissa.deem@unh.edu

 

Education:
B.A., Eastern Illinois University, 1987
M.A., Ohio University, 1988
Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1998

Courses Taught:
CMN 456, Propaganda and Persuasion
CMN 587, Topics/Critical-Cultural Rhetorics
CMN 657, Rhetorics of Contemporary Feminism
CMN 697, Seminar/Contemporary Feminism in U.S. Public Culture

Fields of Research:
rhetorics of feminism

 

 


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James Farrell

Associate Professor of Communication

108 Horton Social Science Center
Phone: (603) 862-3447
Fax: (603) 862-1913
E-mail: james.farrell@unh.edu

Curriculum Vitae

 

Education:
B.A., Bridgewater State College, 1979
M.A., University of Maine at Orono, 1982
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin at Madison, 1988

Courses Taught:
CMN 456, Propaganda and Persuasion
CMN 504, Introduction to Argumentation
CMN 557, Great Speakers and Speeches
CMN 607, Persuasion in American Politics
CMN 656, Principles of Rhetorical Criticism
CMN 657, Public Address and the American Experience
CMN 703, Seminar in Rhetorical Theory

Fields of Research:
history and criticism of American public address, political and religious discourse, history of rhetorical theory

 

 


Christine Feldman

Christine Feldman

Lecturer in Communication

106B Horton Social Science Ctr
Phone: (603) 862-3315
Fax: (603) 862-1913
E-mail: c.feldman@unh.edu

 

Education:
B.A., Western Washington University, 1993
M.A., Georgetown University, 2003
Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh, 2009

Courses Taught:
CMN 455, Introduction to Media Studies
CMN 696, Seminar/Youth Culture & Media from 1945:  A Transnational Survey

 

 


Michael Jackson

Michael Jackson

Lecturer in Communication

124 Horton Social Science Center
Phone: (603) 862-1914
Fax: (603) 862-1913
E-mail: rmj2@cisunix.unh.edu

 

Education:
B.A., University of Arkansas, 1986
M.A., Centeral Washington University, 1993
Ph.D., Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 2002

Courses Taught:
CMN 504, Intro to Argumentation
CMN 600, Public Speaking as a Civic Art
CMN 697, Seminar/Rhetoric of the Photograph

 

 


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Mardi Kidwell

Associate Professor of Communication

110 Horton Social Science Center
Phone: (603) 862-3036
Fax: (603) 862-1913
E-mail: mkidwell@unh.edu

Curriculum Vitae

 

Education:
B.A., University of California at Santa Cruz, 1986
M.A., University of California at Santa Barbara, 1998
Ph.D., ibid., 2003

Courses Taught:
CMN 457, Introduction to Interpersonal Communication
CMN 572, Language and Social Interaction
CMN 666, Conversation Analysis
CMN 698, Seminar/Studying the Police

Fields of Research:
language and social interaction, child social behavior, and police-citizen communication

 

 


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Jack Lannamann

Associate Professor of Communication

106C Horton Social Science Center
Phone: (603) 862-3039
Fax: (603) 862-1913
E-mail: john.lannamann@unh.edu

 

Education:
B.S., Babson College, 1977
M.A., University of Massachusetts at Amherst, 1980
Ph.D., ibid., 1983

Courses Taught:
CMN 457, Intro to Interpersonal Communication
CMN 572, Language and Social Interaction
CMN 602, Theory of Interpersonal Communication
CMN 680, Perspectives on Culture and Communication
CMN 698, Seminar/Dialogue and Teamwork

Fields of Research:
interpersonal communication

 

 


Josh Lauer

Josh Lauer

Assistant Professor of Communication

106A Horton Social Science Center
Phone: (603) 862-3037
Fax: (603) 862-1913
E-mail: josh.lauer@unh.edu

Website

 

Education:
B.A., Indiana University of Pennsylvania, 1992
M.L.I.S., University of Pittsburgh, 1997
M.A., University of Pennsylvania, 2005
Ph.D., ibid., 2008

Courses Taught:
CMN 519, Advertising as Social Communication
CMN 696, Seminar/History of Surveillance Media

Fields of Research:
history and theory of mass media, communication technology, consumer culture, surveillance, economic constructions of reality

 

 


Sheila McNamee

Sheila McNamee

Professor of Communication

111A Horton Social Science Center
Phone: (603) 862-3040
Fax: (603) 862-1913
E-mail: smcnamee@cisunix.unh.edu

Website

 

Education:
B.A., University of Massachusetts at Amherst, 1978
M.A., ibid., 1980
Ph.D., ibid., 1982

Courses Taught:
CMN 457, Introduction to Interpersonal Communication
CMN 530, Family Communication
CMN 630, Psychology of Communication
CMN 698, Seminar/Mediation
CMN 698, Seminar/Dialogue, Teamwork, and Conflict

Fields of Research:
transformative dialogue in communities, education, health, and organizations

 

 


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Joshua Meyrowitz

Professor of Communication

111B Horton Social Science Center
Phone: (603) 862-3031
Fax: (603) 862-1913
E-mail: joshua.meyrowitz@unh.edu

 

Education:
B.A., Queens College, City University of New York, 1972
M.A., ibid., 1974
Ph.D., New York University, 1978

Courses Taught:
CMN 455, Introduction to Media Studies
CMN 515, Analysis of News
CMN 632, Communication Theory
CMN 658, Media Analysis and Criticism

Fields of Research:
mass media analysis

 

 


Danielle Pillet-Shore

Danielle Pillet-Shore

Assistant Professor of Communication

109 Horton Social Science Center
Phone: (603) 862-2362
Fax: (603) 862-1913
E-mail: danielle.pillet-shore@unh.edu

Website

 

Education:
B.A., University of California Los Angeles, 1998
M.A., ibid., 2001
Ph.D., ibid., 2008

Courses Taught:
CMN 598, Talk and Social Institutions
CMN 666, Conversation Analysis
CMN 698, Openings of Everyday Interactions

Fields of Research:
language and social interaction, conversation analysis, communication in everyday life, face-to-face interaction, sociolinguistics, verbal and non-verbal communication, social psychology, qualitative methods, ethnomethodology, interaction in education and medical settings, family-school communication, social norms, social control and service providing institutions

 

  


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Lawrence J. Prelli

Professor of Communication
Chair of the Communication Department

112B Horton Social Science Center
Phone: (603) 862-3034
Fax: (603) 862-1913
E-mail: ljp@cisunix.unh.edu

 

Education:
B.S., State University of New York College at Brockport, 1977
M.A., State University of New York at Albany, 1979
M.S., University of New Hampshire, 1998
Ph.D., Pennsylvania Sate University, 1984

Courses Taught:
CMN 456, Propaganda and Persuasion
CMN 507, Intro to Rhetorical Theory and Analysis
CMN 656, Principles of Rhetorical Criticism
CMN 697, Seminar/Rhetorics of Display

Fields of Research:
rhetorical theory and criticism, rhetorics of environmental discourse, rhetorics of display

 


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Affiliate Faculty 

Carol Conaway

Carol Conaway

Affiliate Assistant Professor of Communication

119 Horton Social Science Center
Phone: (603) 862-2991
Fax: (603) 862-1913
E-mail: cconaway@cisunix.unh.edu

Curriculum Vitae

 

Education:
A.B., Bryn Mawr College, 1970
S.M., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1981
Ph.D., ibid., 1994

Courses Taught:
CMN 567, Images of Gender in the Media
CMN 696, Seminar/Media and Politics

Fields of Research:
mass communication, gender studies

 


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Staff 

Bonnie Hodgdon

Bonnie L. Hodgdon

Academic Student Services Assistant

112 Horton Social Science Center
Phone: (603) 862-2292
Fax: (603) 862-1913
E-mail: bonnie.hodgdon@unh.edu

 

 

 

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