Patricia Aufderheide
,Professor
Patricia Aufderheide is a professor of Film and Media Arts in the School of Communication at America... [More]
Randall Blair
,Associate Professor
Randall Blair is a professional filmmaker who teaches courses in producing, directing, script writin... [More]
Kyle Brannon
,Assistant Professor
Kyle "Kylos" Brannon is a filmmaker, motion graphic designer, photographer and VJ.... [More]
Carolyn Brown
,Assistant Professor
Carolyn Brown joins the School of Communication after working for MSNBC News and Fox News Channel as... [More]
W. Joseph Campbell
,Professor
W. Joseph Campbell joined the AU faculty in 1997, after more than 20 years in professional journalis... [More]
Angie Chuang
,Assistant Professor
Angie Chuang brings to the classroom her experience developing one of the first regional newspaper r... [More]
Wendell Cochran
,Associate Professor
An SOC faculty member since 1992, Wendell Cochran has spent more than 40 years practicing and teachi... [More]
John Doolittle
,Associate Professor
John Doolittle teaches courses in news production and the history of radio and television news. His ... [More]
John Douglass
,Associate Professor
John Douglass has been at American for more than 30 years and through most of this time has served a... [More]
Larry Engel
,Associate Professor
Larry Engel has been teaching and making films for more than 30 years. A producer, director, screenw... [More]
Lauren Feldman
,Assistant Professor
Lauren Feldman joined the SOC faculty in 2008 after receiving a Ph.D. from the Annenberg School for ... [More]
William Gentile
,Journalist in Residence
Bill Gentile is an independent journalist and documentary filmmaker at American University, where he... [More]
Joseph Graf
,Assistant Professor
Joseph Graf is former research director for the Institute for Politics, Democracy and the Internet, ... [More]
Darrell Hayes
,Assistant Professor
Darrell Hayes teaches public communication campaign courses for graduate students and theory courses... [More]
Amy Hendrick
,Assistant Professor
Amy Hendrick joins the Film & Media Arts Division after receiving her MFA from the S... [More]
Maria Ivancin
,Assistant Professor
Maria Ivancin teaches courses in strategic communication, research and management. Ivancin brings ma... [More]
Leena Jayaswal
,Associate Professor
Leena Jayaswal is head of the photography concentration. Her photography has been nationally recogni... [More]
David Johnson
,Assistant Professor
David Johnson teaches courses in digital journalism, interactive storytelling and convergence media.... [More]
Larry Kirkman
,Dean, School of Communication
Larry Kirkman has been Dean of the School of Communication since 2001. He directs and develops acade... [More]
Pallavi Kumar
,Assistant Professor
Pallavi Damani Kumar joined the Public Communication division in 2009 as an assistant professor afte... [More]
Christine Lawrence
,Assistant Professor
Christine C. Lawrence brings her experience covering politics and government to the SOC journalism d... [More]
Charles Lewis
,Distinguished Journalist in Residence
Charles Lewis is a national investigative journalist; a former ABC News and CBS News 60 Minutes prod... [More]
Dotty Lynch
,Executive in Residence
Dotty Lynch is an executive in residence in the School of Communication and a political consultant f... [More]
Brigid Maher
,Assistant Professor
Brigid Maher is a filmmaker and multimedia designer who heads the New Media concentration in SOC’s F... [More]
Wendy Melillo Farrill
,Assistant Professor
Wendy Melillo teaches in the School of Communication's Public Communication division. Her research i... [More]
Sarah Menke-Fish
,Assistant Professor
Documentary filmmaker Sarah Menke-Fish, who serves as associate director for the Center for Environm... [More]
Kathryn Montgomery
,Professor
Kathryn Montgomery teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in the Public Communication Division a... [More]
Claudia Myers
,Assistant Professor
Claudia Myers wrote and directed Kettle of Fish, which won a Nickelodeon Screenwriting Award and was... [More]
Matthew Nisbet
,Assistant Professor
Matthew Nisbet, Ph.D. is a social scientist who studies strategic communication in policy-making and... [More]
Jill Olmsted
,Associate Professor
Jill Olmsted was an on-air television and radio news anchor, reporter, and editorialist as well as a... [More]
Christopher Palmer
,Distinguished Film Producer in Residence
Chris Palmer is a wildlife filmmaker who joined the SOC faculty in 2004. Since then, he has founded ... [More]
Paola Pascual-Ferra
,Assistant Professor
Paola Pascual-Ferra joined SOC as assistant professor of Public Communication in 2009. From 2008-200... [More]
Lynne Perri
,Journalist in Residence
Lynne Perri specializes in visual journalism. Her fall courses are Online News Production, in which ... [More]
Gemma Puglisi
,Assistant Professor
Gemma Puglisi is an award-winning media strategist and producer with more than 25 years of experienc... [More]
Rick Rockwell
,Associate Professor
Rick Rockwell, an associate professor of broadcast journalism, is the co-author of the book Media Po... [More]
Christopher Simpson
,Professor
Chris Simpson is a respected scholar and author known internationally for his expertise in propagand... [More]
Richard Stack
,Associate Professor
Richard Stack began researching the interaction of courts and media after his work in the Public Def... [More]
Leonard Steinhorn
,Professor
Leonard Steinhorn’s expertise includes American politics, culture and media, strategic communication... [More]
Maggie Burnette Stogner
,Assistant Professor
Maggie Burnette Stogner teaches in the Film and Media Arts division, bringing over 20 years of exper... [More]
Rodger Streitmatter
,Professor
A cultural historian, Rodger Streitmatter is a leader in exploring how the media have helped to shap... [More]
Russell Williams
,Artist in Residence
Russell Williams joined SOC after an illustrious career in Hollywood, where he won two Academy Award... [More]
Rhonda Zaharna
,Associate Professor
Rhonda Zaharna specializes in intercultural and international strategic communication, with an empha... [More]

