Alice Arnold
,Professorial Lecturer
Alice Arnold is a full-time professor of Film and Media Arts and a documentary filmmaker. She teache... [More]
Patricia Aufderheide
,University Professor
Patricia Aufderheide is a full-time professor of Communication Studies in the School of Communicatio... [More]
Randall Blair
,Associate Professor
Randall Blair is a full-time professor of Film and Media Arts. He is a professional filmmaker who te... [More]
Caty Borum Chattoo
,Executive in Residence
Caty Borum Chattoo is a full-time professor of Public Communication. She has multifaceted expertise ... [More]
Kyle Brannon
,Assistant Professor
Kyle "Kylos" Brannon is a full-time professor of Film and Media Arts. He is a filmmaker, motion grap... [More]
Carolyn Brown
,Assistant Professor
Carolyn Brown is a full-time professor of Journalism. She joins the School of Communication after wo... [More]
W. Joseph Campbell
,Professor
W. Joseph Campbell is a full-time professor of Communication Studies. He joined the AU faculty in 19... [More]
SOC - School of Communication
Angie Chuang
,Assistant Professor
Angie Chuang is a full-time professor of Journalism. Her research and teaching focuses on race and i... [More]
Wendell Cochran
,Associate Professor
Wendell Cochran is a full-time professor of Journalism. An SOC faculty member since 1992, he has spe... [More]
Jayne Cubbage
,Professorial Lecturer
Jayne Cubbage is a full-time professor of Journalism. She has been both a professional and an academ... [More]
Laura DeNardis
,Associate Professor
Dr. Laura DeNardis is a globally recognized Internet governance scholar and an Associate Professor i... [More]
John Doolittle
,Associate Professor
John Doolittle is a full-time professor of Journalism. He teaches courses in news production and the... [More]
John Douglass
,Associate Professor
John Douglass is a full-time professor of Film and Media Arts. He has been at American for more than... [More]
Amy Eisman
,Director, Media Entrepreneurship & Interactive Journalism
Amy Eisman is director of the MA in Media Entrepreneurship, launched in 2012, and of the 13-year-old... [More]
Larry Engel
,Associate Professor
Larry Engel is a full-time professor of Film and Media Arts. With more than 30 years of teaching and... [More]
Joseph Erba
,Instructor
Joseph Erba is a full-time professor of Public Communication. Erba joins the faculty from the Univer... [More]
Declan Fahy
,Assistant Professor
Declan Fahy has been a full-time faculty member in SOC’s journalism division since 2010. His core re... [More]
Lauren Feldman
,Assistant Professor
Lauren Feldman is a full-time professor of Public Communication. She joined the SOC faculty in 2008 ... [More]
Deen Freelon
,Assistant Professor
Deen Freelon is Assistant Professor of Public Communication. His expertise is in mapping and analyzi... [More]
William Gentile
,Journalist in Residence
Bill Gentile is a full-time professor of Film and Media Arts. He is an independent journalist and do... [More]
Joseph Graf
,Assistant Professor
Joseph Graf is a full-time professor of Public Communication. He is former research director for the... [More]
Corinne Hoare
,Instructor
Corinne Hoare is a full-time professor of Public Communication. She joined the faculty while serving... [More]
Maria Ivancin
,Assistant Professor
Maria Ivancin is a full-time professor of Public Communication. She teaches courses in strategic com... [More]
Leena Jayaswal
,Associate Professor
Leena Jayaswal is a full-time professor of Film and Media Arts. She is head of the photography conce... [More]
David Johnson
,Assistant Professor
David Johnson is a full-time professor of Journalism. He teaches courses in digital journalism, inte... [More]
Larry Kirkman
,Professor
Larry Kirkman led the School of Communication as Dean from 2001-2012, directing and developing acade... [More]
Iris Krasnow
,Assistant Professor
Iris Krasnow is a full-time professor of Journalism. She was born and raised in Oak Park, Illinois. ... [More]
Pallavi Kumar
,Assistant Professor
Pallavi Damani Kumar is a full-time professor of Public Communication. She's the senior associate di... [More]
Christine Lawrence
,Assistant Professor
Christine C. Lawrence is a full-time professor of Journalism. She brings her experience covering pol... [More]
Charles Lewis
,Professor
Charles Lewis is a full-time professor of Journalism. He is a national investigative journalist; a f... [More]
Dotty Lynch
,Executive in Residence
Dotty Lynch is a full-time professor of Public Communication. She is the director of the SOC/SPA MA ... [More]
Brigid Maher
,Associate Professor
Brigid Maher is a full-time professor of Film and Media Arts. She is a filmmaker and writer who head... [More]
Dina Martinez
,Professorial Lecturer
Dina Martinez is a full-time professor of Public Communication. She joined the Public Communications... [More]
Wendy Melillo Farrill
,Assistant Professor
Wendy Melillo is a full-time professor of Public Communication. She teaches in the School of Communi... [More]
Sarah Menke-Fish
,Assistant Professor
Sarah Menke-Fish is a full-time professor of Film and Media Arts. She is a master teacher in the Sch... [More]
Kathryn Montgomery
,Professor
Kathryn Montgomery is a full-time professor of Communication Studies. She teaches graduate and under... [More]
Claudia Myers
,Assistant Professor
Claudia Myers is a full-time professor of Film and Media Arts. She wrote and directed Kettle of Fish... [More]
Matthew Nisbet
,Associate Professor
Matthew Nisbet is Associate Professor of Communication and Co-Director of the Center for Social Medi... [More]
Jill Olmsted
,Associate Professor
Jill Olmsted is a full-time professor of Journalism and the Journalism Division Director. She worked... [More]
Christopher Palmer
,Distinguished Film Producer in Residence
Chris Palmer is a full-time professor of Film and Media Arts. He is also a speaker, author, and envi... [More]
Lynne Perri
,Journalist in Residence
Lynne Perri is a full-time professor of Journalism. She is a journalist-in-residence at SOC and mana... [More]
Gemma Puglisi
,Assistant Professor
Gemma Puglisi is a full-time professor of Public Communication. She is an award-winning media strate... [More]
Rick Rockwell
,Associate Professor
Rick Rockwell is the interim Director of Journalism Programs and the School of Communication's Direc... [More]
Jeffrey Rutenbeck
,Dean, School of Communication
Before joining AU in July of 2012, Jeff was the founding dean of the Division of Communication and C... [More]
Jan Schaffer
,Entrepreneur in Residence
As SOC's Entrepreneur in Residence, Jan Schaffer helped to launch the school's MA in Media Entrepren... [More]
Nina Shapiro-Perl
,Filmmaker in Residence
Nina Shapiro-Perl is an award-winning producer and director who currently holds the position of Film... [More]
Christopher Simpson
,Professor
Chris Simpson is a full-time professor of Journalism. He is a respected scholar and author known int... [More]
Greg Smith
,Professorial Lecturer
Greg Smith has been teaching at AU since 2005. His professional background is as a film producer and... [More]
Richard Stack
,Associate Professor
Richard Stack is a full-time professor of Public Communication. He began researching the interaction... [More]
Leonard Steinhorn
,Professor
Leonard Steinhorn is a full-time professor of Public Communication. His expertise includes American ... [More]
Maggie Burnette Stogner
,Associate Professor
Maggie Burnette Stogner is a full-time professor of Film and Media Arts. She teaches in the Film and... [More]
Rodger Streitmatter
,Professor
Rodger Streitmatter is a full-time professor of Journalism. A cultural historian, he is a leader in ... [More]
Scott Talan
,Assistant Professor
Scott Talan, MPA, is a full-time professor of Public Communication. He has worked in media, PR, and ... [More]
John Watson
,Associate Professor
John C. Watson is a full-time professor of Journalism. He brings a combination of extensive professi... [More]
Russell Williams
,Distinguished Artist in Residence
Russell Williams is a full-time professor of Film and Media Arts. He joined SOC after an illustrious... [More]
Rhonda Zaharna
,Associate Professor
Rhonda Zaharna is a full-time professor of Public Communication. She specializes in intercultural an... [More]

