Faculty
Priya Doshi
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Priya Lothe Doshi has more than 15 years of experience as a public relations practitioner creating and implementing strategic communications plans, conducting media relations, training spokespeople, and planning high profile events.
Faculty
Leonard Steinhorn
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Leonard Steinhorn's expertise includes American politics, culture and media, strategic communication, the presidency, race relations, the 1960s, and recent American history.
Caty Borum Chattoo Executive in Residence SOC - School of Communication
Caty Borum Chattoo is Executive in Residence in the School of Communication and Director of the Center for Media & Social Impact. She is an award-winning communication strategist and documentary film/…
Priya Doshi Professorial Lecturer SOC - School of Communication
Priya Lothe Doshi has more than 15 years of experience as a public relations practitioner creating and implementing strategic communications plans, conducting media relations, training spokespeople, a…
Kathy Fitzpatrick Professor SOC - School of Communication
Kathy R. Fitzpatrick is professor and former senior associate dean for academic affairs in the School of Communication. She is also a faculty fellow in the Center on Public Diplomacy in the Annenberg …
Joseph Graf Assistant Professor SOC - School of Communication
Joseph Graf is an assistant professor of public communication. He is former research director for the Institute for Politics, Democracy and the Internet, which promotes Internet politics to improve ci…
Corinne Hoare Professorial Lecturer SOC - School of Communication
Corinne Hoare is a full-time professor of Public Communication. She has nearly a decade of high-level experience in the public relations and strategic communication field in both the private and publi…
Pallavi Kumar Assistant Professor SOC - School of Communication
Pallavi Damani Kumar is a full-time professor in American University’s School of Communication and the Division Director for the Public Communication. Prior to teaching full time, Kumar gained more th…
Dina Martinez Professorial Lecturer SOC - School of Communication
Dina Martinez is a full-time professor of Public Communication. She joined the Public Communications Division in 2011 as professor and Director for the Professional Public Communication Graduate Progr…
Wendy Melillo Farrill Associate Professor SOC - School of Communication
Wendy Melillo is a full-time professor of Public Communication. She teaches in the School of Communication's Strategic Communication division. Her research is focused on public service advertising. Me…
Ericka Menchen-Trevino Assistant Professor SOC - School of Communication
Ericka Menchen-Trevino's research and teaching interests lie at the intersection of political communication and digital media studies, with a focus on methodology. Over the course of her career, Erick…
Jason Mollica Professorial Lecturer SOC - School of Communication
Jason is a seasoned strategic communication professional with 20 years of experience as a journalist, news producer and PR professional. Jason started his career as a journalist working for WCAU-TV in…
Molly O'Rourke Executive in Residence SOC - School of Communication
Molly O’Rourke is an Executive in Residence in the School of Communication where she also serves as director of the MA program in Political Communication. She has more than 15 years’ experience in th…
Christie Parell Professorial Lecturer SOC - School of Communication
Christie Parell is a full-time professor of Public Communication. She brings more than 15 years of experience working in the communications field at the highest levels of both the public and private s…
Gemma Puglisi Assistant Professor SOC - School of Communication
Gemma Puglisi is a full-time professor of Public Communication. She is an award-winning media strategist and producer with more than 25 years of experience. During her career she has worked in broadca…
Lara Shane Professorial Lecturer SOC - School of Communication
Lara Shane is an executive and strategist with 20 years of communication and management experience in both the public and private sector. She most recently served as Vice President for Research and C…
Richard Stack Associate Professor SOC - School of Communication
Richard Stack is a full-time professor of Public Communication. He began researching the interaction of courts and media after his work in the Public Defenders Office revealed the criminal justice sys…
Leonard Steinhorn Professor SOC - School of Communication
Leonard Steinhorn is a professor of Public Communication and an affiliate professor of History. His expertise includes American politics, culture and media, strategic communication, the presidency, ra…
Scott Talan Assistant Professor SOC - School of Communication
Scott Talan, MPA, is an assistant professor of Public & Strategic Communication. Talan is an expert in social media and personal branding honed through communications experience in four distinct field…
Donald Tighe Lecturer in Residence SOC - School of Communication
Donald W. Tighe is a veteran of over twenty years of public affairs, media relations, and strategic communications leadership in the public, private, and nonprofit sectors. Much of this experience has…
Filippo Trevisan Assistant Professor SOC - School of Communication
Filippo Trevisan joined American University's School of Communication in August 2015. After working as a reporter for Italy's largest private news agency in Rome, he completed his PhD and worked as a …
Paula Weissman Professorial Lecturer SOC - School of Communication
Paula Weissman is a full-time professor of Public Communication and the Program Director for the School of Communication’s Online M.A. in Strategic Communication. Previously, she helped launch the M.P…
Rhonda Zaharna Professor SOC - School of Communication
R.S. (Rhonda) Zaharna is a full professor and Director of the International Media program in the School of Communication, American University, Washington, D.C. She specializes in public diplomacy, and…