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Department of Communication Convocation The 2008 graduation Convocation for Communication students is Friday, May 16th at 3:30 pm in the John Wright Theatre. Seating is limited and tickets are required for admission. Please contact the main Communication Department for more information at 559.278.2621.
College of Arts & Humanities Commencement
The College of Arts & Humanities will hold Commencement for all Arts & Humanities (which includes the Department of Communication) students on Friday, May 16th at 12:30 pm in the SaveMart Center. Seating is open and tickets are not required for admission.
May 2008: Dr. Kevin Ayotte is awarded tenure and promotion to the rank of Associate Professor.
May 2008: Dr. Diane Blair has been elected Vice President of the local chapter of the California Faculty Association.
May 2008: Dr. Shane Moreman was recognized with an outstanding advisor award.
April 2008: Dr. Sally Tannanbaum recorded a radio spot (MP3 Format).
April 2008: The Department celebrated its first-annual Awards Reception on April 17.
April 2008: Dr. Tom Hollihan was the Keynote Speaker for the Undergraduate Communication Conference. Dr. Hollihan made two presentations, "
“Angry, Disinterested, and Cynical: Public Attitudes Toward the 2008 U.S. Presidential Election.” and
"Globalization, Democracy, and Citizen Deliberation: A Call for Progressive Social Action." Video
April 2008: Graduate Student Tiffany Sarkisian Rodriquez will be defending her thesis, "The Rhetoric of the Most Reverend Katharine Jefferts Schori: A Rhetoric of Reconciliation" on Tuesday, April 15th from 3:30-5:30pm at USU 310.
April 2008: Dr. Marnel Niles presented "Touch My Hair and I’ll Beat You Up’: My Hair Identity as Black and Woman." to the Fresno State Diversity Conference. More Information.
April 2008: The 50th Anniversary of Peach Blossom brought 6400 students, 200 schools & 400 teachers to the Fresno State Campus.
April 2008: Dr. Shane Moreman's competitive manuscript, " “Buscando para nuestra latinidad: Utilizing La Llorona for the cultural critique of Chasing Papi" has been accepted by the Journal of International and Intercultural Communication.
March 2008: Dr. Devendra Sharma speaks to BBC Radio about performance traditions. More information.
March 2008: Dr. Diane Blair's competitive manuscirpt, "I want you to write me': Eleanor Roosevelt's Use of Personal Letters as Rhetorical Resource" has been accepted to the Western Journal of Communication.
March 2008: Dr. Shane Moreman's competitive manuscript, "Memoir as Performance: Strategies of Hybrid Ethnic Identity" has been accepted to Text and Performance Quarterly.
March 2008: Dr. Devendra Sharma directs a Nautanki folk musical in the Bay Area. More information.
March 2008: Dr. Kevin Ayotte was a panelist for a discussion surrounding "Five Years of War in Iraq." More information.
March 2008: Dr. Diane Blair will present, "Anticipating Madam President: Is America Ready for a Woman in the White House?" at the Unitarian Universalist Town Hall meeting of the Unitarian Universalist Church on March 16th 9:00am.
March 2008: Dr. Erin Rand's competitive manuscript on Larry Kramer's activism was recently accepted by the Quarterly Journal of Speech.
March 2008: Dr. Devendra Sharma will be recognized by the Madden Library for the book chapter, "Catalyzing social reform through participatory performances in rural India,” in Larry Frey and Kevin Carragee (Eds.) Communication Activism: Media and Performance Activism. The reception and exhibit of outstanding faculty publications is March 7th from 5-7 pm.
March 2008: Dr. Marnel Niles will present "Safe Space: A Small Group Perspective on Black Women's Friendship Groups." The lecture and discussion is March 12 from 12-1 in the UBC 194 for Fourth Annual Women's Studies Brown Bag Series in Honor of Women's History Month.
March 2008: Dr. Shane Moreman will present, "The Latin Lover in Contemporary Hollywood: Tensions between U.S. Citizenship and Latino Masculinity." The lecture is March 13 from 6:00-7:30 pm in UC 202. More information in University Journal.
March 2008: Lecturer Barbara Aston raised over $10,000 in donations for the local Community Food Bank. More information in University Journal.
March 2008: Pictures from WSCA
February, 2008: Dr. Sally Tannenbaum presented "Primary Elections Analysis 2008" Presentation to Women's Political Caucus.
February, 2008: Dr. Sally Tannenbaum's Television interview, "Super Tuesday Political Analysis," KSEE Channel 24 News.
February 2008: Dr. Devendra Sharma presented "How we use communication for social change" to the Central Valley Cultural Heritage Institute.
Feburary 2008. Dr. Craig Folwer published the competitive journal article, Attitudes toward Decision-making and Aging, and Preparation for Future Care Needs in the journal Health Communication.
February 2008: Dr. Robert Powell discusses the Department's Communication Conference at Fresno State News.
January 2008: Dr. Shane Moreman published the chapter: Moreman, S. T. (2008). Hybrid Performativity, South and North of the Border: Entre la teoría y la materialidad de hibridación. In A. N. Valdivia (Ed.), Latina/o Communication Studies Today (pp. 91-111). New York: Peter Lang.
December 2007: Graduate student Stacie Moore defended her MA Comprehensive examinations. Congratulations!
November 2007: Congratulations to graduate student Leslie Collins Hester, recipient of the Research Merit Award from the Division of Graduate Studies for her thesis work.
November 2007: Congratulations to graduate students Tiffany Rogers and Jeanine Herrick each of whom have been awarded a Robert and Norma Craig Graduate Fellowship for 2007-2008.
November 2007: Dr. Scott Moore and former graduate student Bradley Adame recently co-authored an article accepted for publication in the journal of Patient Education and Counseling.
November 2007: Congratulations to graduate student Tyffani Upton for receiving the Top Debut Paper Award for the paper, "Fighting for Freedom of Speech: A Rhetorical Analysis of Churchill's Discourse," to be presented to the Rhetoric and Public Address Interest Group at the 2008 WSCA conference.
November 2007: Dr. Shane Moreman is the newest member to the California Teaching Fellows Foundation Board of Directors.
November 2007: Dr. Erin Rand recently published the article: Rand, E. J. (2007). Revolutionary Pants: Identity, Play and Collective Action. Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies, 4, 430-434.
November 2007: Dr. Diane Blair will host a conversational table as part of the College Arts and Humanities Conversation in the Arts event. This event brings faculty expertise to the community. The discussion topic for Dr. Blair's table is "Electing Madame President."
October 2007: Leslie Collins Hester will defend her thesis titled, " Rebellious Revelry: The Rhetorical Functions of Anna Howard Shaw's Use of Humor" on October 24th, 11:00am-1:00pm in Speech Arts 32. The oral defense is open to the public.
October 2007: Dr. Katherine Adams has been invited to join the EditorialAdvisory Board of Fresno Magazine.
October 2007. Dr. Scott Moore has been invited to join the editorial board for a special issue of the international journal of Patient Education and Counseling, on the topic of “Using Translational Research to Develop Participative Cancer Communication Interventions for Vulnerable Populations.” Gary Kreps, Editor.
October 2007: Dr. Diane Blair & Dr. Sally Tannenbaum will participate in the 2007 Roger Tatarian Symposium discussing "The Internet’s Impact on Traditional Campaign Communication Methods.” More Information.
October 2007: Dr. Scott Moore who serves on the Editorial Board for the Western Journal of Communication (Cheree Carlson, Editor 2005-2009) has been reappointed through 2011 (Brian Ott, Editor 2009-2011).
September 2007: Dr. Erin Rand presented "When Mourning Is Not Enough: Activism in the Early Years of the AIDS Crisis" as the centerpiece presentation for the Universalist Unitarian Church's August 2007 service on AIDS.
September 2007: Dr. Shane Moreman was invited along with with Bernadette Calafell (University of Denver) to be guest editors for a special issue of Text and Performance Quarterly on Latina/o Performativities. Such an invitation is an honor and recognizes Dr. Moreman's work in Latina/o identity and performance. This issue is specifically devoted to multiple sites of Latina/o performance and will showcase work that will both complement and confront the criteria of performance and performance theory.
September 2007: Dr. Marnel Niles has been elected Vice President of the Black Faculty and Staff Association.
September 2007: A very special congratulations to Dr. Craig Fowler who recently received acceptance of a manuscript titled, "Interpersonal Motives for Siblings across the Lifespan.” In an upcoming issue of Communication Quarterly.
July 2007: Dr. Scott Moore has been appointed to the Scientific Advisory Board of the National Center for Risk and Crisis Management.
July 2007: Entering graduate student Tiffany Rogers has been awarded the University Graduate Equity Fellowship. Congratulations!
June 2007: Dr. Devendra Sharma co-authored a chapter titled "Catalyzing social reform through participatory folk performances in rural India" in Communication Activism by Hampton press.
June 2007: CSU Chancellor Charles Reed accepted graduate student Bradley Adame into the California State University Chancellor's Doctoral Incentive Program. Congratulations!
June 2007: Graduate Student Bryan Hirayama has accepted a teaching position at Baiko Gakuin University in Japan.
May 2007: Alumna and lecturer Linda Carvalho Cooley has accepted a position at Reedley College.
May 2007: Several Program Enhancement Awards were given to Communication Department Faculty. Dr. Diane Blair will develop a seminar in Feminist Communication Theory and Scholarship; Dr. Sally Tannenbaum will develop a seminar in Leadership; and Dr. Dev Sharma will work on UN/AIDS research.
May 2007: Graduate Student Johnathan Brooks successfully defended his MA comprehensive examination. Congratulations!
May 2007: Dr. Craig Fowler and Dr. Devendra Sharma received research grants. Dr. Fowler will investigate relational maintenance and equity in marriages in mid- and later-life; Dr. Sharma will assist with a United Nationas AIDS research project.
May 2007: Dr. Scott Moore has been reappointed Chair of the Department of Philosophy for the 2007-2008 academic year.
May 2007: Dr. Sally Tannenbaum received tenure and is promoted to the rank of Associate Professor.
May 2007: Graduate student Bryan Hirayama successfully defended his MA comprehensive examination. Congratulations!
May 2007: Graduate student Christina Collins successfully defended her MA comprehensive examination. Congratulations!
May 2007: Alumnus Daniel Duke (BA '00) accepted an invitation from Dean Vida Samiian to join the College of Arts & Humanities Advisory Board. Welcome!
May 2007: Graduate student Diana Stuber successfully defended her MA project, "Interdisciplinary Approach to Diversity Training." Congratulations!
May 2007: Dr. Kevin Ayotte was awarded the Promising New Faculty Provost's Award. This is an extremely well deserved and prominent honor! Congratulations!
May 2007: Graduate student Bradley Adame successfully defended his MA comprehensive examination. Mr. Adame will matriculate into the doctoral program in Communication at the University of Oklahoma.
May 2007: Dr. Shane Moreman presented "Don't Say Goodbye/Si tu te vas: Entre la teoría y la materialidad de hibridación," at the International Communication Association annual meeting, Ethnicity and Race in Communication Division in San Francisco.
April 2007: Dr. Robert Powell has been awarded the 2007 Torch of Excellence Award for mentoring of student-athletes. Congratulations!
April 2007: Dr. Sally Tannenbaum has been awarded the Jan & Bud Richter Award for Excellence in Education, awarded to Liberal Studies faculty outside of the college of education who are involved with students intent to achieve a teaching credential. Congratulations!
April 2007: Graduate student Dawn Marie McIntosh has accepted an offer to matriculate into the doctoral program in Communication at the University of Denver.
April 2007: Dr. Shane Moreman offered a course Tourist as Communicator in collaboration with the Universidad Xochicalco. More information.
April 2007: At a College of Arts & Humanities ceremony, graduate student Dawn Marie McIntosh was awarded the 2007 Arts & Humanities Graduate Dean's Medal. Additionally, she received a Graduate Research Merit Award. Congratulations!
April 2007: The CSUF Department of Communication sends its condolences to the faculty, staff and student population at Virginia Tech. Members of the CSUF communication faculty have strong ties to VT faculty in their Department of Communication.
April 2007: Dr. Devendra Sharma has been invited to work as “chief creative consultant” with the Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) in India. UNAIDS is funding Dr. Sharma to travel to India in summer 2007 to work with local partners to design and implement a pilot folk performance campaign to combat HIV/AIDS in the Indian state of Bihar. UNAIDS will also provide support for Dr. Sharma and other collaborators to collect quantitative and qualitative data for assessing the efficacy of the pilot project.
April 2007: Dr. Shane Moreman presented "The Blur of Mixed-Ethnic Identity: Focusing on the Politics and Possibilities of Multiple Selves" as part of the College of Arts & Humanities 2006-2007 Lecture Series.
April 2007: Graduate students Bradley Adame & Leslie Collins Hester were selected as two of 22 students on the campus to highlight their research at the Graduate Student Recognition Exposition. Congratulations!
April 2007: Congratulations to graduate students Diana Stuber, Trudy Tucker and Kherstin Khan each of whom had papers accepted to the 27th Annual Central California Research Symposium.
April 2007: Dr. Marnel Niles successfully defended her dissertation titled, Safe Space: A Small Group Perspective on Black Women Friendships, at Howard University. Congratulations!
March 2007: The Department of Communication announces the keynote
speaker of the 2007 Undergraduate
Communication Conference will be Dr. Nick Trujillo of Sacramento State
University, pictured here with his longtime partner, the late Dr. Leah Vande
Berg. The conference is scheduled for April 20 & 21.
March 2007: The Department of Communication welcomed Peach Blossom participants, teachers and family. In its 49th year, the oral interpretation festival hosted over 5,000 children throughout the Central Valley.
March 2007: Dr. Erin Rand presented a lecture on the Lesbian Avengers, an activist group of the early 1990s as part of Women's History Month.
March 2007: Dawn Marie McIntosh successfully defended her Master of Arts thesis, "Staging the Critical Functions of Identity: An Ethnography of Latina Drag Queens." Congratulations, Dawn Marie!
March 2007: The Department of Communication is pleased to welcome new faculty member Marnel Niles from Howard University in Washington DC. Ms. Niles specializes in relational group discourse and organizational communication. Welcome!
March 2007: Bradley Adame and Dr. Scott Moore accepted an invitation to present their research at the Communicating about Cancer Symposium at Chapman University. Their paper, Self-efficacy as health literacy in the negotiation of systemic bureaucracy, was included in the symposium designed to close the gap on health and cancer literacy by bringing top scholars from a variety of disciplines to highlight theoretical and research perspectives in the delivery of cancer care.
February 2007: Dr. Scott Moore was elected to the university Academic Planning and Policy Committee (AP&P).
January 2007: Congratulations to Dawn Marie McIntosh. She received an Educational Research and Project Grant (ERPG), designed to provide financial support for student research, projects, and other scholarly endeavors under faculty supervision.
January 2007: Dr. Sally Tannenbaum and Dr. Sharon Brown-Welty have an essay appearing online in Horizon, a newsletter for the Association of Experiential Education.
December 2006: Instructor Judith Scott received a $7000 grant to refine an Academic Integrity Workshop with co-principal investigator Ida Jones. The workshop explores topics of cheating and plagiarism and is designed for both students and faculty.
December 2006: Incoming graduate student Guy Wade was awarded a Provost Graduate Student Scholarship for Spring 2007. Congratulations, Guy!
December 2006: Trudy Tucker successfully defended her Master of Arts project, "“The Cultural Legacy of the Ahwahneechee People: An Appreciative Inquiry Ethnography." Congratulations, Trudy!
December 2006: WSCA Participation: Nineteen CSUF faculty and students will present papers at the Western States Communication Association in Seattle, Washington. Graduate students presenting their research include: Brad Adame, Matt Schulz, Diana Stuber, Laine Hendricks, Krystin Risch, Leslie Gail Collins-Hester, Tiffany Rodriguez, Bryan Hirayama, Christina Collins, Dawn Marie McIntosh and Stacie Moore. Faculty presenting their research include Dr. Erin Rand, Dr. Kevin Ayotte, Dr. Devendra Sharma, Dr. Sally Tannenbaum, Dr. Scott Moore, Dr. Craig Fowler, Dr. Douglas Fraleigh, Dr. Diane Blair and part-time faculty member Jerry Thurston. Other CSUF faculty members who have an active role at the conference chairing, responding and organizing include Dr. Kathy Adams, Dr. Shane Moreman and Dr. John Cagle.
December 2006: The College of Arts and Humanities awarded Dr. Douglas Fraleigh a sabbatical for Spring 2008, to investigate the area of Legal Communication.
November 2006: Vanessa Ruiz successfully defended her Master of Arts Thesis titled, "Social Capital and Teacher Immediacy: Factors Influencing the Academic Motivation for Students Considered Academically at Rick." Congratulations, Vanessa.
November 2006: Comm 188T: Performance as Communication will be offered in Spring 2007 on T-Th 11:00-12:15. More Information.
November 2006: NCA Participation Eleven CSUF faculty and students
present papers at the National Communication Association Convention
in San Antonio. Five Department of Communication faculty present "top" papers
in their respective divisions:
Dr. Kevin Ayotte:
Top 4 Paper in Argumentation and Forensics;
Dr. Craig Fowler:
Top 4 Paper in Communication and Aging;
Dr. Erin Rand:
Top 3 Paper in GLBT Division;
Dr. Devendra
Sharma: Top 3 Paper in Performance Studies;
Dr. Sally
Tannenbaum: Top Papers Panel in Experiential Learning in Communication.
Other presenters include: Holly Anderson, Christina Collins, Kherstin
Khan, Dawn Marie McIntosh, Dr.
Shane Moreman, and Trudy Tucker.
November 2006. On election day eve, Dr. Sally Tannenbaum participated in an on-air round table forum for KSEE 24's news coverage of election results.
October 2006: Dr. Craig Fowler published a book chapter with Dr. Jon Nussbaum of Penn State. The chapter is titled Communication with the Aging Patient. In the same book, Jerry Thurston, a part time member of the CSUF faculty and Assistant Professor at Fresno City College has co-authored a chapter titled, Cultural Competence and the Barriers to the Delivery of Healthcare with Dr. Scott Moore. The book, Applications in Health Communication, is Edited by Dr. Kevin Wright & Dr. Scott Moore and published by Hampton Press.
October 2006: The National Communication Association's Division of Critical and Cultural Studies has awarded the 2006 Outstanding Dissertation Award to Dr. Erin Rand for her dissertation, "Risking Resistance: Rhetorical Agency in Queer Theory and Activism." Congratulations, Erin, on this prestigious national award! Erin appears in the November issue of University Journal.
October 2006: In celebration of Free Speech Week and the annual Take Back the Night program, Dr. Shane Moreman delivered a brief speech entitled "Cállate joto" to program attendees.
October 2006: Dr. Scott Moore has been appointed Chair ad interim for the Department of Philosophy beginning Spring 2007; Dr. Moore will continue to teach in the Communication Graduate program.
October 2006: Several of Communication students received scholarship awards for their internships involving community service: Congratulations to Adam Horn & Kylie Tsudama for their Maddy Institute Awards; Craig Meredith, Morgan Spruance, & Diana Bui for their scholarships from the University Future Scholars Program; and to Katelyn Hicks & Randi Say for their scholarships from the University Community Service fund.
October 2006: The Communication Graduate Student Association became recognized by the University as an official student group. Congratulations to CGSA on this milestone!
September 2006: Dr. Douglas Fraleigh moderated a symposium on Proposition 84, the Clean Water, Parks and Coastal Protection bond. Featured panelists included Mrs. Coke Hallowell of the San Joaquin River Parkway and Conservatory, Dr. John Suen of the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, and Daniel Duke, an environmental consultant and alumnus of the CSUF Department of Communication.
September 2006: The College of Arts & Humanities announces its 2006-2007 Lecture Series. Dr. Shane Moreman will present "The Blur of Mixed-Ethnic Identity: Focusing on the Politics and Possibilities of Multiple Selves" on Thursday April 12, 2007, from 7:00-8:00pm, in the Alice Peters Auditorium. More Information.
September 2006. Fall 2006 Academic Deadlines Reminder: September 11 is the last day to add a class without a permission number; it is also the last day to drop a class without a serious and compelling reason or to register for credit by examination. September 25 is the last day to register for a class with a permission number, drop a class without a W, change from credit to no/credit grading, or complete credit by examination.
September 2006: Dr. Sally Tannenbaum is offering a course in Political Campaign Communication (Fall 2006). Several notable guest speakers will be visiting her course during the semester. Interested individuals are invited and welcomed. All presentations are in Speech Arts, room 26. More information.
August 2006: Notice about Permission Numbers. The Department of Communication Main Office does not give out any permission numbers for any classes. Permission numbers are given at the discretion of the instructor of record for each class.
August 2006: The Department of Communication mourns the loss of former
Dean Luis Costa, who died Saturday, August 26th. Dean Costa
was influential in a number of careers and developments in the CSUF College
of Arts & Humanities. The Department sends its condolences to wife
Wendy and sons Jason, Alex and Justin. More
information.
August 2006: The Department of Communication mourns the loss of undergraduate senior Kwasi Opoku-Sakyi, who referred to himself as "Q." He will be missed by his friends and communication faculty. The Department sends its sincere condolences to his father, CSUF Professor Yaw Oheneba-Sakyi of the Africana Studies Department. More information.
August 2006: New Graduate Student Library. Over the years, the Department of Communication received donations of journals from several retiring faculty. Many of these holdings along with journals from the department’s own subscriptions were sorted and placed in a series of bookshelves in the copy room. A very special thank you is extended to Brad Adame, Bryan Hirayama and Dr. Devendra Sharma for their efforts in creating the new library. Graduate Students who use this resource are asked to check out journals using the “honor system clipboard” in the copy room.
June 2006: Graduate Student Dawn Marie McIntosh has been selected as a Sally Casanova Pre-Doctoral Scholar. Congratulations for this honor!
June 2006: Professor Devendra Sharma successfully defended his doctoral dissertation Performing Nautanki: Popular Community Folk Performances as Sites of Dialogue and Social Change at Ohio University. Congratulations!
May 2006: New Website Design: The Department of Communication debuts a new look! Special thanks to Daniel Bernard for assistance with the design. Looking for information not on the new page? Although disruption has been minimized, some material is no longer available.
May 2006: The Department of Communication announces two scholarship recipients. Katherine Ebert was awarded the Charles Taylor scholarship, and Jeannine Hendrick was awarded the Parella scholarship.
April 2006. Lambda Pi Eta inducts nine new members. Congratulations!
ay 2006: The Department of Communication announces two scholarship recipients. Katherine Ebert was awarded the Charles Taylor scholarship, and Jeannine Hendrick was awarded the Parella scholarship.
April 2006. Lambda Pi Eta inducts nine new members. Congratulations!
April 2006: The Department of Communication hosted the annual Undergraduate
Communication Conference. The conference was a huge success! Keynote
speaker Dr. Howard Giles presented two speeches, one on communication and
law enforcement, the other on intergenerational stereotypes and accommodation.
March 2006: The Department of Communication announces the hiring of Dr. Erin Rand from the University of Iowa. Her scholarship addresses rhetorical theory and criticism, activism and social change, and queer theory and feminism. She is currently working on a project that considers the queer activism of the early-1990s in relation to the rise of academic queer theory during the same period. Her publications include an article in the Journal of Communication Inquiry and a forthcoming essay in Rhetoric and Public Affairs.