Faculty Work
This collection contains works by faculty and staff in the Department of Communication and Media at the University of Northern Iowa.
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Submissions from 2026
Imagining Futures for Communication Education: Environmental Crisis, Ecology, and Pedagogy, Sergio Fernando Juárez and C. Kyle Rudick
News Media Coverage of Measure ULA: How the story of LA’s big project to address homelessness and affordable housing got sidetracked by the story of big real estate, Christopher R. Martin
Submissions from 2025
Imagining Futures for Communication Education: AI, Education, and the Coming Crises, Sergio Fernando Juárez and C. Kyle Rudick
Imagining Futures for Communication Education: Anti-DEI Backlash and the Threat to Academic Freedom, Sergio Fernando Juárez and C. Kyle Rudick
Imagining Futures for Communication Education: A Transnational Response to Antigender Education in Latin America, Sergio Fernando Juárez and C. Kyle Rudick
Imagining Futures for Communication Education: Student Protest, Academic Freedom, and Repression in Higher Education, Sergio Fernando Juárez and C. Kyle Rudick
Media and Power, Bettina Fabos, Christopher R. Martin, and Catherine H. Palczewski
NCA Editor Reflection Forum, Leda Cooks, Jennifer A. Zenovich, Stephen Croucher, Stephanie Kelly, Leland Spencer, Heather Zoller, Marissa Doshi, Kimberlee Pérez, C. Kyle Rudick, and Ryan Neville-Shepard
Race, Gender, and DEI Focus at the Central States Communication Association: Interrogating the Construction of Inequality Regimes, C. Kyle Rudick, Melissa Dobosh, and Arian Sullivan
Submissions from 2024
Critical Race Theory Interventions for Public Speaking, Sergio Fernando Juárez and C. Kyle Rudick
Essential Issues in Symbolic Interaction, Shing-Ling S. Chen and Norman K. Denzin
Imagining Futures for Communication Education: Decolonial Possibilities and Land Based Pedagogy, Sergio Fernando Juárez and C. Kyle Rudick
Imagining Futures for Communication Education: Health Communication Campaigns as Pedagogical, Sergio Fernando Juárez and C. Kyle Rudick
Imagining Futures for Communication Education: Reproductive Justice, Abortion, and Pedagogy, Sergio Fernando Juárez and C. Kyle Rudick
Imagining Futures for Communication Education: XR/VR and the Promise of Educational Technology, Sergio Fernando Juárez and C. Kyle Rudick
Inequality in Everyday Life, Michael A. Katovich and Shing Ling S. Chen
Instruction in Indian Secondary Schools: The Indirect Effect of Teacher Humor on Student Engagement Through Interest, C. Kyle Rudick, Alan K. Goodboy, Aashita Singh Vadhera, Seerat Gill, Jai Madhav Goel, Jasleen Kaur Atwal, Divij Gupta, Khushi Saluja, Arunima Nimbokar, Kanwardeep Singh, Siya Kapoor, Simrandeep Kaur, Ojas Jetley, and Sehar Malik
Performance or Appearance: Paradoxical Generalized Others of the College Female Athletes, Shing Ling S. Chen, Zhuojun Joyce Chen, and Courtney Styron
Planting New Fields: A Renewed Purpose for Communication Education, C. Kyle Rudick
Political Graffiti and Global Human Rights: Take Another Look, Evan Renfro and Philip Hopper
Teaching Precarity: Pedagogy, Politics, and Abortion Post Dobbs, Shreya Singh, Cecilia Cerja, and Catherine Helen Palczewski
Submissions from 2023
Adapting To Survive … And Thrive, Karen S. Mitchell
Communication for College, Career, and Civic Life, Ryan McGeough, C. Kyle Rudick, Danielle Dick McGeough, and Kathryn B. Golsan
Cornerstone: 2023-2024 [2nd edition], Nikki Harken, Deb Young, Sadé Barfield, and Scott Bredman
Labor Journalism History: The Missing Story of Workers, Christopher R. Martin
Misogynoir And The Public Woman: Analog And Digital Sexualization Of Women In Public From The Civil War To The Era Of Kamala Harris, Cecilia Cerja, Nicole D. Nave, Kelly L. Winfrey, Catherine Helen Palczewski, and Leslie A. Hahner
Next Step: University of Northern Iowa, Nichole Harken
The Absolute State Of Research In Communication Education: Facing Hanlon’s Razor, C. Kyle Rudick
Books from 2022
Cornerstone: 2022-2023 [1st edition], Nikki Harken and Deb Young
Discordant Pandemic Narratives in the U.S., Shing-Ling S. Chen and Nicole Allaire
Festschrift in Honor of Norman K. Denzin: He Knew His Song Well Vol: 55, Shing-Ling S. Chen
Historical And Legal Considerations In Development Of A For-Credit Internship Program, Nichole Zumbach Harken and Shelley Price-Williams
Rhetoric in Civic Life, Catherine Helen Palczewski, Richard Ice, and John Fritch
Visual Archivist Activist: Dan Brouwer’s Visual Ethic Of Looking, Seeing, Witnessing, Catherine Helen Palczewski and Linda Diane Horwitz
You Have To Name The Problem To Fix It: White Supremacy In Communication Education, C. Kyle Rudick
Submissions from 2021
Innovation And Ingenuity In The Fortepan Digital Photo Archive, Isaac Campbell and Bettina Fabos
Media & Culture: An Introduction to Mass Communication, Richard Campbell, Christopher Martin, and Bettina Fabos
On The Suicide Of Angelus Novus: Searching For History's Future Through (Academic) Hell, C. Kyle Rudick
Recent Developments In The New Iowa School Of Symbolic Interactionism, Michael Katovich and Shing Ling S. Chen
Representations Of The Working Poor, Christopher R. Martin
“The Only Thing Red About Her”: Personal Intertextual Palimpsests In Lucille Ball's Huac Testimony, Nicole Williams Barnes, Catherine Helen Palczewski, and Heather Nicole Lund
Using Pitch Height And Pitch Strength To Characterize Type 1, 2, And 3 Voice Signals, Supraja Anand, Lisa M. Kopf, Rahul Shrivastav, and David A. Eddins
Submissions from 2020
Commemorating A Whole Story Of Woman Suffrage, Catherine Helen Palczewski
Team Coordination In Uncertain Environments: The Role Of Processual Communication Networks, Andrew Pilny, Melissa Dobosh, Alex Yahja, Marshall Scott Poole, Aaron Campbell, Luisa Ruge-Jones, and Jeff Proulx
Wicked Problems As Moral Crossroads: Choosing The Path For Human Flourishing, C. Kyle Rudick
“Yes, And … ”: Continuing The Scholarly Conversation About Teacher Labor In Pk-12 Education*, C. Kyle Rudick and Deanna P. Dannels
Yes, And … : Continuing The Scholarly Conversation About Undue Donor Influence On Higher Education, C. Kyle Rudick and Deanna P. Dannels
Submissions from 2019
A Communication And Instruction Approach To Embodied Cultural And Social Capital At A Public, 4-Year University, C. Kyle Rudick, Fernando Ismael Quiñones Valdivia, Lexi Hudachek, Jackson Specker, and Alan K. Goodboy
Distinguishing (The) Right From Wrong: Knowledge, Curriculum, And Intellectual Responsibility, Brandi Lawless, C. Kyle Rudick, and Kathryn Golsan
“‘I Was Gonna Go Off, But My Best Friend Is White.”: Hispanic Students’ Co-Cultural Reasoning In A Hispanic Serving Institution, Amy Sanford, C. Kyle Rudick, Keith Nainby, Kathryn B. Golsan, Stephanie Rollie Rodriguez, and Christopher J. Claus
Proud & Torn: A Visual Memoir Of Hungarian History, Bettina Fabos, Leslie M. Waters, Kristina E. Poznan, Dana Potter, Isaac Campbell, Collin Cahill, and Jacob Espenscheid
Small Group Use Of Communication Technologies: A Comparison Of Modality On Group Outcomes, Melissa A. Dobosh, Marshall Scott Poole, and Rahul Malik
“Yes, And … ”: Continuing The Scholarly Conversation About Hispanic Serving Institutions*, C. Kyle Rudick and Deanna P. Dannels
“Yes, And … *”: Continuing The Scholarly Conversation About The Dark Side Of Social Media *, C. Kyle Rudick and Deanna P. Dannels
“Yes, And … * ” Continuing The Scholarly Conversation About Contingent Labor In Higher Education, C. Kyle Rudick and Deanna P. Dannels
“Yes, And … *”: Continuing The Scholarly Conversation About Mentoring In Higher Education, C. Kyle Rudick and Deanna P. Dannels
Submissions from 2018
Civility And White Institutional Presence: An Exploration Of White Students' Understanding Of Race-Talk At A Traditionally White Institution, C. Kyle Rudick and Kathryn B. Golsan
Critical Communication Pedagogy And Service Learning In A Mixed-Method Communication Research Course, C. Kyle Rudick, Kathryn B. Golsan, and Jennifer Freitag
Navigating Instructional Dialectics: Empirical Exploration Of Paradox In Teaching, Blair Thompson, C. Kyle Rudick, Jeff Kerssen-Griep, and Kathryn Golsan
Yes, And … : Continuing The Scholarly Conversation About Freedom Of Speech At Colleges And Universities*, C. Kyle Rudick and Deanna P. Dannels
Submissions from 2017
Ann, Shing Ling S. Chen
Comparing Hispanic-To-White Co-Cultural Communication At Four-Year, Public Hispanic Serving And Predominately White Institutions, C. Kyle Rudick, Michael Sollitto, Christopher J. Claus, Amy Aldridge Sanford, Keith Nainby, and Kathryn B. Golsan
First-Generation Students’ Privacy Management Rules With Parents: Advocating For A Relational Ethic Of Listening Through Critical Communication Pedagogy, Alyssa McFarlan, Walter Abrego, Sherokee Eder, Crystal Hernandez, Sara Koch, and C. Kyle Rudick
Media Laws In Political Transition, Chris W. Ogbondah
Pledge-A-Picketer, Power, Protest, And Publicity: Explaining Protest When The State/Establishment Is Not The Opposition, Catherine Helen Palczewski and Kelsey Harr-Lagin
Television Formats And The United States: New Developments In Production And Distribution, Paul Torre
Submissions from 2016
Digital Literacy, Public History, And Fortepan, Bettina Fabos, Leisl Carr Childers, and Sergey Golitsynskiy
Navigating The Visual Turn In Argument, Leo Groarke, Catherine H. Palczewski, and David Godden
Rhetoric in Civic Life, Catherine Helen Palczewski, Richard Ice, and John Fritch
The Power Of Language: A Constitutive Response To Millennial Student Research, C. Kyle Rudick and Scott Ellison
Submissions from 2015
Introduction: Teaching Oral Interpretation In The Age Of Performance Studies, Charles T. Parrott and Danielle Dick McGeough
Literacy In Performance Studies: Connecting Oral Interpretation, Critical Media Literacy, And Digital Performance, Danielle Dick McGeough
Oppositional Memory Practices: U.S. Memorial Spaces As Arguments Over Public Memory, Ryan Erik McGeough, Catherine Helen Palczewski, and Randall A. Lake
Submissions from 2014
A Dynamic Social Network Experiment With Multi-Team Systems, Andrew Pilny, Alex Yahja, Marshall Scott Poole, and Melissa Dobosh
Sexing Communication: Hearing, Feeling, Remembering Sex/Gender And Sexuality In The NCA, Charles E. Morris and Catherine Helen Palczewski
The Trouble With Iconic Images: Historical Timelines And Public Memory, Bettina Fabos
When Mcluhan Met Simmel: Form Is The Content, Medium Is The Message, Shing Ling S. Chen, Mark D. Johns, and Laura A. Terlip
Books from 2013
Media in Society: A Brief Introduction, Bettina Fabos, Richard Campbell, Joli Jensen, Douglas Gomery, and Julie Frechette
Books from 2012
Rhetoric in Civic Life, Catherine Helen Palczewski, Richard Ice, and John Fritch