Faculty Publications
Publications written by faculty and staff in the Department of Communication and Media at the University of Northern Iowa.
Submissions from 2026
Imagining Futures for Communication Education: Environmental Crisis, Ecology, and Pedagogy, Sergio Fernando Juárez and C. Kyle Rudick
Episode 10: You are NOT Alone (Bonus, Long Episode), Nichole Harken
Episode 13: Break Up With Your Parents, Nichole Harken
Episode 1: The Work Before the Job Search, Nichole Harken
Episode 21: Insurance Guy Steve Talks Terms, Nichole Harken
Episode 22: Insurance Guy Steve Talks Beyond Terms, Nichole Harken
Episode 23: Insurance Guy Steve Wraps it Up, Nichole Harken
Episode 2: Staying Organized: The Application Process, Nichole Harken
Episode 37: Decoding Benefit Packages, Nichole Harken
Episode 3: The Resume, Nichole Harken
Episode 4: Cover Letters, References, and Professional Portfolios, Nichole Harken
Episode 9: I borrowed. I'm graduating. HELP!! Episode I of III, Nichole Harken
Episode 18: Credit Scores with Bad Banker Ben, Part 1 of 2, Nichole Harken and Ben Anderson
Episode 19: Credit Scores with Bad Banker Ben, Part 2 of 2, Nichole Harken and Ben Anderson
Episode 11: I Borrowed, I'm Graduating, HELP!! (Part II of III), Nichole Harken and Tim Bakula
Episode 12: I borrowed, I’m graduating, HELP, Part III of III, Nichole Harken and Tim Bakula
Episode 33: Just Move It, Nichole Harken and Brett Caviness
Episode 28: Learn with Linda, All Things Tax, Part One, Nichole Harken and Linda DeBarthe
Episode 29: Learn with Linda: All Things Tax, Part Two, Nichole Harken and Linda DeBarthe
Episode 26: Co-Pays, Deductibles, Premiums OH MY! Breaking it Down with Brennan, Part 1, Nichole Harken and Brennan Floss
Episode 27: Co-Pays, Deductibles, Premiums OH MY! Breaking it Down with Brennan, Part 2, Nichole Harken and Brennan Floss
Episode 32: The Crooked Career Path: From Physical Education Major to Safety Guru, Nichole Harken and Matt Harken
Episode 20: Owe, Grow, Give, Live-Budgeting with Brittany, Nichole Harken and Brittany Heard
Episode 5: The Interview, Nichole Harken and David Leto
Episode 6: Tell Me What They're Looking For, Part I, Nichole Harken and David Leto
Episode 7: Tell Me What They're Looking For, Part II, Nichole Harken and David Leto
Episode 8: Tell Me What They're Looking For, Part III, Nichole Harken and David Leto
Episode 31: Collaborate and Conquer: Discovering Joy in the Job Search, Nichole Harken and Danielle McGeough
Episode 14: Campus Career Services, 1 of 4, Nichole Harken, Matt Nuese, and Sarah Goblirsch
Episode 15: Campus Career Services, 2 of 4, Nichole Harken, Matt Nuese, and Sarah Goblirsch
Episode 16: Campus Career Services, 3 of 4, Nichole Harken, Matt Nuese, and Sarah Goblirsch
Episode 17: Campus Career Services, 4 of 4, Nichole Harken, Matt Nuese, and Sarah Goblirsch
Episode 36: Got a goal? Go for it!, Nichole Harken and Shelby Reicks
Episode 34: Should I Go to Grad School? Part 1 of 2, Nichole Harken and Kyle Rudick
Episode 35: Should I Go to Grad School? Part 2 of 2, Nichole Harken and Kyle Rudick
Episode 24: Moving Carriers, Meeting Agents-Megan Maps it All, Part, Nichole Harken and Megan Schofield
Episode 25: Moving Carriers, Meeting Agents-Megan Maps it All, Part 2, Nichole Harken and Megan Schofield
Episode 30: Legal Ease, Nichole Harken, Trynann Utzinger, and Liv Wendt
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
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
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
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
Performance or Appearance: Paradoxical Generalized Others of the College Female Athletes, Shing Ling S. Chen, Zhuojun Joyce Chen, and Courtney Styron
Imagining Futures for Communication Education: Health Communication Campaigns as Pedagogical, Sergio Fernando Juárez and C. Kyle Rudick
Critical Race Theory Interventions for Public Speaking, Sergio Fernando Juárez and C. Kyle Rudick
Imagining Futures for Communication Education: Decolonial Possibilities and Land Based Pedagogy, 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
Planting New Fields: A Renewed Purpose for Communication Education, C. Kyle Rudick
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
Teaching Precarity: Pedagogy, Politics, and Abortion Post Dobbs, Shreya Singh, Cecilia Cerja, and Catherine Helen Palczewski
Submissions from 2023
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
Labor Journalism History: The Missing Story of Workers, Christopher R. Martin
Adapting To Survive … And Thrive, Karen S. Mitchell
The Absolute State Of Research In Communication Education: Facing Hanlon’s Razor, C. Kyle Rudick
Submissions from 2022
Historical And Legal Considerations In Development Of A For-Credit Internship Program, Nichole Zumbach Harken and Shelley Price-Williams
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
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
“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
Innovation And Ingenuity In The Fortepan Digital Photo Archive, Isaac Campbell and Bettina Fabos
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
On The Suicide Of Angelus Novus: Searching For History's Future Through (Academic) Hell, C. Kyle Rudick
Submissions from 2020
Abbreviating Boal at the Louisiana Old State Capitol Museum: Using Image Theatre, Bonny McDonald, Joshua Hamzehee, Naomi P. Bennett, and Montana Smith
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
Small Group Use Of Communication Technologies: A Comparison Of Modality On Group Outcomes, Melissa A. Dobosh, Marshall Scott Poole, and Rahul Malik
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
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
A Personal/Political Case For Debate, Catherine Helen Palczewski
“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
Toward a Performative Understanding of Politeness, C. Kyle Rudick and Danielle E. McGeough
“‘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
Submissions from 2018
Yes, And … : Continuing The Scholarly Conversation About Freedom Of Speech At Colleges And Universities*, C. Kyle Rudick and Deanna P. Dannels
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
A Conversation With Luis Argueta, Francesca Soans
Navigating Instructional Dialectics: Empirical Exploration Of Paradox In Teaching, Blair Thompson, C. Kyle Rudick, Jeff Kerssen-Griep, and Kathryn Golsan
Submissions from 2017
The American Pickers Demonstrates Communication Skills, Jeffrey Brand
Ann, Shing Ling S. Chen
Cross-Cultural Adaptation Challenges To Management Innovation In Multinational Business Context: Theoretical Model And Practices, Zhuojun Joyce Chen
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
Trump, the media, and the American Dream: The Ethical Implications of Societal Myths, Fernando I. Quinones Valdivia
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
Television Formats And The United States: New Developments In Production And Distribution, Paul Torre
