Faculty members in the UIS Communication Department have diverse backgrounds in teaching and professional experience. Their specialties include interpersonal, organizational, and family communication; mass media and journalism; new media technologies, and video and radio production.
Michael Cavanagh
Assistant Professor
M.S. Journalism – New Media, Northwestern University Medill School of Journalism
Areas of Specialization: Journalism, new media, media law, Web design and interactive multimedia.
Email: mcava2@uis.edu
Office: UHB 3021
Phone: (217) 206-8511
Michael Cheney
Professor
Ph.D. Communication, The Ohio State University
Burks Oakley II Distinguished Online Teaching Award at UIS, 2011
Areas of Specialization: Political economy of communications, media and politics, popular music and society.
Email: mchen1@uis.edu
Office: UHB 4078
Phone: (217) 206-8271
Jim Grubbs
Associate Professor
Ph.D. Communication and Culture, Indiana University
Burks Oakley II Distinguished Online Teaching Award at UIS, 2009
Areas of Specialization: New communications technologies, broadcasting and mass media systems.
Faculty Web Page
Email: jgrub1@uis.edu
Office: UHB 3020
Phone: (217) 206-7365
Kathy Petitte Jamison
Associate Professor and Chair
Ph.D. Communications, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
UIS China Faculty Exchange Lecturer, 2008
Areas of Specialization: Journalism — feature writing and literary journalism, media and culture in China, global film and culture, ethics of communications, research methods, media criticism, advertising and consumer culture.
Email: kjamison@uis.edu
Office: UHB 3024
Phone: (217) 206-8032
Amie Kincaid
Associate Professor
Ph.D. Intercultural Communication, University of New Mexico
Areas of Specialization: Intercultural, interpersonal and organizational communication; race and critical theory; public relations; and oral communication
Email: akinc2@uis.edu
Office: UHB 3021
Phone: (217) 206-8415
Ric Perez
Instructor
M.A. Communication, Central Michigan University
Area of Specialization: Oral Communication.
Email: rpere2@uis.edu
Office: UHB 3011
Phone: (217) 206-7582
Elizabeth Ribarksy
Associate Professor
Ph.D. Communication, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
NCA Rookie Advisor of the Year for Lambda Pi Eta 2011
Student Organization Faculty Advisor of the Year, University of Illinois Springfield 2010
Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant Award, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2007
Areas of Specialization: Dating and sexual communication, constructing individual and relational identities through interpersonal communication.
Email: eriba2@uis.edu
Office: UHB 3016
Phone: (217) 206-8416
Professor Ribarsky on dating and sexual communication
Hazel Rozema
Associate Professor
Ph.D. Communication, University of Kansas
Pearson Faculty Award for Excellence in Teaching at UIS, 2001
Areas of Specialization: Interpersonal/organizational communication, public relations, family and interracial communication.
Email: hroze1@uis.edu
Office: UHB 3022
Phone: (217) 206-7297
Ann Strahle
Assistant Professor
M.A. Journalism, Indiana University School of Journalism
Areas of Specialization: Mass media, broadcast journalism, interviewing, public relations.
Email: astra2@uis.edu
Office: UHB 3012
Phone: (217) 206-7421
