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FACULTY

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.


Mary BohlenMary Bohlen

Associate Professor & Chair
M.A. Public Affairs Reporting, Sangamon State University

Pearson Faculty Award for Excellent in Teaching at UIS, 2008

Areas of Specialization: News and feature writing, editing, media law, media ethics and media effects especially on women, children and adolescents

Email: mbohl3@uis.edu
Office: UHB 3023
Phone: (217) 206-7362


Michael Cavanagh
Assistant ProfessorProf. Michael Cavanagh
M.S.  Journalism – New Media, Northwestern University Medill School of Journalism

Areas of Specialization:  Journalism, reporting, media law, new media, Web design and communication technologies

Email: mcava2@uis.edu
Office:  UHB 3021
Phone: (217) 206-8511


Michael CheneyMichael Cheney
Professor
Ph.D. Communication, The Ohio State University

Areas of Specialization: political economy of communications, media and politics, popular music and society

Email: mchen1@uis.edu
Office: UHB 4011
Phone: (217) 206-8271


J. Michael Duvall

Professor
M.A. Communication, Sangamon State University

Areas of Specialization: video, audio, multimedia/internet, photography and applied aesthetics

Faculty Web Page
Email: jduva1@uis.edu
Office: UHB 3014
Phone: (217) 206-7300


Jim Grubbs

Associate ProfessorJIm Grubbs
Ph.D. Communication and Culture, Indiana University

Burks Oakley II Distinguished Online Teaching Award at UIS, 2009

Areas of Specialization: new communication technologies, broadcasting and mass media systems

Faculty Web Page
Email: jgrub1@uis.edu
Office: UHB 3020
Phone: (217) 206-7365


Kathy JamisonKathy Jamison

Assistant Professor
Ph.D. Communication, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

UIS China Faculty Exchange lecturer, 2008

Areas of Specialization: media studies, consumer culture, advertising, media ethics, film and culture, media writing, research methods

Email: kjamison@uis.edu
Office: UHB 3012
Phone: (217) 206-8032


Amie Kincaid

Assistant ProfessorAmie Kincaid
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


Elizabeth Ribarksy

Assistant Professor
Elizabeth Ribarsky

Ph.D. Communication, University of Nebraska, Lincoln

Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant Award, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2007

Areas of Specialization: constructing individual and relational identities through interpersonal communication

Email: eriba2@uis.edu
Office: UHB 3016
Phone: (217) 206-8416


Hazel RozemaHazel 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


Eric Thibodeaux-ThompsonEric Thibodeaux-Thompson

Associate Professor
M.F.A. in Acting, University of Nebraska, Lincoln

Award of Excellence, Illinois Theatre Association College/University Division, 2008

Areas of Specialization: Acting and directing productions, Shakespeare in performance

Email: ethib1@uis.edu
Office: UHB 3018
Phone: (217) 206-6613


Missy Thibodeaux-ThompsonMissy Thibodeaux-Thompson
Assistant Professor
M.F.A. Theatre Arts and Dance, University of Nebraska, Lincoln (1994)

Areas of Specialization: Acting and performance, acting and performance pedagogy, Shakespearean performance, women's role in theatre.

Email: mthom1@uis.edu
Office: UHB 3013
Phone: (217) 206-8307