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 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 Professor
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 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 Professor
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 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 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
Elizabeth Ribarksy
Assistant Professor
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 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-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-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
