Our Team of Editors

Name Affiliation Interests
Jerry L. Allen University of New Haven Commibiology, Communication Apprehension, Intercultural, Instructional, Interpersonal, Media Effects, Nonverbal Organizational, Persuasion, Political, Small Group, Theory & Methodology
Carolyn Anderson

University of Massachusetts

film/television studies
William L. Benoit University of Missouri Political Comm, rhet theory and crit (not post-modern), att. Chg, arg
Thomas W. Benson The Pennsylvania State University Rhetoric; public address; rhetorical criticism; presidential rhetoric; media criticism
Dale A. Bertelsen
Bloomsburg University
Rhetorical criticism, media criticism, and just about anything else you need me to read.
Don Boileau
George Mason University
Instructional Communication – Intercultural Communication –Rhetoric & Public Address== Parlimanetary Procedure
Melanie Booth-Butterfield
West Virginia University
Interpersonal/relational, health, instructional, communication anxiety-related, nonverbal
Deborah Borisoff

New York University

Gender, listening, intercultural, conflict
Rod Carveth --
James W. Chesebro

Ball State University

(1)  All forms of communication technology (e.g., digital, computer-mediated, cell phones, email, chat rooms, etc); (2)  Minority rhetorics and issues; (3)  Political communication including presidential rhetoric and campaigns as well as rhetorical movements and rhetorics; (4)  Critical methods; (5)  Kenneth Burke and related applications; and, (6) essays that fit into no clear category because they seem to transcend and cross major lines of distinction.
John A. Courtright University of Delaware Interpersonal, new media, most anything
Robert L. Duran University of Hartford comm competence, loneliness, shyness, comm app, comm ed, some nonverbal, sm grp
Isa N. Engleberg Prince Georges Community College Comm Ed, Inst Comm, PS, Sm Grp Comm, Gen Ed, Undergrad Ed, Educ Adm
Sheryl Friedley George Mason University interpersonal, groups
Gus Friedrich Rutgers University Applied Communication; Instructional; Research Methods
Ann Bainbridge Frymier Miami University instructional, interpersonal, social influence, organizational
Tim Gibson George Mason University mass comm research/media studies/critical theory/pop culture/pol com/soci of news prod
Joan Gorham West Virginia University interpersonal, instructional
Dennis S. Gouran The Pennsylvania State University Communication in Groups, Leadership, and Conflict
Lisa M. Gring-Pemble George Mason University Political communication, public address in the area of women’s suffrage or abolition, social movements, rhetorical criticism
Gary Gumpert Landscapers Communication theory, Interpersonal/mediated Communication, Urban comm
Mark Hickson III University of Alabama at Birmingham Nonverbal communication; instructional communication; organizational communication
Nancy Hoar Western New England College Language/linguistics, interpers/intercult, small group, gender, health comm
Danette Ifert Johnson Ithica College interpersonal, small group, instructional, quantitative methodology
Ronald L. Jackson II The Pennsylvania State University Research on identity, culture and masculinity and/or Black Rhetoric/Communication.
Bonnie S. Jefferson Boston College rhetorical criticism, political comm
Mary L. Kahl State University of New York, New Paltz Political Communication, Rhetorical Criticism, Women’s Rhetoric, Historical Public Address, Contemporary Public Address
Lynda Lee Kaid University of Florida Political Communication; Mass Communication, Media effects; international political communication
Lynne Kelly University of Hartford Reticence, communication apprehension, Computer-mediated communication and relationships, Other interpersonal and small group manuscripts
Kathleen E. Kendall University of Maryland political campaign comm: speeches, ads, media coverage, debates; media and politics
Chas Koermer Baldwin-Wallace College Organizational communication
Gary Kreps George Mason University Health comm, orgl comm, it
Linda Costigan Lederman Arizona State University Health communication, alcohol and other drug abuse, Qualitative Methods, Instructional Comm
Kathleen M. Long

West Virginia Wesleyan College

Instruc comm; interpers comm; intercult and family comm- and more social scientific (quantitative) than critical analysis or ethnographic (qual)
Cindy Lont George Mason University Visual Communication, Mass commun ication theory, women and media, critical studies in mass communication
Allan D. Louden Wake Forest University political comm, interpersonal, argumentation and debate
Anne F. Mattina Stonehill College fem rhet crit, gender and politics, social movements, 19th c rhet
Jim McCroskey West Virginia University quantitative, traits, instructional, org, communibiology
Alfred G. Mueller II Penn State Mont Alto rhetorical studies; rhetorical theory and criticism; ethnography; critical/cultural studies
Lester Olsen University of Pittsburgh visual rhetoric, eighteenth century public address, GLBT, black and feminist speeches
Joan O'Mara University of Hartford Intercultural, interpersonal
Trevor Parry-Giles University of Maryland Political Communication; Rhetorical Criticism; Legal Communication; Rhetorical Theory; Media Criticism
Michael Prosser
Shanghai International Studies University
Intercultural communication, culture and communication, Asian communication, China
Andrew Rancer --
Virginia Richmond West Virginia University instructional, org, interpersonal, nonverbal
Abran J. Salazar University of Rhode Island Group comm, interpers and social support, interpers and aging, comm. theory
John Sherblom University of Maine org, cmc, small group, PR
Don W. Stacks University of Miami Nonverbal, Interpersonal, Org, PR, Small Group; classical contemp rhet and soc science, neurocom
Lea Stewart Rutgers University Health Comm (especially alcohol and college students); Gender and Comm; Org Comm
Anita Taylor George Mason University gender, language, persuasion, political
Candice Thomas-Maddo Ohio University-Lancaster instructional, intercult, interperso, family
Mary C. Toale Baldwin Wallace College Instructional Communication, Interpersonal Communication, Nonverbal Communication
Jimmie D. Trent Miami University pol comm, comm theory, argument
Melissa Bekelja Wanzer Canisius College relational, family, health, humor, instructional
Andrew D. Wolvin University of Maryland

comm ed, listening, comm management