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Johnnie Stupek is the Head Debate Coach of the Georgia Debate Union. Johnnie previously coached at Dartmouth College and Emory University, where he earned a Juris Doctor degree. In his time coaching, he has coached several First-Round-At-Large teams to the National Debate Tournament. As a student debating at UGA, he was a finalist at the 2019 National Debate Tournament and received two First-Round-At-Large Bids to the National Debate Tournament…

Dr. Maryam Ahmadi is an assistant professor in the Department of Communication Studies. She holds a Ph.D. and M.A. in Communication Arts (Rhetoric, Politics, and Culture) from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and an M.A. in Political Science (Political Sociology) from the University of Tehran. Her research interests lie at the intersection of rhetorical theory and history, political rhetoric and social movements, and critical…

Dr. Anna Stenport is Dean of the Franklin College, a University of Georgia Foundation Professor of Arts and Sciences, and full professor in the Department of Communication Studies with a courtesy appointment in the Louise McBee Institute of Higher Education.  Before joining the University of Georgia, one of her alma maters, she served as Professor of Communication and Dean of the College of Liberal Arts at Rochester Institute of…

Jennifer H. Waldeck (Ph.D., Communication, University of California, Santa Barbara) is Professor and Head, Dept. of Agricultural Leadership, Education, and Communication in the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences at the University of Georgia.  She currently serves as President of the Eastern Communication Association, and Chair of its Finance and Publication Committees.  Prior to joining UGA, she served as Professor and…

Doris E. Acheme, (Ph.D., University of Oklahoma) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at the University of Georgia. Her research interest is in intergroup and intercultural communication. Specifically, she focuses on the role identity plays in psycho-social responses of individuals during interactions, with two main areas of focus. The first area of research is in language attitudes, with emphasis on (a)…

Sachiko Terui is an Assistant Professor of Global Health Communication. Her research revolves around the intersection of health communication, cross-cultural communication, and interpersonal communication, with two main focus areas. The first focuses on the ways in which language and culture (a) influence the process and meanings of messages in a health context, and (b) shape individuals' experiences of illness and disease. Her second line of…

Grafton Tanner is the author of Foreverism (Polity Books, 2024), The Hours Have Lost Their Clock: The Politics of Nostalgia (Repeater Books, 2021), The Circle of the Snake: Nostalgia and Utopia in the Age of Big Tech (Zer0 Books, 2020), and Babbling Corpse: Vaporwave and the Commodification of Ghosts (Zer0 Books, 2016). His work focuses on nostalgia, technology, and the rhetoric of neoliberalism, and his writing has appeared in such venues…