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Dr. Savannah Downing
Congratulations Dr. Savannah Downing

🎉Congratulations to alumna Dr. Savannah Downing for her recent win of dissertation of the year award from the American Society for the History of Rhetoric at NCA. 


Comm Alumnus in UGA 2020 Class of 40 Under 40

CommDawg Jarryd Wallace (Class of 2019) was recently named a member of the UGA 2020 class of 40 under 40. This designation means that Jarryd aspires to uphold the principles manifested in the three Pillars of the Arch, demonstrates a commitment to maintaining a lifelong relationship with UGA and has made an impact in his professional and philanthropic endeavors. Jarryd is a professional athlete and director of the Affordable Blade…


Department Graduate Publishes First Novel

Communication Studies Department graduate Alec Ream (BA ’88) has recently published his first novel. Alec credits Dr. Cal Logue and the Demosthenian Literary Society with inspiring his rhetoric style. The novel, Canterbury 2020, explores the ideas of apocalypse and Y2K with a comedic emphasis. Congratulations to Alec!  

Emily Winderman, Ph.D. (2015)
Graduate Alum Emily Winderman wins Fellowship

Grad CommDawg Emily Winderman (Ph.D., 2015) has been awarded a Residential Fellowship by the Institute for Advanced Study at the University of Minnesota.  Residential Fellows are chosen in an open rank competition.  The selected faculty and visiting scholars are released from teaching to spend a semester in residence at the IAS. Together they constitute a supportive interdisciplinary intellectual community in which fellows work…


National Debate Tournament Alumni Newsletter available

Stories in this issue include:  Kentucky Wins - Bannister & Trufanov earn perfect record in preliminary rounds and 20 of 22 ballots in out rounds Brovero and Leeson-Schatz honored - Two long serving coaches honored for their service to the NDT community Jacob Hegna earns top speaker honors - Hegna is the second debater from the University of Kansas to receive this distinction Participants - List of the 16 teams receiving…


Harris to Receive Diversity Leadership Award

The Department of Communication Studies extends its congratulations to Dr. Tina M. Harris, who has been named the faculty recipient of UGA’s 2017-2018 Excellence in Diversity Leadership Award. The Excellence in Diversity Leadership Awards are given annually by the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences Office of Inclusion and Diversity Leadership to one Franklin faculty member and one member of the Franklin staff in recognition of their efforts…

Communication Studies Class of 2018
Communication Studies Celebrates 2018 Graduates

The Department of Communication Studies held its annual commencement exercises on Thursday, May 3, 2018 in the University of Georgia Chapel. The event featured two addresses, one from graduating senior Jonas Taylor and a second from program alum Hannah Kay Herdlinger. A member of Lambda Pi Eta and a graduate of UGA’s entrepreneurship program, Taylor encouraged his classmates to see their graduation day as a beginning to lives of service in…

Dr. Leland Spencer
PhD Alum Spencer Receives Tenure

Congratulations to Department of Communication Studies alum Dr. Leland G. Spencer, who was recently tenured at Miami University in Hamilton, Ohio. Now an associate professor in Miami’s Department of Interdisciplinary and Communication Studies, Dr. Spencer is also his department’s chief departmental advisor as well as an affiliate faculty member in the Department of Media, Journalism, and Film and in the Women’s, Gender, and Sexualities Studies…


Communication Studies Welcomes Dr. Kathryn Greene, 2018 Spotlight Scholar

The Department of Communication Studies is pleased to announce Dr. Kathryn Greene as its 2018 Spotlight Scholar. Dr. Greene, an alumna of the department’s graduate program, is Professor of Communication Studies at Rutgers University. Her research focuses on health decision-making and the central role of communication in both preventing disease and injury in adolescents as well as in maintaining health and wellness in close…

E. Michelle Ramsey, former doctoral student and recipient of the OSCLG's 2017 Feminist Teacher-Mentor Award. Photo credit: Theo Anderson, Penn State University
PhD Graduate Receives Mentoring Award

E. Michele Ramsey, a graduate of the Department of Communication Studies's doctoral program and former advisee of Dr. Bonnie Dow, has received the Organization for the Study of Communication, Language, and Gender's (OSCLG) 2017 Feminist Teacher-Mentor Award. In a Penn State press release announcing the award, Ramsey, Associate Professor of Communication Arts and Sciences and Women's Studies at Penn State Berks, credits her own…
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