Graduate Faculty
| Graduate Faculty in Communication at Virginia Tech |
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The Virginia Tech Department of Communication offers a program leading to a Master of Arts Degree. Faculty in the Department of Communication have particular expertise in media studies, public and issue advocacy and communication technology. Graduate faculty in the program include:
Dr. Robert E. Denton, Jr. (Ph.D., Purdue University), author/editor of 13 books on political communication including The 2000 Presidential Campaign: A Communication Perspective (Praeger, 2002) and General Editor of the Praeger Series in Political Communication;
Dr. Rachel L. Holloway (Ph.D., Purdue University), specializing in public relations and issue management, contributor to Public Relations as Rhetorical Inquiry (Praeger, 1995), and Chair of the Public Relations Division of the National Communication Association.
Dr. W. Wat Hopkins (Ph.D., University of North Carolina), author of five books on communication law, including Communication and the Law (Vision Press, 2001);
Dr. James Ivory (Ph.D., University of North Carolina), media effects and communication technology, who has published in the Journal of Communication;
Dr. Jim Kuypers (Ph.D., Lousiana State University), rhetorical criticism and political communication, is the author/editor of six books and is published in the Quarterly Journal of Speech;
Dr. Robert Magee (Ph.D., University of North Carolina), media effects and persuasion, who has received several top paper honors at academic conferences;
Dr. Marlene Preston (Ph.D., Virginia Tech), communication pedagogy and curriculum, who has published in the journals Academic Writing and Innovative Higher Education;
Dr. Stephen Prince (Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania), author/editor of seven books about film, including Screening Violence (Rutgers University Press, 2000) and Book Review Editor of Film Quarterly;
Dr. Sam G. Riley (Ph.D., University of North Carolina), media historian and author/editor of 15 books, including The American Newspaper Columnist (Greenwood, 1998);
Dr. John C. Tedesco (Ph.D., University of Oklahoma), a researcher of political communication who has 19 articles published in such journals as Journal of Advertising, Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media, Journalism Studies, Harvard International Journal of Press Politics, and Communication Research Reports among others. He is author/editor of Civic Dialogue in the 1996 Presidential Campaign (Hampton, 2000); The Millennium Election (Rowman & Littlefield, 2003); and The Internet Election (Rowman & Littlefield, 2006);
Dr. Beth M. Waggenspack (Ph.D., Ohio State University), specializing in rhetoric and public address, the author of The Search for Self-Sovereignty: The Oratory of Elizabeth Cady Stanton (Greenwood, 1989);
Dr. Damion Waymer (Ph.D., Purdue University), specializing in communication and diversity, is published in such journals as Journal of Applied Communication Research and Journal of Family Communication;
Dr. James B. Weaver, III (Ph.D., Indiana University), author of over 50 articles and book chapters on media effects and communication theory and Chair of the Communication & Social Cognition Division of the National Communication Association;
Dr. Andrew P. Williams (Ph.D., University of Florida), a researcher of the interaction of political public relations, political advertising, news coverage, and elections; published in Journalism Studies and Business Research Yearbook.
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| Affiliated Graduate Faculty |
Dr. Elizabeth C. Fine (Ph.D., University of Texas), Director, Humanities Program, Virginia Tech;
Dr. Andrea Kavanaugh (Ph.D., Virginia Tech), Assistant Director, Center for Human-Computer Interaction, Virginia Tech;
Dr. John Ryan (Ph.D., Vanderbilt University), Chair, Department of Sociology, Virginia Tech.
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Dr. Edward H. Sewell, Jr. (Ph.D., Ohio University), a researcher on visual communication and editorial cartoons and co-editor of Comics and Ideology (Peter Lang, 2001);
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