The Ph.D. in Communication, Rhetoric, and Digital Media brings together a diverse and accomplished faculty from across the university, both established senior faculty and younger faculty in new areas. Some will teach the required core courses in the program, and some will teach electives and special topics courses within their own departments. All will be available to serve on advisory committees for students. There are two categories of faculty associated with the doctoral program, Program Faculty and Affiliated Faculty.
Program Faculty
The Program Faculty are full and associate graduate faculty in the Departments of English and Communication who have an expressed interest, a record of research and scholarship in relevant areas, and the ability to teach core courses or courses in the disciplinary areas (see Curriculum). Program faculty will teach the core courses, direct dissertations, serve on advisory committees, and elect the Program Committee that governs the program.
Professor
- Johnson, M. A., & Sink, W. T. (in press). Ethnic museum public relations: Cultural diplomacy and cultural intermediaries in the Digital Age. Public Relations Inquiry.
- Johnson, M. A., & Martin, K. (in press). When navigation trumps visual dynamism: Hospital website usability. Journal of Promotion Management.
- Johnson, M. A. & Searson, E. (2011). Visual ethics in public relations: An analysis of Latin American government Web sites. Nicolaev, A. (Ed.) Ethical Issues in International Communication. Palgrave MacMillan, pp.183-198.
- Martin, K. N. & Johnson, M. (2010). Digital credibility and digital dynamism in public relations blogs. Visual Communication Quarterly, 17(3), 162-174.
- Johnson, M. A. (2010). Incorporating self-categorization concepts into ethnic media research. Communication Theory, 20, 105-124.
- Johnson, M. A. (2010). Good neighbor, no neighbor: Visual fidelity in U.S. network television’s portrayals of Mexico President Vicente Fox. Visual Communication Quarterly, 17, 18-30.
- Searson, E. M., & Johnson, M. A. (2010). Transparency laws and interactive public relations: An analysis of Latin American government Web sites. Public Relations Review, 36(2), 120-126.
- Kelly Norris Martin (member)
- Jennifer Ware (chair)
- Freddi Hamilton (member)
- Elizabeth Johnson Young (co-chair)
Associate Professor
- Swarts, J. (2011). Technological Literacy as Network Building. Technical Communication Quarterly, mid 2011.
- Swarts, J. (2010). Recycled writing: Assembling actor-networks from reusable content. Journal of Business and Technical Communication, 24(2), 127-163.
- Swarts, J. (2009). The collaborative construction of 'fact' on Wikipedia. In Proceedings of the Special Interest Group on Design of Communication (Bloomington, IN, October, 2009) SIGDOC '09. ACM Press, New York, NY.
- Christin Phelps (chair)
- Heidi Von Ludwig (chair)
- Glenda Burch (chair)
- David Gruber (chair)
- Chris Berg (member)
- Adam Gutschmidt (member)
- Amy Gaffney (member)
- Shaun Cashman (member)
- Jordan Frith (member)
- Matt Morain (member)
- Jennifer Ware (member)
- Packer, J., & Wiley, S.B.C. (Eds.) (2012). Communication Matters: Media, Mobility, and Networks. Routledge.
- Wiley, S.B.C., & Packer, J. (2010) Rethinking communication after the mobilities turn. The Communication Review 13(4), 263-268.
- Wiley, S.B.C., Sutko, D.M., and Moreno, T. (2010). Assembling Social Space, The Communication Review, 13(4), 340-372.
- Shaun Cashman (member)
- Dawn Shepherd (member)
- Shayne Pepper (member)
- Kathy Oswald (member)
- Dan Sutko (member)
- Jordan Frith (vice-chair)
- Jacob Dickerson (co-chair)
- Zach Rash (member)
- Seth Mulliken (co-chair)
- Tariq Mahmood (chair)
- Tabita Moreno (chair)
- Fernanda Duarte (member)
- Nathan Hulsey (member)
Assistant Professor
- “Orator-Machine: Autonomist Marxism and William D. 'Big Bill' Haywood’s Cooper Union Address." Philosophy and Rhetoric 45 (2012), in press.
- “Hobo Orator Union: Class Composition and the Spokane Free Speech Fight of the Industrial Workers of the World.” Quarterly Journal of Speech 97 (2011) 155-177.
- “Corruption and Empire: Notes on Wisconsin.” Journal of Communication Inquiry 35 (2011): 342-348. (with Ronald W. Greene)
- “Let us Be Realistic and Demand the Impossible: Defining Kairos in Contemporary Marxism.” in S. Jacobs, Ed. Concerning Argument (Washington, DC: National Communication Association and the American Forensic Association, 2009): 515-523.
- “Spinoza and Class Struggle.” Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies 6 (2009): 294-298.
"Digital technologies, tied to the Internet, could produce a vastly more competitive and vibrant market for building and cultivating culture; that market could include a much wider and more diverse range of creators; those creators could produce and distribute a much more vibrant range of creativity … all so long as the RCAs of our day don’t use the law to protect themselves against this competition."
—Lawrence Lessig, Free Culture
