Wayne State University

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Selected Department of Communication Alumni

Timothy Borchers

Tim Borchers (PhD, communication, 1996; master's, comm., 1993) is professor and chair of the Communication Studies Department at Minnesota State University Moorhead.His teaching sp...
borchers@mnstate.edu
Gregg Chenoweth

Gregg Chenoweth (PhD 2003) is vice president for academic affairs at Olivet Nazarene University where he continues to teach and practice journalism with specialties in higher educa...
gchenowe@olivet.edu
Scott Crabill

Scott L. Crabill (PhD 2008) is director of integrative studies and undergraduate initiatives at Oakland University. He teaches courses in public speaking, group dynamics, listening...
slcrabil@oakland.edu
Gildasio Mendes Dos Santos

Gildasio Mendes Dos Santos (PhD 2007) is the general director of Faculdade Salesiana Santa Teresa, Salesian Institute of Superior Education, Salesian University in Campo Grande, Br...
at5597@wayne.edu
Timothy Dugdale

Tim Dugdale (PhD 1999) is a member of the faculty in digital media studies at the University of Detroit Mercy.Although he holds a PhD in communication/anthropology from Wayne State...
Kelly Jones

Kelly Jones (BA, radio/TV, 2005) declared at the age of eight that she wanted to be on TV and deliver the news.True to her word, this Michigan native went from the bitter cold to t...
kjones@kfmb.com
Brendan Kelly

Brendan Kelly (PhD 2006) is chair of the Department of Communication Arts at the University of West Florida. He serves as the president of the Florida Intercollegiate Forensics Ass...
bkelly@uwf.edu
Jeannette Kindred

Jeannette Kindred (PhD 2001)joined the communication faculty at Eastern Mich. U.in the Fall of 2006; prior to that she was an assistant professor of communication at Marist College...
jkindred@emich.edu
Michael Lewis

Michael Lewis (PhD 2005) is the journalism program director in the Department of Communication at the University of Michigan – Flint. His research interests include the work ...
lewismi@umflint.edu
Priscilla Meddaugh

Priscilla Marie Meddaugh is an assistant professor of English at Millikin University where she teaches courses in writing, journalism and media studies. She earned her Master’s and...
pmeddaugh@mail.millikin.edu
Nicki Michalski

Nicki Michalski (PhD 2001) is an assistant professor at Lamar University, Beaumont, TX. She also is assistant director of the University Honors Program and director of the basic sp...
nicki.michalski@lamar.edu
Hollie Petit

Hollie Petit (PhD 2008) is an assistant professor at South Dakota State University. Her personal research interests include communication and religion/spirituality, conflict resolu...
hollie.petit@sdstate.edu
Richard Pineda

Richard Pineda (PhD 2003) is an assistant professor and research fellow in the Sam Donaldson Center for Communication Research at the University of Texas, El Paso. His research foc...
rdpineda@utep.edu
Donald Ritzenhein

Donald Ritzenhein (PhD, communication, 1999; master’s, speech communication, 1980; bachelor’s, Wayne State Monteith College, 1968) is assistant vice president for acade...
ritzenheind@macomb.edu
Heather Seipke

Heather L. Seipke (PhD, communication, 2002; graduate certificate, gerontology, 2002; master’s, communication, 2000; bachelor’s, public relations, 1998) is an associate...
hseipke@umflint.edu
Peter Smudde

Peter Smudde is an assistant professor in the School of Communication at Illinois State University. "My career path did not follow that of a traditional academic. I moved to acade...
psmudde@ilstu.edu
Patric Spence

Patric R. Spence (PhD 2006) is assistant professor in the School of Communication at Western Michigan University. His research focuses on crisis and risk communication, examining a...
patric.spence@wmich.edu
Hollie Tanguay

Hollie Tanguay (BA, speech comm., 2002) J.D. is a licensed attorney in the state of Michigan. Hollie's legal interests are in immigration and she clerked for an immigration law fir...
Tara Tomcsik

Tara Tomcsik (BA, speech comm., 2008) has always been a hands on person in the communication field. She started off in music and theatre. "I sang my way through most of my lif...
Ede Warner

Ede Warner (PhD, 1998; master's comm. 1993)is an associate professor in the Department of Pan-African Studies at the University of Louisville....
ede.warner@louisville.edu
Ronald Woods

Ronald Woods (PhD 1999) is a professor of communication at the University of Mobile....
Jeff Youngquist
325 Wilson Hall, Oakland U., Rochester, MI 48309

Jeff Youngquist (PhD 2007) is an assistant professor at Oakland University. His primary research interest is the relationship between perceptions of dominance and langauge. He also...
youngqui@oakland.edu