When you have good people, it follows that they have a lot of news to share! Our faculty are regularly in the news, whether for awards, their service, or their academic and professional publications and presentations. For a complete look, check out each faculty member’s individual profile…but here are the fruits of the most recent academic year:

2006-07 Faculty Awards

• William Cowen, faculty in Communication and director of the public relations and VCAN programs, was recently named winner of the Public Relations Society of America’s prestigious Frank X. Long Award which honors “exceptional creativity, writing skills and passion for public relations”.
• William Cowen has been named to the prestigious Public Relations Society of America (PRSA) Counselors Academy. Founded more than 40 years ago, the Academy is an elite group of principals and senior strategists of public relations firms in North America. As successful thought leaders in the industry, only about 600 professionals hold this designation of the thousands who are members of PRSA.
• William Cowen received the Gold Award, MarCom Creative Awards from the prestigious Association of Marketing & Communication Professionals
• William Cowen also received the coveted Pepperpot Award, from the Public Relations Society of America
• Maurice Hall received a “Top Paper Award” at the National Communication Association Annual Convention, for his paper: “The Postcolonial Caribbean as a Liminal Space: Authoring Other Modes of Contestation and Affirmation”

2006-07 Faculty Books

• Leonard Shyles. The Art of Video Production. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 2007
• Bauman, H-Dirksen L., Nelson, Jennifer L., and Heidi M. Rose, Eds. Signing the Body Poetic: Essays on American Sign Language Literature. Berkeley, CA: U of California P, 2006

2006-07 Faculty Journal and Chapter Publications

Gordon Coonfield:

• “Thinking Machinically, or, the Techno-aesthetic of Jackie Chan: Toward a Deleuze-Guattarian Media Studies.” Critical Studies in Media Communication 23.4 (2006): 285-301
• “News Images as Lived Images: Witness, Performance, and the U.S. Flag after 9/11.” In Nico Carpentier (Ed.), Culture, Trauma, and Conflict: Cultural Studies Perspectives on War. London: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2007

Maurice Hall:

• “The Postcolonial Caribbean as a Liminal Space: Authoring Other Modes of Contestation and Affirmation.” Howard Journal of Communications 18.1 (2007): p1-13

John Huxford:

• “Crying Wolf: Scientific False Alarms and Defensive Journalism in Coverage of ‘Doomsday Asteroids.’” The Communication Review 9.4 (2006): 269-295

Susan Mackey-Kallis:

• “Talking Heads Rock the House: Robert Greenwald’s Uncovered: The War on Iraq.” In Thomas Benson and Brian Snee (Eds.), The Rhetoric of the New Political Documentary. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 2007

Christina M. Morus:

• “The SANU Memorandum: Intellectual Authority and the Constitution of an Exclusive Serbian ‘People.’” Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies 4.2 (2007): 142-165
• “Slobo the Redeemer: The Rhetoric of Slobodan Milosevic and the Construction of the Serbian ‘People.’” Southern Communication Journal 72.1: 1-20

Heidi M. Rose:

• “Mirror image.” Text and Performance Quarterly 26 (2006): 278-296
• “The Poet in the Poem in the Performance: The Relation of Body, Self and Text in ASL Literature.” In In H-D. L. Bauman, J.L. Nelson, & H. M. Rose (Eds.), Signing the body poetic: Essays in American Sign Language literature. Berkeley: U of California P, 2006
• “Writing and performing Mirror Image.” Text and Performance Quarterly 26 (2006): 274-277

Emory Woodard:

• “In Search of the Older Audience: Adult Age Differences in Television Viewing.” Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media 50.4 (2006): 595-614. Co-authored with Marie-Louise Mares

Qi Wang:

• “Methods for Conflict Communication Research, With Special Reference to Culture.” In J. G. Oetzel & S. Ting-Toomey (Eds.), Handbook of Intercultural Conflict Research. Thousands Oak, CA: Sage. Co-authored with Cai, D. A., & Fink, E. L.