We stand with Black Rams Matter and Black Lives Matter

Dear colleauges, students, alumni and friends: The Department of Communication Studies condemns the murders of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, and Sean Reed, and the continued enactment of white privilege across the nation. These are moments when, for many of us, communication fails, words fall far short, and the sounds and images scrolling on […]

Small, wearable air pollution sensors will let workers know what they’re breathing

By Anne Manning This story originally appeared in CSU Source Every day, millions of workers head to their jobs and breathe any number of airborne chemicals, particles or vapors, all of which may or may not be affecting their health. Measuring these pollution exposures – and making that data meaningful to workers and employers – […]

Are you listening? Contribute to research on listening across difference.

Have you ever been accused of “not listening”? Did you feel misunderstood? Have you ever accused someone of poor listening skills because they didn’t engage the way you wanted? Now is your chance to put that misunderstanding to good use by participating in a survey about listening across difference. Data from the 10-minute survey will inform […]

Elinor Light receives Visual Communication Divisions Outstanding Article of the Year award

The National Communication Association awarded Special Assistant Professor Elinor Light the Visual Communication Divisions Outstanding Article of the Year award for her paper, “Aesthetic ruptures: viewing graffiti as the emplaced vernacular.” The article was originally published in March 2018 in The award was presented at the 104th NCA Annual Convention in Salt Lake City, Utah. […]

Welcome ACT Human Rights Film Festival Managing Director Beth Seymour

The Department of Communication Studies welcomes the new Managing Director of the ACT Human Rights Film Festival, Beth Seymour. Seymour will be tackling the festivals’s major operations, including registering and organizing volunteers, securing partner sponsorships, inviting filmmakers and other prominent guests, procuring films for screenings, and leading programmatic planning and execution. Seymour will be working […]

Dunn’s Queerly Remembered receives outstanding book award

The National Communication Association has honored Colorado State University Associate Professor of Communication Studies Thomas R. Dunn with its 2018 Outstanding Book Award for Queerly Remembered: Rhetorics for Representing the GLBTQ Past. Dunn will receive the award at the104th NCA conference in Salt Lake City, Utah, on Friday, November 9.   The award is presented by NCA’s Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer […]

Anderson to edit Quarterly Journal of Speech

The National Communication Association has selected Colorado State University Professor of Communication Studies Karrin Vasby Anderson as the next editor of its Quarterly Journal of Speech (QJS), the most prestigious and oldest peer-reviewed journal published in the field of rhetorical studies. According to the journal’s website, QJS welcomes the full array of scholarship produced under […]

Katie Gibson of Communication Studies presented with Outstanding Book Award

The Organization for the Study of Communication, Language, and Gender has awarded Associate Professor Katie Gibson its 2018 Outstanding Book Award for Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Legacy of Dissent: Feminist Rhetoric and the Law, published last March. Gibson received the award Saturday, October 6, at the organization’s 41st annual conference held in South Lake Tahoe, Nevada. “My book argues […]