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 […]

Dr. Eric Aoki's opening reception of artwork in APACC Office

On Monday, Nov. 6 at 4:30 p.m. the Asian/Pacific American Cultural Center (APACC) presents an opening reception of Dr. Eric Aoki’s Artwork Installation in the APACC office. The reception will be held in the APACC office, LSC 333, with welcoming remarks at 5:15 p.m. The reception celebrates four pieces of Dr. Aoki’s artwork on display. […]

Dr. Allison Prasch Wins Golden Monograph Award

The National Communication Association has honored Dr. Allison Prasch, assistant professor of Communication Studies in the College of Liberal Arts at Colorado State University, with the 2017 Golden Monograph Award for her 2016 article, “Toward a Rhetorical Theory of Deixis.”   Prasch will be formally presented the award on Saturday, November 18, at the 103rd Annual NCA Convention held in Dallas, Texas. The Golden Anniversary Monograph Award was created to mark NCA’s […]

Dr. Meara Faw: Saliva's Link to Better Communication

Cryogenic freezing. Wet lab protocols. Dehydroepiandrosterone Sulfate (DHEAS). You’re not likely to hear these words fall from the mouths of most communication studies faculty when discussing their research. But, if you’re Assistant Professor Dr. Meara Faw, these scientific terms are a clear path to advancing the realm of what we know about interpersonal communication. Faw […]

Dr. Chung receives Alumnus of the Year Award from UCLA Film, Television, and Digital Media Department

By Lindsay McNeish On Friday, March 24, Dr. Hye Seung Chung was awarded the Alumnus of the Year for UCLA’s Department of Film, Television, and Digital Media at the 2017 Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference held in Chicago. Established in 2012, the award has been presented to seven other scholars including world-renowned film […]