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Graduate Students

Sahar Abedikedenji

Sahar Abedikedenji

Graduate Teaching Assistant, CMST 101

she/her/hers
COMM 2202
Media and technology, feminist theory, women's and gender studies, and public relations.


Carli Álvarez

Graduate Teaching Assistant, CMST 101

she/her/hers
Interpersonal communication, gender & sexuality, feminism, combat sports, women & Queer people’s experiences in Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu.


Janine Armstrong

Janine Armstrong

she/her/hers
Gender and Sexuality; Intersectionality; Interpersonal Communication; Identities Studies (emphasis in gender, sexuality, faith, and race); Communication Pedagogy; Experiential Learning; Applied Communication


Folakemi Bakare

Folakemi Bakare

Graduate Teaching Assistant, CMST 101

she/her/hers
COMM 2202
Intercultural Communication, Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies


Jajuan Blankenship

Jajuan Blankenship

Graduate Teaching Assistant, CMST 101

he/him/his
COMM 2202
Education and the disparity between African American Youth & the Majority (emphasis on primary & secondary education) 


Juno Blue

Juno Blue

Graduate Teaching Assistant, CMST 101, Assistant Tech Director Kleinau Theater

they/them/theirs and he/him/his
COMM 2202
Literature adaptation, performing Sci-Fi, Gender & Sexuality studies, Queer Theory, Media and Perfomance, Performance Studies, Trans
and Nonbinary Identities


T. Brown

T. Brown

Speaker's Center Coordinator, Graduate Teaching Assistant, CMST 102, Social Media Manager

COMM 2205
Consent in performance and pedagogy, coercive communication, queer performance, critical pedagogies


O.J. Duncan

O.J. Duncan

they/them/theirs & he/him/his
Consensual non-monogamies, queer theory, autoethnography, digital badges, micro-credentials, intercultural communication, pedagogy, social justice, gamification, course development, assessment 


Felix Enyan

Graduate Teaching Assistant, CMST 101

he/him/his
COMM 2202
Gender and sexuality Communication, interpersonal communication


India Hagen-Gates

Graduate Teaching Assistant, CMST 101; PRSSA and Director's Assistant

COMM 2002N
Rhetoric, Environmental Communication, Outdoor Recreation


Erin Hodgson

Erin Hodgson

Rhetoric, Intercultural Communication, Ruralism


Emla Holsted

Emla Holsted

Graduate Teaching Assistant, CMST 101

she/her/hers
COMM 2202
performance studies, disability studies, organizational communication, and feminism (specifically Black feminist thought)


Scott Jarmon

Scott Jarmon

Graduate Teaching Assistant, CMST 101

he/him/his
COMM 2002J
Rhetoric, Intercultural Communication


Frankie Kimmell

Frankie Kimmell

Graduate Teaching Assistant, CMST 101 and CMST 361

he/him/his
COMM 2202L
Communication Pedagogy, Gender and Sexuality Communication, Interpersonal Communication 


Monalisa Lamptey

Monalisa Lamptey

Graduate Teaching Assistant, CMST 101

COMM 2202
Intercltural Communication, rhetoric and organizational communication


Irene Lutterodt

Irene Lutterodt

Graduate Teaching Assistant, CMST 301i; PRSSA and Director’s Assistant

COMM 2202
Intercultural Communication,Organizational communication,DEI,Interpersonal Communication,Social media


Sean Maulding

Sean Maulding

Graduate Teaching Assistant, CMST 201; Editor, Kaleidoscope

he/him/his
COMM 2002C
Trans and Nonbinary Identities and Communication, Gender & Sexuality, Queer Theory, Social Justice, Pedagogy, Performance Studies


Dianah McGreehan

Doctoral Candidate


Caleb McKinley-Portee

Caleb McKinley-Portee

Doctoral Candidate


Bolton Morales

Doctoral Candidate

COMM 2206


Janifar Nova

Janifar Nova

Graduate Teaching Assistant, CMST 101

she/her/hers
COMM 2202
Intercultural Communication, rhetoric and organizational communication


Mario Sanders

Graduate Teaching Assistant, CMST 301i

COMM 2202


 Reza Shirmarz

Reza Shirmarz

Graduate Teaching Assistant, CMST 101

he/him/his
COMM 2202
Political communication, censorship and self-censorship, the politics of body and bodiness, the politics of fear, objectification and de-objectification, suppression of verbal and non-verbal communication, women, gender and sexuality studies, theoretical aspects of theater and performance including semiotics, phenomenology and anthropology, creative writing, voice and speech.


Jesse Snider

Graduate Teaching Assistant, CMST 101

he/him/his
COMM 2202
Performance Studies, Material Space, Video Games


Alicia Utecht

Alicia Utecht

Technical Director, Kleinau Theatre

she/her/hers
COMM 2207
Performance studies, fandom studies, intersection of family comm/disability studies/identity work, autoethnography


Casey Weaver

Casey Weaver

Graduate Teaching Assistant, CMST 101

she/her/hers
COMM 2202
Women/Gender/Sexuality Communication, Masculinity Communication, Interpersonal Communication