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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

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


Bipin Banjara

Bipin Banjara

Graduate Teaching Assistant, CMST 101

he/him/his
Comm 2202
Performance studies / Digital media


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

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

Assistant Tech Director Kleinau Theater, Social Media Manager

COMM 2207
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 


Grace Dwyer

Grace Dwyer

Graduate Teaching Assistant, CMST 101

she/her/they
COMM 2202
Performance Studies, Autoethnography, Ethnography, Gender & Sexuality Studies, Queer Theory, Music composition and live performance, Disability Studies, Social justice movements and advocacy


India Hagen-Gates

COMM 2002N
Rhetoric, Environmental Communication, Outdoor Recreation


Erin Henkel

Speaker's Center and Director's Assistant

she/her/hers
Comm 2205
Intercultural Communication, Identity, Rhetoric, Political Communication, Media


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

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


Frankie Kimmell

Frankie Kimmell

Graduate Teaching Assistant, CMST 102, Assistant Introductory Course Coordinator

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


Irene Lutterodt

Irene Lutterodt

Graduate Teaching Assistant, CMST 301i

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


Madison (Madi) Marshall

Madison (Madi) Marshall

Graduate Teaching Assistant, CMST 101

she/her/hers
COMM 2202
Intercultural communication, interpersonal communication, identity performance


Sean Maulding

Sean Maulding

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


Dianah McGreehan

Doctoral Candidate


Junara Dakota Quinn-Miller

Junara Dakota Quinn-Miller

Graduate Teaching Assistant, CMST 101

she/her/hers
Comm 2202
Political communication, Queer theory, Rhetorical Critique, Pedagogy.


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


Jessica N. Paxton

Jessica N. Paxton

Graduate Teaching Assistant, CMST 101

she/they
Comm 2202
Social Activism, Performance and Autoethnography, Queer Studies


Mario Sanders

Graduate Teaching Assistant, CMST 201, Kaleidoscope Editor

COMM 2202


Sulav Shakya

Sulav Shakya

Graduate Teaching Assistant, CMST 101

he/him/his
COMM 2202
Semiotics, Performance Studies, and Intercultural Communication


 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

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


Casey Weaver

Casey Weaver

Graduate Teaching Assistant, CMST 101

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