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Bipin Banjara
Graduate Teaching Assistant, CMST 101; SCS Social Media Coordinator
he/him/his
Comm 2202
Performance studies / Digital media
Addison Bean
Program Coordinator- Scholarships & Outreach for SIU Financial Aid Office
she/her/hers
Organizational communication, public relations
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)
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
Graduate Teaching Assistant, CMST 101; Assistant Tech Director, Kleinau Theater
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
Erin Henkel
Graduate Teaching Assistant, CMST 101;Speaker's Center and Director's Assistant
she/her/hers
Comm 2205
Intercultural Communication, Identity, Rhetoric, Political Communication, Media
Paula Horton
she/her/hers
Autistic Communication, Autistic Culture, Performance Studies, Neurodivergent Identity, Communicative Difference versus Competence
Danica (Dani) Jenck
Graduate Teaching Assistant, CMST 101
she/her/hers and they/them/theirs
COMM 2202
Feminist Theory, Queer Theory, Trans Studies, Identity, Rhetoric, Popular Culture, Semiotics & Hermeneutics
Frankie Kimmell
Graduate Teaching Assistant, CMST 101
he/him/his
COMM 2202L
Communication Pedagogy, Gender and Sexuality Communication, Interpersonal Communication
Irene Lutterodt
Graduate Teaching Assistant, CMST 301i; Kaleidoscope Journal Editor
COMM 2202
Intercultural Communication,Organizational communication,DEI,Interpersonal Communication,Social media
Asher Lybarger
Graduate Teaching Assistant, CMST 101
She/her & they/them
COMM 2202Performance Studies, Autoethnography, Ethnography, Social Justice and Advocacy, Gender & Sexuality Studies, and Interpersonal communication.
Madison (Madi) Marshall
Graduate Teaching Assistant, CMST 301i
she/her/hers
COMM 2202
Intercultural communication, interpersonal communication, identity performance
Dianah McGreehan
Doctoral Candidate
Hamdiya Mohammed
Graduate Teaching Assistant, CMST 101
she/her/hers
COMM 2202
Environmental communication, intercultural communication
Junara Dakota Quinn-Miller
Graduate Teaching Assistant, CMST 101
she/her/hers
Comm 2202
Political communication, Queer theory, Rhetorical Critique, Pedagogy.
Jessica N. Paxton
Graduate Teaching Assistant, CMST 201; Tech Director, Kleinau Theater
she/they
Comm 2202
Social Activism, Performance and Autoethnography, Queer Studies
Mario Sanders
Sulav Shakya
Graduate Teaching Assistant, CMST 101
he/him/his
COMM 2202
Semiotics, Performance Studies, and Intercultural Communication
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.
Maggie Stacey
she/her/hers
COMM 2202
Intercultural communications, Performance Studies, and Public Relations
Casey Weaver
Graduate Teaching Assistant, CMST 101 & 102; Assistant Introductory Course Coordinator
she/her/hers
COMM 2202
Women/Gender/Sexuality Communication, Masculinity Communication, Interpersonal Communication