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Graduate Students

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
Graduate Teaching Assistant, CMST 101
he/him/his
Comm 2202
Performance studies / Digital media

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
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
Assistant Tech Director Kleinau Theater, Social Media Manager
COMM 2207
Consent in performance and pedagogy, coercive communication, queer performance, critical pedagogies

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
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
Rhetoric, Intercultural Communication, Ruralism

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

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
Graduate Teaching Assistant, CMST 301i
COMM 2202
Intercultural Communication,Organizational communication,DEI,Interpersonal Communication,Social media

Madison (Madi) Marshall
Graduate Teaching Assistant, CMST 101
she/her/hers
COMM 2202
Intercultural communication, interpersonal communication, identity performance

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
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
Graduate Teaching Assistant, CMST 101
she/her/hers
COMM 2202
Intercultural Communication, rhetoric and organizational communication

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

Casey Weaver
Graduate Teaching Assistant, CMST 101
she/her/hers
COMM 2202
Women/Gender/Sexuality Communication, Masculinity Communication, Interpersonal Communication