Communication Spotlight

The Department of Communication is pleased to announce that it awarded two Community Health Education and Retention Scholarships (CHEARS) to fall 2020 recipients Julie Guest and Rafaella Darquea Reyes. This scholarship is intended to help defray tuition costs of learners interested in health broadly construed. Guest, a communication major, has...

Mia Fischer, Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication, recently received the 2020 Diamond Anniversary Book Award from the National Communication Association (NCA). The award recognizes the most outstanding scholarly book published during the previous calendar year, and Fischer is receiving the award for the book, Terrorizing Gender: Transgender Visibility...

SCB Third Floor Atrium 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM Come join the Department of Communication as we celebrate the recent publications of our award-winning faculty. CLAS author who published a book this year? Bring it along for show and tell. Mocktails and snacks will be served, RSVP requested . Come...

Communication Professor Stephen Hartnett and Associate Professor CTT Patrick Shaou-Whea Dodge published On Postcolonial Remembering and Democratic Openings in Taiwan; An Interview with Former Political Prisoner, Fred Chin , in Public Seminar . Stephen Hartnett also published Transitional Justice and the Voyage of Democracy in Taiwan , in SupChina last month.

On November 22, Communication Associate Professor and INTS Director Hamilton Bean delivered the 33rd Sogo Bosai seminar at Kyoto University’s Disaster Prevention Research Institute (DPRI). His talk was entitled, “Does Japan Have a Problem with Mobile Public Alert and Warning?”

Communication Assistant Professor Soumia Bardhan's co-edited book, Internationalizing the Communication Discipline in the Age of Globalization, was just published by Routledge. Globalization and the resulting internationalization of universities is driving change in teaching, learning, and what it means to be educated. This book provides examples of how the Communication discipline...

Communication Professor Emeritx Sonja K. Foss's and Associate Professor Amy Hasinoff's work has been featured recently in the podcast, Radicals and Revolutionaries Lab , by Jillian Foster. The podcast describes itself as “an intersectional, international, and intergenerational podcast with feminist visionaries.” Foss and her twin are the subject of episode...

Communication Assistant Professor Mia Fischer recently published Terrorizing Gender: Transgender Visibility and the Surveillance Practices of the U.S. Security State . The increased visibility of transgender people in mainstream media, exemplified by Time magazine’s declaration that 2014 marked a “transgender tipping point,” was widely believed to signal a civil rights...

Stephen Hartnett, Patrick Dodge, and Lisa Keranen from the Communication Department have been named recipients of this year's Xiao Award for Outstanding Rhetorical Research from the Association for Chinese Communication Studies (ACCS). This award honors the strongest published article in the area of China-related rhetorical studies from the past two...

Program at 6:00 p.m. | Reception at 7:30 pm 2600 Student Commons This all-star panel of Denver journalists and media producers will explore the ethical dilemmas of using social media to reach audiences and discuss how to use social media responsibly. Featuring: Kyle Clark | Anchor/Reporter, 9News Gabrielle Bryant |...