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Ronald Bishop, professor of Communication at Drexel University

Ronald Bishop


Professor of Communication
3201 Arch Street, Suite 100, Room 148
bishoprc@drexel.edu
215.895.1823
Department
  • Department of Communication
Research & Teaching Interests
  • Investigative reporting
  • Sports journalism
  • Journalism history
  • Journalism sourcing patterns
  • Textual, narrative, and ideological analysis
  • Cultural history of fame
  • Media portrayals of marginalized groups
Joan Blumberg, Assistant Teaching Professor, Drexel University College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Communication

Joan Blumberg


Assistant Teaching Professor
3201 Arch Street, Suite 100, Room 157
jwb28@drexel.edu
215.895.6351
Department
  • Department of Communication
Research & Teaching Interests
  • Science and Technical Writing
  • Public Speaking
  • Publishing
Anne Converse Willkomm, MFA, is an associate teaching professor of communication and associate dean of the Graduate College at Drexel University

Anne Converse Willkomm


Associate Dean, Graduate College; Associate Teaching Professor

acw334@drexel.edu
 Department
  • Department of Communication
Research & Teaching Interests
  • Organizational communication
  • Soft skills
  • Professional development
  • Empathy in the workplace
  • Nonprofits
  • Leadership
Karen Cristiano

Karen Cristiano


Assistant Department Head of Communication; Teaching Professor of Communication
3201 Arch Street, Suite 100, Room 166
kc42@drexel.edu
215.895.2374
Department
  • Department of Communication
Research & Teaching Interests
  • Journalism
  • Medical writing
  • Feature writing
  • Copy editing
  • Mass media and society
Alexander Friedlander

Alexander Friedlander


Associate Professor Emeritus of Rhetoric and Communication

sandy@drexel.edu
215.895.2602
Department
  • Department of Communication
Research & Teaching Interests
  • Rhetoric
  • Document design
  • Usability testing
  • Written Communication, particularly regarding technologies in the professional writing workplace
Ernest Hakanen

Ernest Hakanen


Director, Graduate Programs in Communication, Culture & Media; Professor of Communication; Graduate Faculty Member, Communication, Culture & Media; Editor, Explorations in Media Ecology: The Journal of the Media Ecology Association
3201 Arch Street, Suite 100, Room 149
eah22@drexel.edu
215.895.1354
Department
  • Department of Communication
Research & Teaching Interests
  • Communication history
  • Media theory
  • Emotions and technology
  • Semiotics
Barbara Hoekje

Barbara J Hoekje


Associate Professor Emerita, Department of Communication

bjh10@drexel.edu
 Department
  • Department of Communication
Research & Teaching Interests
  • Sociolinguistic approaches to second language teaching, learning and assessment
  • Second language literacies and academic discourse
  • Medicine, communication, and culture; embodiment
Alexander Jenkins

Alexander Jenkins


Assistant Teaching Professor
3201 Arch Street, Suite 100, Room 162

arj28@drexel.edu
215.571.4332
Department
  • Department of Communication
Research & Teaching Interests
  • Digital games
  • Video games
  • Emotion
  • Morality
  • Online fan communities
  • Emerging media
  • Convergence
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Nahyun Kim


Assistant Professor
3201 Arch, Suite 100, Room 171

nk865@drexel.edu
215-571-3569
Department
  • Department of Communication
Research & Teaching Interests
  • Public Relations
  • Corporate Social Responsibility
  • Corporate Social Advocacy
  • Crisis Communication
  • Emotion in Persuasive Communication
Hyunmin Lee

Hyunmin “Min” Lee


Director of Undergraduate Programs in Communication; Associate Professor; Graduate Faculty Member, Communication, Culture & Media
3201 Arch Street, Suite 100, Room 164
hl586@drexel.edu
215.571.3567
Department
  • Department of Communication
Research & Teaching Interests
  • Public relations
  • Strategic health communication
  • Social media effects
Julia H May, PhD

Julia H. May


Director, MS in Professional Communication Program; Director, Graduate PR Certificate Program; Associate Teaching Professor of Communication
3201 Arch Street, Suite 100, Room 163
julia.may@drexel.edu
215.895.5804
Department
  • Department of Communication
Research & Teaching Interests
  • Political Communication
  • International politics and its news coverage
  • Public Opinion
  • Debate in the Public Sphere
  • Transatlantic relations
  • War, Torture and Human Rights
Alexander Nikolaev

Alexander Nikolaev


Associate Professor of Communication
3201 Arch Street, Suite 100, Room 168
agn24@drexel.edu
215.895.1907
Department
  • Department of Communication
Research & Teaching Interests
  • Public Relations
  • Political Communication
  • Crisis Communication
  • International Communication
  • International Negotiations
  • International News Coverage
  • International Communication Ethics and Morality
  • Political Discourse Analysis
Rakhmiel Peltz, PhD, Professor of Sociolinguistics, Drexel University

Rakhmiel Peltz


Professor Emeritus of Sociolinguistics; Founding Director of Judaic Studies

rp27@drexel.edu
 Department
  • Department of Communication
  • Jewish Studies
Research & Teaching Interests
  • Molecular and Cellular Biology
  • Yiddish Studies, Language and Society
  • Ethnography of Communication
  • Children of Immigrants
  • Educational Restitution after Genocide
Douglas Porpora, PhD

Douglas V. Porpora


Professor of Sociology
3201 Arch Street, 380
porporad@drexel.edu
215.895.2404
Department
  • Department of Communication
Research & Teaching Interests
  • Meaning
  • Morality
  • Politics
  • Religion
  • Social Justice
Rachel Reynolds - Drexel Communication Faculty

Rachel Reynolds


Associate Professor; Graduate Faculty Member, Communication, Culture & Media
3201 Arch Street, Suite 340, Room 354
rrr28@drexel.edu
215.895.0498
Department
  • Department of Communication
Research & Teaching Interests
  • Sociolinguistics, Ethnography of Communication and Discourse Analysis
  • Violence Against Women in Mass Media
  • Political Economy of Migration – Brain Drain, Immigrants and Transnational Immigration
  • Semiotics including the Textual, the Visual and the Multimodal
Rosemary Rys

Rosemary Rys


Assistant Teaching Professor of Communication
3201 Arch Street, Suite 100, Room 154
rer22@drexel.edu
Mobile: 609.471.0311
Department
  • Department of Communication
Research & Teaching Interests
  • Public Relations
  • Marketing
  • Event Planning
Wesley Shumar, professor of Communication at Drexel University

Wesley Shumar


Professor; Graduate Faculty Member, Communication, Culture & Media
3201 Arch Street, 372
shumarw@drexel.edu
215.895.2060
Department
  • Department of Communication
Research & Teaching Interests
  • The Commodification of Culture
  • Consumer Culture and the Production of Value
  • Entrepreneurship and Craft Culture
  • Cultural Change in Higher Education
  • Digital Media and Learning
  • Learning and Communication
Lawrence Souder

Lawrence Souder


Teaching Professor Emeritus of Communication

ls39@drexel.edu
215.895.2730
Department
  • Department of Communication
Research & Teaching Interests
  • Technical and scientific writing and publishing
  • Nonprofit communication
  • Communication ethics
Allan Stegeman

Allan Stegeman


Teaching Professor
3201 Arch Street, Suite 100, Room 161
stegemal@drexel.edu
215.895.2734
Department
  • Department of Communication
Research & Teaching Interests
  • Telecommunications Policy
  • Interpersonal Communication
  • Digital Photojournalism
  • Videography and Video Production
Scott Tattar, Instructor of Communication, Department of Communication at Drexel University

Scott Tattar


Assistant Teaching Professor; Faculty Advisor, Drexel Public Relations Student Society; Communication Department Recruitment Liaison
3201 Arch Street, 159
sdt56@drexel.edu
215.571.3611
Department
  • Department of Communication
Research & Teaching Interests
  • Public Relations
  • Corporate Social Responsibility
  • Reputation Management
  • Issues/Crisis Management
  • Business Communication
Hilde Van den Bulck

Hilde Van den Bulck


Department Head; Professor
3201 Arch Street, Suite 100, Room 152
hdv26@drexel.edu
215.895.0245
Department
  • Department of Communication
Research & Teaching Interests
  • Political economy of media structures
  • Media policies for digitized media ecologies
  • Stakeholders and coalitions in media policies
  • Digitization, convergence and legacy media
  • Public (service) media
  • Methods of media policy analysis
  • Media culture in a digitized media ecosystem
  • Media and (collective) identities
  • Celebrity culture and industry
  • Celebrity philanthropy and activism
  • Celebrity and populism
  • Fandom and anti-fandom
Dr. Asta Zelenkauskaite

Asta Zelenkauskaite


Associate Professor of Communication; Graduate Faculty Member, Communication, Culture & Media
3201 Arch Street, Suite 100, Room 165
az358@drexel.edu
215.895.1717
Department
  • Department of Communication
  • Center for Science, Technology and Society
Research & Teaching Interests
  • Social media research
  • User-generated content analysis
  • Emergent practices online
  • Ideological influence
  • Inauthentic coordinated behaviors online
  • Misinformation/disinformation online
  • Mixed methods

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