Faculty: Department of Communication

Faculty

  • Linda Horwitz

    Associate Professor of Communication, Chair of Women and Gender Studies, Chair of Cinema Studies

    Areas of Study:  feminist rhetoric, history of rhetoric, American public address

  • David Park

    Associate Professor and Chair of Communication

    Areas of Study: mass communication theory; experts, intellectuals, and the media; the intellectual history of communication research; theoretical perspectives on new media

  • Rachel Whidden

    Assistant Professor of Communication

    Areas of Study:  argumentation theory, rhetoric of science and religion, visual rhetoric

  • Camille Johnson Yale

    Assistant Professor of Communication

    Areas of Study: critical media studies, new media and communication technologies, medi history

  • Elizabeth Benacka

    Lecturer in Communication

    Areas of Study:  rhetoric of humor, rhetorical theory and criticism, feminist rhetoric

  • Helene DeGross

    Lecturer in Communication

    Area of Study:  journalism

  • Randall Iden

    Lecturer in Communication

    Areas of Study:  rhetoric of economics, argumentation theory, classical rhetoric

Department Staff

Department Supervisor:  Harriet Doud, 847-735-5121

Department Assistant:  Wendy Ohman, 847-735-5122