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Professor Ashli Stokes has joined the Counter’s series of first-person, personal accounts of the American eating experience during the Covid-19 pandemic — with her essay on the value of good, old-fashioned, Southern-style waffles. Dig in: https://thecounter.org/covid-19-essay-bisquick-recipes-in-lockdown/ For more from the series: https://thecounter.org/covid-19-essays-eating-in-the-counter/

Two faculty members in the Department of Communication Studies edited the just-published The Personal Is Political: Body Politics in a Trump World. The book, edited by Professor Christine S. Davis and Associate Professor Jonathan Crane, gathers a diverse collection of scholars to document the ways in which marginalized peoples have experienced the Trump administration. Essays […]

The Communication Studies community has been grieved and outraged over the recent racist events unfolding nationally. Over the past week, a diverse and inclusive ad hoc committee of the Communication Studies faculty crafted a Statement of Support for Racial Justice in response to these events. The statement is linked here and it includes comments of […]

The 2020 edition of our departments Ezine is now available! Included in this year’s issue: Dr. Black Explores Canadian Culture, Breaking Barriers for Transitioning Citizens, LEADS Program Enhances Students’ Education,Dr. Jiang Researches in Rio De Janeiro, Interview Fashion Show Workshop and much more!

As we monitor novel coronavirus (COVID-19), we are committed to supporting students, faculty and staff and ensuring that all students can fulfill their academic requirements as planned. LEARN MORE.

Attention communication majors with a 3.3 or higher GPA who want to sharpen their research skills or stand out in the job market or for graduate school: the Communication Studies Honors Program is open for applications. Requirements include: an overall GPA of 3.3 or higher as well as a 3.3 or higher in all Communication […]

Communication studies professor Margaret Quinlan and her research partner Bethany Johnson are exploring the challenges of modern motherhood and have been highlighted in a number of recent artciles. You can take at look at them at the following links: Academic Minute She Knows You’re Doing it Wrong

Assistant Professor Bibi Reisdorf is co-author on an article that discusses how knowledge about how algorithms work is unequally distributed among Americans — and how this may affect how people perceive the information they find through search engines. With her PhD student at Michigan State University, Kelley Cotter, Dr. Reisdorf has published “Algorithmic Knowledge Gaps: […]

The one college student in the state honored for creating and leading innovative projects that address community needs is a UNC Charlotte Communication Studies major. Senior Neariah Mandisa-Drummond is the 2019 recipient of the John H. Barnhill Civic Trailblazer Award. Read more about her inspiring achievements on Inside UNC Charlotte.

Dr. Bianca Reisdorf, assistant professor with the Department of Communication Studies, recently traveled with MA student Megan Foster to Washington DC to present their paper “Digital Reentry: Uses of and Barriers to ICTs in the Prisoner Reentry Process” at TPRC47 (the 47th Telecommunications Policy and Research Conference). TPRC promotes interdisciplinary thinking on current and emerging […]