Communications/Media/Journalism

Vincent Benigni
Associate Professor, Communication
843.953.7019

• Public relations and PR campaigns
• Sports communication
• Public relations education/service learning

Jeri Cabot
Dean of Students, Student Affairs
843.953.5522

• Media, government, and politics
• Media and South Carolina politics

Lynn Cherry
Associate Chair/Associate Professor, Communication
843.953.5674

• Political rhetoric and discourse
• Interpersonal communication
• Listening
• Argumentation and debate

Julie Davis
Assistant Professor, Communication
843.953.8289

• Organizational communication
• Organizational culture
• Rhetoric of the women’s suffrage movement
• Lyndon Johnson’s rhetoric

Doug Ferguson
Professor, Communication
843.953.7854

• Mass media effects
• Mass media research
• Television and movie violence
• New communication technologies
• Network and cable television

Patrick Harwood
Adjunct Professor, Communication
843.953.7017

• TV and radio news

Kathleen Hladky
Assistant Professor, Religious Studies
843.953.9311

• Media and religion
• Televangangelists
• Trinity Broadcasting Network

Celeste Lacroix
Associate Professor, Communication
843.953.5654

• Media criticism
• Race, class, gender, and sexuality in the media
• Cross-cultural communication
• Images of Native Americans in media

Deborah McGee

Associate Professor, Communication
843.953.5635

• Physician-patient communication
• Public speaking
• Interpersonal conflict management
• Communication Skills
• Asperger's Syndrome

David Moscowitz
Assistant Professor, Communication
843.425.8601

• Popular culture
• Rhetoric
• Film criticism
• Postmodern identity and memory politics
• (Post)assimilation
• Whiteness
• Gender and the body
• Contemporary Jewish identity and representation

Gregory Schmitt
Assistant Professor, Communication
843.953.5787

• Photography
• News photography/photojournalism

Beth Sundstrom
Assistant Professor, Communication
843.953.7599

• Social marketing
• Strategic communication/public relations
• Health communication

Robert Westerfelhaus
Associate Professor, Communication
843.953.6533

• Film
• Television
• Popular Culture
• Human sexuality
• Masculinity