5 Questions with Sumana Chattopadhyay
Sumana Chattopadhyay is an Associate Professor of Digital Media and Performing Arts in the Diederich College of Communication at Marquette University. Chattopadhyay’s research interests focus on public opinion, political campaigns, and cross-cultural media coverage of environmental and migration crises. Chattopadhyay has been active in NCA’s Political Communication Division and Mass…
Five Questions with Andrew S. Pyle
Andrew S. Pyle is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication at Clemson University. Pyle’s research focuses on the intersection of Crisis Communication and Intercultural Communication, as well as on the ways that organizations use social media to manage crises. Pyle is also an award-winning teacher, having received Clemson’s…
Five Questions with Tara Reed
Dr. Tara Reed is the Founder and CEO of Next Level Consulting and is a Professor of Speech Communication in the Department of Language Arts and Distant Learning Division at Tarrant County College. Reed has consulted with local, regional, and international nonprofit organizations for more than 20 years. As an…
Five Questions with Xiaoquan Zhao
Xiaoquan Zhao is a Professor in the Department of Communication at George Mason University. Zhao researches health message design and effects, evaluation of public communication campaigns, health information seeking, health information disparities, news effects on health and risk perceptions, and the role of the self in health behavior and persuasive…
Five Questions with Jessica Kurr
Jessica A. Kurr (she/her/hers) is a Visiting Lecturer in the Department of Communication Studies at Northeastern University. Dr. Kurr researches rhetoric and argumentation, focusing on interactions between individuals and institutions related to economic, political, and LGBTQ issues. Kurr is currently working on a book-length project examining how political institutions have…
5 Questions with Ahmet Atay
Ahmet Atay is an Associate Professor; Department Chair of Global Media and Digital Studies; Program Chair of Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies; and Co-Liaison to the Digital Visual Storytelling Pathway at the College of Wooster. Dr. Atay researches in the areas of transnational communication and media studies, technology and new…
Five Questions with Jennifer Kam
Jennifer Kam is a Professor of Interpersonal Health Communication at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Dr. Kam uses quantitative and qualitative methods to examine how promotive factors at individual, interpersonal, and institutional levels can help prevent or attenuate the negative effects of stressors on immigrant youth in the United…
5 Questions with David Tokarz
David Tokarz is a Writer-Editor in the Office of Advocacy at the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA). Dr. Tokarz completed a dissertation on civil rights filibusters in the United States Senate and earned a Ph.D. in Communication from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in August 2019. While at the…