COMM Updates - 8/29/2024

Assistant Professor Wunpini Mohammed is a scholar of decolonization, Dagbanli, epistemologies, social movements, marginalization, Ghana, and intersectionality. Her teaching, beginning in spring 2025, will examine these topics.

Did you know? When Wunpini returns to her hometown of Tamale, Ghana, for research, she guest teaches undergraduate and graduate classes in the Department of Communication, Innovation and Technology at the University for Development Studies.

Assistant Professor Danny Parker studies ethnographic methods, systemic conditions that reproduce poverty, criminal justice systems’ impacts on poor communities, storytelling, group narratives, collective identity, community-engaged journalism, and poverty and political identity. Her teaching will examine these topics.

Did you know? Danny is writing a book chronicling the lives of rural and urban people living in extreme poverty, explaining how institutional structures influence social and political identities.

Associate Professor Claire Wardle examines misinformation, user-generated content, community information needs, and journalism. In fall 2024, she will teach Effective Comm in an Age of AI & Conspiracy.

Did you know? The New York Times once turned Claire into a deepfake version of Adele.

Dr. Natalia Andrievskikh is a scholar of written communication, research writing, translingual communication, writing pedagogy, and environmental rhetoric. She will teach our core course, Writing about Communication, and serve as Co-Chair of the Awards Committee.

Did you know? Natalia and her students designed a table-top game Dish It Up that educates players about sustainable food choices.

Dr. Andrei Guruianu studies composition pedagogy, journalism, creative nonfiction, and writing about place and memory. He will teach two First-year Writing Seminars.

Did you know? From 2009 to 2010, Andrei served as the inaugural Poet Laureate of Broome County, NY.

State Fair Picture Time!

Clockwise from the top: Visiting Intern Vanessa Richter, Lecturer Megan Sawey, Grad Student Roxana Muenster, Grad Student Julia Sebastien, and Associate Professor Brooke Duffy. Note Roxana’s side eye.

Comm grad students (and one partner) and a visiting intern pose at the flower stall. Left to right: Emma Cox, Vanessa Richter, Sarah Snyder, Julia Goolsby, Ruiyao Wang, Rosie Nguyen, Julia Sebastien, Ria Gualano, with Axel Bax.