Faculty

Gail C. Ambuske, Chair, Professor of Communication and Management

B.A., M.A., Kent State University
Ph.D., Case Western Reserve University

Academic interest: group and organizational communication, Japan and China

Xinlu Yu, Associate Professor of Communication

B.A., Beijing Foreign Studies University
M.S., Ph.D., Ohio University

Academic interest: intercultural communication, international communication, media and multiculturalism, China

Audrey E. W. Cunningham, Assistant Professor of Communication

B.A., Hiram College
M.A., Ph.D., Kent State University
CJE, Journalism Education Association

Academic interest: media effects, scholastic journalism, communication activism, marginalization, political communication

Jon C. Gordon, Associate Professor of Communication

B.A., Hiram College
M.A., University of South Carolina
M.F.A., Ph.D., The Ohio State University

Academic interest: intercultural communication, editorial cartooning, Japanese popular culture, Asia

Adjunct Faculty

Jim Laux, Adjunct Professor of Communication

B.A., M.A., Ph.D., Bowling Green State University

Academic interest: interpersonal, group organizational, intercultural communication; relationship between happiness and communication

Desmond Laux, Adjunct Professor of Communication

B.A., Cleveland State University
M.A., Ph.D., Bowling Green State University

Academic interest: interpersonal and family communication, nonverbal behavior, communication research methods

Laurie Bentley, Adjunct Instructor of Communication

B.A., Hiram College
M.A., Kent State University

Academic interest: gender communication, nonverbal communication, media, intercultural communication

Rocki Basel, Adjunct Instructor of Communication

B.S., M. F. A., University of Akron
ABD, Kent State University

Academic interest: gender communication, nonverbal communication, media, intercultural communication

Emerita Faculty

Linda Rea and Mary Ann Brockett