Communication Studies
Our people
Department Chair
- 4210 Centennial Hall
- ldickmeyer@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.6715
Specialty areas:
Interpersonal Communication, Instructional Communication, Undergraduate Research
Associate Department Chair
- 4225 Centennial Hall
- bboser@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.6702
Specialty areas:
Public Communication and Advocacy, Media Studies, Gender and Feminism
Academic Department Associate
Department people
- Assistant Teaching Professor
- 4224 Centennial Hall
- malbrecht@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.6699
- Assistant Professor
- 4217 Centennial Hall
- banderson3@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.8716
Specialty areas:
Public Communication & Advocacy, Dialogue & Deliberation, Social Movement Discourse, Communication & Leadership, Public Memory & the Nuclear Public Sphere.
I am the Basic Course Director for the General Education CST 110 Communicating Effectively course.
- Assistant Professor
- 4206 Centennial Hall
- iawino@uwlax.edu
Specialty areas:
Media Studies
Global Media and Technology
International Affairs/News
Africa - News, Entertainment, Sports
Gender and Development
Journalism in the Global South - Critical Perspectives
Reparations, Affirmative Action, Migration, Human Rights
- Lecturer
- 4224 Centennial Hall
- jballi@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.6713
- Associate Professor
- 4225 Centennial Hall
- bboser@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.6702
Specialty areas:
Public Communication and Advocacy, Media Studies, Gender and Feminism
- Associate Professor
- 4219 Centennial Hall
- jbutlermodaff@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.6717
Specialty areas:
Organizational and Professional Communication
- Professor
- 4210 Centennial Hall
- ldickmeyer@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.6715
Specialty areas:
Interpersonal Communication, Instructional Communication, Undergraduate Research
- Associate Professor
- 4215 Centennial Hall
- sdickmeyer@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.8519
Specialty areas:
Organizational Communication, Organizational Culture, Training & Development and Consulting
- Professor
- 4229 Centennial Hall
- sdocan-morgan@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.6711
Specialty areas:
interpersonal communication, family communication, Korean adoptees, race and culture
- Professor
- 4231 Centennial Hall
- tdocan@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.6722
- Associate Professor
- 4310 Centennial Hall
- aedwards@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.6723
Specialty areas:
Interpersonal communication, inclusive pedagogy, social support, leadership & professional communication, computer-mediated communication, culture, and teaching in a multimodal environment
- Advising Manager
- 2131 Centennial Hall
- dgeiger@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.8537
Specialty areas:
Interpersonal and group communication, conflict management, grant writing, strategic planning, and precollege through first year student success.
- Assistant Teaching Professor
- 4207 Centennial Hall
- rkingquale@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.6705
Specialty areas:
Public Speaking, Small Group Communication, Organizational Communication
- Professor
- 4209 Centennial Hall
- klavelle@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.6698
- Professor
- 4212 Centennial Hall
- rleahy@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.6724
Specialty areas:
Professional and Organizational Communication
- Assistant Professor
- 4208 Centennial Hall
- wlu@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.6712
Specialty areas:
Social media, mobile media, digital media use in complex social environments.
UWL colleagues and students: Feel free to message me on MS Teams.
Student appointments: Please use my YouCanBook.Me page to book appointments with me.
- Assistant Teaching Professor
- 4206 Centennial Hall
- smakstenieks@uwlax.edu
- Assistant Professor
- 4227 Centennial Hall
- tmiller3@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.8713
Specialty areas:
Television, Broadcast History, Media Policy, Feminist and Queer Media Studies, Syndication, Broadcast Journalism
- Associate Professor
- 4221 Centennial Hall
- dmodaff@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.6716
Specialty areas:
Organizational Communication
- Associate Professor
- 4214 Centennial Hall
- gormes@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.8714
Specialty areas:
Organizational and Professional Communication
Communication in Teams
- Lecturer
- 4220 Centennial Hall
- apatnaik@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.6718
Specialty areas:
CST 110 Communicating Effectively
- Teaching Assistant Professor
- 4206 Centennial Hall
- jreed@uwlax.edu
Specialty areas:
Interpersonal communication, marital communication, family communication, relational uncertainty, and uncertainty management.
- Teaching Professor
- 4206 Centennial Hall
- tsmith@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.8523
Specialty areas:
Public Speaking
Public Speaking Center
Media Literacy
- Associate Teaching Professor
- 4101 Centennial Hall
- dsolie@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.6721
- Associate Professor
- 4211 Centennial Hall
- mtollefson2@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.6710
Specialty areas:
Persuasion, Argumentation, Undergraduate Research
Emeriti faculty
- Cheri Niedzwiecki
- James Putz
- Patricia Turner
- Robert Eberle