News

Special Guest Lecture - Skye Dent 10/28/09

The Department of Communication Studies and the University Diversity Committee are pleased to present Writer-Producer Skye Dent. Ms Dent has written-produced a half dozen documentaries for the Discovery Channel, AMC, and PBS. She was awarded the Disney Writing Fellowship in the early nineties. She has written a first-season episode of Star Trek Voyager, where she created the alien race, The Vidiens. She has worked as a correspondent and columinist for the prestigious Boston Globe, the Hartford Courant, and Documentary Magazine. Most recently she has served as a writing consultant on Dirty Sexy Money. Last January she wrote a video game for Mindlab. She is an active member of Women in Film, Film Independent,The Producers Caucas, The New Leaders, 30 Barack, and Tisch Alumni West. Her BA is from Brown University, and her MA in Communication/Journalism from the University of Missouri, Columbia. Her MFA is from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. Ms. Dent will deliver her lecture. "I'm Just Not a Black Sci-Fi Chick" on Wednesday, October 28 at 4:00 p.m. in the Pine Room (Lower Commons). This guest lecture is sponsored by the Department of Communication Studies, College of Arts and Letters, and the University Diversity Committee.

Congratulations to Dr. Heisterkamp 10/27/09

Dr. Brian Heisterkamp has been selected as a recipient of the Fall 2009 Teaching Skills Study Award.

Dr. Algan receives top award 10/27/09

Dr. Ece Algan received the 2009 Top Faculty Paper Award at the Global Media & Communication conference held at the University of Texas.

Congratulations to Alexandria Gales 10/27/09

Congratulations to Alexandria Gales, BA Communication Studies '08, for receiving an Emmy for Best Educational Reporting for Inside Locke High, a documentary about troubled youth in Watts.

Fall 2009 classes begin on Thursday, September 24
9/24/2009
The Department of Communication Studies welcomes all returning and new majors. Best wishes for a successful term.

Dr. Muhtaseb presents research at Cornell University
7/6/2009
Dr. Ahlam Muhtaseb's paper on the intersection between scholarship, activism and pedagogy was accepted for presentation at the Cornell's Future of Minority Studies Summer Colloquium to be held at Cornell University in Ithaca July 30th to August 2nd.

Congratulations to Adriana Vargas
6/21/2009
Congratulations to Adriana Vargas, Communication Studies Undergraduate, for receiving the Outstanding Undergraduate Award from the College of Arts and Letters.

Dr. Sheil receives award
5/10/2009
Dr. Astrid Sheil has been competitively selected as a recipient of the Summer Research Fellowship award. Congratulations!

Annual Communication Dinner June 5
5/3/2009
Save the date for the Annual Communication Dinner! It will be held on Friday June 5th at 6:30 p.m. at the Shandin Hills Golf Club in San Bernardino.

Dr. Grant receives award
4/27/2009
Dr. Jo Anna Grant has been competitively selected as a recipient of the Teaching Resource Center's Summer 2009 Course Development Grant Award. Congratulations!

Retired Communication Studies Professor Dr. Kevin Lamude passes away
4/8/2009
The Department of Communication mourns the loss of our former colleague, Dr. Kevin Lamude. Dr. Lamude passed away on April 5, 2009.

Faculty Publication
4/8/2009
Congratulations to Dr. Heather Hundley on her recent publication in New Media & Society. The article, Digital Diversity: Age, Race/Ethnicity, and Gender of Streaming Video Performers is authored by Leonard Shyles, Emory Woodard, Brett Lyszak, Heather Hundley, and Michael Posner.

Congratulations to Former Grad Student Basemeh Rihan
3/19/2009
Basemeh Rihan's (MA 2008) paper was accepted for presentation at NCA (National Communication Association) convention. The paper entitled, "Unethical Practices that have been Conducted through the 20th and the 21st Centuries" will be presented at the NCA annual convention in Chicago in November, 2009.

Dr. Algan to deliver presentation at The Huntington Library
3/12/2009
Dr. Ece Algan, Assistant Professor of Communication Studies, will present, "Women's Self-representation and Use of Media in Turkey" as part of a panel entitled, "Women Changing the Face of the Middle East". Three panels will be presented to mark a milestone for the Huntington Women's Studies Seminars. Admission is free, and no advance registration is required. Dr. Algan's panel is scheduled at 1:30 - 3:30 p.m. The Huntington Library is located at 1151 Oxford Road, San Marino, 91108.

Family Communication course being offered in spring
2/19/2009
COMM 364: Family Communication/Topics in Human Communication is being offered in Spring 2009. This class will explore communication in a variety of family types and examine the influence of government, religion, and culture on family communication. This class meets on T/TH from 12:00 to 1:50 p.m. Contact Prof. Heisterkamp for more information.

Faculty Publication
2/19/2009
Professors Astrid Sheil and Mo Bahk's research article entitled "Exploring Pedagogical Outcomes of Service Learning in International Public Relations Education" has just been accepted for publication in a forthcoming issue of the International Journal of Innovation and Learning.

Dr. Heisterkamp elected as WSCA Delegate
1/25/2009
Dr. Brian Heisterkamp was elected to serve as a delegate to the Legislative Assembly for WSCA (Western States Communication Association) for a two-year term. Congratulations!

Faculty Publication
1/21/2009
Algan, E. (2009). What of ethnography? Television and New Media 10(1): 7-9.

Lecture on Rational Discrimination and Race scheduled for Feb. 10
1/9/2009
A lecture on "Rational Discrimination and Race" will be presented by Professor Oscar H. Gandy on Tuesday February 10, 4-6 pm at the Student Union Theater (SMSU 107). Prof. Gandy's lecture, entitled "Rational Discrimination and Race: Engaging the Actuarial Assumption", explores the efforts of journalists and public intellectuals to shape public understanding of the causes and consequences of racial disparity through the strategic use of statistical data and representations. Oscar H. Gandy, Jr. is professor emeritus, and most recently served as the Herbert I. Schiller Information and Society Term Professor at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. Previously he was Director of the Center for Communication Research at Howard University. His PhD in public affairs communication was awarded by Stanford University in 1976. Gandy is a world-renowned scholar of the political economy of information. His work spans many subjects, including privacy, race, information technology, media framing, media development, and educational subsidy. He is author of The Panoptic Sort and Beyond Agenda Setting, two books that explore issues of information and public policy.

Dr. Craig Monroe passes away
1/5/2009
The Department of Communication mourns the loss of our former colleague and Department Chair Craig Monroe. Dr. Monroe passed away on December 31, 2008.

Award-winning filmmaker John Milius delivers speech at CSUSB
11/10/2008
In this first event of the Entertainment Industry Initiative Speaker series on our campus, award-winning filmmaker John Milius shared his decades-long experience in Hollywood on November 6. USC graduate Milius has been a screenwriter, actor, director, and producer for numerous movies and television shows, including Apocalypse Now, Big Wednesday, The Wind and the Lion, Dirty Harry, and the HBO series Rome. Milius has also worked closely with Francis Coppola, George Lucas, and Steven Spielberg. He was the director of the film Conan the Barbarian that starred the then relatively unknown Arnold Schwarzenegger. As a screenwriter he wrote the famous lines "Charlie don't surf" and "I love the smell of napalm in the morning." Milius is a frequent guest on the History Channel's Modern Marvels. He is currently working on a new film Genghis Khan as the director and screenwriter. Sponsored by: CSU Entertainment Initiative, College of Arts and Letters, Media Arts Center, Center for Islamic and Middle East Studies, and the Department of Communication Studies.

Professor Timothy Havens, University of Iowa to deliver lecture
11/7/2008
The Department of Communication Studies cordially invites you to: A public lecture by Professor Timothy Havens "Selling Slavery Worldwide: On the Global Popularity of Roots and Industry Perceptions of Race" SMSU Theater (107) on Tuesday November 25th, 2008 from 4-5:30. Timothy Havens is associate professor of Communication Studies and African American Studies at the University of Iowa. His research and teaching interests include television studies, media globalization, race and media, and critical analysis of media industries. His book Global Television Marketplace (British Film Institute Publishing, 2006) provides the first comprehensive descriptive and theoretical overview of the global trade in television programming. He is currently completing two book projects, Black Face Abroad: The Global Traffic in African American Television with NYU Press, and Global Television Industries with Serra Tinic, which is under contract with Polity Press. This event is free and open to the public. It is sponsored by the Intellectual Life Committee, University Diversity Committee, and the Department of Communication Studies. For more information about this event, please contact Dr. Ece Algan.

Graduate Student Kimberly Aguilar receives top recognition
11/1/2008
Congratulations to Kimberly Aguilar, Communication Studies graduate student! Her paper entitled, "Who Me? I Didn't Have My Hand Raised: A Literature Review on Cold Calling" was competitively selected as a TOP PAPER for WSCA (Western States Communication Association) Communication and Instruction Interest Group. Kimberly will present her research at the annual meeting of WSCA in February 2009 in Mesa, Arizona.

Coyote Radio Chosen as an iTunes College Station
9/29/2008
COYOTE RADIO CHOSEN AS AN OFFICIAL iTUNES COLLEGE STATION! On Thursday September 25th, Cal State San Bernardino's Coyote Radio was chosen as an official iTunes station. Coyote Radio is the only campus station in the CSU system to ever be included in the iTunes lineup of 50 college stations from around the world. As a college station listed on the hugely popular site, CSUSB joins universities such as; Stanford, Penn State, Yale and Columbia University. No local commercial, college or university station has ever been included in the iTunes lineup. For consideration as an iTunes station, candidates must prove that their website can handle thousands of listeners at any given moment and that programming is professional, entertaining and diverse from others like it. Coyote Radio offers a unique format of popular music peppered with music from rising, independent artists. Dialogue is saturated with CSUSB news and information regarding sports, entertainment, academic and cultural events on the campus. The station is operated by students under the direction of Michael Ross, Director of Academic Computing and Media. Lifelong radio personality Lacey Kendall has managed the station since January 2007. Congratulations to Professor Heather Hundley, Communication Studies, Radio Station Faculty Advisor. To listen to Coyote Radio, itunes must first be loaded on your computer. Click on "Radio" under the Library listing, then "College Radio," then on "Coyote Radio".one of the first stations listed. Coyote Radio can also be heard during select hours on local television channel 3 and directly from the Coyote Radio website.

The Department of Communication Studies Welcomes Dr. Sheil
9/23/2008
The Department of Communication Studies welcomes Astrid Sheil, Assistant Professor. Dr. Sheil has a Ph.D from the University of Tennessee. Dr. Sheil teaches courses in Public Relations

Fall Course Offering- Comm 450
8/31/2008
Course Offered in Fall 2008 TR 10:00 - 11:50 am Communication 450 Audience Research and Analysis Learn how the media industry measures us - - the audience. Study what it means to be a media fan and lose your favorite tv show to low ratings. Understand how audiences all over the world react to global media. Design your own research and interview media users. For more info contact Professor Ece Algan.

Tenure and Promotion Awarded
7/14/2008
Congratulations to the following Communication Studies faculty: Dr. C. Rod Metts who was awarded tenure effective September 2008, Dr. Rueyling Chuang, Dr. Heather Hundley, and Dr. Robin Larsen who were awarded promotion to Professor effective September 2008.

Graduate Student Aaron Sanchez receives recognition
6/15/2008
Aaron Sanchez, Communication Studies Graduate Student, was selected for the RIMI (Research Infrastructure in Minority Institutions) scholar program. Only 4 graduate students at CSUSB are selected each year to participate in the program and learn to conduct research on health disparities. It provides a stipend for 2 years of full time graduate study, preparation for doctoral programs, faculty mentors, parternships with faculty at research intensive universities, and a summer research institute. Aaron is interested in addressing health literacy for Hispanics and the materials targeted to them regarding AIDS. Congratulations Aaron!

Annual Communication Studies Dinner - May 28
5/3/2008
SAVE THE DATE for the Annual Department of Communication Studies Dinner - Wednesday, May 28, 2008 Shandin Hills Golf Club, 6:00 pm.

Coyote Chronicle Receives Awards
3/7/2008
Cal State San Bernardino's Coyote Chronicle received two awards from the California College Media Association at a gala awards ceremony in San Francisco on March 1. In the category of weekly newspapers, The Chronicle took home a first place award for "Best Special Section" and third place for "Best News Page Design." The winning special section in the Coyote Chronicle was exclusive coverage of the wildfires that destroyed thousands of San Bernardino mountain area homes in 2007. The Collegian from Cal State Fresno placed second in the special section category; Loyola Marymount University's Los Angeles Loyolan and The Campanil from Mills College tied for third place. More than 900 entries from 22 California college and university publications were judged in more than 75 categories for editorial, photo, design and advertising content in newspapers, magazine and online publications. CSUSB's Coyote Chronicle staff that produced the award-winning issues included executive editor Daniel Otianga; managing editor Elizabeth Saucedo; section editors Malori Merki, Elizabeth Tomzik, Kevin Manning, Nicholas Gibson, Phillip Ince and Priscilla Cooper; photo editor Samantha Ramia; copy editors Kenneth Dillard and Matthew Phelps; and staff photographer Viet Nguyen. Tomzik and Phelps have since graduated from CSUSB. Ten of the Chronicle's current student editors, and faculty-adviser James Smart, attended the 24th annual National College Newspaper Convention that was hosted by the Associated College Press. The CCMA awards were presented during the convention which ran from Feb. 28 - March 2.

Wed. Jan. 30 - Guest Lecturer
1/29/2008
The Department of Communication Studies hosts Professor's Toby Miller's public lecture: "Madeover Nation: The United States of Reinvention" (SMSU Theater (107) on Wednesday January 30th, 2008 from 6-7:30). Lecture abstract: In times of economic dynamism and uncertainty, consumerism merges with old myths about meritocracy and religion to inform the 'manufacture' of citizens and the nation. This lecture will look at the power of various forms of knowledge about people and their emotions as applied to the US, hoping that, if we are to understand an absurdly wealthy and wasteful country, we must question the pleasures of reinvention as well as embrace them, teasing out as we do so the mystification of moral panics, and the reality of risk society.

Dr. Hundley wins election!
1/29/2008
The Department of Communication Studies congratulates Dr. Heather Hundley who was recently elected as First Vice President for WSCA (Western States Communication Association) for the 2008-2009 year. She will then serve as President Elect/Primary Program Planner for the 2009-2010 convention, President of WSCA in 2010-2011, and Past President in 2011-2012.

Coyote Debate Team News
11/25/2007
Congratulations to our Coyote Debate Team Members! The teams of Krissy Hazelrigg and Michaeline Anderson and Brenna Lampson and John Patrick were two of the four teams advanced to the final round of the Pan Pacific Debate Championship held the weekend of October 26-28 at the University of Hawaii in Honolulu, Hawaii.

Faculty receives TRC Grant
11/15/2007
Mihaela Popescu has received the TRC's 2007-08 Teaching Research Grant to study the impact of screen capture-based SPSS instruction on students' understanding of basic statistical concepts for communication research.

Faculty Publication
10/1/2007
Heather Hundley and J. Scott Rodriquez recently received acceptance of a manuscript titled," Transactivism & Postmodernity: An Agonistic Analysis of Transliterature" for publication in a forthcoming issue of Communication Quarterly.

Faculty Publication
9/28/2007
Larsen, Robin. (2007-2008 forthcoming). "Lillian Gish's Stardom and Her Lifetime Performance of Virginity," in book Virgin Territory, ed. Tamar Jeffers-McDonald. Wayne State University Press: Detroit.

Faculty Publication
9/28/2007
Muhtaseb, A. (2007). From behind the veil: Students' resistance from different directions. New Directions for Teaching & Learning, Summer (110), 25-33.

Faculty Publication
9/25/2007
Fong, Mary (2007). "The permeable and impermeable wall of expectations". New Directions in Teaching. 110, 35-44.

The Dept. of Comm. Studies welcomes Dr. Owen
9/20/2007
The Department of Communication Studies welcomes Bradford Owen, Assistant Professor. Dr. Owen has an M.F.A. and a Ph.D from the University of Southern California. Dr. Owen teaches courses in Media Studies, Digital Production, and Screenwriting.

Professor Chuang directs Asian Studies Minor
8/17/2007
A $122,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Education is launching the new Asian studies minor this fall at California State University, San Bernardino. The grant is part of the federal Department of Education's effort to bolster international studies and foreign language development. Rueyling Chuang, Cal State San Bernardino associate professor of Communication who is director of the project, expressed her excitement about the university's new program. "Eventually we hope to have an Asian studies major," said Chuang, "But this new minor will help us develop and establish our program." Asian studies at CSUSB will be used to strengthen students' knowledge of international languages and cultures. Languages of focus for this minor are Japanese, Korean and Mandarin Chinese. More general studies also will cultivate knowledge of all countries in northeast Asia. CSUSB is using the grant to support faculty research in the area of Asian studies, create relationships with universities in Asia, perform community outreach, generate Asian curriculum, sponsor campus-wide events and develop international experience for students. Students enrolling in the Asian studies minor this fall are entering an interdisciplinary program. They can expect to take courses with each of CSUSB's five academic colleges - arts and letters, natural sciences, social sciences, business and education. For more information about the new Asian studies minor, contact Rueyling Chuang at (909) 537-5780.

Tenure and Promotion
6/20/2007
Congratulations to Dr. Brian Heisterkamp who has been awarded Tenure and promoted to Associate Professor effective September 1, 2007.

Faculty Publication
6/6/2007
Jo Anna Grant & Heather Hundley (2007). "Fighting the Battle or Running the Race? Metaphor Analysis of Cancer Photos in the AP" Visual Communication Quarterly

Faculty Publication
6/6/2007
Lemi Baruh & Mihaela Popescu (2007). "Guiding Metaphors of Nationalism" Discourse and Communication.

Attendance at Annual Communication Dinner exceeds 120
6/3/2007
Congratulations to the following students who received recognition from the Department of Communication Studies at this year's annual Communication Dinner held on May 31, 2007. Outstanding Undergraduate Student: Josh Estes Outstanding Graduate Student: Dana Magilen Outstanding Graduate Teaching Associate: Vivian Harris Special Recognition was awarded to one student in each Concentration: Human Communication: Lauren Roselle Intercultural Communication: Josh Estes Mass Communication: Rene Romero/ Production: Musa Ibrahim Public Relations: Joshua Richter Rhetoric and Public Argumentation: Katrina Meyer. Congratulations to Sara Graham, Commencement Speaker, Department of Communication Studies.