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Grafton Tanner

Grafton Tanner is the author of Foreverism (Polity Books, 2024), The Hours Have Lost Their Clock: The Politics of Nostalgia (Repeater Books, 2021), The Circle of the Snake: Nostalgia and Utopia in the Age of Big Tech (Zer0 Books, 2020), and Babbling Corpse: Vaporwave and the Commodification of Ghosts (Zer0 Books, 2016). His work focuses on nostalgia, technology, and the rhetoric of neoliberalism, and his writing has appeared in such venues…


Mackensie Minniear

Dr. Mackensie Minniear (Ph.D. University of Nebraska) is an assistant professor at the University of Georgia. She uses critical and intergroup theories to study how family communication shapes, dismantles, and reifies marginalized people, inspiring radical hope and creating a healthier, more tolerant world for traditionally disenfranchised families and people. Recently, her work has focused on addressing health disparities for women of color,…


Chelsea Ratcliff

Chelsea Ratcliff is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at UGA. She uses empirical research methods to address pressing questions in ComSHER (Communicating Science, Health, Environment, and Risk), especially questions about how to effectively convey complex and uncertain scientific evidence to diverse audiences.  Current projects of the Communicating Uncertain Science to the Public (CUSP) Lab include examining…


Svilen Trifonov

Recent publications: Trifonov, S. (2025). Whistleblower Rhetoric: Mistreatment of Migrant Children in U.S. Detention Facilities. From a Whisper to a Movement: Investigating the Shared Rhetorical Spaces of Whistleblowing and Social Protest, eds. Joshua Guitar and Alan Chu. Albany, NY: SUNY Press. Trifonov, S., & Sotirova, N. (2024). Political Prudence in Times of Protest: The Rhetoric of Bulgaria’s President Rumen Radev. Presidential…


Natalie Doss


Jessica Chaplain

Dr. Jessica Chaplain (she/her) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Georgia. She holds a PhD in Communication from the University of Utah and MA in Communication from the University of Georgia. Her research spans across the areas of rhetoric, critical/cultural studies, and environmental communication, with particular focus on feminist and anti-colonial approaches that attune to the depth and…


Soroya Julian McFarlane

Soroya Julian McFarlane (Ph.D., University of Miami) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at the University of Georgia. Her research focuses on designing and evaluating communication interventions that address health disparities at the community level. Dr. McFarlane’s research agenda is driven by understanding how culture influences health, and how communication interventions that translate science for…


Book Announcement: Belinda Stillion Southard

Congratulations to Dr. Belinda Stillion Southard on the publication of her second book, How to Belong: Women's Agency in a Transnational World from Penn State University Press! See the attached press release for more information.    Press release
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Jiaying Liu

Jiaying Liu (Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania) is an Associate Professor at the University of California Santa Barbara and an affiliate faculty in the Department of Communication Studies at UGA. Her research focuses on health communication. Her current projects include utilizing eye-tracking and neuroimaging methods to examine the underlying mechanisms of successful and counterproductive health communication.  She directs the Communication…


Hillary Palmer

Dr. Hillary Palmer is a Senior Lecturer in Rhetorical Studies. She completed her Ph.D. here at the University of Georgia, her M.A. in Communication at the University of Colorado Boulder, and her B.A. in Communication at the University of Maryland, College Park. Dr. Palmer's teaching and research interests lie at the intersection of rhetorical theory and criticism and environmental communication.
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