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Christin Huggins

Christin E. Huggins (Ph.D., University of Georgia) received her MA from UGA and her BA in Communication Studies from Samford University. Her teaching focuses on engaging students using active learning strategies so that students are invested in their own learning. Dr. Huggins teaches undergraduate courses in interpersonal communication, nonverbal communication in close relationships, empirical research methods, and interpersonal…


Kelly Happe

Dr. Happe, Professor of Communication Studies and Women's and Gender Studies, is a rhetorical theorist and critic working at the intersection of feminism, science studies, biopolitics, and Marxist theory. Her scholarship has appeared in Theory and Event, The Quarterly Journal of Speech, New Genetics and Society, Philosophy and Rhetoric, and other venues.  Her book, The Material Gene: Gender, Race, and Heredity After the…


Barbara Biesecker

After spending a good number of years studying literature and literary theory, Professor Barbara Biesecker changed her course of study and went to the University of Pittsburgh to earn a doctoral degree in rhetorical studies.  She completed the Ph.D. in 1989, was a Fellow of the School of Criticism and Theory, accepted a position at the University of Iowa in 1990, and taught undergraduate and graduate courses there until she joined the…


Analisa Arroyo

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