First name,Last name,Preferred title,Overview,Position,Department,Individual
Sara,Hillman,Instructional Associate Professor,"Sara Hillman teaches English and communication courses in the Division of Arts & Sciences and has served as the coordinator for the Foundations of English program since 2019. She is a scholar of applied linguistics, second language pedagogy, sociolinguistics, and intercultural communication. Her work has appeared in top tier journals such as TESOL Quarterly, System, Linguistics and Education, Language Learning Journal, Multilingua, and World Englishes, and she has published numerous chapters in edited volumes related to language and higher education in the Gulf and Arab world. She recently guest edited a special journal issue, ""The emotional landscape of English medium instruction (EMI) in higher education"" for Linguistics and Education.
Her research interests include:
o Linguistically and culturally responsive pedagogies in English medium instruction (EMI) and transnational higher education
o Spatial, social, and linguistic belonging in international branch campuses
o Emotion labor, identities, and ideologies in second
language teaching and learning
o Linguistic landscapes and educational spaces
o Language planning and policy
o Language and intercultural communication
o Global Englishes
o Translingual pedagogies and practices",Associate Professor,Liberal Arts (Qatar),https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n0fbd9c92
Anna,Wolfe,Associate Professor,"Dr. Wolfe's research is centrally concerned with understanding how we can disagree with each other without being violently disagreeable. In pursuit of this goal, she has investigated how individuals use language to form collective identities with and against others, how leaders use narratives to mobilize those collectivities for action, and how processes of dialogue and deliberation can build bridges between oppositional stakeholders to facilitate the achievement of deeper shared understandings and more democratic public decisions. Her work has been published in journals such as Journal of Communication, Management Communication Quarterly, and Journal of Applied Communication Research. Her co-authored book, Sex and Stigma: Stories of Everyday Life in Nevada's Legal Brothels received the 2019 Book of the Year Award from the Critical Cultural Studies Division of the National Communication Association; Outstanding Book Award from the Organization for the Study of Communication, Language, and Gender; and Honorable Mention for the Sarah A. Whaley Book Prize from the National Women's Studies Association. She is also a member of the planning team for the Aspen Conference, a community of engaged organizational communication scholars focused on developing practical theory and collaborative research that bridge academic-practitioner interests. Consistent with the commitments of engaged organizational communication research, much of Dr. Wolfe's current work is conducted in collaboration with community partners, especially local governments, to use communication theory in the service of addressing everyday problems of living in a pluralistic society.",Associate Professor,,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n4b98e766
Brian,Larson,Associate Professor,"I study rhetoric and argumentation, especially in legal and professional communication. I focus on rhetorical and argumentation theory in context and practice, using text-analytic, computational, and cognitive methods. Other research interests include the law of online contracts and empirical research methods.",Associate Professor,School of Law,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n58221411
Dara,Wald,Associate Professor,"Dr. Dara M. Wald is an associate professor in the Department of Agricultural Leadership, Education, and Communications at Texas A&M University. Wald's research explores the drivers of conflict and barriers to effective communication in natural resource contexts. She teaches courses in agricultural communication and journalism (AGCJ), risk communication, and public relations. Wald has received over $69.2 million in research funding, including competitive research awards from the National Science Foundation (NSF), the USDA, and prestigious foundations. She has published 23 peer-reviewed journal articles, an academic book, and has been an invited speaker at peer institutions and international conferences. Wald is a Research Fellow in the Institute for Science, Technology and Public Policy (ISTPP) in The Bush School of Government and Public Service and co-directs the Science Communications Lab at Texas A&M. She is affiliated with the Ecology of Bird Loss Project at Virginia Tech. Wald is an associate editor of the Science and Environmental Communication section within Frontiers in Communication, a top open-access journal in her subfield. Wald was previously the co-organizer of the Science Communication Project and the socio-economic lead for the C-CHANGE Project at Iowa State University. She received the Cassling Innovation Award from Iowa State University in 2019 and was a nominee for the 2021 Andrew Carnegie Fellowship. Wald received the CAREER award from the National Science Foundation in 2022.",Associate Professor,"Agricultural Leadership, Education, and Communications",https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n6d3d32b2
Johanna,Dunaway,Associate Professor,"My research questions relate to news media and politics, political communication, and the impact of changing communication technologies on media effects, public opinion, and political behavior. Most of my work has implications for civic literacy, engagement, and democratic deliberation. Broadly, I focus on questions such as: What makes news more or less informative? How are changes to the contemporary communication landscape influencing elite and mass linkages and political polarization? What are the effects of mobile communication on citizen news engagement and civic literacy? What are the causes and consequences of news bias toward women and racial and ethnic groups?",Associate Professor,Political Science,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/na9d50e66
Holli,Leggette,Associate Professor,"My research focuses on investigating effective methods for preparing scientists to be communicators of science, applying those effective methods to designing and delivering science communication training programs, and conducting needs assessments and audience analyses to build audience profiles of science constituents to provide scientists with action-based research outcomes they can use to design and develop research projects, educational programs, and production tools.",Associate Professor,"Agricultural Leadership, Education, and Communications",https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/nc17324b0