Coms Students, Alumni, & Faculty Attend 106th Annual NCA Convention

Communication Studies students, alumni, and faculty members head online this year to attend the 106th Annual convention of the National Communication Association, November 19-22, 2020. Faculty and students in attendance will be presenting original research, sharing best practices in teaching, participating in academic service opportunities, and networking with scholars.  

Student Presentations:

Summer Atwood (graduated spring 2019)

  • "Damage Control:" An Exploration of the Content, Process, and Functions of Foster Exit Narratives from the Foster Parent Perspective (Co-author speaking during a Top 4 Paper session sponsored by the Family Communication Division)

Katie Holmes

  • Spotlight on Undergraduate Women in Rhetoric (Presenter speaking during a session sponsored by the Women’s Caucus)

Emerson-Alysia Hughes

  • Spotlight on Undergraduate Women in Rhetoric (Presenter speaking during a session sponsored by the Women’s Caucus)

Rachael A. Katz (graduated spring 2018)

  • Information Overload and Message Fatigue: A Test of Five Theoretical Models (Co-author speaking during a session sponsored by the Health Communication Division)

Faculty Presentations  

Dr. Aubrie Adams

  • Student Emotion in Mediated Learning Experiences: Comparing a Text, Video, and Video Game (Role: Co-author speaking during a session sponsored by the Games Studies Pre-Conference)

Dr. Anuraj Dhillon

  • Handling DEI in Interpersonal Communication Classrooms (Role: Chair facilitating a session sponsored by the Interpersonal Communication Division).
  • Scholars at the Crossroads: Mentoring, Networking, and Building Community as Asian/Pacific American Scholars (Role: Presenter speaking during a session sponsored by the Asian/Pacific American Communication Studies Division)
  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: What are they and what do they mean in Interpersonal Communication? (Role: Presenter speaking during a session sponsored by the Interpersonal Communication Division)
  • Applying Relational Turbulence Theory to Examine Partner (Non)Accommodation during Conversations about Relational Stressors (Role: Author speaking during a session sponsored by the Interpersonal Communication Division)
  • Hope, Compliments, and Well-being in Interpersonal Relationships (Role: Chair facilitating a session sponsored by the Interpersonal Communication Division)

Dr. Megan Lambertz-Berndt

  • Handling DEI in Interpersonal Communication Classrooms (Role: Presenter speaking during a session sponsored by the Interpersonal Communication Division)
  • Informal Institutions and Victimage: Brett Kavanaugh’s “Riveting” Defense of the American “Every-Man” (Role: Co-author speaking during a Top Paper session sponsored by the Communication and Law Division)

Dr. Vince Meserko

  • Continuing the Conversation: Intersecting Communication and STEM Across the Discipline (Role: Presenter speaking during a session sponsored by the NCA Teaching and Learning Council)

Dr. Leslie Nelson

  • Family Communication Division Business Meeting (Role: Co-Presenter speaking during the Business Meeting Sponsored by the Family Communication Division)
  • "Damage Control:" An Exploration of the Content, Process, and Functions of Foster Exit Narratives from the Foster Parent Perspective (Co-author speaking during a Top 4 Paper session sponsored by the Family Communication Division)
  • Examining Parent-child Communication in Families (Role: Respondent speaking during a session sponsored by the Family Communication Division)
  • Communicatively Constructing Godparenthood: Shared Family Identity, Relational Maintenance, and Relational Closeness (Role: Co-author speaking during a session sponsored by the Family Communication Division)
  • Maintaining Family Relationships at the "Surface Level:" Examining How Sexual and Gender Minorities Communicatively Navigate Family Relationships Characterized by Difference (Role: Co-Author speaking during a session sponsored by the Family Communication Division)
  • Communicating Family: Identity and Difference in the Context of Foster Care (Role: Author speaking during a session sponsored by the Family Communication Division)

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