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2019 NCA Doctoral Honors Seminar
The USF Department of Communication was honored to host the 2019 NCA Doctoral Honors Seminar (DHS) on July 21-24, 2019.
The theme of the 2019 DHS was "Communication, Engagement, and Social Justice."
DHS brings together promising doctoral students and distinguished faculty members from across the discipline and around the nation to discuss current topics in Communication. Approximately 30 doctoral students are chosen to participate based on submitted papers and recommendations from their advisors. Selected students will receive a travel voucher to put toward their travel to the DHS; all accommodations and other expenses are also provided. The seminars are held annually at a selected host institution.
All DHS 2019 participants.
All DHS 2019 participants.
Dr. Trevor Parry-Giles, Executive Director of NCA, giving a presentation about professionalism.
Dr. Trevor Parry-Giles, Executive Director of NCA, giving a presentation about professionalism.
The 2019 DHS faculty leaders.
Our doctoral candidate, Md Khorshed Alam, presenting his research to the Media and Society group.
2019 doctoral honors seminar participants:
COMMUNICATION STUDIES
Faculty Leaders:
- Erin Donovan, University of Texas
- James Olufowote, University of Oklahoma
- Heather Zoller, University of Cincinnati
Doctoral Scholars:
- Comfort Tosin Adebayo, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
- JhuCin (Rita) Jhang, The University of Texas at Austin
- Kyle Kearns, The University of Texas at Austin
- Dayna Kloeber, Arizona State University
- Mackensie Minniear, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
- Toni Morgan, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
- Robert Razzante, Arizona State University
- Jaime Robb, University of South Florida
- Brett Robertson, The University of Texas at Austin
- Elizabeth Spencer, University of Kentucky
- Billy Table, The University of Texas at Austin
- Easton Wollney, University of Florida
MEDIA AND SOCIETY
Faculty Leaders:
- Rachel Griffin, University of Utah
- Jan Van den Bulck, University of Michigan
- Matt McAllister, The Pennsylvania State University
Doctoral Scholars:
- Md Khorshed Alam, University of South Florida
- Briana Barner, The University of Texas at Austin
- Brent Hale, Indiana University
- Ollie Jefferson, Howard University
- Elizabeth Jenkins, Ohio University
- Abigail Reed, Florida State University
- Lars Stoltzfus-Brown, Penn State University
- Larissa Teran, The University of Arizona
RHETORIC AND/OR PERFORMANCE STUDIES
Faculty Leaders:
- Belinda Stillion Southard, University of Georgia
- Tracy Stephenson Shaffer, Louisiana State University
- Mark McPhail, Indiana University-Northeast
Doctoral Scholars:
- Anjuli Brekke, University of Washington
- William Cooney, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
- Zhao Ding, The University of New Mexico
- Cassidy Ellis, University of Denver
- Pamela Foster, Georgia State University
- Lauren Hunter, University of Maryland
- Benjamin Mann, The University of Utah
- Hana Masri, The University of Texas at Austin
- Taylor Rife, Arizona State University
- Kate Siegfried, Texas A&M University