Graduate Faculty List

Graduate Faculty

Professor Name Professor Information
Dr. Jessica Abrams (Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara)
  • Area of Expertise: Intergroup Communication and Media Effects
  • Office location: AS-365
  • Email address: jessica.abrams@csulb.edu
Dr. Jennifer Asenas (Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin)
  • Area of expertise: Rhetoric and Language
  • Office phone number: (562) 985-7679
  • Office location: AS-373
  • Email address: jennifer.asenas@csulb.edu
Dr. Guy F. Bachman (Ph.D., Arizona State University)
  • Area of expertise: Interpersonal Communication
  • Office location: AS -371
  • Email address: guy.bachman@csulb.edu

Dr. San Bolkan (Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin)

  • Area of expertise: Applied Communication
  • Office location: AS 350
  • Email address: san.bolkan@csulb.edu

Dr. Aaron Cargile (Ph.D., University of California – Santa Barbara)

Dr. Sharon D. Downey (Ph.D., University of Colorado – Boulder)

  • Area of expertise: Contemporary Rhetorical Criticism
  • Office location: AS-352
  • Email address: shadowney@aol.com
Dr. Christopher Duerringer (Ph.D., Arizona State University)
  • Area of expertise: Rhetoric, Cultural Studies, and Public Sphere Theory
  • Office phone number: (562) 985-1647
  • Office location: AS-363
  • Email address: christopher.duerringer@csulb.edu

Dr. Ragan Fox (Ph.D., Arizona State University)

  • Area of Expertise: Rhetoric and Performance Studies
  • Office phone number: (562) 985-1346
  • Office location: AS-364
  • Email address: ragan.fox@csulb.edu

Dr. Stephanie Hartzell (Ph.D., University of Colorado – Boulder)

  • Area of Expertise: Rhetoric and Culture, Critical Race and Whiteness Studies, Rhetoric of Racism & Anti-racism, Critical Affect Studies, Identity & Performativity, and Discourse, Power, & Resistance
  • Office location: AS-348
  • Email address: stephanie.hartzell@csulb.edu
 

Dr. Amy Heyse (Ph.D., University of Maryland, College Park)

  • Area of Expertise: Rhetoric and Public Address
  • Office phone number: (562) 985-7162
  • Office location: AS-366
  • Email address: amy.heyse@csulb.edu
 

Dr. Ann Johnson (Ph.D., University of Massachusetts – Amherst)

  • Area of expertise: Rhetoric, Popular Culture, and Audiences
  • Office phone number: (562) 985-7673
  • Office location: AS-311
  • Email address: ann.johnson@csulb.edu
 

Dr. Kevin Johnson (Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin)

  • Area of expertise: Cultural Psychoanalysis, First Amendment, Contemporary Rhetorical Theory & Criticism
  • Office phone number: (562) 985-7130
  • Office location: AS-354
  • Email address: rhetoricalcritic@gmail.com
 

Dr. Adam Kahn (Ph.D., University of Southern California)

  • Area of expertise: Social and cognitive psychology of computer-mediated communication
  • Office phone number: (562) 985-7130
  • Office location: AS-354
  • Email address: adam.kahn@csulb.edu

Dr. Patricia Kearney (Ed.D., West Virginia University)

  • Area of expertise: Instructional and Interpersonal Communication
  • Office location: AS-369
  • Email address: pkearney7@gmail.com
 

Dr. James Manseau Sauceda (Ph.D., University of Southern California)

  • Area of expertise: Performance Studies and Intercultural Communication
  • Office phone number: 562-985-8150
  • Office: FO-3, room 3 (lower level)
  • Email: james.sauceda@csulb.edu
 

Dr. Yuping Mao (Ph.D., Ohio University)

  • Area of expertise: Health Communication & Quantitative Research Methods
  • Office phone number: (562) 985-4333
  • Office location: AS-349
  • Email address: yuping.mao@csulb.edu
 

Dr. Lynda L. McCroskey (Ph.D., University of Oklahoma)

  • Area of expertise: Interpersonal, Organizational, and Instructional Communication
  • Office location: AS 373
  • Email address: lynda.mccroskey@csulb.edu
 

Dr. Valerie McKay (Ph.D., University of Oklahoma)

  • Area of expertise: Instructional, Gender, and Family
  • Office location: AS 353
  • Email address: valerie.mckay@csulb.edu
 

Dr. Mary McPherson (Ph.D., Ohio University)

  • Area of expertise: Instructional and Interpersonal Communication
  • Office phone number: (562) 985-4312
  • Office location: AS-357
  • Email address: mary.mcpherson@csulb.edu
 

Dr. Tim Plax (Ph.D., University of Southern California)

  • Area of expertise: Interpersonal and Organizational Communication
  • Office location: AS-369
  • Email address: timplax7@gmail.com
 

Dr. Marc Rich (Ph.D., Southern Illinois University – Carbondale)

  • Area of expertise: Performance Studies and Social Change
  • Office phone number: (562) 985-8835
  • Office location: AS-362
  • Email address: marc.rich@csulb.edu
 

Dr. Subrina Robinson (Ph.D., Southern Illinois University, Carbondale)

 

Dr. Jose I. Rodriguez (Ph.D., Michigan State University)

  • Area of expertise: Persuasion and Interpersonal Communication
    Office phone number: (562) 985-7954
    Office location: AS-367
    Email address: jir@csulb.edu
 

Dr. Jessica Russell (Ph.D., Michigan State University)

 

Dr. Ebony A. Utley (Ph.D., Northwestern University)

 

Dr. Stacy L. Young (Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin)

  • Area of expertise: Interpersonal and Relational Communication
  • Office phone number: (562) 985-1360
  • Office location: AS-348
  • Email address: sly.young@csulb.edu