The Department of Communication Studies would like to recognize a recent publication entitled“The Effects of Establishing Intimacy and Consubstantiality on Group Discussions about Climate Change Solutions,” authored by two of our faculty members, in collaboration with co-authors from the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Dr. Emma Frances Bloomfield (Ph.D., University of Southern California), or Dr. EFB, as her students like to call her, researches scientific controversies and environmental communication, especially related to climate change, human origins, and the body. Her current research examines strategies for climate communicators and the role of storytelling in science communication. The undergraduate courses that students can take from Dr. Bloomfield are COM 404 (Principles of Persuasion), COM 408 (Rhetorical Criticism), COM 409 (The Rhetorical Tradition), and COM 418 (The Rhetoric of Science).
Stephanie S. Willes (M.A., University of Nevada, Las Vegas) is a rhetoric lecturer. Her researchfocuses primarily on digital rhetoric, anti-vaccine discourse, and the affordances of the Internet as means to spread misinformation, such as conspiracy theories. Other research interests include political communication and gender studies. Ms. Willes teaches COM 101 (Oral Communication), and she will be piloting COM 211 (Survey of Rhetorical Studies), one of our new class offerings, this fall.
