Erika Engstrom (Communication Studies) presented her co-authored paper with Joseph M. Valenzano III of the University of Dayton, "The (Unseen) Order of the Study Group: NBC's Community and Religious Humor" at the annual conference of the National Communication Association in Salt Lake City. Their study examined how the comedy series used satire to portray religions as acceptable or unacceptable modes of worship, but ultimately forwarded the need for coexistence.