EVENTS & ANNOUNCEMENTS

Current Departmental Calendar

• Wake Forest Argumentation Conference was held at Wake's Casa Artom in Venice June 16-18. Michael Hazen and David Williams co-hosted the conference. Click picture for more pictures.
• Alessandra Beasley and Ron Von Burg were married in Italy June 20th. Click picture for more pictures.
• Randy Rogan has accepted an appointment as Associate Dean of the Graduate School beginning July 1. He will be working on both the Reynolda and Medical School campuses and still teaching some in the department.
• The Provost's Office announced the promotion and tenure of Dr. Steven Giles to Associate Professor and the tenure of Dr. Marina Krcmar.
• Commencement 2008: Laura Johnson and Claire Wiggins (left to right) pictured. Also profiles of two Department Graduating Seniors: Erin Lopez & Elizabeth "Ali" Carroll on Window on Wake Forest.
• Allan Louden was tapped to invest E. J. Dionne, graduation speaker, with the Honorary Doctorate as part of the ceremony.
• Click picture on the right for Department Graduating Student Reception

• Pictures of the Honors and Awards Ceremony are posted HERE
• Brad Hall (BA 06, MA '08) has been selected work with Al Gore as a research assistant for his next book about solutions to global warming. His duties will include research, writing, planning summits of experts, travel, and other duties geared toward ending the climate crisis. He will be living in Nashville and traveling the world.
• Casey Harrigan (MA '08) has been hired as the Debate Coach at the University of Georgia.
• Mary. Dalton presented "Teachers on Television:  The First Fifty Years" (written with Laura R. Linder) at Console-ing Passions:  International Conference on Television, Audio, Video, New Media and Feminism in Santa Barbara, California on April 24, 2008; “Knitting Lessons,” her new documentary film will air on UNC-TV May 10.
• Pictures of Allan Louden’s retirement, April 19-21, events are HERE
• Graduate Student papers presented at the Eastern Communication Association Conference in Pittsburgh, PA, May 1-2:  Brian DeLong, "Smiling Buddha: Scapegoating and Early Indian Nuclear Discourse"; Brad Hall "Burkean Scapegoating in the Rhetorical War on Terrorism", Sean Luechtefeld "More Money, More Problems: Revisiting the Question of Female and Minority Participation in Intercollegiate Policy Debate", Ashley Muddiman "What is Relevant?: Student Perceptions of Relevance Strategies in College Classrooms"
• Taylor Hahn presented the paper "Bakhtin and 9-11 Conspiracy Theories: The Role of the Carnival in Modern Discourse," as part of the Symposium on Citizenship
• .Don Helme and his colleagues just published "Effects of a School-Based, Theory-Driven HIV and Pregnancy Prevention Curriculum" in Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health.
• Alessandra Beasley will present the paper "Jonas Salk: Pittsburgh Citizen for the Good of the People" at the Eastern Communication Association Conference in Pittsburgh, PA
• National Champion Seth Gannon and national top-twenty debater Seungwon Chung debated water quality issues with MSU in Washington, D.C. on April 22, Earth Day, for the Environmental Protection Agency.
• Allan Louden and Linda Petrou will once again be administrating the Benjamin Franklin TransatlanticFellows Institute at WFU. Alessandra Beasley will also be teaching again during the institute. For further details on BFTF 2008 please see their website -- www.bftf.org
• Alessandra Beasley hosted a Conference on Citizenship at Wake Forest April 24.
• "Ghana is on the books as the first country to host the Peace Corps program in 1961. Theo Yakah, a current graduate student from Ghana in the masters program of the communication department, first set foot on U.S. soil in 2006" so begins a feature article in the March 27th Old Gold & Black. Link
• The Wake Forest Debate team, lead by Ross Smith (Director) and JP Lacy (Head Coach) won the 2008 National Debate Tournament. Details
• Mary Dalton published "The Hollywood View:  Protecting the Status Quo in Schools Onscreen" in Mirror Images:  Popular Culture and Education, eds. Diana Silberman Keller, Zvi Bekerman, Henry A. Giroux, and Nicholas C. Burbules.  Peter Lang:  New York, 2008, pp. 9-22.
• Max Negin's film "Observe" is playing at SECCA here in Winston-Salem in a show entitled "Time." The show runs through June 30th. Also, his documentary "Amosaica: The Embellished Life of Isaiah Zagar" will be screening at the West Chester Film Festival April 24-27, and his MFA thesis project "The Movie Room" will be installed in the Carmichael Building on the campus of UNCG April 10-13.
• Aner Preminger will present a lecture at the Reynolda Film Festival. His films include "Blind Man's Bluff" which won the Golden Antigone Award and documentary "On My Way to Father's Land." His feature film Blind Man's Bluff - Hebrew title's Golem BaMaagal - (1993) will be screened on Saturday, April 12, 2008 -8:00 pm, Annenberg Forum. Following the screening there will be a question and answer session.
• Mary Dalton will be participating in a panel discussion about the creation of documentaries during the Reynolda Film Festival-- The Reality of Documentaries,  April 13, 11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. Annenberg Forum, Carswell Hall. Mary Dalton, Peter Brunette, Aner Preminger, and Steve Jarrett will be serving as judges for the Reynolda Film Festival.
• Ross Smith will talk about his award-winning debate program, as part of the Thursdays at Starling Series, hosted by the Provost. April 10, 4:00-5:00pm, Starling Hall (Welcome Center).
• Shelley Graves, Andrea Reed, and Mary Dalton will present a panel along with Sally Barbour (Romance Languages) and Wanda Balzano (WGS) at the Southeastern Women's Studies Association (SEWSA) in Charlotte on Friday. The panel, entitled "Subversion and the Big Screen" will tackle the presence of gender in cinema. Shelley Graves also won the SEWSA 2008 Graduate Paper Competition with her paper "Bitch-ing Towards a Revolution:  A Rhetorical Analysis of Bitch Magazine after a Decade of Cultural Criticism."
• Sean Luechtefeld won the Richter Scholarship. Sean plans to study how indigenous populations in Ecuador use the Internet to advance their political and activist goals. Steven Giles gave a lecture: 'Is Thin Really In? A Longitudinal Analysis of the Effect of College Peer Norms and Media Influence on Body Esteem, Disordered Eating, and Drive for Thinness' as part of our Communication Colloquium Series, April 2.
• Dr. Julian Carr Burroughs, Jr. honored by his family and 88.5 WFDD.
  Studio Two at the Wake Forest University Station Studios Named in His Honor. 88.5 WFDD’s general manager Denise Franklin announced today that Studio Two at the Wake Forest University station has been named in honor of Dr. Julian Burroughs. Dr. Burroughs, his family, members of 88.5 WFDD staff and the communication department celebrated his 80th birthday at his home on Wednesday, March 19, 2008.
    Dr. Burroughs, professor emeritus of Speech Communication from 1958 to 1994, led the development and expansion of 88.5 WFDD to become the first public radio station and the first member station of National Public Radio in North Carolina.  88.5 WFDD was also the first FM station in the Piedmont Triad to broadcast in stereo, at 36,000 watts, beginning in 1967. 
  Dr. Burroughs is a 1951 Wake Forest College graduate and earned his masters and doctorate at the University of Michigan. He was 88.5 WFDD’s student station manager from 1950-1951.
  Denise Franklin, general manager of 88.5 WFDD, said, “Dr. Burroughs is a legend at 88.5 WFDD. His former students comment frequently about his influence on their careers. His visionary contributions are legendary among listeners and alumni alike. We are grateful for his foresight and to his family. We are pleased to be able to name this studio in his honor.”
  Under his leadership at 88.5 WFDD and as professor hundreds of students learned the elements of broadcasting and worked at 88.5 WFDD, often producing daily broadcasts including an early morning show, Renaissance, to complement NPR’s afternoon broadcast of All Things Considered. Many students who worked at 88.5 WFDD continued in broadcast and media careers across the country. Some became communication and media studies educators of note, as well.
• Window on Wake Forest posts that Wake Forest expresses interest in hosting Clinton-Obama debate.
• Ross Smith and Allan Louden have been working on bringing the debate to Wake.
• Mary M. Dalton screened her documentary Addie James:  Art Unbound at the Gate City Women's Film Festival onMarch 14, and she participated on a panel with Ellen Hendrix, "Filmmaker/Editor Dialogue," on March 15.
• Michael Hyde will give the lecture, 'What Would Life Be Like If Nobody Acknowledged Your Existence?' on February 20th, 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM, Pugh Auditorium, Benson Center. As one of the Faculty 'Last Lecture' Series, Professor Hyde will examine a phenomenon, the "life-giving gift of acknowledgment," that lies at the heart of scientific, humanistic, and theological inquiry and that is essential to the functioning and well-being of humankind. http://su.wfu.edu/lectures.php
• Mary Dalton presented the paper "Images of African American Educators on Prime Time Television:  The Bill Cosby Show, Hangin' with Mr. Cooper, and Boston Public" at the 18th Annual CACE: Conference on African American Cultures and Experiences, Greensboro, North Carolina, February 2, 2008.
• Peter Brunette was mentioned in a new book along with some very prestigious names in film theory. In M.R. Habib, Modern Literary Criticism and Theory (Blackwell, 2008): "This proliferation is sometimes called the 'second semiotics,' and it was often politically orientated, analyzing the ideologies and psychologies behind film construction and reception. Important figures here include Metz, Jean-Louis Baudry, Jean-Pierre Oudart,
  Peter Brunette, and David Wills." Peter Brunette gave a lecture on the Austrian director Michael Haneke at the Goethe Institut in Washington, DC on Monday, Feb. 25.  He was also quoted in the Washington Post on Sunday, Feb. 24, in the article about Haneke: "Filmmaker Michael Haneke Pours Blood on Troubled Waters: In His Movies, There Are No Innocent Bystanders -Even in the audience. " http://www.goethe.de/ins/us/was/kue/flm/en2963549.htm
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• Marina Krcmar was featured in WOWF with graduate student Julie Hunter http://www.wfu.edu/wowf/?utm_source=wowf.mail.2008.02.29b&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=wowf.headlines
  
• Allan Louden was interviewed by Newsweek's Katie Paul to talk about the recent Democratic political debates. A feature on him appeared in WOWF http://www.blog.newsweek.com/blogs/stumper/archive/2008/02/27/decoding-the-d ebates.aspx
• Steve Giles was a panelist for the discussion hosted by the student organization PREPARE, as part of 'Eating Disorder Awareness Week.' February 26
• Alessandra Beasley presented as part of the Teaching and Learning Fair. February 27.
  Anindita Biswas presented her research as part of the Eighth Annual Graduate Student Research Day and Spring Hot Topics Community Forum, March 5.
• Shelley Graves is directed Eve Ensler's The Vagina Monologues at Wake Forest University, March 4-5.
• Allan Louden was inducted into the Barkley Forum Key Coaches honorary at Emory University Jan 25 in Atlanta. The award is a hall-of-fame voted on by Key (High School) Coaches from around the country.
• Wake Debate Update: Juniors Seth Gannon and Alex Lamballe won a major tournament tonight, defeating Dartmouth's top team in the final round of the West Georgia University tournament. They defeated Georgia State University in semifinals, Michigan State University in quarterfinals, and the University of Georgia in the round of sixteen and were the top seed in the tournament after the preliminary rounds. Gannon and Lamballe led a strong overall Wake showing: Juniors Doowon Chung and Seungwon Chung advanced to quarterfinals as the fourth seed advancing over Wake junior Lauren Sabino and sophomore Carlos Maza, seeded 13th. Ross Smith and JP Lacy Coach the teams.
• John Llewellyn will join and be interviewed in the "Allan Handelman Show," broadcasted by Radio station WZTK (101.1 FM) on January 22, live from 4-6:30 p.m. in the Benson University Center. He will be talking about balance between protecting the nation and upholding American freedoms. http://www.wfu.edu/voices/
  Mary Dalton's documentary, "I'm Not My Brother's Keeper: Leadership and Civil Rights in Winston-Salem, North Carolina" will be screened in the Rhoda Channing Reading Room, ZSR Library, January 22, 4-5:30pm. The film is about the 1960 sit-in of Wake Forest and Winston-Salem State students at the downtown Woolworth's. Mary will also screen her documentary "Knitting Lessons" on January 26, 8pm, 111 Carswell Hall, as the first monthly screening of The Revolve Film and Music Festival, the NC regional film festival. The film is about the different kinds of people who knit and what's involved, focusing on expert knitter Mary Stowe and her business Yarns Etc. For more information www.knittinglessonsfilm.com, http://www.revolvefestival.com/
  Randall Rogan joined the "Live and Local" broadcast by Radio station WSJS (600 AM) as one of the Wake Forest panelists, talking about issues of government secrets, free speech and national security on January 14. http://www.wfu.edu/voices/
• Senior Communication major Elizabeth "Ali" Carroll from Nashville TN was featured in the Wake Forest Magazine (December 2007) for her work in East Africa. Click for the full story.
• First year students Justin Herzig and Eric Marinoff had their research paper accepted for Undergraduate Honor's conference at the Southern Communication Association to be held in Savannah, GA this spring. Their work was prepared in the Comm Dept First Year Seminar Negativity in Campaigns class.
  
• Graduate students Brian De Long and Sean Luechtefeld, along with undergraduate majors Olivia Fischer and Benn Kireker, hosted a Forum that addressed bridging the gap between Winston-Salem's Four College Communities on December 5th.
• Wake Forest Magazine December 2007 feature several department faculty. Department Chair Randy Rogan's work in Israel is chronicled in "Terrorism and Communication: Can the dissemination of radical ideologies be controlled? Don Helme and Steve Giles are featured in ". . . Four in Formation: Profiling a quartet of rising stars"
• Michael Hyde Delivered the Carroll C. Arnold Distinguished lecture at NCA.
• Mary Dalton received the Rex Mix Program of Excellence award at NCA, presented by the Undergraduate College and University Section of NCA. Pictured with Mary are Mahry O'Donnell, Vice Chair and Nancy Burroughs, Chair. The Award recognized the department for innovation in undergraduate studies.

Allan Louden was presented with the Distinguished Service Award by the American Forensics Association in Chicago. He is pictured with AFA President, and former Wake MA graduate, Carol Winkler, Associate Dean at Georgia State University.

• Scenes from NCA Chicago, November 2007 - Click picture for Album

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• Donald Helme and his colleagues just published an article. Anderson, PA,Buller, DB, Voeks, JH, Borland, R., Helme, DW, Bettinghaus, E.P. (2007)."Predictors of government officials' support for youth tobacco control policies." Journal of Public Health Management Practice, 13(6): 621-629.
  Steven M. Giles, Donald Helme and Marina Krcmar coauthored an article in Communication Studies, "Predicting Disordered Eating Intentions Among Incoming College Freshman: An Analysis of Social Norms and Body Esteem."
  Allan Louden was honored during the 51st Franklin Shirley R. Classic Debate Tournament on November 9. All coaches were invited to honor Allan's 30 years (1977-2007) as Director of Debate at Wake Forest University. Comments from around the country
  Michael Hyde is featured in WOWF for the upcoming Carroll C. Arnold Distinguished lecture at NCA.
  Wake Debate teams tied for first in the Liberty Varsity tournament last week, defeating Emory and Georgia in the Semi-Finals. The 51st Shirley Classic Tournament was held on campus Nov 10-12.
• The Associated Collegiate Press (ACP) announced The Student Online Magazine (wakestudent.com) as winner of its highest honor, the Pacemaker award, for online college student publications. The competition results were announced Saturday afternoon, October 27 at an ACP awards ceremony during the ACP/CMA National College Media Convention in Washington, D.C. The award was described at the conference by the ACP Director as the “Pulitzer of collegiate journalism” and is reserved for publications that set the pace, or trends, for all media. Comm major Kristen Guth received the award on behalf of Wakestudent.com. Kristen is the magazines creative director.
• NCA Annual Convention, November 15-18, Chicago"
  Alessandra Beasley presented the papers, "Multiplicity Does Not Mean Many" and "Vico and Religion, Nations, and Imagination" at the National Communication Association Conference in Chicago, IL.
  Peter Brunette gave a presentation at the Fall Faculty Colloquium on "Film Studies" at the house of President Nathan O. Hatch, on November 13.
  Donald Helme serves as co-investigator for the project "Building Capacity for Tobacco Research in Hungary," cooperating with the Department of Social Sciences and Health Policy from the medical school. They received grants from Fogarty International Center and National Cancer for a total of $1,463,331. This study will build the capacity of Hungarian scientists to engage in tobacco control research and the capacity of U.S. scientists to engage in tobacco research in low- and middle-income countries.
  Michael D Hazen organized and chaired the Business Meeting of the Russian Communication Association--North American Branch and the panels "Papers on Communication, Culture and Society in Russia and the CIS" and "Papers on Media and Public Discourse: Soviet Union, Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States" at the National Communication Association Conference in Chicago, IL.
  Marina Krcmar contributed to two papers, "Predictors of the Reality TV Use: A Uses and Gratification Approach" and "Sexual Content on Reality and Fictional Television Shows" presented at the National Communication Association Conference in Chicago, IL.
  Allan Louden presented the paper "Pre-tournament and early tournament debate history at Historically Black Colleges and Universities," responded to the panels "A Look back at the CEDA-NDT Merger" and "DebateScoop.com, Mapping a Strategy," and chaired the panel "A Paradigm Shift: How Mediated Public Debate Shaped Worldviews in the 2006 Midterm Election" at the National Communication Association Conference in Chicago, IL.
  Ananda Mitra chaired the panel "Crisis of Identity in Virtual Communities" at the National Communication Association Conference in Chicago, IL.
  Ross Smith presented as part of the panels "Judge Mentorship Program" and "Debatescoop.com, Mapping a Strategy" at the National Communication Association Conference in Chicago, IL.
  Margaret D. Zulick presented the paper "Rhetoric, Possibility, and Divinity: God and the Second Persona in Burke and Bakhtin" and chaired the panel "Kenneth Burke in Conversation with Italo Calvino" at the National Communication Association Conference in Chicago, IL.
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  Sarah Evans presented the paper "Opening the Door to Public Debate: Assessment of Candidate Communication Regarding Scientific Issues in the 2006 Midterm Elections" at the National Communication Association Conference in Chicago, IL.
  Brad Hall responded to the panels "A Look back at the CEDA-NDT Merger" and "Judge Mentorship Program" at the National Communication Association Conference in Chicago, IL.
  Casey Harrigan responded to the panel "Judge Mentorship Program" at the National Communication Association Conference in Chicago, IL.
  Julie Hunter presented the paper "2006 Midterm Elections: Analysis on MSNBC, Fox News Channel, and CNN's Election Night Coverage" at the National Communication Association Conference in Chicago, IL.
  Ashley Kirzinger presented the paper "Relying on a Failing Myth: The Use of Patriotism in Pro-war Political Advertisements During the 2006 Midterm Elections" at the National Communication Association Conference in Chicago, IL.
  Ashley Muddiman presented the papers "Muhammad Cartoons: Collision of Comic and Tragic Worldviews" and "Harry Potter and the Public Relations Phenomenon" at the National Communication Association Conference in Chicago, IL.
• Mary M. Dalton presented "Genre and the Hollywood curriculum: Freedom Writers as a Teacher Movie Exemplar" at the interdisciplinary conference Teachers, Teaching and the Movies at the College of Charleston, Charleston, SC on October 26, 2007. Mary also produced and directed a film commemorating the first ten years of Lillian's List of North Carolina that premiered at the organization's Ten Year Anniversary Gala on November 2, 2007. Mary was a founding Board Member of this group and continues to be an active part of the organization.
  Meg  Zulick  will be participating in a panel discussion on October 30 on the New Curriculum, sponsored by the Teaching and Learning Center, 3 pm in Benson 410. Here is the link http://www.wfu.edu/tlc/events.html
  Peter Brunette gave invited talk at the conference at Boston University on Oct,25  .  http://www.bu.edu/com/ft/haneke/
  The title of his 30-minute talk was “Michael Haneke, the (Missing) First Fifteen Years: A Look at Lemmings"
  Alessandra Beasley was awarded $1350 from the Fund for Ethics, Leadership and Civic Responsibility to organize another Symposium on Citizenship in the Spring.
  Ross Smith was appointed to a three year term on the Citizen Budget Advisory Council (CBAC) of the City of Winston-Salem. The purpose of the CBAC is "to facilitate citizens becoming familiar with the budgetary processes of the city and to perform studies and evaluations of city services . . ."
  Allan Louden was recognized Oct 5th for the "Most Funding Received" Award in Division IV by the Office of Sponsored Research and Sponsored Programs.
• The weekend of Oct 29-21 the Wake Forest Debate team won top honors at the Vanderbilt University tournament. In the varsity division they received the top speaker award and second place team award. In the novice division they won the second place speaker award and won the division.
  Karen Harrison (sophomore from Florida), was awarded the tournament’s top speaker award in the varsity division, where she spoke better than 54 other participants. She also reached the Octa-finals of the tournament with partner Hannah Rothman (sophomore from New York) where they lost to a team from West Georgia University on a 3-0 decision.
  Also in the varsity division Tom DeFranco, (sophomore from New York) and Ryan Stevens (freshman from Texas) reached the finals where they lost to a team from Georgia State University on a 2-1 decision. They defeated schools including Emory, Georgia, Kentucky, and James Madison on their way to 2nd place at the tournament.
  In the novice division, David Tokarz (freshman from Charlotte) received the second place speaker award, where he spoke better than 32 other competitors. He also won the division with a partner from the University of Florida in his first competition ever.
• Congratulations to Marina Krcmar and her family! Marina had her new daughter , Eve McNair Cook are doing exceptionally well. Eve was born on Friday, October 12 in Charlotte.. And on the side Marina Marina co-published "The development of aggressive mental models in young children" in Media Psychology, 10, (2) 250-269, with Anna Height, a Wake Forest student. As if all this is not enough, Marina has been invited to present her research at the University of Pennsylvania's Annenberg School for Communication on December 4th. She will be presenting a talk tentatively entitled "Findings from recent video game research: How television research is not a good model for video game play."
• October 16. - The inaugural "Hot Topics Community Forum" on "Language, Technology and You: Social and Moral Controversies Transforming Public Life" sponsored by the Graduate School will feature the Communication Department. Ananda Mitra will be the moderator and Michael Hyde is one of the panelists. Wake Alumni Elisa Cohen, Univ. of Kentucky, a Wake MA alum is also on the panel. Read more
  
  
• Steve Giles and Don Helme are featured in WOWF in an article entitled Professors study media's influence on at-risk behaviors. Click to view the article.
  
  
• Debate team posts Success at Kentucky: Wake Forest juniors Seth Gannon and Alex Lamballe won the prestigious Kentucky Round Robin debate tournament last week with a record of 7-1. Gannon and Lamballe defeated teams Berkeley, Emory, Gonzaga, Harvard, Kansas, Michigan and Northwestern. Their only loss was to runner-up Dartmouth who had a 6-2 record. Harvard was third at 5-3.
  
  The Kentucky Round Robin tournament, begun in 1972, annually invites the nation’s best nine teams, and being invited is considered to be an honor.  Wake Forest has been invited to sixteen of the last twenty Round Robins, accompanied each time by coach Ross Smith. Wake’s only other win at the tournament came in 1996, the same year Wake Forest won the national tournament.
  
  Ross also keeps busy as Founder of the Open Source Debate Foundation and of DebateScoop, and is active in coverage and assessment of political debates. http://www.debatescoop.org/ and http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ross-smith
• Steve Giles hosted, on September 27, the "Great Teachers" Lecture. "The Body Electr(on)ic: Lessons from a Decade of Research on Media, Body Image, and Eating Disorders," was presented by Kristen Harrison, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
• Mary Dalton and Kirsten James Fatzinger's essay "Choosing Silence: Defiance and Resistance Without Voice in Jane Campion's The Piano," originally published in Women and Language, has been reprinted in Contemporary Literary Criticism, Project Editor Jeffrey W. Hunter, Vol. 229, 2007. Farmington Hills, Michigan:  Thomson Gale, pp. 175-182. Mary  also has been awarded $6,000 from the American Express Philanthropic Program in support of her documentary on the Oakdale Mill and Mill Village. Other funding sources for this project include the Historic Jamestown Society, the High Point Tourism and Visitors Bureau, Frontier Spinning Mills, and the Marion Stedman Covington Foundation.
  
  Also her paper "Cybill: Privileging Liberal Feminism in Daily Sitcom Life," written with Laura R. Linder, was a finalist for the Ray Camp Research Award at the Carolinas Communication Association Annual Conference on September 29, 2007. Her documentary Martha in Lattimore was screened that same day at the Ava Gardner Film Festival.
• Peter Brunette has been invited to the Vancouver International Film Festival in October, where he will serve as a member of the jury. Also in October, Peter will present (en français) an invited lecture on the movie “The Duchesse of Langeais,” (currently an entry at the Vancouver International Film Festival) and movie adaptations. The lecture is organized by the French Club and the Department of French, Hispanic, and Italian Studies at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada.
  
• Department holds Term Opening Reception. Click picture for more.

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• Alessandra Beasley received an ACE (Academic and Community Engagement) Fellowship from Wake Forest University.
• Mary M. Dalton presented the paper "1950s Gender Wars:  Mr. Peepers and Our Miss Brooks" and presented the documentary Knitting Lessons for formal review at the University Film and Video Association Conference in Denton, Texas, August 8-11. She also received a Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation Fellowship from Wake Forest University.
• Steve Giles received a CRADLE (Creative and Research Activities Development and Enrichment Initiative) Fellowship from Wake Forest University.
  
• Don Helme attended the National Conference on Health Communication, Marketing, and Media at the Thomas R. Harkin Global Communications Center on the campus of the CDC in Atlanta, GA, on August 29-30. He also co-published "A classroom-administered simulation of a television campaign on adolescent smoking: Testing an activation model of information exposure" in the Journal of Health Communication, 12(4), 399-415
• Ananda Mitra is a busy man. He received a Social Behavioral and Economic Sciences Grant from Wake Forest University that allowed him to do research with Indian call center employees in New Delhi, India and Kolkata, India in the summer of 2007. He presented the paper "Assessment of Variations in Response Rate to Web-Based Student Surveys" at the Annual Meeting of the American Association for Public Opinion Research, in Anaheim, CA, May 2007; presented the invited-lecture "The Net-Indian: Creating an
  identity in a cybernetic world" at the Center for Culture, Media &
  Governance (CCMG) of the Jamia Millia Islamia University, New Delhi, India, July 2007. He also co-published "Demographic differences and attitudes towards computer among health care professionals" in the Journal of Educational Computing Research, 35(1), 31-43 and "Using Blogs to Create Cybernetic Space: Examples from People of Indian Origin" in the Proceedings of the Ethicomp Conference 2007. The paper was also presented at the conference in Tokyo, Japan.
• Randy Rogan participate in the International Institute for Counter-Terrorism's 7th International Conference on "Terrorism's Global Impact" in Herzliya, Israel, September 8-11, 2007. The ICT annual international conference is internally renowned as a flagship event in the field of counter-terrorism.Can be seen here:
• Ross Smith gets leg up on the political season as a national Political voice http://www.debatescoop.org/
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• Mary Dalton has been appointed as the Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation Fellow. She has received professional awards so such documentary films as Martha in Lattimore, Reverce with Clay: Crystal Kind Potter, Tom Whitaker: Potter at Large and Sam McMillian: The Dot Man.
• Michael Hyde has been selected to give the Carroll Arnold Distinguished Lecture at the National Communication Association Convention, November 15. His talk is entitled: "Perfection, Postmodern Culture, and the Biotechnology Debate" Michael is The University Distinguished Professor of Communication Ethics, Department of Communication. He is the author of over 60 articles and critical reviews appearing in various scholarly journals and texts.  His books include Communication Philosophy and the Technological Age (University of Alabama Press), Hermeneutics and Rhetoric in Our Time (Yale University Press, co-edited with Walter Jost), The Ethos of Rhetoric (University of South Carolina Press) The Call of Conscience:  Heidegger and Levinas, Rhetoric and the Euthanasia Debate (University of South Carolina Press, awarded NCA’s Diamond Anniversary Book Award and the Marie Hochmuth Nichols Award for Outstanding Research in Public Address), and The Life-Giving Gift of Acknowledgment (Purdue University Press).  He is a Fellow of the W. K. Kellogg Foundation and a recipient of national, state, and university research grants for his work in "the rhetoric of medicine." Mike most recently published with former grad student in the Quarterly Journal of Speech the article "Coming to Terms with Perfection: the Case of Terri Schiavo" (Michael Hyde and Sarah (Sager) McSpiritt).
• Marina Krcmar was featured feature story on her Media Psychology Article is in the Winston-Salem Journal in July. Link
  
• Dept hosted the Ben Franklin Transatlantic Fellows Initiative this summer, with 80 students from approximately 40 countries. The month long program included Study Trips to Washington, DC and Philadelphia.The State Department Grant was obtained by Allan Louden and Linda Petrou. Lots more at www.bftf.org.
• Graduation Reception 2007; Spring Dept. Party 2007
  
• Departmental Annual Awards Announced (click Picture for larger version): Distinguished Achievement, Jenn Misko; Excellence in Communication, Emory Craig , Kaitlyn Ranney, Lauren Rogers; Outstanding Graduate Award: Lindsay Neuberger; Honors: Lauren Harris, Kaitlyn Ritchey, Shannon Vincent
  
• Ross Smith has been award a scholarship to attend the "Personal Democracy Forum - Sponsored by Google " hosted at Pace University, in New York City, May 18, 2007
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• John Llewellyn will be a visiting associate professor teaching in the Department of Management Communication in the Business School at Waikato University in Hamilton, New Zealand this next fall.  He will teach an advanced undergraduate org comm course and one on the rhetoric of institutions for graduate students.  Hamilton, a town of roughly 100,000, is in the middle of the north island of new Zealand, in the Waikato River Valley. Susan Faust and family are taking in the adventure as well. See their blog.
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• Randall Rogan, chair of communication, has been accepted to attend "Defending Democracy, Defeating Terrorism," the Foundation for Defense of Democracies' (FDD) fifth annual academic fellowship in Israel this summer.
  
• Alessandra Beasley hosted a campus all day symposium April 27. The event featured panels and papers examining Citizenship.

Winston-Salem Mayor Joines interacts with Journalists

• Virginia Bannigan was awarded the Forsyth Co. School District's PROMISE (Potential, Responsibility, Optimism, Motivation, Ingenuity, Sensitivity, and Excellence) Award for the elementary school level on April 23, 2007 at River Oak Methodist Church in Clemmons, NC. The award is funded by a grant from the R. J. Reynolds Foundation to honor a first year teacher at the elementary, middle, and high school levels.
• Jack Lucido and Mary Dalton have films that will be featured this season on "North Carolina Visions,"  UNC-TV. Mary's Martha in Lattimore will air April 7 at 11 pm and Jack's Jackson Sandwich May 5th at 11 pm.
• Allan Louden has been named the new Editor for the journal Contemporary Argumentation and Debate published by the Cross Examination Debate Association. The editorial terms is for three years.
• Alex Creswick, a Communication major and Film Studies minor, has been accepted into the Producers Program at UCLA (www.tft.ucla.edu/producers/start.htm)
  One of the top programs in a highly competitive field for graduate study, Creswick was pragmatic about her chances for acceptance. “I knew that it was a good program, and it was one of those 'no one got hurt by trying' gambles,” says Creswick, who was particularly impressed with UCLA faculty who are active in the film industry and the Los Angeles location.
  She was surprised when she first learned of her acceptance. “I was literally speechless,” says Creswick. “Then I jumped around and hugged everyone I ran across; there were some very surprised people in the library that day!”
  She has always been fascinated by film because of its power as a medium and ability to reach large numbers of people. “I enjoy reading films and finding the meanings behind them and figuring out how we can use them to influence our society,” says Creswick, who hopes to become a respected producer of socially aware films.
  “My professors helped me get into the program,” says Creswick, “and I’ll be applying what they’ve taught me to all my classes.”
  
• Wake debaters won National championship at the JV Nationals hosted by W Va U. and American Debate Assoc Nationals hosted by Liberty. Lauren Sabino and Kurt Woolford won JC Nats, Hannah Rothman & Elyse MacNamara ADA Nationals in JV.
  
• Michael Hyde has been invited give the 2007 Carroll Arnold Lecture in Chicago.  The title of my lecture is:  "Perfection, Postmodern Culture, and the Biotechnology Debate."
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• Mike Hazen is on the editorial board and working with the launch of the new Russian Journal of Communication.
• Jack Lucido's work as a cinematographer is shown off on the PBS show "Simple Living" which is airing on UNCTV Sunday evenings (and nationwide at various times) his episode about Old Salem and Salem College.
• Alessandra Beasley , Visiting Instructor, received an $1100 grant from the Pro Humanitate Creativity and Innovation Fund for a symposium on citizenship to be held in Spring 2007.
• Mary M. Dalton presented "Communicating to Locate Common Ground Beyond Cultural Imperialism" at The Carolinas Communication Association Annual Conference in Charleston , SC on September 16, 2006 She also published"Revising the Hollywood Curriculum"  in Journal of Curriculum and Pedagogy, Volume 3, Number 2, Winter 2006, pp. 29-34.
• Mary M. Dalton's documentary I'm Not My Brothers Keeper:  Leadership and Civil Rights in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, which Dalton directed and co-produced with Susan L. Faust, had two recent community screenings in addition to a University showing on February 9.  The film was screened January 30 at the Mebane Public Library and on February 27 at a special luncheon at the Winston-Salem office of Kilpatrick Stockton LLP.
• Randall Rogan , Professor, has published “Conflict Framing Categories Revisited” in Communication Quarterly, 54, 2, 1-17.
• Ross Smith in conjunction with Wake Alum Tim O'Donnell at the University of Mary Washington and academic consultant Allan Louden launch a national web site that tracks and offers professional commentary on political debates around the country. debatescoop.org
• Ananda Mitra published "Towards Finding a Cybernetic Safe Place: Illustrations from People of Indian Origin" in New Media and Society, 8(2), 251-268.  He also presented the following papers: "Outsourcing in Cybernetic Space" at E-Society in Dublin, Ireland in July 2006;  "Finding the 'Empowered Voice' in Caribbean Blogs" at ACURIL, 2006 in Aruba, May 2006; "Minimizing Data Collection Time in Web-Based Surveys" (written with Mayank Gupta, Ashley Wagoner, Heather Champion, and Robert DuRant) at the American Association for Public Opinion Research Conference in Montreal, Canada in May 2006; and "Differences in Attitudes Towards Computer Based Training and Course Retention:  Push and Pull Delivery Modes" at Applied Computing Conference of the International Association of Science and Technology for Development in San Sebastian, Spain in February 2006. Also he presented “Outsourcing in cybernetic space” at the E-Society Conference in Dublin, Ireland in July, 2006; “Collecting citizen input” at the Annual Conference of the Arizona Parks and Recreation Society in August 2006; “Developing a profile of heavy Instant Messaging users” at the Computers and Advanced Technology in Education Conference in Lima, Peru in October 2006; “New technologies in collecting citizen input”  at the Annual Conference of the National Recreation and Parks Association in Seattle, WA in October 2006; Bollyweb: Looking for Bollywood on the Web”  at the 35th Annual Conference on South Asia, Madison in WI in October 2006.  The papers presented in Ireland and Peru have also been published in the proceedings of the respective conferences. and he published“Towards finding a cybernetic safe place: Illustrations from People of Indian Origin” in the April 2006 issue of New Media and Society.
• The Wake Debate team sponsored in the fall in conjunction with WFDD, Wake's public radio station, as series of local political debates and launch their Middle School debate program primarily focused on less privileged schools.
• Allan Louden recent published: Researching Non-Presidential debates – A Moment in Time (2006). Contemporary Argumentation and Debate. Cross-Examination Debate Association, 41-50 (intro) CAD Forum 41-105 and Gauging unique qualities of political debates in state level races: The case of Montana gubernatorial and North Carolina US Senate elections (2006). In P. Riley (Ed.), Engaging argument (pp. 342-347) . Washington, DC: National Communication Association.
• Peter Brunette (along with Frank Burke) has provided the voiceover commentary for the Criterion Collection's new DVD of Fellini's Amarcord released in August, 2006. His book book The Films of Michelangelo Antonioni (Cambridge UP, 1998), is being translated into Chinese and is scheduled for publication in 2007.
• Mike Hazen's new book Contemporary Perspectives on Argumentation: Views from the Venice Argumentation Conference (Ed. with Frans H. van Eemerren, Peter Houtlosser, and former Wake faculty, David Williams was published in July in Amsterdam. He also authored a chapter in that volume: "Argument and Culture: Seeing One while Seeing the Other." He presented four papers at three international conferences: "Intercultural Communication as the Universal Problem of Applied Communication" and "The Fluidity of Boundaries and the Central Perspective of Communication" at the Russian Communication Association Convention, St. Petersburg, Russia, June, 2006; "The Intercultural Dimensions of Interaction between Scholars from Russia and the United States" at the International Communication Association Convention, Dresden, Germany, June, 2006; and, "Forms of Argument in High and Low Context Messages and Cultures." at the International Society for the Study of Argumentation, Amsterdam, Netherlands, June, 2006 (with Sayaka Sogabe Fourcade).
• Wake Alumni at Amsterdam Argumentation Conference, June 2006
• Dept. Hosted the State Department's Benjamin Franklin Transatlantic Fellows Initiative July 1-22; News Story, WFU Research Notes Story
• Pictures from Graduation Reception 2006
• Pictures from Spring 2006 Department Gathering
• Mary Dalton's documentary film Martha in Lattimore has been selected for the Silverdocs Film Festival in Washington, DC, which is co-sponsored by the American Film Institute and the Discovery Channel. Film critic Peter Brunette wrote: "This is probably the premier documentary film festival in the US, and one of the most famous in the world." A description from the Riverrun International Film festival introduces the film: Martha Mason has lived in a giant iron lung longer than anyone else in the world. She’s had to co-exist with the life-saving machine ever since she contracted polio in 1948. But while some might see this as an affliction to be suffered through, Martha has learned to adapt – living and thriving in the small North Carolina town of Lattimore, where she receives regular encouragement and support from her friendly neighbors. At first the image and sound of the iron lung are distracting to the viewer, but soon after talking with Martha, the massive, metal cylinder becomes inconsequential because it is so greatly exceeded by her spirit.
• Jill McMillian's Retirement Party held April 21 Jill pictured with alum Colin Creel. Click for Party Album
• Nicole Collins, a first year graduate student, was one of three graduate students to be awarded the Richter Fellowship award. Her award is for studying doctor-patient interactions in Peru with an interest in improving minority patient interactions in the US.
• The Merwyn Hayes Trophy case Dedicated at Debate Alumni Reunion, April 22. Pictured with Hu Odom. Wake debate alumni also gathered for a three day reunion. Click for Picture gallery
• Don Helme published "The Development and Validation of a Coding Protocol to Measure Change in Tobacco-Control Newspaper Coverage" in the January issue of Health Promotion Practice and "Predictors of Support for Environmental Tobacco Smoke Bans in State Government" in the April edition of the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.
• Wake Debate Win 2nd in Nation (March 27th)
• Peter Brunette served as a Juror in the documentary competition at the RiverRun International Film Festival in March and a Juror in the documentary shorts competition at the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival in April.  He gave two lectures at Boston University, "Is There a Future for Film Studies?" and "Won Kar-wai's Happy Together" on February 23 and 24.  Brunette also spoke to WFU law students on the film Young Mr. Lincoln on March 23, presented "Confessions of an Unrepentant Francophile" to the WFU French Club on March 30, and gave a Gallery Talk called "the Early Moving Pictures and Philosophy at Reynolda House on April 11.  Brunette has several recent contributions to the highly regarded Criterion Collection of DVDs.  His essay, "God's Jester," accompanies the DVD of Rossellini's Flowers of St. Francis, which came out in the fall.  He contributed co-commentary (a voiceover) on Truffaut's Shoot the Piano Player, which came out in December.   Brunette also wrote an essay for the supplemental DVD accompanying De Sica's The Children Are Watching Us.
• Eleventh Biennial Wake Forest Argumentation Conference
  Florida Atlantic University, Boca Rot an, FL
  February 16-18, 2006
• Randy Rogan (with Hammer, M. R.) published  "The emerging field of crisis/hostage negotiation: A communication-based perspective" in J. Poetize&  S. Tightrope (Ed's.), Handbook of conflict communication. (pp. 451-478). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. 2006.
• Michael J. Hyde published The Life-giving Gift of Acknowledgment:   A Philosophical and Rhetorical Inquiry.  West Lafayette, IN:  Perdue University Press, 2006.
• Mary Dalton has been appointed to a new term to the Board of Directors of the Piedmont Triad Film Commission and also appointed to the Board of Directors of Lillian's List of North Carolina.  Her documentary Martha in Latino has recently been screened at the George Lindsay UAB Film Festival, the River Run International Film Festival, the Spring Alive Film Festival, and the Jamestown Public Library.  She presented the paper “Silence and Voice in Cinema:  Limitations of Voice as a Singular Metaphor for Empowerment” at Creative Action: Gender and the Arts Conference at University of North Carolina at Greensboro in March and presented “Invisible Writing:  How Research, Conceptualization, Tape Logs, and Paper EDLs Shape the Thinking Out of a Documentary” at the Broadcast Education Association Convention in Las Vegas in April.  Dalton published Mary M. Dalton published "Making Condoms Transgressive:   South Park and 'Proper Condom Use' " in the anthology  Culture and the Condom edited by Karen Anijar and Thuy Dao Jensen.  Peter Lang :  New York, 2005 :  37-47. For information about her recently published edited volume (co-edited with Laura R. Linder), The Sitcom Reader:  America Viewed and Skewed visit the SUNY Press web site http://www.sunypress.edu/details.asp?id=61180
• Matthew Carrington Giles was born on Friday, June 3rd, 2005
• Allan Louden presented "Gauging the 'Unique' Qualities of Political Debates in Statewide Races :   The Case of Montana Gubernatorial and North Carolina US Senate Elections" as part of the panel "A Practical View on the Construction of Political Messages" at the 14th NCA/AFA Conference on Argumentation in Alta, Utah on August 5, 2005.  He also presented "Mentoring and Diversity Sessions" at the Southeast Europe Youth Leadership Institute Conference in Borovets, Bulgaria from December 1-4, 2005.

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