Greenlee School of Journalism and Communication

College of Liberal Arts & Sciences

Graduate Faculty

Name Contact
Eric Abbott Eric Abbott Technology / Development / International eabbott@iastate.edu
204C Hamilton Hall
515-294-0492
Tom Beell Thomas Beell Electronic Media/Management tbeell@iastate.edu
212 Hamilton Hall
515-294-0499
Michael Bugeja Michael Bugeja Michael Bugeja, director of the Greenlee School of Journalism at Iowa State University, is author of Interpersonal Divide: The Search for Community in a Technological Age and Living Ethics Across Media Platforms, both published by Oxford University Press and both winners of the Clifford G. Christians Award for Research in Media Ethics. His work has been cited in The New York Times, The Washington Post, USA Today, Newsweek, The New Yorker, The Christian Science Monitor, and The International Herald Tribune, among others. Before entering academe, he was bureau manager for United Press International and also is a National Endowment for the Arts fellow (1990) with books of fiction and poetry and a Ph.D. in English from Oklahoma State University. bugeja@iastate.edu
101A Hamilton Hall
515-294-0481
Dennis Chamberlin Dennis Chamberlin Visual Communication dennisch@iastate.edu
151 Hamilton Hall
515-294-1559
Raluca Cozma Raluca Cozma Raluca Cozma (Ph.D, Journalism and Public Affairs, Louisiana State University) joined Iowa State in 2009 and conducts research on foreign correspondence, political communication, and social media. Her work has been published in venues such as The International Journal of Press/Politics, The Newspaper Research Journal, the Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media, and Journalism Studies. She teaches undergraduate classes in electronic media and international communication and graduate seminars in political and international communication. She is the faculty adviser of ISUtv and has professional experience in electronic media in her native country of Romania as well as in the United States. rcozma@iastate.edu
118 Hamilton Hall
515-294-0497
Michael Dahlstrom Michael Dahlstrom Science communication mfd@iastate.edu
215 Hamilton Hall
608-469-9602
Daniela Dimitrova Daniela Dimitrova Dimitrova’s research interests focus on how the news media portray conflict events such as wars, executions and terrorist attacks. She has conducted a wide range of cross-cultural journalism studies and has developed a predictive model of how the media frame politics.  Her more recent work focuses on the impact of social media on political knowledge and civic engagement. As an expert in the areas of media framing and international political communication, she has published refereed research articles in top journals including Communication Research, Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, The Harvard International Journal of Press/ Politics, and The International Communication Gazette. danielad@iastate.edu
117 Hamilton Hall
515-294-4435
Jane Fritsch Jane Fritsch Reporting, writing and editing for legacy and new media jfritsch@iastate.edu
113 Hamilton Hall
515-294-5303
Joel Geske Joel Geske Advertising/Web Design geske@iastate.edu
209 Hamilton Hall
515-294-4342
Gang Han Gang Han Assistant Professor: Reputation/Perception Management in Internet-based and International Public Relations; News Framing and Framing Effects; Mediated Risk Communication ghan@iastate.edu
119 Hamilton Hall
515-294-0482
Suman Lee Suman Lee Public Relations smlee@iastate.edu
204B Hamilton Hall
515-294-0496
Tracy Lucht Tracy Lucht News writing and editing, journalism history tlucht@iastate.edu
111 Hamilton Hall
515-294-1352
Jay Newell Jay Newell Jay Newell has been on the Greenlee School faculty since 2003. His primary research area is media saturation—the extent to which individuals are exposed to media, and the adaptations that organizations and corporation make to a media-saturated marketplace. His research has been published in the International Journal of Advertising, International Journal on Media Management, and Broadcasting & Electronic Media. His secondary research area is developing technology to enhance the educational experience, such as the problem-based assignment processor ThinkSpace and teaching tools in Chinese and English. newelljj@iastate.edu
122 Hamilton Hall
515-294-3445
Jane Peterson Jane Peterson Public Relations and Science Communication jpeterso@iastate.edu
101B Hamilton Hall
515-294-3822
Marcia Prior-Miller Marcia Prior-Miller Contemporary Magazine Publishing, Editing, Research mpm@iastate.edu
204A Hamilton Hall
515-294-0491
Lulu Rodriguez Lulu Rodriguez Lulu Rodriguez designs, implements, and evaluates the impact of communication campaigns related to agriculture, renewable energy, the environment, and food safety. Her research focuses on the communication of risks related to scientific and technological breakthroughs, investigating people’s basic mental models of hazard and their opinions about innovations. Her research agenda includes examining and testing approaches that have the potential to improve society’s ability to anticipate, diagnose, prioritize, and respond to issues that confront, and often confound, risk managers. Rodriguez also conducts research on the visual representations of science and risk issues.She holds a half-time appointment with the Seed Science-based Biosafety Institute for Genetically Modified Agricultural Products. lulurod@iastate.edu
214 Hamilton Hall
515-294-0484
Sela Sar Sela Sar Advertising selasar@iastate.edu
201 Hamilton Hall
515-294-0503