Department News:
Winter 2019 Newsletter
Publications: Huang, S. & Brouwer, D. (2018). Negotiating performances of “real” marriage in Chinese queer xinghun. Women’s Studies in Communication, 41, 140-158.
Events: Undergraduate students Monica Dietz, Madison Heintzelman, Joshua Lloyd, Tiffany Musser, Krista Peachey, and Jordan Webb in Dr. Shorter’s Communication for Business Professional’s class developed the Spring 2019 Communication Studies Newsletter and presented their work on December 3, 2018.
The Annual Departmental Holiday Happy Hour was held at Dr. Bodenman’s home on December 8, 2018. Faculty and family members, Lambda Pi Eta and NCASC Executive Board student leaders attended the event.
Dr. Shavonne Shorter was invited to be the Keynote Speaker for the Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration Lunch at Penn State Altoona on Monday, January 21st, 2019. Her talk which was titled "Education as a Tool in the Fight for Social Justice" discussed how social justice work must be intersectional to have a greater impact. She also highlighted her work on a national initiative developed from her dissertation work, the Inclusive Future Faculty initiative, which aims to diversify the professoriate through interviews between underrepresented minority professors and underrepresented minority students. You can read more about her talk here via newspaper coverage from the Altoona Mirror.
Dr. Shorter also had the opportunity to have dinner with university students to learn more about them and their experiences. She is pictured with them below.