Meet the Faculty and Staff

Dr. Schreier earned his Ph.D. at Temple University and joined the faculty in 1981. With an interest in leadership and social influence, his research interests include instructional practices, strategies and tactics of persuasion, and communication in the popular culture. He has taught undergraduate and graduate courses such as Public Speaking, Interpersonal Communication, Argumentation, Persuasion, Evaluating Communication, Communication and Conflict, and Leadership and Team Building. Additionally, he has taught an honors course and served as director or committee member for several honors and graduate student theses. He attended the SSHE Summer Academy for the Advancement of College Teaching, which cultivates student-centered teaching and learning strategies. He has several academic publications and has presented scholarly papers at professional conferences. He has served as a consultant to regional newspapers and has been interviewed for articles on subjects as diverse as the revival of 1960’s culture and political apology tactics. He has demonstrated his commitment to the university by serving as department chairperson (presently in the 12th year), coordinating the graduate program, helping to establish the humanities honors program and several career concentrations, serving as Vice President of the Faculty Association, and playing an active role on university-wide tenure, sabbatical, negotiation, and promotion committees.

Communication Studies and Theatre Arts		Meet the Faculty and Staff

Home Welcome Programs of Study Organizations Internships People Links Contact us Bloomsburg University Top of Page		Faculty The current Communication Studies Division consists of 13 full-time faculty. The faculty provide a strong mixture in terms of academic focus. The current Theatre Arts Division consists of four full-time faculty. Each member of the Theatre Division has an area of expertise. Staff Karen Diltz is our department secretary. She has been with the department since 2003. Summary Descriptions of Faculty Vitae Karen Anselm - Theatre Arts Dale A. Bertelsen - Communication Studies Janet Reynolds Bodenman- Communication Studies San Bolkan - Communication Studies Bruce Candlish - Theatre Arts Michael Collins - Theatre Arts Nicole Defenbaugh, Communication Studies Alan Goodboy - Communication Studies David Heineman - Communication Studies Doreen Jowi- Communication Studies Ethan Krupp - Theatre Arts Angela La Valley - Communication Studies Tim Rumbough - Communication Studies Howard Schreier - Communication Studies Kara Shultz - Communication Studies Melissa Taylor - Communication Studies James Tomlinson - Communication Studies Karen Anselm, M.F.A., Professor Professor of Theatre with a specialization in Costume Design, Prof. Anselm has been at Bloomsburg University since 1986. She has a Master of Fine Arts from Carnegie Mellon University and previously taught theatre at University of Pittsburgh and the State University of New York Stonybrook. Prof. Anselm has been actively involved with the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival for 20 years, as Region II Respondent, Design Co-chair, Vice-chair, Chair, awarded Certificates of Merit for Ensemble work, Costume Design and Direction, two Kennedy Center Medals of Honor in recognition of her work as Regional Chair, and service on the National Executive Committee. She has served as Design Respondent, Irene Ryan Semi-finals Judge and Production Respondent. Karen co-hosted the Irene Ryan Evening of Scenes, 2002, served on the 2003 National Selection Team, traveling all over the country to select the best university theatre to come to the National Festival at the Kennedy Center. In 2005, she was the Facilitator for Design at the National Festival and presently is serving on the KCACTF Executive committee as the National Member-at-Large and has been elected to be the National Chair of Design, she will serve as Vice Chair 2006-2009, and Chair through 2012. Karen Anselm she has designed costumes for more than 150 productions. Some of her favorite costume designs include: *Romeo & Juliet* and *Trojan Women* at Bloomsburg University, Winter’s Tale at Bloomsburg Theatre Ensemble, Off Broadway productions of *Marry Me A Little* at Queens Theatre in the Park, *Hot N Cole* for Florida Stage, *Private Lives* for Unseam’d Shakespeare at City Theatre in Pittsburgh, (for which she was recognized in Pittsburgh’s Best of 1999 list), *The Bacchae* for Modern Theatre of Myth, produced in NY and toured in Cyprus, and the world premiere of *Joan* for Endurance Theatre, NYC and Edinburgh’s Festival Fringe. Most recently Anselm designed the costumes for an Off Broadway production of *The Three Sisters* for La MaMa, NYC. In 2003, Ms. Anselm worked with Dell’Arte on an extreme physical theatre adaptation of The Bacchae, entitled *Wolf Sonata Bacchae. She and her costume designs, as well as some of her students have toured Cyprus, Greece, Hungary, Scotland and Slovakia, participating in such festivals as Cyprus Centre of International Theatre Institute Festival of Ancient Greek Drama, Istropolitana International Theatre Institute Festival, and Edinburgh Festival Fringe.* Honored for her international work by Bloomsburg University’s Institute for Culture and Society, Professor Anselm received the first Award for Outstanding Creative Works in 2003. She taught a Bloomsburg University Scholar’s Course Seminar in Script Analysis and regularly teaches Career Seminar: Theatre in Bloom, Introduction to Theatre, Costume Design, Fundamentals of Design, Script Analysis, Theatre Appreciation, Stage Makeup. Costume History and Costume Construction. Her design students have been recognized and participated at KCACTF National Festival in 2000 and 2005, and participate regionally every year. Her students have gone to graduate school in design at Brandeis, CMU, Rutgers and SMU, designed costumes on and off Broadway, at Williamstown Theatre and for Saturday Night Live. Dale A. Bertelsen, Ph.D., Professor Dr. Bertelsen joined the faculty in 1988. With a focus in leadership and social influence, his research interests include the analysis of media and communication technologies. He teaches courses such as Public Speaking, Investigating Communication, Evaluating Media Influence, and Issue and Image Campaigns. In addition he has directed M.A. and Honors theses. Dr. Bertelsen is co-author of a book entitled Analyzing Media: Communication Technologies as Symbolic and Cognitive Systems (Guilford, 1996). He has published articles in journals such as Communication Education, Philosophy and Rhetoric, Communication Quarterly, The Speech Communication Teacher, and Qualitative Research Reports in Communication. He is currently completing another co-authored book entitled Introduction to Rhetorical Criticism: Communication Systems, Rhetorical Methods, and Societal Transformations. Dr. Bertelsen has served in several major positions in the discipline of communication. In 1995-1996, he served as President of the Eastern Communication Association, the oldest professional organization in the communication discipline. He also has served as President of the Speech Communication Association of Pennsylvania from 1991-1992, as Newsletter Editor of the Kenneth Burke Society from 1989-1990, as Editor of Publications for the Kenneth Burke Society from 1991-1993, as Book Review Editor for Critical Studies in Media Communication from 1999-2001 and as Editor of Communication Quarterly from 2001-2003. He has served on several university committees such as University Forum, Graduate Council, Promotion Committee, and the Research Committee for the School of Graduate Studies and Research. Dr. Bertelsen’s leadership and service have been honored through Distinguished Service Awards from the Kenneth Burke Society (1996), the Eastern Communication Association (1998), and the Speech Communication Association of Pennsylvania (1999). His scholarly activities have been recognized through the Kenneth Burke Society’s Emerging Scholar Award (1993) and the Eastern Communication Associations’ Everett Lee Hunt Award for outstanding scholarship (1997). In addition, Dr. Bertelsen was named a Distinguished Teaching Fellow of the Eastern Communication Association in 1997. In 1998, he received the Dean’s Salute for Excellence Award from Bloomsburg University. In 2004 Dr. Bertelsen was a Fulbright scholar lecturing at Karazin National University in Kharkov, Ukraine. He is currently listed in Who's Who in America, Who's Who in American Education, Who's Who Among America's Teachers, and the Directory of American Scholars. Janet Reynolds Bodenman, Ph.D., Professor Dr. Bodenman earned her Ph.D. from The Pennsylvania State University, joining the faculty at Bloomsburg University in 1991. With an applied communication focus, her teaching and research interests center on interpersonal and small group processes within organizations. In the Organizational Communication and Interpersonal Relationship Management tracks of the major she regularly teaches Public Speaking, Interpersonal Communication, Communication Theory, Organizational Communication Theory, Communication and Conflict, Communication in the Family, Leadership and Teambuilding, and Interviewing. She has directed a number of M.A., and Honors theses, as well as mentored undergraduate student research that has won state awards and been presented at conventions. Dr. Bodenman has been active on the editorial boards of Communication Research Reports, Journal of the Pacific Northwest, and the Pennsylvania Communication Annual, and has held or holds leadership positions in the Pennsylvania Communication Association, Eastern Communication Association, and National Communication Association mainly in the area of applied communication. Convention papers, publication and manuscript submissions, center on work stemming from her dissertation focus on selection interviewing and values, as well as other areas of interest such as social support for grief/loss or parents of twins, parent-care giver communication during times of loss of child, and application of applied communication strategies in the classroom. An active university and community participant, Dr. Bodenman has served on the Institutional Review Board, Honors Advisory, Tenure, Sabbatical, Faculty Professional Development, American Democracy, and University Assessment committees, as well as on search committees for honors director, dean of the college of liberal arts, and interim dean of the college of liberal arts. She is a certified mediator, currently serving as one of 18 members of the Bloomsburg University mediation team. She regularly speaks to various classes, clubs, and community groups on a variety of communication topics. Expertise is shared in volunteer recruitment for the local soup kitchen, and for a bone marrow drive, and as president of P.E.O., a philanthropic society for women. She also founded and advises the National Communication Association Student Club at Bloomsburg University, an extracurricular activity focused on academic and professional advancement of communication issues and activities, and involving monthly speakers, the production of a newsletter, and convention attendance. San Bolkan, Ph.D. - Communication Studies - Assistant Professor. Information about Dr. Bolkan will be available soon. Bruce Candlish, M.F.A., Associate Professor Bruce Candlish joined the department in 1990, as Scenographer, and teaches classes such as Introduction to Theatre Arts, Theatre Production, Lighting, Theatre and Stage Management, and Theatre History. He has designed sets and/or lights for 36 on-campus productions. His scenic and lighting designs have been seen on several professional theatre stages in a variety of Eastern and Central Pennsylvania locations. Professor Candlish also teaches design at the Pennsylvania Governor’s School for the Arts and has a particular interest in computer aided design (CAD) technology. Michael Collins, M.F.A., Professor A Professor of Theatre Arts who has been a member of the Bloom theatre faculty since 1989, Michael Collins teaches upper-level performance classes including advanced seminars in scene study and auditioning. He also teaches Directing, Scriptwriting, and some courses in the history sequence, specifically, Modern Theatre. He holds a B.A. in Communications (Theatre) from Truman State University and an M.F.A. in Performance (Directing) from Purdue University. Collins is also a professional actor and director. Most recently, he has developed a close association with the nationally renowned Bloomsburg Theatre Ensemble, a regional professional theatre, and has performed in fifteen productions there, among them, King Alonso in The Tempest; Mr. Rice in Molly Sweeney; Stipan/Ivo in Ambition Facing West, a world premiere; Ed in Defying Gravity; Antonio in Twelfth Night; and several roles in The Laramie Project. He has also directed four productions with the Ensemble: The Foreigner, Ramona Quimby, Cobb and Getting Married. Before coming to Bloomsburg University, Collins was Artistic Director of Robidoux Resident Theatre in Missouri where he produced nearly twenty productions, directing thirteen. He also served on the artistic staff of Chicago’s Goodman Theatre, assisting on American premieres of Glengarry Glen Ross by Pulitzer Prize-winner David Mamet, Hurlyburly by Tony Award-winner David Rabe (directed by Mike Nichols), The Road by Novel Prize-winner Wole Soyinka, and The Moscowteers, with The Flying Karamozov Brothers. A secondary interest is new play development. As noted above, he teaches the scriptwriting course and his background includes working with new plays while at The Goodman Theatre. At Bloomsburg, he has mentored and/or staged several student-written one-act and full-length plays. Three Bloomsburg University student playwrights have won regional Best Short Play awards from the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival and one student writer was nominated for the KCACTF National Playwriting Award. He has also staged his own adaptations of works such as A Comedy of Errors, Blood Wedding, After the Rain, Rasmus Montanus, The Suicide, and Romeo and Juliet. For Bloomsburg University, Collins has directed nearly forty productions. In addition to the student-written originals and his own adaptations, he has also directed a variety of plays such as Measure for Measure, Twelfth Night, Cabaret, The Hot l Baltimore, The Boys Next Door, After the Rain, Reckless, The Rimers of Eldritch, Prelude to a Kiss, and many others. In 2000, he started the London Study Abroad Program in cooperation with Lock Haven University. Each summer since, he and colleagues have travelled abroad with students to attend productions and to study theatre in the United Kingdom. Collins lives in Bloomsburg University with his wife, Cindy McBeth-Collins, a visual artist. They have two children, Quinn, a composer, and Caitlin, a high school student. Nicole Defenbaugh, Ph.D., Assistant Professor Dr. Nicole Defenbaugh earned her Ph.D. in performance of health, autoethnography, and ethnography of communication from Southern Illinois University – Carbondale before joining the faculty in 2007. Her research includes multi-methodological inquiries into the construction of illness identity. Dr. Defenbaugh’s current research projects explore IBD (Inflammatory Bowel Disease) and the influence of gender discourse in chronic illness through a performative lens. Prior to joining Bloomsburg University, Dr. Defenbaugh taught for four years during her Ph.D. program at Southern Illinois University, two years in Minnesota at Winona State University where she directed the forensics (speech) team, and two summer programs for the Junior Statesmen Association (JSA) at Yale University in 2002 and Stanford University in 2003. She has been involved in theatre since 1990 and five years ago began her journey analyzing the construction of illness through performance studies. In 2005 she wrote, co-directed, and performed a one-woman show entitled “It Takes Guts [Colon] Spelling with Dis-ease” about medicalese, alternative healing, and embodied language. Dr. Defenbaugh recently presented a synopsis of her show for the Penn Island Symposium at Penn State Hershey Medical School. She has presented her research at numerous national and regional conferences and has a forthcoming book entitled, Sites of Discovery: A Narrative Journey of the IBD Body. This past spring she won the International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry Dissertation Award and has published in the Journal of Health Communication, Qualitative Inquiry, and the Iowa Journal of Communication. Alan Goodboy, Ph.D., Assistant Professor Dr. Goodboy earned his Ph.D. from West Virginia University and specializes in Instructional Communication and Interpersonal Communication. He joined the faculty in 2007 and teaches courses such as Communication in Relationships, Investigating Communication, Communication and Conflict, and Interpersonal Communication. Dr. Goodboy is a social scientist who favors empirical research, using both survey and experimental designs. His research has been published in journals such as Communication Education, Communication Quarterly, Communication Research Reports, Human Communication, Western Journal of Communication, Journal of Instructional Psychology, and Psychological Reports. Additionally, he has received six top paper awards (2006 - 2008) from associations such as the International Communication Association, Eastern Communication Association, and Central States Communication Association. He is also the co-author of a book chapter in Stress and Mental Health of College Students and maintains an active role in service for the Eastern Communication Association. Dr. Goodboy is currently conducting research on several topics including: personality and relationship independence, relational maintenance in adult sibling relationships, video game violence and aggression, and transformational leadership in instruction. David S. Heineman, Ph.D., Assistant Professor Dr. Heineman joined the faculty in 2007. He earned his Ph.D. in Communication Studies with a certification from the Project on the Rhetorics of Inquiry from the University of Iowa in Iowa City, IA and Master’s and Bachelor’s degrees in Speech Communication from Syracuse University. Dr. Heineman’s primary research interests are located at the intersection of rhetorical theory and criticism and new media technologies. His most recent scholarship has focused on hacktivism (politically motivated computer hacking) and he is currently beginning work on turning his doctoral dissertation (“The Digital Rhetorics of Hacktivism: Anti-Institutional Politics in Cyberspace”) into a book. Dr. Heineman also has research interests in visual rhetoric, the rhetoric of social movements, the rhetoric of science and technology, media criticism, public memory, narrative theory, and political communication. He currently teaches classes such as Evaluating Media Influence, Issue and Image Campaigns, and Public Speaking. Dr. Heineman frequently presents his work at international, national, and regional conferences. Recent presentations were made at the 2006 Engaging Baudrillard Conference in South Wales, UK, the 2006 National Communication Association Convention in San Antonio, TX, and the 2006 Eastern States Communication Association meeting in Philadelphia, PA, where he won a top paper award from the Rhetoric and Public Address division. Doreen M. S. Jowi, Ph.D., Assistant Professor Dr. Jowi joined the faculty of Communication Studies and Theatre Arts in 2005. She teaches courses such as Corporate Communication, Communication for Business Professionals, Organizational Communication Theory, Intercultural Communication Interpersonal Communication, and Public Speaking. Dr. Jowi has also taught Statistics (Quantitative Research Methods), Small Group Communication, and Public Speaking at The Ohio University. Dr. Jowi specializes in Organizational Communication and Organizational Health Communication with particular interests in job attitudes, physician job dissatisfaction, and communication climate in supervisor-subordinate dialectics. She further has interests in globalization/international communication competence and social change, communication processes in international nongovernmental organizations (INGOs), intercultural communication, multicultural workforce communication competence within multinational organizations and businesses, communication processes in health care delivery systems, Identity construction in work organizations, and organizational culture and change, management communication styles and occupation consulting. Dr. Jowi earned her A.A.S. (1996) in Clinical Dietetics from Hocking College, B.S.H. (1998) in Health Services Administration, M.H.A. (1999) in Health Administration, Graduate Health Policy Certificate (1999), and Ph.D. (2005) in Communication Studies with emphasis in Organizational Communication and Organizational Health Communication from The Ohio University. Dr. Jowi’s latest research projects include consequence of failed discourse: the impact of the brain drain in the Republic of Kenya; directory of quantitative communication mental measures book; an analysis of the effectiveness of INGOs campaign strategies towards creating awareness on the spread of HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa; Bio-ethical dilemma in cross paradigm divide; and students’ perceptions of communication with their advisors during general advising and internships. Dr. Jowi is a co-author of a book chapter entitled: Topic selection (2004). She has submitted and presented numerous scholarly papers at professional international: [Republic of Korea, Switzerland, Belgium, and England, UK], national, and regional conferences. She has received two Top Four Paper Awards from the National Communication Association (2006). Dr. Jowi is an Editorial Board Member of the Ohio Communication Journal. Dr. Jowi is currently serving as an active member of the following University-wide Committees: The Pandemic Planning Committee (APSCUF Representative), and Special Initiatives Committee. Dr. Jowi has also served as an active committee member of the Student Trustee Search and Screen Committee (APSCUF Representative), University Forum (Faculty Senate), the Teaching and Learning Enhancement Committee (TALE), The Frederick Douglass Institute for Academic Excellence, and the Institutional Review Board (IRB), and Institutional Review Board’s Procedural Guidelines Handbook Subcommittee. Ethan Krupp, M.F.A. - Assistant Professor. Ethan Krupp joined the Theatre Arts Division faculty in Fall 2006 after 6 years at The University of Houston-Downtown. He serves as the Technical Director for the division, as well as a lighting, scenery, and sound designer. He teaches Introduction to the Theatre Arts, Theatre Appreciation, Lighting Design and Theory, and Theatre Production/Stagecraft. He holds a BA in Journalism and Mass Communications from Washington & Lee University (1997) and a MFA in Theatre Design and Technology (Lighting and Scenic Design Emphasis) from University of Montana (2000). Ethan has been involved in theatre since junior high school when his love of Neil Simon's plays was created by extensive scene work in Adele Mallin's Drama Class. He continued his theatre work in high school in the LA suburb of Eagle Rock, CA. After a short and misguided stint in print journalism in college, Ethan returned to the theatre and decided to go to graduate school for theatrical design. After graduating from U of M in 2000, he moved to Houston, TX with his wife Deborah and their first child, Foster. While being active in the Houston theatre world as well as working at UHD, children Fenton, Piper, Patrick, Ruthie joined the family. Ethan and his family jumped at the chance to be closer to family, let the kids experience seasons, and live in a small college town. The charm of being able to live in a house built prior to 1854 is just an added bonus. Angela La Valley - Communication Studies. More information will be availalble soon. Tim Rumbough, Ph.D., Professor Dr. Rumbough earned his Ph.D. in Speech Communication from Florida State University and joined the department in 1993. He teaches courses such as: Public Speaking, Interpersonal Communication, Communication Theory, Communication in Relationships, and Computer Applications for Professional Communicators. His research primarily examines computer-mediated communication. His latest research project is exploring how technology (such as cell phones and the Internet) affects interpersonal communication. He has published in Communication Research Reports, the Journal of Communication Studies, Educause Quarterly, College and University Media Review, Communication Teacher, the New Jersey Journal of Communication, and the Journal of Information Ethics. His research has been featured in news sources such as BBC-online, Newsweek.com, and the Chronicle of Higher Education. He was selected for Who's Who in America. He has presented papers on a variety of communication topics at international, national, and regional conferences. He has served as a program planner for the Communication Association of Pennsylvania and for the Eastern Communication Association. He has designed web sites for the Department and other organizations. He serves on a wide variety of university-wide committees such as the Technology Planning Committee, Tenure Committee, Sabbatical Committee, Promotion Committee and served as a delegate to APSCUF's legislative assembly. Howard N. Schreier, Ph.D., Professor Dr. Schreier earned his Ph.D. at Temple University and joined the faculty in 1981. With an interest in leadership and social influence, his research interests include instructional practices, strategies and tactics of persuasion, and communication in the popular culture. He has taught undergraduate and graduate courses such as Public Speaking, Interpersonal Communication, Argumentation, Persuasion, Evaluating Communication, Communication and Conflict, and Leadership and Team Building. Additionally, he has taught an honors course and served as director or committee member for several honors and graduate student theses. He attended the SSHE Summer Academy for the Advancement of College Teaching, which cultivates student-centered teaching and learning strategies. He has several academic publications and has presented scholarly papers at professional conferences. He has served as a consultant to regional newspapers and has been interviewed for articles on subjects as diverse as the revival of 1960’s culture and political apology tactics. He has demonstrated his commitment to the university by serving as department chairperson (presently in the 12th year), coordinating the graduate program, helping to establish the humanities honors program and several career concentrations, serving as Vice President of the Faculty Association, and playing an active role on university-wide tenure, sabbatical, negotiation, and promotion committees. Kara Shultz, Ph.D., Professor Dr. Shultz earned her Ph.D. in Speech Communication from the University of Denver and joined the department in 1991. With a focus in leadership and social influence, her teaching and research interests include the analysis of role of rhetoric in constructing representations of diverse cultural identities. In addition to teaching core communication courses in Public Speaking, Interpersonal Communication, and Intercultural Communication, she regularly teaches the following courses in the Leadership and Social Influence track of the major: Understanding Social Influence, Community Leadership, and Issue and Image Campaigns. In addition she has taught honors seminars in Free Speech and Community Values and Language, Culture, and Society. She utilizes radical pedagogy in the classroom and has developed, presented, and published original scholarly essays on the topic. Her research primarily examines the rhetoric of social movements and other forms of marginal discourse; analyzing representations of gender, race, ethnicity, class and cultural identities in public discourse; and reconciling rhetorical theories from diverse cultural traditions, ranging from ancient to contemporary times, and demonstrating their relevance to civic life in our mediated society. Her latest research projects examine the controversy over the growing popularity of the use of technological innovations to perfect “disabled” bodies through cochlear implant surgery, bariatric surgery, and limb lengthening surgery. She has received a National Endowment for the Humanities Grant to study and has published several essays on the rhetoric of persons with disabilities appearing in the national journals the Quarterly Journal of Speech and The Howard Journal of Communications and in the edited volumes Conflict and Diversity and Handbook of Communication and People with Disabilities. She has presented papers on a variety of communication topics at national and regional conferences. She has served on the editorial board of Communication Quarterly and chaired the Rhetoric and Public Address and the Voices of Diversity divisions of the Eastern Communication Association. She has been both a leader and an active member of the Teaching and Learning Enhancement Committee (T.A.L.E.), the Women’s Studies Minor Advisory Board, and the Ethnic Studies Minor Advisory Board. She has served on the Bloomsburg University tenure, sabbatical, and faculty professional development committees. Melissa Taylor, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Dr. Taylor joined the faculty in 2006. She received her bachelor of arts in Psychology at the University of Arizona, Tucson. She later received both her Master’s Degree and Ph.D. in Interpersonal Communication at the University of Arizona. She taught as a visiting professor (2005-2006) at New Mexico State University, Las Cruces. Dr. Taylor’s current research interests include interpersonal conflict, family dynamics, and mental health. Most of her research has involved quantitative methods, but she is also interested in ethnography and focus group research. Dr. Taylor teaches classes in the interpersonal track of Communication studies, which include conflict management, relational communication, and family communication. She also teaches the Research Methods class. Dr. Taylor has received top paper awards from respected Communication associations such as the National Communication Association (2004) and the Eastern Communication Association (2007). She has also co-authored several publications that can be found in Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, Journal of Depression and Anxiety, Journal of Divorce and Remarriage, and Personality and Individual Differences. James E. Tomlinson, Ph.D., Professor Jim Tomlinson joined the Communication Studies faculty in 1980. With an interest in applied communication, his research has focused on politics and the impact of emerging digital technologies on society. Dr. Tomlinson teaches: Argumentation, Community Leadership, Interpersonal Communication, Organizational Communication, Political Communication, Public Speaking, and an honor’s course on Political Communication. His experience includes work as a political campaign manager and pollster. Dr. Tomlinson is a published author, with his most recent works including book chapters on the uses of digital technologies in political campaigns. In addition, he was selected by an agency of the Pennsylvania Legislature to conduct research into the "Digital Divide" in the Commonwealth, and authored a published report for the State of Pennsylvania detailing citizen use and access to the Internet. Professor Tomlinson has served as Director of the M.A. Program and Department Chairperson. He advises Phi Sigma Pi, the university’s honor society, College Republicans, and has been parliamentary advisor to the student senate. He conducts an annual course on “Scientific and Historical Research on the Shroud of Turin.” His community service includes: Secretary of the Administrative Board for Wesley United Methodist Church, Regional Chairperson for the WWII Memorial Campaign, member of the Executive Board of Citizens for John McCain (2000 primary election campaign) and a member of the Vietnam Veterans National Coalition. He was named in 1995 by the GCA as an “Outstanding Faculty Member,” selected for “Who’s Who in America’s Teachers” each year beginning with 1998 . Additional information (including course syllabi) is on his website: http://facstaff.bloomu.edu/jtomlins.
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