Who's teaching
NDSU's communication faculty offer you a breadth of experience
and education at the highest level. All full-time professors
hold Ph.D.s, and lecturers and graduate students complement
faculty competence with applied knowledge and a wide variety
of perspectives in communication.
Faculty.
Lecturers.
Graduate Assistants.
For general information:
Kelly Paynter
office
manager, Department of Communication, North Dakota State University,
Box 5075, Fargo, ND USA 58105-5075;
tel (701) 231-7705; FAX (701) 231-7784. Ms. Paynter's professional
background includes nearly a quarter century of office experience
with the U.S. Navy in Hawaii, Guam and Bermuda. She worked
for the NDSU dean of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
before joining the department.
Faculty
Ann Burnett,
associate professor. Ph.D., University of Utah, 1986. Dr.
Burnett is a former director of forensics and now enjoys focusing
on her interest in communication and the law. Her work in interpersonal communication particularly examines how the pace of life has affected relationships. She also does rersearch on women's issues, particularly with regard to pace of life, and legal communication, specifically jury decision making. She uses
her knowledge of legal communication in her consulting work with
attorneys. Dr. Burnett is
also director of the university's women's
studies program.
Ross Collins,
associate professor. Ph.D., University of Cambridge, 1992.
Dr. Collins combines academic background in history with a
decade of media experience, work in media writing, editing,
photojournalism, design and public relations. He is also coordinator
of the university's interdisciplinary web design minor, and senior editor for the Institute for Regional Studies. He also directs the department's master's program. Research interests:
international journalism history, concentrating on France;
World War I journalism history; frontier journalism history. He has published 18 refereed historical articles and three books.
Robert Littlefield, professor. Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 1983. Dr. Littlefield currently serves as Coordinator of the Distance and Continuing Education Programs for the department. In addition, he directs the Risk+Crisis Communication Project. Dr. Littlefield chaired the Department of Mass Communication, Speech Communication, Theatre Arts from 1984-1990; the Department of Communication from 1991-1994; as served as Interim Dean of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences from 1990-1991. Dr. Littlefield is past National President of Pi Kappa Delta, the national honorary speech and debate fraternity. He has published more than 75 articles in refereed journals on such topics as risk and crisis communication, intercultural communication, forensic education and practice, instructional practices, and political communication. He is the author of Voices on the Prairie, an historical account of speech education, forensics, and theatre arts in North Dakota since statehood.
Mark Meister,
associate professor. Ph.D., University of Nebraska, 1997.
Dr. Meister has academic background in rhetorical theory and
criticism. His research focuses on environmental rhetoric
and the rhetoric of popular culture. He has published more
than 20 articles in a wide variety of journals, and in 2003
co-edited Enviropop: Studies in Environmental Rhetoric
and Popular Culture (Praeger Press). He currently is
writing a book tentatively entitled, Nature and the Human
Rhetoric of the Good Life.
Paul E. Nelson,
professor. Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 1968. Dr. Nelson
serves as department chair. His extensive background in educational
administration includes director of the Honors College at
the University of Missouri, chair at Iowa State University,
and dean at the College of Communication at Ohio University.
Dr. Nelson has participated in Harvard University's Educational
Leadership program and Columbia University's Gannett Leadership
program. Chief pre-law advisor at the University of Missouri,
he was also the University's National Merit Scholar recruiter.
Dr. Nelson won the University of Missouri's Gold Medal Award
for outstanding instruction, and Ohio University's University
Professor Award for the top five professors university wide.
Co-author of 14 editions of two textbooks, his areas of inquiry
include educational administration, fundamentals of communication,
and instructional and training strategies.
Amy O'Connor, assistant professor, Ph.D. Purdue University, 2004. Dr. O'Connor's areas of expertise are organizational communication, public relations and advertising. Prior to earning her graduate degrees, Dr. O'Connor worked in advertising at DDB Needham Chicago, and in public relations at the National Kidney Foundation. Dr. O'Connor's research interests include corporate social responsibility, corporate advocacy, and work/family issues.
Charles Okigbo,
professor, Ph.D., Southern Illinois University, 1982. Dr.
Okigbo has graduate degrees in Advertising Management and
International Affairs from Ohio University, Journalism and
Educational Leadership from Southern Illinois University,
Social Philosophy from the University of Nigeria, and European
Studies from the University of Leicester (UK). He taught mass
communication at the University of Nigeria, was the Executive
Registrar of the Advertising Practitioners’ Council of
Nigeria, and the Executive Coordinator of the African Council
for Communication Education. His research interests include
social change, international, and development communication,
as well as advertising and public relations campaigns. Dr
Okigbo has published (as editor) six books in communication,
70 journal articles and book chapters, and three technical
reports. He was a consultant to the John Hopkins University’s
Population Communication Program in Kenya, the Government
of Botswana, the Fredreich Ebert Foundation (Germany), Ford
Foundation, the Otto Bremer Foundation, the United Nations
Children’s Fund, the United Nations Global AIDS Programme,
and the United Nations Population Fund. He is passionate about promoting leadership in fundraising and capital campaigns in academic institutions and nonprofit organizations.
Judy C. Pearson,
professor. Ph.D., Indiana University, 1975. Dr. Pearson is
director of the doctoral program in communication and associate
dean of the College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences.
She has served as president of the World Communication Association, Central States Communication Association and National Communication Association. She has
taught all grades from Kindergarten through graduate school and administered
or taught at Indiana, Bradley, Michigan State, Iowa State,
Purdue, Ohio, and Virginia Tech before joining the NDSU faculty.
Research interests include family communication, gender communication,
leadership, instructional communication, and the new communication
technologies.
Tai Woong Yun, assistant professor, Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin, 2006. Dr. Yun is interested in advertising, quantitative methods and psychometrics (science of measurement). His areas of expertise include advertising, consumer psychology, consumer behavior and statistics. He has published articles in such marketing journals as Journal of International Consumer Marketing and Advances in International Marketing, along with a numerous conference proceedings and presentations at the American Academy of Advertising, Association for Consumer Research, and Advertising and Consumer Psychology.
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