The department's Ph.D. program includes the expectation of research and scholarship. Students are asked to submit their work to refereed journals within the discipline. Because the communication disclipline offers a broad range of specialties, students may benefit from many publishing opportunities; in fact, dozens of journals. Below are some faculty-recommended publications (with names of recommenders), along with web links to national indices of comm journals.

This list is work in progress. Faculty and graduate students may add publications as they feel appropriate; contact Ross Collins, department webmaster.

American Journalism

Welcomes submissions covering a broad range of mass media history, national as well as international. Sponsored by the American Journalism Historians Association.
Editor: Karla K. Gower, University of Alabama, Box 870172, Tuscaloosa, AL 35487-0172.
Web site: www.berry.edu/ajha/
(Submitted by Ross Collins.)

Communication Quarterly

Invites submissions of essays which promote the understanding of human communcation. All types of manuscripts are considered for publciation, including research reports, papers of topical interest, state of the art reviews, supported opinion, and others.
Editor: Dale A. Bertelson, Department of Communication Studies and Theatre Arts, Bloomsburg University, 400 2nd St. E., Bloomsburg, PA 17815.
Web site: www.ecasite.org
(Submitted by Judy Pearson.)

Communication Reports

Publishes short, data-based articles covering the entire range of human communicaton. Sponsored by the Western States Communication Association.
Editor: Beth Le Poire, Department of Communication, UC Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA 93106-4020.
Web site: www.westcomm.org
(Submitted by Tim Sellnow.)

Communication Research Reports

Publishes brief empirical articles (about 2,500 words, not counting references or tables) on a wide variety of topics pertaining to human communication, including small group, relational, political, persuasive, organizational, nonverbal, mass, interpersonal, intercultural, instructional, health, family, and computer mediated communication.
Editor: John C. Sherblom, Commnication and Journalism, University of Maine, 5724 Dunn Hall, Orono, ME 04469-5724.
Web site: www.ecasite.org
(Submitted by Judy Pearson.)

Communication Studies

Publishes original scholarship focused centrally on the human communication process. Sponsored by the Central States Communication Association.
Editor: Jim Query, School of Communication, 532 Agnes Arnold Hall, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77204.
Web site: www.csca-net.org/
(Submitted by Tim Sellnow.)

Communication Teacher

Publishes original articles describing teaching activities which can be conducted in either the K-12 or college classroom. Sponsored by the National Communication Association.
Editor: Scott A. Myers, Department of Communication Studies, Box 6293, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV 26505-6293.
Web site: www.natcom.org/pubs/ct/ct.htm
(Submitted by Robert Littlefield.)

Journalism History

Welcomes submissions related to the full scope of mass communication history. Sponsored by the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication history division.
Editor: Patrick S. Washburn, Ohio Universilty, Athens, OH 45701-2979.
Web site: www.unlv.edu/Colleges/Greenspun/JH/
(Submitted by Ross Collins.)

North Dakota Journal of Speech & Theatre

Welcomes a wide range of material related to mass communication, speech communication and theatre. Sponsored by the North Dakota Speech and Theatre Association.
Editor: Mark Meister, North Dakota State University.
Web site: www.sendit.nodak.edu/ndsta/
(Submitted by Mark Meister.)

Qualitative Research Reports in Communication

Welcomes qualitative and critical research essays of 2,500 words or less (not counting references) on a wide variety of topics related to human communication, including intercultral, interpersonal, instructional, mediated, nonverbal, organizational, persuasive, politcal, relational, or rhetorical.
Editor: Michael J. Hostetler, Speech department, SJH 344, St. John's University, 8000 Utopia Parkway, Jamaica, NY 11439.
Web site: www.ecasite.org
(Submitted by Judy Pearson.)

General indices:

National Communication Association (NCA) sponsored journals (PDF file; 756k).

American Rhetoric index of journals in communication and rhetoric:
www.americanrhetoric.com/communicationjournals.htm

Directory of media-related journals (from the United Kingdom, but includes some American publications):
www.aber.ac.uk/media/Sections/journ01.html