Professor Donna Nudd’s Worlds Collide with National Award

FSU School of Communication Professor, Donna Marie Nudd, co-founded one of Tallahassee’s most unique groups of performers: the Mickee Faust Club. Priding itself on being supportive of people with disabilities and of the queer community, the Mickee Faust Club is a rabble-rousing community theater that has been staging original cabarets in the Deep South since …

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Comm School Contributes Research to International Association for Media and Communication Research Conference

The 2018 International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) conference took place in Eugene, Oregon, June 20-24. A dozen FSU School of Communication students, alumni, and faculty attended the conference to present their work. IAMCR conferences address a wide range of topics defined by 31 thematic sections and working groups. Additionally, IAMCR includes a single …

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Professor Davis Houck, Student, and Alum Bring Media Production Program to MS Delta

Davis W. Houck is Florida State University’s Fannie Lou Hamer Professor of Rhetorical Studies. In partnership with Tougaloo College, his research and expertise on the Black Freedom Movement are used in the making of the film “Fannie Lou Hamer’s America” and a corresponding civil rights K-12 curriculum, “Find Your Voice.” The project is funded by the W.K. …

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Media2Inspire: A Symposium for the Digital Age

FSU School of Communication professor, Dr. Art Raney, along with postdoctoral scholar in positive media psychology Dr. Katherine R. Dale, collaborated with researchers from schools of communication at Chapman University and Pennsylvania State University to host Media2Inspire: A Research Symposium on Self-Transcendent Media Content and Experiences at the Florida State Conference Center April 20-21, 2018. With …

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CCI Faculty Win University Teaching Awards

Faculty from each school in FSU’s College of Communication and Information were recognized during the University’s Faculty Awards dinner on May 2nd. Christy Chatmon, a Ph.D. student and instructor in the School of Information, was a recipient of the Undergraduate Teaching Award. She teaches IT, Database Management Systems, Computer Security, and Programming (Java, C++, and …

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Dr. Brian Graves Receives Grant for “It’s Your War Too”

Assistant Professor at the School of Communication, Dr. Brian Graves, is the writer, producer, and director of a new film project called “It’s Your War Too:” Charlotte Dee Mansfield’s Photographic Memoir of the Women’s Army Corps. Produced in collaboration with faculty and students at the FSU Institute on World War II and the Human Experience, and students …

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