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Communication Studies News - June 5, 2006

New faculty member to join CST 

The Department of Communication Studies welcomes Dr. Margarita Refugia Olivas, who will be joining us as an assistant professor in fall, 2006. Her areas of expertise include public speaking, organizational communication, small group process, language and social interaction, gender communication, and theory & methods. 

Dr. Olivas earned her Ph.D at the University of Colorado at Boulder this year. Her dissertation was a study of 33 Latina greek letter organizations. Using a critical postmodern Chicana feminist perspective, the ethnographic study explored the race/ ethnicity negotiation of LGLOs and their memberships through interviews and a collection of data spanning a ten-year time frame. 

Since 1999, Dr. Olivas has been teaching at California State University-Northridge. She has extensive classroom teaching experience in both the areas of communication studies and Chicano/ Chicana studies. One of Dr. Olivas’ colleagues at Boulder described her as “a person of great energy and self-discipline who is deeply committed to her work.” 

Please join us as we welcome Margarita Olivas to the Communication Studies Department! 

Celebrating the semester’s end 

These students in Dr. Niedzwiecki’s Advanced Interpersonal Communication class celebrated the end of the spring semester with some classroom photos: