Our people
A page within Communication Studies
Department Chair
Professor
4210 Centennial Hall
ldickmeyer@uwlax.edu
608.785.6715
Specialty areas:
Interpersonal Communication, Instructional Communication, Undergraduate Research
Linda Dickmeyer's office hours
Academic Department Associate
Academic Department Associate
4206 Centennial Hall
jpengra@uwlax.edu
608.785.8519
Department people
Associate Professor
4310 Centennial Hall
aedwards@uwlax.edu
608.785.6723
Specialty areas:
Interpersonal communication, inclusive pedagogy, social support, leadership & professional communication, computer-mediated communication, culture, and teaching in a multimodal environment
Ashley Edwards's office hours
Lecturer
4220 Centennial Hall
apatnaik@uwlax.edu
608.785.6718
Specialty areas:
CST 110 Communicating EffectivelyAssociate Professor
4225 Centennial Hall
bboser@uwlax.edu
608.785.6702
Specialty areas:
Public Communication and Advocacy, Media Studies, Gender and Feminism
Beth Boser's office hours
Assistant Professor
4217 Centennial Hall
banderson3@uwlax.edu
608.785.8716
Specialty areas:
Public Communication & Advocacy, Dialogue & Deliberation, Social Movement discourse, Public Memory & the Nuclear Public Sphere.
Brandon Anderson's office hours
Associate Professor
4221 Centennial Hall
dmodaff@uwlax.edu
608.785.6716
Specialty areas:
Organizational Communication
Daniel Modaff's office hours
Remote office hours offered: https://wisconsin-edu.zoom.us/my/dmodaff
Teaching Associate Professor
202 Wing Technology Center
dsolie@uwlax.edu
608.785.6721
Associate Professor
4213 Centennial Hall
gormes@uwlax.edu
608.785.8714
Specialty areas:
Organizational and Professional Communication
Communication in Teams
Associate Professor
4219 Centennial Hall
jbutlermodaff@uwlax.edu
608.785.6717
Specialty areas:
Organizational and Professional Communication
Jennifer Butler Modaff's office hours
Remote office hours offered: Wed 2:30-3:30 on Zoom
Teaching Professor
4218 Centennial Hall
jvanoss@uwlax.edu
608.785.6709
Specialty areas:
Human communication, scientific and technical communication
Joseph Van Oss's office hours
Remote office hours offered: Watch your email for a Zoom link
Professor
4209 Centennial Hall
klavelle@uwlax.edu
608.785.6698
Specialty areas:
Office hours in person (Zoom on request):
- Mondays & Wednesdays 11-11:30am
- Tuesdays & Thursdays 1-2pm
- by appointment Monday-Thursday
- Phone: 608-785-6698 (voicemail goes to my email and I’ll get in touch with you)
I teach in the area of Public Communication and Advocacy
I am the First Year Seminar Coordinator.
My research area is communication and sport, focused on the rhetoric of female athletes and mental health in sport.
Katherine Lavelle's office hours
Remote office hours offered: I have Zoom for all of my office hours.
Professor
4210 Centennial Hall
ldickmeyer@uwlax.edu
608.785.6715
Specialty areas:
Interpersonal Communication, Instructional Communication, Undergraduate Research
Linda Dickmeyer's office hours
Lecturer
4224 Centennial Hall
malbrecht@uwlax.edu
608.785.6699
Associate Professor
4211 Centennial Hall
mtollefson2@uwlax.edu
608.785.6710
Specialty areas:
Persuasion, Argumentation, Undergraduate Research
Professor
4212 Centennial Hall
rleahy@uwlax.edu
608.785.6724
Specialty areas:
Professional and Organizational Communication
Ronda Leahy's office hours
Remote office hours offered: Please email me if you would like to meet over Zoom and I will send you a link.
Assistant Teaching Professor
4207 Centennial Hall
rkingquale@uwlax.edu
608.785.6705
Specialty areas:
Public Speaking, Small Group Communication, Organizational Communication
Rick King Quale's office hours
Associate Professor
4215 Centennial Hall
sdickmeyer@uwlax.edu
608.785.8519
Specialty areas:
Organizational Communication, Organizational Culture, Training & Development and ConsultingProfessor
4229 Centennial Hall
sdocan-morgan@uwlax.edu
608.785.6711
Specialty areas:
interpersonal communication, family communication, Korean adoptees, race and culture
Assistant Professor
4227 Centennial Hall
tmiller3@uwlax.edu
608.785.8713
Specialty areas:
Television, Broadcast History, Media Policy, Feminist and Queer Media Studies, Syndication
Teaching Professor
4206 Centennial Hall
tsmith@uwlax.edu
608.785.8523
Specialty areas:
Public Speaking
Public Speaking Center
Media Literacy
Professor
4231 Centennial Hall
tdocan@uwlax.edu
608.785.6722
Assistant Professor
4208 Centennial Hall
wlu@uwlax.edu
608.785.6712
Specialty areas:
Emerging Communication Technologies, Social Networks, Media/Communication/Geography, Mobile Eye-tracking
UWL colleagues and students: Feel free to message me on MS Teams.
Student appointments: Please use my YouCanBook.Me page to book appointments with me.
Weixu Lu's office hours
Emeriti faculty
- Cheri Niedzwiecki
- James Putz
- Patricia Turner
- Robert Eberle