Our people
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
nyang2@uwlax.edu
608.785.8519
Specialty areas:
Office support, Art & Photography
Nhouchee Yang's office hours
Department people
Associate Lecturer
4224 Centennial Hall
akoepke@uwlax.edu
608.785.6699
Aaron Koepke's office hours
Assistant Professor
4310 Centennial Hall
aedwards@uwlax.edu
608.785.6723
Specialty areas:
Interpersonal communication, social support, professional communication, computer-mediated communication, & culture
Ashley Edwards's office hours
Senior Lecturer
4220 Centennial Hall
apatnaik@uwlax.edu
608.785.6718
Specialty areas:
CST 110 Communicating Effectively
Assistant 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
4214 Centennial Hall
dhuisman@uwlax.edu
608.785.8367
Specialty areas:
Communication and Identity, Grief and Social Support Communication, Family Communication, Gender Communication
Dena Huisman's office hours
Associate Professor
4221 Centennial Hall
dmodaff@uwlax.edu
608.785.6716
Specialty areas:
Organizational Communication
Daniel Modaff's office hours
Assistant 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
Associate Lecturer
4226 Centennial Hall
jpeterson@uwlax.edu
608.785.6697
Jessica Peterson's office hours
Senior Lecturer
4218 Centennial Hall
jvanoss@uwlax.edu
608.785.6709
Specialty areas:
Human communication, scientific and technical communication
Joseph Van Oss's office hours
Associate Professor
4209 Centennial Hall
klavelle@uwlax.edu
608.785.6698
Specialty areas:
I teach in the area of Public Communication and Advocacy
I am the Director of the Public Speaking Center
Communication and Sport
Katherine Lavelle's 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
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
Associate Lecturer
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 Lecturer
Centennial Hall
sboras@uwlax.edu
Specialty areas:
Public Speaking, Argumentation, Mass Communication, Popular Culture Studies
Scott Boras's office hours
Associate Professor
4215 Centennial Hall
sdickmeyer@uwlax.edu
608.785.8519
Specialty areas:
Organizational Communication, Organizational Culture, Training & Development and Consulting
Professor
4229 Centennial Hall
sdocan-morgan@uwlax.edu
608.785.6711
Specialty areas:
interpersonal communication, family communication, Korean adoptees, race and culture
Professor
4231 Centennial Hall
tdocan@uwlax.edu
608.785.6722
Senior Lecturer
4226 Centennial Hall
tsmith@uwlax.edu
608.785.8523
Specialty areas:
Public Speaking
Public Speaking Center
Media Literacy
Distance Learning Tech Coordinator
171 Wing Technology Center
twirkus@uwlax.edu
608.785.8049
Specialty areas:
Synchronous Distance Learning and Lecture Capture
CST 110
Terry Wirkus's office hours
Assistant Professor
4208 Centennial Hall
wlu@uwlax.edu
608.785.6712
Specialty areas:
Digital Communication Technologies, Social Networks, Social Media, Urban Communication, Mobile Eye-tracking
UW-L colleagues: Feel free to message me on MS Teams.
Students: If our class uses Slack, DM me to get the quickest response.
Students: Please use my YouCanBook.Me page to book appointments with me.
Weixu Lu's office hours
Assistant Professor
4223 Centennial Hall
wbellar@uwlax.edu
608.785.8373
Specialty areas:
Media Studies, Mobile Communication, Digital Religion
Wendi Bellar's office hours
Emeriti faculty
- Cheri Niedzwiecki
- James Putz
- Patricia Turner
- Robert Eberle