Experience

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  Texas tech university

  Aug 2010 - May 2012

  Graduate instructor

  I taught multiple sections of traditional public speaking courses and helped develop an online version to meet the needs of distance learning students.

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  University of utah - employment

  Aug 2012 - Jan 2016

  Graduate instructor & director of debate

  I taught undergraduate courses in Organizational Communication, Intercultural Communication, Communication Criticism, Strategic Writing for Public Relations, Marketing and Advertising, and Public Speaking & Argumentation. I also have experience teaching and developing online versions of these courses.I served as the Director of Debate for the University of Utah's John R. Park Debate Society. I coached a parliamentary debate program that finished in the top 10 nationally in 2014 and 2015.My research is concerned with identifying communicative and rhetorical strategies of empowerment within a non-profit humanitarian organizational context in order to evaluate innovative techniques and identify best practices. Show less

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  West virginia university

  Jul 2016 - Aug 2018

  Assistant professor

  COMM 303 Business and Professional CommunicationCOMM 306 Intro to Organizational CommunicationCOMM 406 Advanced Organizational CommunicationCOMM 416 International Culture and CommunicationCOMM 606 Organizational Communication (Graduate Seminar)

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  Universität erfurt

  Jun 2017 - Aug 2017

  Visiting professor

  I designed and taught COMM 495 Forced Migration in the Media

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  San diego state university

  Jan 2018 - now

  COMM 406: Organizational CommunicationCOMM 466: Rhetoric & Social MovementsCOMM 462: Ethnographic Research MethodsCOMM 407: InterviewingCOMM 706: Organizational Communication [Graduate seminar]COMM 660: Ethnographic Research Methods [Graduate seminar]

  • Associate Professor

    May 2022 - now

  • Assistant Professor

    Jan 2018 - May 2022