Department of Communication
Department of Communication
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Ted Schwalbe Ÿ
Dan
Berggren Ÿ Linda
C. Brigance Ÿ
Ann R. Carden Ÿ
Joseph C. Chilberg
Ÿ Nefin Dinc
Gang (Kevin) Han Ÿ Jane Jackson Ÿ Laura Johnson Ÿ Bill Jungels Ÿ John Malcolm Ÿ Tracy Marafiote Ÿ Kathleen McDonough
(Ph.D., University of
Southern California, 1980)
Dr. Schwalbe has been teaching at Fredonia since 1980; he chaired the department from 1989 to 1998 and is currently serving in that position again. His teaching and research areas of interest include communication and computer technologies, mass media law, media management, and international broadcasting. In the last few years he has been very active in the area of international media development and has headed several projects in various countries in Eastern Europe and Africa that are developing private broadcast operations. He is a fanatic bowler (at one time had his professional card) and also enjoys sports (playing, watching, and coaching). He loves to travel to places most people don't want to go to. Dr. Schwalbe received a Fulbright Award to teach at the American University in Bulgaria in Fall 1997. He was also a Fulbright Senior Specialist at the University of Swaziland during the summer of 2002, and traveled to the University of Pecs in Hungary as a lecturer/researcher in fall 2004 as part of the Fulbright Scholar Program.
Professor Emeritus
Following a 27-year tenure at SUNY Fredonia, Professor Dan Berggren left the faculty in 2004 to pursue his music career full time. He now resides in Ballston Spa, N.Y. Visit his Web site at www.berggrenfolk.com.
(Ph.D., University of Iowa, 1999)
Dr. Brigance joined the communication faculty in 1998. She teaches Communication Studies courses such as Gender and Communication, Communication Theory, and Persuasion. She also teaches Rhetoric and Criticism, a department core course. Her teaching and research interests revolve around a curiosity about everyday public persuasion, such as political rhetoric, product advertising and entertainment venues like film, television, and public spaces like Disneyland and historical sites. Her most recent presentations and publications have focused on the representation of gender by women’s history museums and historical sites. Before teaching college, Dr. Brigance worked in corporate communications and marketing for heath care and arts organizations. In her spare time, Dr. Brigance enjoys traveling, reading, practicing Tai Chi, and watching independent and foreign films.
(M.S., Buffalo State College, 1997)
Ann R. Carden is an assistant professor of communication at the SUNY Fredonia, where she teaches public relations. She has 21 years experience managing public relations and 11 years experience in broadcast journalism. She is the co-author of Public Relations Worktext: A Writing and Planning Resource (2nd ed.) and has written chapters for two other books -- Leaning to Teach: What You Need to Know to Develop a Successful Career as a Public Relations Educator (3rd ed.), which was released in November 2003, and Public Relations Theory, scheduled for release in 2005. Ann’s research interest focuses on the use of public relations in the travel and tourism industry. Her research on the industry’s use of persuasion and public relations after 9/11 has received national attention. She is the recipient of 15 Excalibur Awards for excellence in public relations programming presented by the Buffalo/Niagara chapter of the Public Relations Society of America. She was named the chapter’s Public Relations Practitioner of the Year in 2001 and is one of 30 public relations practitioners in Western New York Accredited in Public Relations by PRSA. Ann received a master’s degree in public relations management from Buffalo State College and a bachelor’s degree in broadcast journalism from West Virginia University.
(Ph.D., Ohio University, 1979)
Dr. Chilberg came to Fredonia in 1987. He teaches several courses including Fundamentals of Communication, Communication Research and Survey Methods, Group Communication and Organizational Communication. His teaching philosophy and practices emphasize applied learning as a way to develop students' abilities to use course knowledge through work-related projects. Numerous communication projects serving the communication needs of the department and campus community have been produced under his supervision. He is also the advisor to the Applied Communication Association, a student organization that has produced many of the communication service projects. He believes that you just don't learn about communication -- you use it to make a difference. He conducts research in the area of group communication and is an expert in the art and science of conducting meetings. His present research interests are in facilitating dialogical conversation for group and organizational learning. He has served as a meeting facilitator, trainer, and consultant on effective meeting communication practices for corporate and public organizations. He is presently working on the development and assessment of student oral communication competencies as part of the college’s general education program and conducting research on the efficacy of speaking across the curriculum programs. He spends his leisure time making wine, gardening, cooking, horseback riding, and discovering the wonders of life with his wife, Janet, and son, Jackson.
Joseph Chilberg's Personal Page
Assistant Professor (M.F.A., University of North Texas)
Nefin Dinc has a master's in fine arts in documentary film production from the University of North Texas. Among the films she has directed, produced, and edited is the recent documentary about Greek refugees and their music entitled "Rebetiko: The Song of Two Cities." The film was screened in May at the Flying Broom Women's Film Festival in Ankara as well as the Dallas Video Festival in August. Her thesis film on Whirling Dervishes will be screened on Dallas' PBS channel, KERA, in September. Ms. Dinc was born in Turkey and directed her first documentary, "The Republic Train," for Turkish Radio and Television in 2000.
Assistant Professor (Ph.D., Syracuse University)
Dr. Han is one of the department's newest faculty members; his teaching area covers public relations, public opinion, research methods and various mass communication courses. Dr. Han's main research interests include public relations, news framing and framing effects in electoral or non-electoral civic engagement, online public opinion, opinion polls in elections, Internet-based media sociology and mediated health communication. Dr. Han taught at the Journalism School of Fudan University, Shanghai, China, for four years before entering the doctorate program in mass communications at S.I.Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University. Dr. Han also worked at Ogilvy Public Relations Worldwide in Shanghai, where he served a number of leading multinational corporations as public relations specialist. He received his bachelor's degree of economics from Nankai University in 1994 and his master's degree in journalism from Fudan University in 2000. He and his wife have a 3-year-old son.
(M.A., Humboldt State University, 1974)
After 25 years of professional work in the film and television industry, Ms. Jackson returned to teaching with the same enthusiasm that drove her success in the field. Her work included corporate television, educational films, broadcast video and feature films, managing Francis Ford Coppola's studio in San Francisco. Recently, she has produced and directed several documentary programs for Public Television. Her series of video poems will tour throughout the states, showcased in galleries and museums. Ms. Jackson's background in production offers students knowledge beyond the academic tradition.
Assistant Professor (Ph.D., University of Florida)
Dr. Johnson's career in broadcasting began in 1981 at WHIL-FM in Mobile, Ala. During her broadcasting career, she was an announcer, music programmer, producer, music director, and station manager at public radio stations in Alabama, Arkansas, and Florida. Her past radio productions include programs about American popular song, the music of Scandinavia, classical music, folk music, the blues, public affairs, and a college sports network. She produced and/or hosted programming that featured a number of prominent individuals including President Clinton, Sen. Hillary Clinton, former Sen. Dale Bumpers, Phillip Glass, Roberta Peters, Fred Waring, Robert Moog, Alvin Poussaint, Paolo Soleri, John Harbison, Aprile Millo, and many others. Her research interests include the history and regulation of noncommercial and religious broadcasting, the regulation of electronic media, and media history. She holds an master's degree in business administration from the University of West Florida and a bachelor's degree in music from Florida State University.
Professor Emeritus
Professor Bill Jungels has been producing documentaries since he left the faculty in 2003. His latest work, "Crossing the Line," follows the struggle of workers in Mexico, the United States and Canada against the negative results of free trade.
Professor Emeritus
Although "officially" retired, Professor Malcolm still occasionally teaches communication courses. In his spare time, he is helping to build a hiking trail, which, he says, has taken him from Newhouse, where he received his degree, to the outhouse.
Assistant Professor (Ph.D., University of Utah)
Tracy Marafiote joined the department
in 2007; she teaches in the communication studies area, including intercultural
communication, interpersonal communication, organizational communication, and
public speaking. Dr. Marafiote received her doctorate from the University
of Utah, where her teaching background included communication criticism and
negotiation/interviewing, as well as a variety of courses in the school’s
gender studies program and David Eccles School of Business. Motivated to
bridge her environmental activism and academic work, her current research
(M.F.A., San Francisco State University, 1997)
Joining the communication faculty in fall 2000, Ms. McDonough teaches Rhetoric of Vision and Sound, Multimedia Integration, and supervises the Sheldon Multimedia Lab. Before coming to Fredonia, she taught at Ngee Ann Polytechnic in Singapore. She is fascinated by the possibilities for the use of multimedia in education. In Singapore she worked on a DVD project about the cultural history of Singapore for the Ministry of Information and the Arts. As both an historian and documentary filmmaker, Ms. McDonough is interested in producing documentaries which explore the commonalities in human experience that cross temporal and cultural boundaries. Ms. McDonough enjoys hiking, travel, foreign films, and Medieval/Renaissance music. In anticipation of the winters in Fredonia, she has recently learned to cross country ski.
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Dan
Berggren, 
Linda
Czuba Brigance, 
Ann
R. Carden, 
Joseph
C. Chilberg, 
Nefin
Dinc, 
Gang
(Kevin) Han, 
Linda
Huyck, 
Jane
Jackson, 
Laura
Johnson, 
Bill
Jungels, 
John
Malcolm, 
Kathleen
McDonough,