SIUE Faculty Earn “Top Paper” and “Top Panel” Honors at Annual Convention
Eight Southern Illinois University Edwardsville faculty members and graduate students have been selected to present a paper or serve as a panelist at the Central States Communication Association’s (CSCA) annual convention to be held on April 14-19 in Chicago. These presenters represent SIUE’s Department of Applied Communication Studies (ACS) and Department of Mass Communications.At each convention, the CSCA board of directors and a review committee select the top paper or panel within each category. Among the SIUE presenters include a top paper, “Understanding and Accurately Assessing Extreme Weather Risk: An IDEA Model Analysis of Hurricane Dorian Risk Communication Messages,” submitted by ACS Assistant Professor Deborah Sellnow-Richmond, and a top panel, “Breaking-Through on Tough Topics: Teaching Practices that Encourage Students to Discuss Difficult Topics,” submitted by ACS Instructor Stephanie Batson.
Below is the full list of SIUE faculty and graduate students selected to present at the convention:
- Alicia Alexander, Professor, ACS
- Presenter, “‘Being Military:’ Exploring the Supportive Functions of Sibling Relationships for Frequently Relocated Military Children”
- Stephanie Batson, Instructor, ACS
- Panelist, “Breaking-Through on Tough Topics: Teaching Practices that Encourage Students to Discuss Difficult Topics” (Top Panel)
- Panelist, “State of North Dakota Spotlight: Fear of Failure”
- Wai Hsien Cheah, Professor, ACS
- Presenter, “Doulas as Care Providers: Their Training, Clients’ Motivations, Communicative Barriers, and Challenges in the Medical Settings”
- Min Liu, Professor, ACS
- Presenter, “Improving Belonging and Connectedness Among College Students: Efficacy of a Public Speaking Assignment”
- Suman Mishra, Associate Professor, Mass Communications
- Presenter, “‘Barbie is Not a Muslim’: Consumer Racism in Hijab Wearing Barbie Doll on Twitter”
- Presenter, “Breaking Through the Borders: News Domestication in Indian English Language Newspapers”
- Kayla Pruitte, Research Assistant, Mass Communications
- Presenter and Panelist, “‘What’s more real? A sick girl in an institution… or some kind of super-girl?’ Representing Schizophrenia in Buffy the Vampire Slayer’s ‘Normal Again’”
- Deborah Sellnow-Richmond, Assistant Professor, ACS
- Presenter, “Understanding and Accurately Assessing Extreme Weather Risk: An IDEA Model Analysis of Hurricane Dorian Risk Communication Messages” (Top Paper)
- Panelist, “Strategic and Applied Communication Interest Group: Business Meeting”
- Scott Sellnow-Richmond, Instructor, ACS
- Presenter, “It can only get better!: Anonymous disclosure of personal stories to build classroom culture”
