Faculty

Tenure/Tenure-Track Faculty

  • Area of expertise: Intergroup Communication and Media Effects
  • Office phone number: (562) 985-9141
  • Office location: AS-365
  • Email address: jessica.abrams@csulb.edu

  • Area of expertise: Rhetoric and Language
  • Department Chair
  • Office phone number: (562) 985-7673
  • Office location: AS-311
  • Email address: jennifer.asenas@csulb.edu

  • Area of expertise: Intercultural Communication
  • Office phone number: (562) 985-7971
  • Office location: AS-353
  • Email address: aaron.cargile@csulb.edu
  • Personal web page:

  • Area of expertise: Rhetoric and Critical/Cultural Studies
  • Graduate Advisor
  • Office phone number: (562) 985-1647
  • Office location: AS-363
  • Email address: christopher.duerringer@csulb.edu

  • Area of expertise: Rhetoric and Performance Studies
  • Office location: AS-364
  • Email address: ragan.fox@csulb.edu

  • Area of Expertise: Rhetoric and Culture, Critical Race and Whiteness Studies, Rhetoric of Racism & Anti-racism, Critical Affect Studies, Identity & Performativity, and Discourse, Power, & Resistance
  • Teaching Assistant Coordinator
  • Office location: AS-373
  • Email address: stephanie.hartzell@csulb.edu

  • Area of expertise: Rhetoric and Public Address
  • Office phone number: (562) 985-7162
  • Office location: AS-366
  • Email address: amy.heyse@csulb.edu

  • Area of expertise: Rhetoric, Popular Culture, and Audiences
  • Office phone number: (562) 985-7673
  • Office location: AS-355
  • Email address: ann.johnson@csulb.edu

  • Area of expertise: Cultural Psychoanalysis, First Amendment, Contemporary Rhetorical Theory & Criticism
  • Director of the Center for First Amendment Studies
  • Office phone number: (562) 985-4313
  • Office location: AS-304
  • Email address: kevin.johnson@csulb.edu

  • Area of expertise: Social and Cognitive Psychology of Computer-Mediated Communication
  • Office: AS-354
  • Phone Number: (562) 985-7130
  • Email address: adam.kahn@csulb.edu

  • Area of expertise: Health Communication and Quantitative Research Methods
  • Office location: AS-349
  • Email address: yuping.mao@csulb.edu

  • Area of expertise: Interpersonal, Organizational, and Instructional Communication
  • Office location: AS-347
  • Email address: lynda.mccroskey@csulb.edu

  • Area of expertise: Instructional and Interpersonal Communication
  • Office phone number: (562) 985-4312
  • Office location: AS-357
  • Email address: mary.mcpherson@csulb.edu

  • Area of expertise: Cultural Studies, Media Studies, Rhetoric, Latine Studies, Gender & Women's Studies
  • Office location: AS-361
  • Email address: robert.mejia@csulb.edu

  • Area of expertise: Health Communication, Interpersonal Communication, Risk Communication
  • Office location: AS-371
  • Email address: sunyoung.park@csulb.edu

  • Area of expertise: Health Communication
  • Student Communication Association (SCA) Faculty Advisor
  • Office location: AS-375
  • Email address: manny.pulido@csulb.edu

  • Area of expertise: Performance Studies, Social Change and Violence Prevention
  • Director of interACT Performance Troupe
  • Email address: marc.rich@csulb.edu

  • Area of expertise: Persuasion and Interpersonal Communication
  • Office phone number: (562) 985-7954
  • Office location: AS-367
  • Email address: jose.rodriguez@csulb.edu

  • Area of expertise:  Strategic Communication in Health and Interpersonal Contexts
  • Office phone number (562) 985-5004
  • Office location: AS-370
  • Email address: jessica.russell@csulb.edu

  • Area of expertise: Performance Studies and Intercultural Communication
  • Office phone number: 562-985-8151
  • Office: AS-369
  • Email address: james.sauceda@csulb.edu

  • Area of expertise: Interpersonal Communication, Popular Culture, and Technology
  • Office phone number: 562-985-5303
  • Office location: AS-372
  • Email address: ebony.utley@csulb.edu
  • Personal webpage:

  • Area of expertise: Interpersonal and Relational Communication
  • Director of the COMM Tutoring Center
  • Office location: AS-352
  • Email address: sly.young@csulb.edu

Full-Time Faculty

  • Area of expertise: Critical Cultural Studies of Popular Communication
  • Office location: AS-301
  • Email address: joseph.anderson@csulb.edu

  • Director of Beach Forensics
  • Office phone number: (562) 985-8849
  • Office location: AS- 377
  • Email address: deven.cooper@csulb.edu

  • Area of expertise: Advising and Instructional Communication
  • Undergraduate Advisor (AS-316)
  • Office phone number: (562) 985-5957
  • Office location: AS-374
  • Email address: dawn.kelsey@csulb.edu

  • Area of expertise: Performance Studies
  • Office phone number: 562-985-4300
  • Office location: AS-302
  • Email address: kopprone@hotmail.com

  • Area of expertise: Interpersonal Communication and Quantitative Methods
  • Mediation Certificate Program Director
  • Office phone number: 562-985-7111
  • Office location: AS-356
  • Email address: pamela.kreiser@csulb.edu

  • Assistant Director of interACT Performance Troupe
  • Office location: AS- 362
  • Email address: kelly.janke@csulb.edu

  • Area of expertise: Critical Theory, Orientalism, and Feminist Postcolonial Theory
  • Office location: AS-344
  • Email address: raven.pfister@csulb.edu

  • Technical Director of the Hauth Center for Communication Skills
  • Office location: AS-122
  • Email address: jamie.wiles@csulb.edu