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Faculty and Staff

Full Time Faculty
Emeritus Faculty
Staff
Part Time Faculty

Email addresses can be found inthe UMSL Directory

 

FULL TIME FACULTY 

Interim Department Chair
Yan Tian (Ph.D., Temple University), Professor
Office: 569 Lucas Hall
Phone: 314.516.5600
 

Jill Alexander (M.A., University of Southern Alabama), Teaching Professor, APR, Fellow PRSA
Public Relations Certificate Coordinator
Office: 583 Lucas Hall
Phone:314.516.5480

Shannon Ahrndt (M.A., University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee), Teaching Professor
Office: 575 Lucas Hall

Suahn Jang Cho (Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin), Associate Professor
Office: 579 Lucas Hall
Phone: 314.516.5498

Felia Davenport (M.F.A., University of Tennessee-Knoxville), Associate Professor
Office: 587 Lucas Hall
Phone: 314.516.4581

Alice Hall, (Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania), Professor
Phone: 314.516.6055

Alan D. Heisel (Ed.D., West Virginia University), Professor
Graduate Program Director
Office: 581 Lucas Hall
Phone: 314.516.6189

Leighanne M. Heisel (M.A., West Virginia University), Associate Teaching Professor
Office: 577 Lucas Hall
Phone: 314.516.5486

Amber Reinhart (Ph.D., SUNY-Buffalo), Associate Professor
Phone: 314.516.5489

Jacqueline Thompson (M.F.A., the University of Louisville), Associate Professor
Office: 505 Lucas Hall
Phone: 314.516.4850
Email:thompsonjac@umsl.edu

Stephanie Van Stee (Ph.D., University of Kentucky), Associate Professor
Office: 571 Lucas Hall
Phone: 314.516.5234

Lara Zwarun (Ph.D., University of California Santa Barbara), Associate Professor
Office: 570 Lucas Hall
Phone: 314.516.6725

 

EMERITUS FACULTY

Jim Fay, Associate Professor Emeritus
Office: 586 Lucas Hall

Michael Murray (Ph.D., University of Missouri), Curator's Distinguished Teaching Professor Emeritus
Office: 582 Lucas Hall

 

STAFF
 
Jennifer Condon (M.A., UMSL)
Media Studies Lab Support Coordinator and Teaching Assistant

 

PART TIME FACULTY

Marcel Bechtoldt
Email: bechtoldtm@umsl.edu

Melissa Benton
Email: mjbpd5@umsl.edu

Kara Boyd
Email: boydka@umsl.edu

Miton Clayborn
Email: claybornm@umsl.edu

Jill Dupy
Email: dupyj@umsl.edu

Donna Higgins
Email: higginsDL@umsl.edu

Ryan W. Krull
Email: krullrw@umsl.edu

David Lange
Email: langeda@umsl.edu

Kerry Manderbach
Email: ManderbachK@umsl.edu

Layne Paubel
Email: lpqk3@mail.umsl.edu

Brandie Piper
Email: piperbm@umsl.edu

Matt Rosenberg
Email: msrbgc@umsl.edu 

Michelle Warner
Email: warnerm@umsl.edu