{"id":9559,"date":"2025-08-21T11:25:43","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T16:25:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.winona.edu\/academics\/?page_id=9559"},"modified":"2025-08-21T11:25:44","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T16:25:44","slug":"faculty","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.winona.edu\/academics\/colleges\/liberal-arts\/communication-studies-department\/faculty\/","title":{"rendered":"Communication Studies Faculty"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Winona State&#8217;s Communication Studies faculty examine human communication between and among people in many ways. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We explore and analyze communication in one-on-one or work group and team settings, plus formal public communication and portrayals in popular media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We also teach students what they need to know to be successful and ethical lifelong learners, and we try to model these traits as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n    <div class=\"panel panel--white\">\n        <div class=\"panel__container\">\n            <div class=\"panel__intro\">\n                        <\/div>\n            \n\n<div class=\"wsu-block grid grid--33\">\n    <div class=\"wsu-block contact-card mb-1\">\n   <div class=\"contact-card__content\">\n       <div class=\"contact-card__title h4\">\n           Dr. Ahmet Aksoy\n       <\/div>\n       <div class=\"contact-card__subtitle h4\">\n           Assistant Professor\n       <\/div>\n       <div class=\"contact-card__description\">\n           <p>DuFresne PAC 211<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.winona.edu\/academics\/colleges\/liberal-arts\/communication-studies-department\/faculty\/ahmet-aksoy\/\">Learn more about Dr. Aksoy<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n       <\/div>\n       <a class=\"wsu-link contact-card__link\"><\/a>\n   <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wsu-block contact-card mb-1\">\n   <div class=\"contact-card__content\">\n       <div class=\"contact-card__title h4\">\n           Dr. Adam J. Gaffey\n       <\/div>\n       <div class=\"contact-card__subtitle h4\">\n           Department Chair, Associate Professor\n       <\/div>\n       <div class=\"contact-card__description\">\n           <p>DuFresne PAC 204<\/p>\n<p>507.457.2362<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.winona.edu\/academics\/colleges\/liberal-arts\/communication-studies-department\/faculty\/adam-gaffey\/\">Learn more about Dr. Gaffey.<\/a><\/p>\n\n       <\/div>\n       <a class=\"wsu-link contact-card__link\"><\/a>\n   <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wsu-block contact-card mb-1\">\n   <div class=\"contact-card__content\">\n       <div class=\"contact-card__title h4\">\n           Dr. Lisa Glueck\n       <\/div>\n       <div class=\"contact-card__subtitle h4\">\n           Professor\n       <\/div>\n       <div class=\"contact-card__description\">\n           <p>DuFresne PAC 208<\/p>\n<p>507.457.2266<\/p>\n\n       <\/div>\n       <a class=\"wsu-link contact-card__link\"><\/a>\n   <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wsu-block contact-card mb-1\">\n   <div class=\"contact-card__content\">\n       <div class=\"contact-card__title h4\">\n           Dr. Kelly Herold\n       <\/div>\n       <div class=\"contact-card__subtitle h4\">\n           Associate Professor\n       <\/div>\n       <div class=\"contact-card__description\">\n           <p>DuFresne PAC 213<\/p>\n<p>507.457.5242<\/p>\n\n       <\/div>\n       <a class=\"wsu-link contact-card__link\"><\/a>\n   <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wsu-block contact-card mb-1\">\n   <div class=\"contact-card__content\">\n       <div class=\"contact-card__title h4\">\n           Dr. Katherine Lind\n       <\/div>\n       <div class=\"contact-card__subtitle h4\">\n           Assistant Professor\n       <\/div>\n       <div class=\"contact-card__description\">\n           <p>DuFresne PAC 209<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.winona.edu\/academics\/colleges\/liberal-arts\/communication-studies-department\/faculty\/katherine-lind\/\">Learn more about Dr. Lind<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n       <\/div>\n       <a class=\"wsu-link contact-card__link\"><\/a>\n   <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wsu-block contact-card mb-1\">\n   <div class=\"contact-card__content\">\n       <div class=\"contact-card__title h4\">\n           Stacy Schilling\n       <\/div>\n       <div class=\"contact-card__subtitle h4\">\n           Instructor \n       <\/div>\n       <div class=\"contact-card__description\">\n           <p>DuFresne PAC 218<\/p>\n<p>507.457.5512<\/p>\n\n       <\/div>\n       <a class=\"wsu-link contact-card__link\"><\/a>\n   <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wsu-block grid grid--50\">\n    <div class=\"wsu-block contact-card mb-1\">\n   <div class=\"contact-card__content\">\n       <div class=\"contact-card__title h4\">\n           Dr. Alexandru Stana\n       <\/div>\n       <div class=\"contact-card__subtitle h4\">\n           Associate Professor\n       <\/div>\n       <div class=\"contact-card__description\">\n           <p>DuFresne PAC 207<\/p>\n<p>507.457.5243<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.winona.edu\/academics\/colleges\/liberal-arts\/communication-studies-department\/faculty\/alexandru-stana\/\">Learn more about Dr. Stana<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n       <\/div>\n       <a class=\"wsu-link contact-card__link\"><\/a>\n   <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wsu-block contact-card mb-1\">\n   <div class=\"contact-card__content\">\n       <div class=\"contact-card__title h4\">\n           Dr. Tammy Swenson Lepper\n       <\/div>\n       <div class=\"contact-card__subtitle h4\">\n           Professor, Internship Director\n       <\/div>\n       <div class=\"contact-card__description\">\n           <p>DuFresne PAC 210<\/p>\n<p>507.457.5246<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.winona.edu\/academics\/colleges\/liberal-arts\/communication-studies-department\/faculty\/tammy-swenson-lepper\/\">Learn more about Dr. Swenson Lepper<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n       <\/div>\n       <a class=\"wsu-link contact-card__link\"><\/a>\n   <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n\n\n\n\n    <div class=\"panel panel--white\">\n        <div class=\"panel__container\">\n            <div class=\"panel__intro\">\n                        <\/div>\n            \n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Communications Faculty Spotlight<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Community engagement and scholarship enhance our teaching in the Communication Studies department.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wsu-block tabs\">\n\n    <div class=\"tabs-nav\">\n        <button class=\"tabs__toggle\" tabindex=\"0\" aria-expanded=\"false\" id=\"tabbed-1\">Community Engagement<\/button>\n<button class=\"tabs__toggle\" tabindex=\"0\" aria-expanded=\"false\" id=\"tabbed-2\">Recent Publications<\/button>\n    <\/div>\n\n    <div class=\"tabs-content\">\n        <button class=\"tabs__mobile__toggle\">Community Engagement<\/button>\n<div class=\"tabs__content__item\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><div><p>Adam Gaffey organized a panel on <a href=\"https:\/\/openriver.winona.edu\/clasp\/ay2023\/Schedule\/1\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">power and representations of Native Americans in public art and storytelling<\/a>\u00a0as part of the 2023 WSU Consortium for Liberal Arts and Sciences Promotion series.<\/p>\n<p>In 2022, Tammy Swenson-Lepper led a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.winonapost.com\/news\/talk-shares-internet-safety-tips-for-parents\/article_84110740-aab2-11ec-96c3-8b119b09133a.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">community discussion on managing social media\u00a0<\/a>as part of Central Lutheran Church&#8217;s Parenting Teens Series.<\/p>\n<p>Kelly Herold\u2019s Disability and Culture class organized a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.winonapost.com\/news\/talk-shares-internet-safety-tips-for-parents\/article_84110740-aab2-11ec-96c3-8b119b09133a.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cDisability Culture Celebration\u201d event<\/a>\u00a0in 2022.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<button 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R., &amp; Stana, A. (2024). <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/15456870.2023.2263605\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Struggling to recover or recovering the struggle: a critical examination of recovery narratives as discourses-in-practice for people suffering from postpartum depression<\/a>. Atlantic Journal of Communication, 32(5), 733\u2013746.<\/p>\n<p>Gaffey, Adam J. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/02773945.2023.2232761\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;Making the Lover&#8217;s Leap: Wenonah, Rhetorical Colonialism, and Dissociative Memory(-)Work.&#8221;<\/a> Rhetoric Society Quarterly, 53, 5, 2023, 797-813.<\/p>\n<p>Ballard. R. L. &amp; Swenson-Lepper, T. (2023). <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/17404622.2022.2153891\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Examining students&#8217; social media use and ethical awareness: Class activities and &#8220;Coastal Succulents&#8221;<\/a>. Communication Teacher, 37(3), 198-206.<\/p>\n<p>Swenson-Lepper, T. &amp; Hanson, H. (2023). <a href=\"https:\/\/www.winona.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Social-Media-COVID-19-Misinformation-and-Ethics-A-Descriptive-Study-of-American-Adults-Perceptions-2023.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;Social media, COVID-19, Misinformation, and ethics: A Descriptive Study of American Adults&#8217; Perceptions&#8221;<\/a> (PDF). In Pamela A. Zeiser and Berrin A. Beasley (Eds.), Social media ethics and COVID-19: Well-being, truth, misinformation, and authenticity (53-82). Rowman &amp; Littlefield Publishing Group.<\/p>\n<p>Flynn, M. A., Veilleux, E., &amp; Stana A. (2022). <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.chbr.2022.100171\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A post from the woods: Social media, well-being and our connection to the natural world<\/a>. Computers in Human Behavior Reports (5), 100171.<\/p>\n<p>Gaffey, A. J. 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