Faculty and Staff

Faculty in the Division of Communication Studies are nationally and internationally recognized scholars with extensive academic and professional experience. Their research appears in major academic journals such as Argumentation and Advocacy, Communication Theory, Howard Journal of Communications, Management Communication Quarterly, Quarterly Journal of Speech, and Rhetoric and Public Affairs. Faculty members have published books with Rowman & Littlefield, Praeger, and State University of New York Press and serve on the editorial boards of many of the major journals in the field.

Faculty

• Ben Voth
  Chair of Communication Studies, Director of Debate and Associate Professor
  bvoth@smu.edu
  214.768.3028
• Sandra Duhé
  Associate Professor
  sduhe@smu.edu
  214.768.1933
• Nina Flournoy
  Senior Lecturer
  flournoy@smu.edu
  214.768.4358
• Maria Dixon Hall
  Associate Professor
  madixon@smu.edu
  214.768.3393
• Rita Kirk
  Professor and Director of the Maguire Center for Ethics & Public Responsibility
  rkirk@smu.edu
  214.768.2123
• Steve Lee
  Adjunct Lecturer
  srlee@smu.edu
  214.768.1933
• Owen Hanley Lynch
  Associate Professor
  olynch@smu.edu
  214.768.1755
• Rita Linjuan Men
  Assistant Professor
  lmen@smu.edu
  214.768.0305
• Cecilia Stubbs Norwood
  Adjunct Lecturer
  cnorwood@smu.edu
  214.768.0305
• Christopher Salinas
  Lecturer and Assistant Director of Debate
  cdsalinas@smu.edu
  214.768.2176
• Daniel Schill
  Assistant Professor
  dschill@smu.edu
  214.768.3386

Staff

• Becky Hewitt
  Communication Studies Administrator
  rhewitt@smu.edu
  214.768.1574