Faculty and Staff

Administrators | Full-Time Faculty | Adjunct Faculty | Graduate Instructors | Staff

Faculty Administrators

Lynne Derbyshire Associate Professor, Chair Office: Davis Hall, Rm 202 Phone: (401) 874-4732 derbyshire@uri.edu	Norbert Mundorf Professor, Graduate Director Office: Davis Hall, Rm 206 Phone: (401) 874-4725 nmundorf@gmail.com
Adam David Roth Assistant Professor, Basic Course Director Office: Davis Hall, Rm 205 Phone: (401) 874-9526 adamroth@uri.edu	Rachel DiCioccio Associate Professor, Director of Graduate Student Instructors Office: Davis Hall, Rm 210A Phone: (401) 874-9072 dicioccio@uri.edu

Full-Time Faculty

Danielle Alfano Lecturer, University College Advisor Office: Davis Hall, Rm 105A Phone: (401) 874-2857 danniealf@mail.uri.edu	Samara M. Anarbaeva Lecturer Office: Davis Hall, Rm 407 Phone: (401) 874-5144 anarbsm@mail.uri.edu
Mark August Senior Lecturer Office: Davis Hall, Rm 406 Phone: (401) 874-9488 august@uri.edu	Regina Bell Lecturer, Public Relations; University College Advisor Office: Davis Hall, Rm 105A Phone: (401) 874-2857 rbell@mail.uri.edu
Sharman Jane Brown Senior Lecturer, Internship Program Coordinator Office: Davis Hall, Rm 306 Phone: (401) 874-4737 sharmanb4@gmail.com	Winifred Brownell Professor, Dean of Arts & Sciences Office: Chafee Hall, Rm 257 Phone: (401) 874-4101 winnie@uri.edu
Kristine Cabral Senior Lecturer Office: Davis Hall, Rm 405 Phone: (401) 874-9413 kcab5403@gmail.com	Guo-Ming Chen Professor Office: Davis Hall, Rm 310 Phone: (401) 874-4731 gmchen@uri.edu
Crystal Fonseca Senior Lecturer Office: Davis Hall, Rm 407 Phone: (401) 874-9415 cfons@mail.uri.edu	Mark Greenwood Senior Lecturer, University College Advisor Office: Davis Hall, Rm 406 Phone: (401) 874-7453 markrgreenwood@cox.net
Mary Healey Jamiel Assistant Professor Office: Davis Hall, Rm 209B Phone: (401) 874-9016 maryhealey@mail.uri.edu	Sandra Ketrow Professor Office: Davis Hall, Rm 209A Phone: (401) 874-4733 sketrow@mail.uri.edu
Geoffrey Leatham Associate Professor Office: Davis Hall, Rm 312 Phone: (401) 874-4735 leatham@uri.edu	Patrick A. Logan Professor Office: Davis Hall, Rm 108 Phone: (401) 874-2970 mayfly@uri.edu
Kevin McClure Professor Office: Davis Hall, Rm 105B Phone: (401) 874-4726 kmcclure@uri.edu	Catherine Morrison Lecturer Office: Davis Hall, Rm 305 Phone: (401) 874-4044 catemorrison@mail.uri.edu
Joanne Mundorf Senior Lecturer Office: Davis Hall, Rm 306 Phone: (401) 874-9414 jmundorf@gmail.com	Daniel Munksgaard Lecturer Office: Davis Hall 404 Phone: (401) 874-4723 dmunksgaard@uri.edu
Vincent Petronio Assistant Professor Office: Davis Hall, Rm 106 Phone: (401) 874-9487 petronio@uri.edu	Tracy Proulx Lecturer Office: Davis Hall, Rm 402 Phone: (401) 874-2955 comproulx@aol.com
Vanessa Wynder Quainoo Associate Professor of Comm. Studies, Director of Africana Studies Program Office: Davis Hall, Rm 302 Phone: (401) 874-4730 Vquainoo@mail.uri.edu	Ian Reyes Assistant Professor Office: Davis Hall, Rm 212A Phone: (401) 874-2555 ianreyes@mail.uri.edu
Abran Salazar Professor Office: Davis Hall, Rm 303 Phone: (401) 874-9015 abran_salazar@uri.edu	Richardson Smith Lecturer Office: Davis Hall, Rm 305 Phone: (401) 874-2328 rsmith@uri.edu
Judith Swift Professor, Comm. Studies and Theatre; Director, Coastal Institute Office: 124 Coastal Institute, Narragansett Bay Campus Phone: (401) 874-6513 jswift@uri.edu	Kathleen Torrens Associate Professor and Interim Coordinator, Online Teaching and Learning Office: Davis Hall, Rm 212 Phone: (401) 874-4809 kmtorrens@uri.edu
Martha Waitkun Senior Lecturer Office: Davis Hall, Rm 405 Phone: (401) 874-9410 mwaitkun@uri.edu	Daphne Bui Wales Senior Lecturer Office: Davis Hall, Rm 402 Phone: (401) 874-9417 daphnewales@mail.uri.edu
Stephen Wood Professor of Comm. Studies & Film Media Office: Davis Hall, Rm 213 Phone: (401) 874-4030 DocWood@uri.edu	Yinjiao Ye Assistant Professor Office: Davis Hall, Rm 304 Phone: (401) 874-4724 yinjiao_ye@mail.uri.edu

Adjunct Faculty

Gail Alofsin gailalofsin@aol.com	Robert Burns talkcoach@att.net	Laura Gostin lgostin@gmail.com
Shirley Kinsey shirlkinsey@gmail.com	Joanne Rotondo jvrotondo@mail.uri.edu	David Bettencourt filmmaker@mail.uri.edu
Nancy Burns-Fusaro nmburnsfusaro@aol.com	Stephen Landes slandes@mail.uri.edu	Michelle Le Brun milebrun@mail.uri.edu
Lisa McClure lisamcc@mail.uri.edu	Suzanne McDonald suzannemcdonald@mail.uri.edu	Kevin Olson kwolson@mail.uri.edu
Priscilla Young priscilla_young@my.uri.edu

Graduate Student Instructors

Charles Albrecht cnalbrecht@my.uri.edu	Elizabeth Benoit elizabethbenoit@my.uri.edu	Joshua Choma jchoma@my.uri.edu
Jonathan Drew jdrew@my.uri.edu	Ron Haley ron@ronhaley.com	Daniel Klotz klotz_dan@hotmail.com
Kevin Reardon kevin_reardon@my.uri.edu	Jessica Robinson jarobinson@my.uri.edu	Allison Smith allisona_smith@my.uri.edu
Collin Syfert collin_syfert@my.uri.edu	Wynston Wilson instructorwilson@gmail.com

Staff

Sandra Baker
Sr. Word Processing Typist

Office: Davis 204
Phone: (401) 874-9011 sandrab@mail.uri.edu

Sandra Baker

Donna Cerce

Sr. Word Processing Typist, Assistant to Graduate Director

Office: Davis 207

Phone: (401) 874-4006
donnacerce@uri.edu

Donna Cerce

Justin Brierley
Student Worker, Sound Lab

Sarah Callahan
Student Worker

Sarah Callahan

Kou Nyan
Student Worker

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Congratulations to
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Dr. McClure received the 2010 NCA Outstanding Article Award for "Kenneth Burke's Dramatic Form Criticism," coauthored with F. D. Anderson and A. King, in Rhetorical Criticism, edited by J. A. Kuypers.

Harrington School of Communication and Media - Department of Communication Studies