Kingston Campus:
106 Davis Hall
10 Lippitt Road
Kingston, RI 02881
Telephone: 401-874-9487
Fax.: 401-874-4722

Email:petronio@uri.edu

Providence Campus:
325B Shepard Building
80 Washington Street
Providence, RI 02903-1819
Telephone: (401)277-5292
Fax: (401) 277-5293

Since earning his M.A. at the University of Illinois in 1976, Vince Petronio has been teaching at URI in Com Studies. In 1996 through 2005 he was the manager of IT for the Feinstein Providence Campus and was an adjunt for COM. He came back to the faculty full time in January 2006. He first started teaching On Line in 1996. He trains other faculty in using WebCT. He teaches courses in Interpersonal Communication, Group Discussion, Oral Interpretation of Literature, Ancient Greece and the Oral Tradition, and Ancient Rome and the Oral Tradition.

His area of research is Distance Education/Computer Mediated Communication.