Communication and Media Studies at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

24 faculty and 40 courses in Communication and Media Studies at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Faculty

• Harrison, Kristen, Richard Cole Eminent Professor h-index 70
• Noar, Seth M., James Howard and Hallie McLean Parker Distinguished Professor h-index 62
• Lazard, Allison, Professor h-index 35
• Lee, Suman, Professor, Director M.A. in Strategic Communication h-index 33
• Kreiss, Daniel, Edgar Thomas Cato Distinguished Professor h-index 32
• Clark, Meredith D., Associate Professor of Race and Political Communication h-index 24
• Austin, Lucinda, Associate Professor, Associate Dean for Graduate Studies and Research h-index 24
• McGregor, Shannon C., Associate Professor, Director of PhD Program h-index 20
• Gibson, Rhonda, Professor, Director M.A. in Media and Communication h-index 18
• Reid, Amanda, Associate Professor h-index 18
• McGuigan, Lee, Assistant Professor h-index 12
• Hester, Joe Bob, Associate Professor h-index 11
• Aikat, Deb, Professor
• Anderson, Shaun, Knight Chair in Sports, Race and Media
• Barnes, Spencer Ryan, Associate Professor
• Boynton, Lois, Associate Professor
• Comello, Nori, Professor
• Czabovsky, Lightning, Associate Professor
• Dillman Carpentier, Francesca Renee, W. Horace Carter Distinguished Professor
• Ekstrand, Tori, Professor
• Friedman, Barbara, Associate Professor
• McDonald, Trevy, Associate Professor, Associate Dean of ABIDE
• Tuggle, C.A., John H. Stembler Jr. Distinguished Professor
• Zhao, Xinyan (Eva), Assistant Professor

Courses

• First-Year Seminar: Organizing and Communicating for Social Entrepreneurs COMM 51
• First-Year Seminar: Collective Leadership Models for Community Change COMM 53
• First-Year Seminar: Is There Life after College?: The Meaning of Work in Contemporary Life COMM 57
• First-Year Seminar: The Politics of Performance COMM 61
• First-Year Seminar: African American Literature and Performance COMM 62
• First-Year Seminar: The Creative Process in Performance COMM 63
• First-Year Seminar: Paying Attention: The Art of Documentary COMM 68
• First-Year Seminar: Understanding Place through Rhetoric COMM 73
• First-Year Seminar: Researching Society and Culture COMM 75
• First-Year Seminar: Food Politics from an Organizational Communication Perspective COMM 82
• First-Year Seminar: Networked Societies COMM 83
• First-Year Seminar: Make A Zine! Do-It-Yourself Writing, Publishing, and Distribution COMM 84
• First-Year Seminar: Think, Speak, Argue COMM 85
• First-Year Seminar: Surveillance and Society COMM 86
• First-Year Seminar: Technologies of Popular Culture COMM 88
• First-Year Seminar: Special Topics COMM 89
• Communication and Social Process COMM 100
• Public Speaking COMM 113
• Introduction to Interpersonal and Organizational Communication COMM 120
• Introduction to Media Production COMM 130
• Introduction to Media History, Theory, and Criticism COMM 140
• Popular Music COMM 142
• Introduction to New Media COMM 150
• Introduction to Performance Studies COMM 160
• Rhetoric and Public Issues COMM 170
• Argumentation and Debate COMM 171
• Small Group Communication COMM 223
• Introduction to Gender and Communication COMM 224
• Audio/Video/Film Production and Writing COMM 230
• Introduction to Communication Technology, Culture, and Society COMM 249
• Computational Art and Generative Media COMM 250
• Introduction to American Film and Culture, 1965-Present COMM 251
• Introduction to Performance and Social Change COMM 260
• Introduction to the Performance of Culture COMM 262
• Performing Literature COMM 263
• Media Studies of Japan COMM 288
• Undergraduate Learning Assistant in Media Production COMM 291
• Persuasion COMM 312
• Cultural Diversity COMM 318
• Introduction to Organizational Communication COMM 325

Roster/catalog compiled from the college’s public directory. Faculty counts are directory headcounts; the named list may be a subset. h-index shown only for ORCID-backed or high-confidence OpenAlex matches. Data as of 2026-07-01.