Faculty | Courses | Public Lectures | Consortium for Strategic Communication (CSC)

Steven R. Corman, professor (Ph.D., University of Illinois)

Professor Corman is the director of the Consortium for Strategic Communication in the Hugh Downs School of Human Communication. He researches the relationship of talk and written communication to organizational networks and activity systems.  In the years following the September 11 attacks, Corman served as a consultant for the Department of Defense on communication networks and counter-terrorism  In 2005, he served as a member of a scientific panel on counterterrorism for the U.S. Special Operations Command. Corman is also co-founder and chief technology officer of Crawdad Technologies L.L.C., chair of the organizational communication division of the International Communication Association, and an associate editor of the journal Human Communication Research.

H.L. 'Bud' Goodall, Jr., professor (Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University)

Dr. Goodall is a professor and the director of the Hugh Downs School of Human Communication. He is an organizational ethnographer with an academic background in rhetoric and interpersonal communication. His most recent research and teaching is in communication, terrorism, and national security, with particular emphases on the interplays of communication theories and research on the development of strategic communication, political narratives, leadership, espionage and public diplomacy/propaganda campaigns during the Cold War and the current global war on terror.

Angela Trethewey, associate professor (Ph.D., Purdue University)

Dr. Trethewey is an associate professor and assistant director of the Hugh Downs School of Human Communication. Her research focuses on the intersections of social discourses of power, organizational communication and employee identity. Her recent project on organizing intelligence offers a framework for understanding a new model of leadership in a post September 11 world that centers on managing identities, knowledge and performance in ways that blur the lines between state sponsored espionage and routine corporate practice. 

Pauline Hope Cheong, associate professor (Ph.D., University of Southern California)

Dr. Cheong is an associate professor of the Hugh Downs School of Human Communication. She is also an affiliate faculty with the Center for the Study of Religion and Conflict and Department of Film and Media Studies, and graduate faculty with the School of Justice and Social Inquiry, at Arizona State University. Her research focuses on the social implications of communication technologies, particularly in ways that implicate social stratification and social capital relationships. Recent projects include the examination of mediated transnational religious networks, authority of religious leadership, religious branding and the diffusion of extremist narratives.