{"id":13,"date":"2016-11-29T22:32:09","date_gmt":"2016-11-29T22:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wcsu.wpengine.com\/com\/faculty\/"},"modified":"2025-09-04T13:38:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T13:38:06","slug":"faculty","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/communication-media-arts\/faculty\/","title":{"rendered":"Faculty & Staff"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Krista Brooks <\/span><\/strong><\/strong><\/div>\n
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Office: Higgins Hall 201<\/strong><\/div>\n
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Phone: (203) 837-9166<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n
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\n Email: brooksk@wcsu.edu<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n
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Krista is always willing to lend a helping hand to anyone with questions concerning our department. She is your point of contact on process and procedure. If you have a question, it can’t hurt to start with Krista, Trouble registering? Contact Krista. Don’t know who your advisor is? Contact Krista.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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JC Barone, Ph.D<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n
Office: Higgins Hall 201 A<\/strong><\/span>
\n Phone: (203) 837-3233<\/strong><\/span>
\n Email: <\/strong>baronej@wcsu.edu<\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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JC has been an active producer\/director\/educator for over 20 years. He received the Connecticut State University System-wide Teaching Award (2014) and he was awarded a Faculty Fellowship at the Television Academy in Los Angeles (2015). His documentary on WWII hero Major “Doc” Brown<\/em> screened at seven film festivals (2018-2019) and won a Telly Award. His latest documentary on artist, writer, feminist Kate Millett is exhibiting at the Dorsky Museum of Art, fall 2021. <\/span><\/p>\n

JC\u2019s students took 1st and 2nd place for three years in live Multicamera Studio Production at the BEA competition\u2019s Festival of Media Arts in Las Vegas in 2015, 2016, and 2020, placing in the top 5% nationally. Media Arts students also have been awarded National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, Boston\/New England Student Production Awards.
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Sample courses taught:<\/strong> COM 146 Basic Video Production, COM 247 Live News & Election Coverage,\u00a0<\/em>COM 336\u00a0Postproduction, COM 340 Sound for Media and COM 446 Advanced Video Production.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\"\"<\/span>Jessica Eckstein, Ph.D.<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
Office: Higgins Hall 201 F<\/strong><\/span>
\n Phone: (203) 837-8873<\/strong><\/span>
\n Email: <\/strong>ecksteinj@wcsu.edu<\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n
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Jessi’s research interests focus on interpersonal communication and pay particular attention to how people (consciously and unconsciously) communicate identities involving “taken-for-granted” societal forces. Her current programs of research all focus on\u00a0relational communication\u00a0(e.g., relational uncertainty, power, conflict, love, and sex occurring in violent & nonviolent relationships) as influenced by\u00a0societal identities\u00a0(e.g., gender, family roles, stigma, health norms). Dr. Eckstein serves on many campus committees and currently chairs the Institutional Review Board for Human Subjects Research<\/a> and is the Director of the Women’s Studies Program<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Sample Courses Taught:<\/strong> Nonverbal Comm, <\/em>Interpersonal<\/em> Comm<\/em>, Research Methods<\/em>, and Special Relational Topics (e.g., Abuse Comm<\/em>,\u00a0Sex Comm<\/em>) <\/span><\/div>\n

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Jacqueline <\/span>Guzda, Ph.D.<\/span>
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Office: Higgins Hall 201 D<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n
Phone:\u00a0 (203) 837-8941<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n
Email:\u00a0 <\/span>Guzdaj@wcsu.edu<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n
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Jackie has taught a variety of courses at WCSU both full and part-time. She has been a contributor at WNBC (New York) and is a former contributor at EBRU Today. She was one of five people in the US to receive a National Endowment for the Arts Award in Media (1985). She writes her own podcast of political humor, Politihoot.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Sample Courses Taught:<\/strong> COM 146 Basic Video Production<\/em> and COM 252 Media Performance Techniques<\/em><\/span><\/div>\n
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\"Truman<\/a>Truman R. Keys, Ph.D.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Office: Higgins Hall 201G<\/strong><\/span>
\n Phone: (203) 837-3234<\/strong><\/span>
\n Email: keyst@wcsu.edu<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/span>
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Dr. Keys says the most enjoyable classroom experience involves students and him exchanging ideas in an environment where everyone feels respected and valued. During class he discusses his research and the research of his peers. He is passionate about research that addresses communication between people of various social and cultural identities, such as race\/ethnicity, income-level\/social class, educational-level, traditional\/non-traditional family-type, and appearance\/body politics, just to name a few. He wants want to understand the impact our identities have on self-esteem and relationship development in organizations and society. It is helpful to present research during class about a concept or key term that students find difficult because showing them how others make sense of it fosters greater understanding.<\/span><\/p>\n

Sample Courses Taught: <\/strong>COM 203 Health Communication<\/em> and COM 208 Intercultural Communication <\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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\"\"Katie Lever, Ph.D.<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
Department Chair\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/div>\n
Office: Higgins Hall 201 K<\/strong><\/span>
\n Phone: (203) 837-8872<\/strong><\/span>
\n Email: leverk@wcsu.edu<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n
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Katie obtained her Ph.D. in Organizational Communication from Rutgers University, and her M.S. degree in Organizational Communication, Learning and Design from Ithaca College.\u00a0 Dr. Lever has served as the chair of the Committee on Undergraduate Curriculum Standards, as well as the chair of the MSAS Program Review Committee.\u00a0 Katie also served as a member of the Institutional Review Board for WCSU for 8 years, and as a member of the University Senate for three years. Katie\u2019s research interests include technology-mediated communication, social identification in organizational settings, and crisis communication in the digital era<\/span><\/p>\n

Sample courses taught:<\/strong> Communication Theory, Research Methods, Organizational Communication, Senior Thesis and Special Topics in Public Relations.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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