Heather L. Hundley | College of Communication, Fine Arts and Media

Dr. Heather Hundley

School of Communication, Professor

email:

hhundley@unomaha.edu

office:

ASH 108

office phone:

402-554-3543..

department phone:

402-554-2600..

office hours:

walk-in and by appointment

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General Information

Biography

Dr. Hundley is the Director and Professor in the School of Communication. Prior to UNO, she served as Department Chair of Communication Studies at Middle Tennessee State University. However, her career began at California State University, San Bernardino where she taught for 17 years.

Teaching Interests

Dr. Hundley enjoys teaching freshmen through graduate students in a variety of classes that typically involve media studies. They include Media and Culture, Digital Media, and Media History. However, she joins this interest with other fields and has taught Masculinity Studies, Feminist Theories, Rhetorical History and Theory, and Communication Law & Policy. She also teaches Exploring Communication Studies and Public Speaking.

Research Interests

The focus of Dr. Hundley's research is social justice. She particularly enjoys studying how a variety of identities are represented in media evident in four of her five books. Her fifth book is a textbook used for Rhetorical Theory. She also enjoys investigating sports, gender, law, pedagogy, and topics that strike her interest.

Service Summary

Service is an integral part of an academic's career and Dr. Hundley has engaged service in a variety of ways. This includes serving as an Assistant Dean, faculty advisor to a campus radio station, graduate coordinator, and graduate teaching coordinator. For the profession she served many roles including President and, later, Executive Director of the Western States Communication Association.

Awards and Honors

Robert T. Reilly Professor, Leadership - 2021

Education

BA, California State University, Sacramento, Sacramento, CA, Communication General, 1992

MA, California State University, Sacramento, Sacramento, CA, Communication General, 1994

Ph D, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, Communication General, 1999

Scholarship/Research/Creative Activity

Selected Publications

Hundley, Heather, Chevrette, Roberta, Jones, Hillary. 2020. Dangerous Dames, Peter Lang.

Borchers, Timothy, Hundley, Heather. 2018. Rhetorical Theory: An Introduction, Waveland Press, 2nd edition.

Hundley, Heather, Hayden, Sara. 2016. Mediated Moms: Contemporary Challenges to the Motherhood Myth, Peter Lang.

Hundley, Heather, Billings, Andrew. 2010. Examining Identity in Sports Media, Sage Publications.

Hundley, Heather, Billings, Andrew. 2010. Views from the Fairway: Media Explorations of Identity in Golf, Hampton Press, Inc..

Service

Administrative Assignments

Director, 08/01/2021