Faculty

Professor and Chair in the Masters Program in Communication and Leadership Studies
caputo@gonzaga.edu
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Dr. John Caputo is Professor and Chair of the Master’s Program in Communication and Leadership Studies at Gonzaga University and the Walter Ong S.J. Scholar. He founded the MA Program in 2004.  Dr. Caputo earned his Ph.D. from the Claremont Graduate School and University Center. He has been teaching communication courses for more than 30 years and has appeared on radio and television news and discussion programs. His areas of expertise include communication theory, intercultural and interpersonal communication, and media and social values. He is the author of seven books: Effective Communication Handbook; Communicating Effectively: Linking Thought with Expression; Dimensions of Communication; Interpersonal Communication: Competency Through Critical Reasoning, which was co- authored with Bud Hazel and Colleen McMahon; Public Speaking Handbook: A Liberal Arts Perspective with Bud Hazel; McDonaldization Revisited: Critical Essays on Consumer Culture which he co-edited with Mark Alfino and Robin Wynyard for Praeger Press and his newest book, Effective Communication. John Caputo has written more than 25 articles in professional journals, been honored as a Visiting Scholar In-Residence at the University of Kent at Canterbury, England. Dr. Caputo Directs the Gonzaga-in-Cagli Project, a cultural immersion multi-media program in Italy each summer. He has been honored with Master Teacher Awards by the Western States Communication Association and the University of Texas at Austin and most recently received an Exemplary Faculty Award form Gonzaga University.

Dr. Heather Crandall
Assistant Professor in the Masters Program in Communication and Leadership Studies
crandallm@gonzaga.edu

Dr. Crandall earned an interdisciplinary Ph.D. from Washington State University. Her areas of concentration are American Studies, Communication, and Rhetoric. She is specifically interested in visual rhetoric and social change, media literacy, and communication pedagogy.  Heather teaches courses in theorizing communication, small group communication, interpersonal communication, rhetoric, organizational communication, and public speaking.

Dr. Carolyn Cunningham
Assistant Professor in the Masters Program in Communication and Leadership Studies
cunninghamc@gonzaga.edu

Dr. Cunningham completed her Ph.D. in the Department of Radio-Television-Film at the University of Texas at Austin, where she also earned a doctoral certificated in Women's and Gender Studies. As a graduate student, she was a Science and Technology Policy Fellow at the National Academy of Engineering. Her research interests include media and technological literacy, social media, the digital divide, non-profit communication, youth studies, and qualitative research methods.  Her dissertation examined how community organizations teach youth media production skills for self-expression and civic engagement. Her work has appeared in several book chapters and journals, including New Media & Society. Her current research project is qualitative analysis of girls' video games. She teaches classes in communication theory, social dynamics of communication technology, communication training and consulting, and public speaking.

Dr. Michael Hazel
Associate Professor in the Masters Program in Communication and Leadership Studies
hazelm@gonzaga.edu

Dr. Hazel earned his Ph.D. from Washington State University after living in Japan for eight years. In addition to teaching in the United States, he taught for six years at Immaculate Heart College in southern Japan. His areas of interest include ethics, organizational communication, communication theory, research methods, communication apprehension, and intercultural and interpersonal communication.

Nobuya Inagaki
Assistant Professor in the Masters Program in Communication and Leadership Studies
inagaki@gonzaga.edu

Mr. Inagaki's teaching and research interests include the social significance of digital communication technologies, international communication, and research methods. He is currently completing his doctoral dissertation (University of Texas at Austin, Radio TV Film Department) with a study of the social geography of communication technologies in rural areas. Recent publications include: "Communicating the Impact of Communication for Development" (The World Bank Working Paper #120, 2007), and "Reconfiguring public Internet access in Austin, TX" (with Martha Fuentes-Bautista, Government Information, Quarterly, 2006).

Dr. Pavel Shlossberg
Assistant Professor in the Masters Program in Communication and Leadership Studies
shlossbergp@gonzaga.edu

Dr. Shlossberg completed his Ph.D. in the Doctoral Communications program at Columbia University in New York City. Prior to his appointment at Gonzaga, he had been a postdoctoral fellow at the University of New Mexico and a lecturer at the University of Virginia. Dr. Shlossberg’s cross-boder ethnographic and oral historical research examines the production and consumption of “Indian arts” as it relates to the politics of race and culture in central Mexico and the United States. His work has appeared in several journals, including Cultural Studies, Visual Anthropology Review, and Souls. He teaches courses in communication theory, international and intercultural communication, media studies, ethics and leadership, and diversity issues.

Adjunct Faculty

• Joe Ayers, ayersj@gonzaga.edu
• Ayoolu Banji, banji@gonzaga.edu
• Denise Casey, caseyd@gonzaga.edu 
• Cheryl Coan, coanc@gonzaga.edu 
• Alexa Dare, darea@gonzaga.edu
• Paul De Palma, depalma@gonzaga.edu 
• Cher Desautel, desautel@gonzaga.edu 
• Dan Distelhorst, distelhorst@gonzaga.edu 
• Kris Erickson, ericksonk2@gonzaga.edu
• Lunell Haught, lunellh@aol.com
• Sara Johnston, saraj@desautelhege.com
• Alexander Kuskis, kuskis@gonzaga.edu 
• Larry Massey, massey@gonzaga.edu 
• Diana Osborne, osborned@gonzaga.edu 
• Kip Preble, preble@gonzaga.edu
• Kathleen Snyder, ksnyder@usfca.edu
• Jeffrey Stafford, stafford@gonzaga.edu
• Peter Tormey, tormey@gonzaga.edu
• Paul Mark Wadleigh, wadleigh@gonzaga.edu
• David Givens, givens@gonzaga.edu