CU Boulder CMCI Communication

What an amazing series! We can’t stop sharing our COMM Department’s summers!

This summer, our Dr. Karen Ashkraft attended the EGOS (European Group for Organization Studies) conference in Milan, Italy in July. Dr. Joelle Cruz and former UCB PhD student turned Associate Professor Kate Harris were also presenting at the conference!

She also went to a silent retreat at Spirit Rock Meditation Center in California! What an awesome and balanced summer!

Make sure you tune in this Friday, August 9th, to our Instagram account to hear directly from our own Dr. Michael Burns in Paris! He has been working with the Today Show () during this year's in France!

Another exciting promotion to announce: Congratulations to Dr. Jamie Skerski for being promoted to Teaching Professor! Teaching Professor’s are principal instructors and hold the highest ranking and position across CU Boulder’s Teaching Professor Series.

Dr. Skerski earned a PhD in Communication and Culture from Indiana University in 2005, where she focused on the intersection of gender, media and rhetoric. Dr. Skerski has been the course director for Public Speaking since 2011 and also teaches courses about discourse and identity, rhetorical criticism, and communication and sport. Her most recent research project investigated discourses around the contemporary tomboy.

Fun Fact: Dr. Skerski currently serves as the Associate Chair for Undergraduate Studies for the Comm department as well!

Congrats again, Dr. Skerski! We are so proud to have you as a member of our department.

We are thrilled to announce that Dr. Kristella Montiegel will begin this Fall (2024) as an assistant professor with our department!

Dr. Montiegel has been a Chancellor’s Postdoc in the Department of Communication for the past two years. She is a language and social interaction researcher who received her PhD in Sociology from . Her primary research methods are conversation analysis and ethnography. You can find her work in Communication Monographs, Journal of Pragmatics, Discourse Processes, and other journals as well.

Welcome, Dr. Montiegel!