duffym@apsu.edu
Ph.D., University of Iowa
A former full-time faculty member, Dr. Duffy teaches integrated corporate communication (COMM 5600) as one of APSU’s adjunct graduate faculty members. While teaching full time at APSU, Duffy taught graduate and undergraduate courses in organizational communication, marketing communication, consumer behavior, public relations, advertising, integrated corporate communication and media business management. She also created and directed the University's Institute for Corporate Communication.
Duffy’s professional experience includes executive training, marketing, advertising and public relations for GTE Corporation, now Verizon Corporation.
ferrierp@apsu.edu
B.S., M.A., Austin Peay State University
Ph. D., Ohio University
Patricia Ferrier worked as a reporter, feature writer, copy editor and city editor before earning the doctorate at Ohio University. Her primary research interests are privacy as a moral and legal concept and its relationship to the First Amendment; how victims of crime are portrayed in the media; and the role and effects of the media in a community. Before joining the faculty at APSU, she worked for seven years at the University of Southern Indiana as an instructor of journalism and student publications adviser.
She has taught classes in editing and page design, beginning, advanced and public affairs reporting, media law, media ethics, covering diversity and victims in the media. Dr. Ferrier is a member of Kappa Tau Alpha, the national journalism honor society, the Student Press Law Center, Society of Professional Journalists, Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communications, Investigative Reporters and Editors and College Media Advisers' law, ethics and diversity committees. She also was elected to the board of directors of the Indiana Collegiate Press Association.
gotcherm@apsu.edu
B.S., Austin Peay State University
M.A., University of Florida
Ph.D., Louisiana State University
Dr. Mike Gotcher teaches advanced courses in communication theory, organizational communication and leadership. His primary research interests involve health communication, organizational communication and mass media effects on adolescents. His work has frequently been published in refereed journals.
Gotcher has received a variety of honors, including the Hawkins Award for research excellence, the John Franklin Mee Award from the Academy of Management and the Daniel Rohrer Award from the American Forensic Association. He has been instrumental in procuring funds for – and assisting in the installation of – more than $500,000 of digital video equipment. This equipment is dedicated to the broadcast of APSU special events on Cable Channel 99.
Having developed graduate and undergraduate curricula, Gotcher serves as the executive director of the Tennessee High School Communication Association. He is active in community and university service.
grayp@apsu.edu
B.A., Ph.D., University of Kentucky
M.A., Western Kentucky University
After 22 years teaching at Kentucky Wesleyan College and Vincennes University, Dr. Pam Gray joined the APSU faculty in 2005. She teaches courses in public relations and corporate communication and serves as adviser for APSU’s PRSSA chapter. Her memberships include the Public Relations Society of America and the Kentucky Communication Association.
In 2002, the Kentucky Communication Association recognized Gray as Teacher of the Year. At Kentucky Wesleyan College, she was three times voted Adviser of the Year.
hicksgoldstonc@apsu.edu
Ph.D., University of Southern Mississippi
Christina Hicks-Goldston received her Bachelor's degree from Texas Christian University, her Master's from Emerson College in Boston, and her doctorate in Mass Communication from the University of Southern Mississippi. Hicks-Goldston's concentration in Political Communication at Emerson resulted in internships at then-candidate Bill Clinton's campaign headquarters in Little Rock, where she reported to George Stephanopoulos, and the office of Congressman Joseph P. Kennedy II. While completing her doctorate, she continued research in the area of critical-cultural studies, particularly gender studies, and focused her dissertation on film portrayals of women in World War II. She expanded such interests to popular culture, and examined gender in series television, such as Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Hicks-Goldston has also examined the press coverage of women suffrage in the Tennessee press prior to the ratification of the 19th Amendment for the Eastern Communication Association in 2007, and presented a workshop on teaching intercultural communication and adapting to the cultural diversity of the student population in the 21st century. She is currently working on a project about Generation X and the media.
jablonskip@apsu.edu
Ph.D., University of Central Florida
Patrick M. Jablonski was an Assistant Professor in Communication at the University of Central Florida and Austin Peay State University in Tennessee from 1996 until 2001. In 2001, Dr. Jablonski became Research Statistician for the Orange County, Florida Corrections Department. In that position, he was responsible for statistical analyses of the criminal justice system as well as the inmate population. Dr. Jablonski also served as a jail crowding and incident analysis consultant to a variety of criminal justice systems across the United States. In 2006, Dr. Jablonski became Director, Quality Assurance Research and Analysis Section for the Corrections Corporation of America and oversees all work projects for that section. Patrick and his wife, Coburn, have three children: Ben, age 8; Mason, age 4; and Cate, age 19 months. Dr. Jablonski is a welcome addition to the graduate faculty and undergraduate instruction at APSU in the Communication Department.
kanervoe@apsu.edu
B.A., Newberry College
M.S., Ph.D. University of Wisconsin, Madison
After teaching mass communication courses at Austin Peay State University for more than 20 years, Dr. Kanervo retired in 2007. She continues to teach two graduate courses. Writing, editing and research methods are her primary areas of responsibility.
Kanervo has presented papers or published articles on a variety of mass communication topics. Her honors include being named a National Merit Scholar from 1968 to 1972, receiving a WARF fellowship in 1972 and 1974 and being named APSU Distinguished Professor in 1993.
limj@apsu.edu
B.A., Seoul National University
M.A., Ph.D., University of Missouri-Columbia
Jeongsub Lim joined Austin Peay in the fall of 2007. He started his journalism career as a full-time reporter at Yonhap News Agency, Seoul, South Korea-based national wire service. His research interests include agenda setting, framing, and news study on the basis of social cognitions. During his doctoral studies, he taught a quantitative research method class at a graduate level. He has published his article in Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly and has written a book chapter. Dr. Lim has authored and delivered many convention and conference papers for such professional organizations as the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication and the International Communication Association.
parcellsf@apsu.edu
B.S., M.S., Ph.D., Southern Illinois University
Dr. Parcells taught at Eastern Illinois University for 20 years before retiring and joining the APSU Department of Communication and Theatre in 2001. He teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in corporate communication, public relations, mass media and Internet technology.
Parcells’ 15-year career in the broadcast industry has included positions as promotions director, program manager and general manager at stations in Denver, Madison, Portland and Rockford. He owns a public relations firm and operates a Web hosting and Internet service business, as well as a Web design firm.
Parcells’ memberships include the Association of Internet Professionals, the Broadcast Education Association, the International Association of Business Communicators, the International Webmasters Association, the National Communication Association, the Public Relations Society of America, the Society of Internet Professionals and the Worldwide Organization of Webmasters. He advises APSU’s chapters of the IABC, PRSSA and BEA. He also serves on APSU’s College of Arts and Letters Curriculum Committee, Graduate and Research Council and Grievance Committee.
Parcells is anticipating the release of his book, Using the Internet, from Mayhaven Publishing. He is working on a media relations textbook for prospective and practicing professional communicators.
Parcells has made many professional presentations and been published in numerous national, regional and state scholarly journals.
prathery@apsu.edu
B.A., Western Kentucky University
B.S., M.S., Austin Peay State University
Ph.D., Bowling Green University
Dr. Prather’s teaching areas include live television and production, mass communication history and minorities in the mass media. Her research interests include newsroom socialization and the impact of mass media on ethnic minorities, women and the elderly.
While a graduate student at Austin Peay, Prather was instrumental in the creation of the student-produced cable program, “AP Magazine.” Now, she is the executive producer for the program. In addition, she established and advises the University's chapter of the National Broadcasting Society.
Prather serves on a number of community and University committees and is a member of numerous professional media organizations. She also serves on the Big Brothers and Big Sisters of Clarksville Board of Directors.
As a student, Prather received the 1992 Faculty Development Grant from the National Association of Television Program Executives (NATPE). During her academic career, she received the 1995 William A. Brower Journalism Scholarship. Prather actively prepares and presents scholarly papers.
vonpalkod@apsu.edu
B.S., Arizona State University
M.A., Northern Arizona University
J.D., Nashville School of Law
Dr. von Palko is a professor of communication, the general manager of WAPX-FM radio and a licensed attorney in Tennessee. He teaches a variety of graduate and undergraduate classes, including media law, media ethics, public speaking and broadcast news reporting and announcing. He also has taught courses in audio production, public relations and American constitutional law.
In 1983, von Palko came to APSU to build the University’s radio station and create the mass communication program. Prior to that, he was a professional radio broadcaster in Arizona for more than a decade. He is experienced as a radio personality, news reporter, news anchor and news director.
Organizations such as the Associated Press, the National Broadcasting Society and Columbia University have awarded von Palko more than two dozen first-place broadcast awards for news reporting and audio production. He also earned a first-place award for breaking news coverage while on a 1997 faculty development leave at WSM AM and FM in Nashville.
From 2003-2005,von Palko was key in brokering the frequency, transmitter, tower and antenna for WAPX-FM. He also was instrumental in developing APSU’s public relations program. He has served on the board of the Associated Press, and chairs both the National Advisory Council and Legal Counsel for the National Broadcast Society - Alpha Epsilon Rho.