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Melinda Alston & Bethany Barnes Receive Top Undergrad Research Project Award
Faculty Members Nominated for Teaching Awards
Student Kiya Ward Receives Award
Department Head's Advisory Board Formed
Faculty member selected for the Houle Engaged Scholar Program
Faculty & Student Book Receives Award
Communication Studies Alum Signs Pro Basketball Deal
Lambda Pi Eta Honor Society 2008 Inductees
Dept. Scholarship Winners 2008 Announced
Graduate Student Receives Several Awards
Communication Studies Professor Authors Textbook on Conflict Resolution
Professor Authors Innovative Communication Textbook
A Call For Dialogue
Department of Communication Studies
Spoma Jovanovic
Associate Professor
Office: 108 Ferguson Building
Phone: 336-334-5297
E-mail: s_jovano@uncg.edu
Degrees
- Ph.D., University of Denver
- M.A., University of Denver
- B.A., University of California, Los Angeles
Scholarly interests
Ethics, civic participation, community, organizational communication, and interpretive research methods
Courses taught
- CST 200 Communication and Society
- CST 210 Communication Ethics
- CST 308 Organizational Communication
- CST 460 Reclaiming Democracy: Dialogue, Decision Making & Community Action
- CST 460 Cases in Applied Communication/Community
- CST 540 Social Entrepreneurship:Justice and a Green Environment
- CST 632 Communication and Social Change
Recent research
Bloch-Schulman & Jovanovic, S. (in press). Who’s Afraid of Politics? On the Need to
Teach Political Engagement. Journal of Higher Education Outreach and
Engagement, 13 (4).
Jovanovic, S. (2008). Community as Ethical Expression: How Discourse Shapes a Vision of Hope. Bridges: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Theology, Philosophy, History, and Sciences, 15 (1/2), 135-157.
Jovanovic, S. (2008) Mindful Speech (Ch. 13) in A. Weston’s A 21st Century Ethics
Toolbox, 2nd ed. New York: Oxford University Press.
Jovanovic, S., Steger, C., Symonds, S. & Nelson, D. (2007). Promoting deliberative democracy through dialogue: Communication contributions to a grassroots movement for truth, justice, and reconciliation. In L. R. Frey & K. M.Carragee (Eds.), Communication Activism pp. 53-94. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton.
Jovanovic, S. & Wood, R.V.(2007). Dialectical interactions: Decoupling and
integrating ethics in ethics codes. Business Ethics Quarterly, 17 (2), 217-238.
Jovanovic, S. & Wood, R. V. (2006). Communication ethics and ethical culture: A
study of the ethics initiative in Denver City Government. Journal of Applied Communication Research, 34 (4), 386-405.
Jovanovic, S. & Wood, R. V. (2004). Speaking at the bedrock of ethics. Philosophy & Rhetoric, 37 (2), 317-334.
Jovanovic, S. (2003). Communication as critical inquiry in service-learning. Academic
Exchange Quarterly, 7, 81-85.
Jovanovic, S. (2003). Difficult conversations as moral imperative: Negotiating ethnic identities during war. Communication Quarterly, 51(1), 57-72.
Service
| 2009-2010 | IMPACT Greensboro. Sponsored by the City of Greensboro, UNCG, and the Community Foundation of Greater Greensboro |
| 2009 | Faculty Leader, 2009 National Communication Association's Doctoral Honors Seminar: Communication as Engaged Scholarship. West Virginia University, WV. |
| 2009 | Editorial Advisory Board, Communication and Social Justice book series by Troubador Publishing, Omar Swartz, Editor. |
| 2008-2009 | Vice Chair and Convention Program Planner, Communication Ethics Division, National Communication Association |
| 2008-2009 | Founding Editorial Board Member, Partnerships: A Journal of Service Learning and Civic Engagement, North Carolina Campus Compact. |
| 2008-2009 | Vice Chair, Commission on the Status of Women, City of Greensboro |
| 2005-2008 | UNCG Service-Learning Faculty Fellow |