UNC Department of Communication

UNC Department of Communication Engage. Create. Critique. 🐑 The Department of Communication includes 35 faculty, 55 graduate students, and over 750 undergraduate majors.

Through teaching, research and service, the Department of Communication: addresses the many ways communication functions to create, sustain, and transform personal life, social relations, political institutions, economic organizations, and cultural and aesthetic conventions in society; promotes competencies required for various modes of mediated and non-mediated communication; and develops skills

for analyzing, interpreting, and critiquing communication problems and questions. The Department and personnel are recognized for significant contributions to the profession, the University, state, and nation. The Department of Communication supports the University's core values encouraging diversity and equal educational and employment opportunities throughout the University community. These values are articulated in the University's non-discrimination policy and by the office of Diversity and Multicultural Affairs.

What a moment for our Tar Heels 🤩🩵 Congratulations to the Class of 2026! You did it 🎓
05/10/2026

What a moment for our Tar Heels 🤩🩵 Congratulations to the Class of 2026! You did it 🎓

04/20/2026

This past Friday, held its Annual Undergraduate Research Symposium where over 20 students presented their senior theses, films, game designs, sound designs, essays, performances and photo installations to a public audience.

Congratulations to all of our participants this year!

Congratulations to our 2025-2026 Student Award recipients🎖️Family, friends, and colleagues gathered in Swain Hall’s Bl...
04/20/2026

Congratulations to our 2025-2026 Student Award recipients🎖️

Family, friends, and colleagues gathered in Swain Hall’s Black Box Theatre on Friday, April 17 to celebrate in the accomplishments of our undergraduate and graduate students’ success.

COMM Day is this Friday! Join in Swain Hall starting at 10am to check out various films, game and sound designs, essay...
04/13/2026

COMM Day is this Friday! Join in Swain Hall starting at 10am to check out various films, game and sound designs, essays, performances and more from our students! There will be panels in the Black Box Theatre, Room 104 and an installation of works in the lobby until 1pm. See slide 5 for schedule ⏩️

Following COMM Day, we’ll induct the newest members into the Lambda Pi Eta Honor Society. And then we’ll cap the day off with our Student Awards ceremony. All events will take place in Swain Hall.

Friday is a big day for . Come out to celebrate a great academic year!

🗓️: Friday, April 17
🏛️: Swain Hall
🕒: COMM Day 10am-1pm, LPH Induction 1:30-2:00, Student Awards 3:00-4:30pm

We’re excited to announce UNC alum and film executive Tom Quinn as our 2026 departmental commencement speaker. He’s a 19...
04/06/2026

We’re excited to announce UNC alum and film executive Tom Quinn as our 2026 departmental commencement speaker. He’s a 1993 alum and the Chief Executive Officer of NEON, boasting over 30 Academy Award nominations and 11 wins.

’s spring commencement ceremony will be held May 10th at 11am in Memorial Hall.

(Photo by Getty Images)

📚 Join us for a special faculty spotlight event featuring COMM professor and author, Dr. Lisa Calvente.Dr. Calvente will...
03/23/2026

📚 Join us for a special faculty spotlight event featuring COMM professor and author, Dr. Lisa Calvente.

Dr. Calvente will deliver a conversational talk on her 2025 book, Moving Blackness: Black Circulation, Racism, and Relations of Homespace, in conversation with Dr. Antonia Randolph (American Studies, UNC) and Dr. Guadalupe García (Urban Studies, UCSD).

This event is free and open to the public. CLE credit is available.

🗓️ April 10 at 3pm
📍 MAS Room 112

🎬 TV writer and producer Bill Martin will join the department of communication for an alumni spotlight event. This live ...
03/12/2026

🎬 TV writer and producer Bill Martin will join the department of communication for an alumni spotlight event. This live audience interview will be moderated by Joy Goodwin, the screenwriting minor program director.

🗓️ March 24
🕠 5:30pm
🏛️ Howell Hall, Room 115

Students can receive CLE credit for attending. This event is free and open to the public.

Let’s give rounds and rounds of applause for some recent news 👏👏1️⃣ + 2️⃣ Slides: Congratulations to PhD candidate, Ka...
02/26/2026

Let’s give rounds and rounds of applause for some recent news 👏👏

1️⃣ + 2️⃣ Slides: Congratulations to PhD candidate, Kayla Corbin, and PhD alumnus, Dr. Zari Taylor on their recently published article, Pawns of war: misogynoir, hip hop and cancel culture, in Social Semiotics.

Slide 3️⃣ - Congratulations to Dr. Daniel Russo on the successful defense of his dissertation, Gaming the Market: The Federal Reserve’s Management of Crisis Through Neo-liberal Governmentality, Bio-politics, and the State-of-Exception.

Slide 4️⃣ - PhD candidate Stephanie Kaczynski received Top Student Paper Award/Top Debut Paper Award from the Activism, Communication Ethics & Social Justice Interest Group.

Slide 5️⃣ - Assistant Professor Dr. David Dooling received Top Panel Award from the Health Communication Interest Group

02/20/2026

🖼️ WE HAVE ALWAYS BEEN HERE: AN IMPERFECT HISTORY OF BLACKNESS & QUEERNESS is now on display on the first floor of Bingham Hall! This exhibition was curated by American Studies doctoral candidate, Simiyha Garrison for the 25th Anniversary Black Q***r Studies Conference held last spring, hosted by .

This exhibition serves as a synopsis of the academic and cultural evolution of Black and q***r studies over three centuries.

Beginning before emancipation, it explores national movements and cultural shifts, examining the intersections of Blackness and q***rness in daily life and the cultural imaginary.

Featuring works by Black feminist scholars, activists, and q***r theorists, it includes archival photographs, oral histories, academic texts, and key figures.

Come check it out!

Always a Tar Heel 🐏🩵Thanks to the alums of and the former Department of Radio, Television and Motion Pictures (RTVMP) ...
02/10/2026

Always a Tar Heel 🐏🩵

Thanks to the alums of and the former Department of Radio, Television and Motion Pictures (RTVMP) for joining us for our Back to Bingham Alumni Brunch. Faculty, staff and alums gathered to connect and share in memories of their time at UNC and in Bingham Hall.

Faculty emeritus Dr. Dick Elam (1977-1991) was honored with a plaque, received by daughter Mickey in attendance. Monty Hagler ’88 was recognized as a 2026 Distinguished COMM Alum award recipient.

Photos by Violet Worzella. Full gallery on homepage.

📽️ Our first CLE event of the spring semester will be a screening of Freight: The Five Incarnations of Abel Green by COM...
01/27/2026

📽️ Our first CLE event of the spring semester will be a screening of Freight: The Five Incarnations of Abel Green by COMM’s Piller Professor of the Practice, Howard L. Craft. Stick around afterward for a Q&A session with Howard, Joseph Megel (director) and star of the production, J. Alphonse Nicholson who is best known for his role on Starz’s “P-Valley”. This event is free and open to the public. CLE credit is available.

🗓️ FEBRUARY 12 @ 5PM
📍 SONJA HAYES STONE CENTER THEATRE

Photos 1-3 by Jonathan Benavente

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