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In coordination with an undergraduate-run organization called Students Teaching Students, CAS department faculty members mentor exemplary students who develop and teach 1-credit courses on a variety of subjects that advance expertise in communication and its role in public life. This semester, Associate Teaching Professor Lori Bedell is supporting undergraduates Kara Miller (who was in Lori’s RCL course a few years back) and Jess Strait as they teach a course titled “Period Talk: The Impact of Stigma on the Menstrual Equity Movement.”
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Tim Michaels

Assistant Teaching Professor of Communication Arts and Sciences
trm5449@psu.edu
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Curriculum Vitae

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Curriculum Vitae

https://cas.la.psu.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/8/2022/04/TimMichaels_CV_2024Feb.docx

Education

B.S., Clarion University, 2009
M.A., Duquesne University, 2013
Ph.D., Duquesne University, 2019

Professional Bio

Tim Michaels specializes in argumentation, debate, and political rhetoric, focusing on the public function of argument and the challenges of environmental advocacy. He has worked with several intercollegiate debate and forensics teams and organizations, including the Penn State Speech and Debate Society, and currently serves on the executive council of the National Educational Debate Association. His research interests also focus on qualitative, interpretive, and philosophical approaches to the rhetoric of mental health, especially exploring the relationship between communication and loneliness. He has several publications which probe how various mediums of communication interrelate with suicide and affect mental health and feelings of loneliness. Tim currently teaches effective speech (CAS 100).