Dr. Heather Hundley
- Communication, Professor
General Information
Biography
Dr. Hundley is the Director and Professor in the School of Communication. Prior to UNO, she served as Department Chair of Communication Studies at Middle Tennessee State University. However, her career began at California State University, San Bernardino where she taught for 17 years.
Teaching Interests
Dr. Hundley enjoys teaching freshmen through graduate students in a variety of classes that typically involve media studies. They include Media and Culture, Digital Media, and Media History. However, she joins this interest with other fields and has taught Masculinity Studies, Feminist Theories, Rhetorical History and Theory, and Communication Law & Policy. She also teaches Exploring Communication Studies and Public Speaking.
Research Interests
The focus of Dr. Hundley's research is social justice. She particularly enjoys studying how a variety of identities are represented in media evident in four of her five books. Her fifth book is a textbook used for Rhetorical Theory. She also enjoys investigating sports, gender, law, pedagogy, and topics that strike her interest.
Service Summary
Service is an integral part of an academic's career and Dr. Hundley has engaged service in a variety of ways. This includes serving as an Assistant Dean, faculty advisor to a campus radio station, graduate coordinator, and graduate teaching coordinator. For the profession she served many roles including President and, later, Executive Director of the Western States Communication Association.
Awards and Honors
Robert T. Reilly Professor, Leadership - 2021
Education
BA, California State University, Sacramento, Sacramento, CA, Communication General, 1992
MA, California State University, Sacramento, Sacramento, CA, Communication General, 1994
Ph D, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, Communication General, 1999
Scholarship/Research/Creative Activity
Selected Publications
Hundley, Heather, Chevrette, Roberta, Jones, Hillary. 2020. Dangerous Dames, Peter Lang.
Borchers, Timothy, Hundley, Heather. 2018. Rhetorical Theory: An Introduction, Waveland Press, 2nd edition.
Hundley, Heather, Hayden, Sara. 2016. Mediated Moms: Contemporary Challenges to the Motherhood Myth, Peter Lang.
Hundley, Heather, Billings, Andrew. 2010. Examining Identity in Sports Media, Sage Publications.
Hundley, Heather, Billings, Andrew. 2010. Views from the Fairway: Media Explorations of Identity in Golf, Hampton Press, Inc..
Service
Administrative Assignments
Director, 08/01/2021