Pat Ganer
Department of Communication Studies
Cypress College
9200 Valley View St.
Cypress, CA   90630
(714) 484-7000 x 48668
pganer@cypresscollege.edu

Pat Ganer is a Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at Cypress College.  Her major teaching and research interests are in the areas of argumentation and critical thinking, political communication and intercultural communication.  She received her BA and MA in Political Science from USC and UCLA respectively, did graduate work in Speech Communication at California State University Fullerton and received her PhD in Communication from the University of Utah.

Pat first attended the Western convention as an undergraduate, competing in debate at the WSCA Forensics Tournament.  She directed the forensics program at Cypress for 20 years and served as Western’s Speech Activities Coordinator and President of the American Forensic Association.

At both the national and regional levels, Pat has served as an officer in a variety of interest groups and has served on the WSCA Executive Council as 2nd Vice-President, Speech Activities Coordinator and President of the Executives Club.

On campus, Pat has served four terms as President of the Academic Senate, eight years as Chair of the Curriculum Committee and directed the institutional self-study for the college’s last accreditation.

President Elect

Lisa Flores
University of Colorado at Boulder
Department of Communication, 270 UCB
Boulder, CO 80309
303-735-5181
Lisa.flores@colorado.edu

Lisa A Flores is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Colorado. Her research and teaching interests lie in rhetoric, critical race studies, and gender. She has published in Text and Performance Quarterly, Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies, and the Quarterly Journal of Speech. Her most recent work examines the rhetorical dynamics of domination, particularly as manifest in whiteness and masculinity.

First Vice President

Brian L. Ott
Department of Communication
Campus Box 176
University of Colorado Denver
Denver, CO 80217-3364
(303) 556-6719
Brian.Ott@ucdenver.edu

Brian L. Ott (Ph.D., The Pennsylvania State University) teaches media studies courses at the University of Colorado Denver. His chief research interest concerns how media texts equip people to live their everyday lives. Brian's research has appeared in journals such as Critical Studies in Media Communication, Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies, Cultural Studies <=> Critical Methodologies, Rhetoric and Public Affairs, The Journal of Popular Culture, Western Journal of Communication, and Women's Studies in Communication. He is author of The Small Screen: How Television Equips Us to Live in the Information Age and Critical Media Studies: An Introduction (with Robert Mack), as well as a co-editor of It's Not TV: Watching HBO in the Post-Television Era and Places of Public Memory: The Rhetoric of Museums and Memorials. He is a former editor of the Western Journal of Communication.

Second Vice-President

Ann Darling
Associate Professor
2415 LNCO
Department of Communication
University of Utah
Salt Lake City, UT 84112-0491
(801) 581-3912
ann.darling@utah.edu

A native of New Mexico, Professor Darling earned her BA in Secondary Education and MA in Communication at the University of New Mexico, taught high school in New Mexico for three years and earned her PhD at the University of Washington. She held her first faculty appointment at the University of Illinois before joining the faculty at the University of Utah in 1992.

Since joining the University of Utah, she served as the Director of the Center for Teaching & Learning Excellence for six years before becoming chair of the Department of Communication in 2002. She has earned a major campus wide teaching award at each institution in which she has taught culminating in being recognized with the University of Utah’s prestigious Distinguished Teaching Award in 2002.

Professor Darling is actively involved in both WSCA and NCA regularly holding offices and sitting on committees in both associations. Currently she a member of the Executive Committee, Immediate Past Chair of the Communication and Instruction Division, and Chair of the committee to designate an associate wide distinguished teaching award for WSCA. She sits on the Committee to plan the 100th Celebration of NCA. Professor Darling has attended annual conventions for both of these associations every year since 1984.

Her work focuses on questions related to communication and instruction. She has written numerous articles addressing issues of teacher socialization, communication, and instruction. Recently her work as turned to questions about communication education and social justice.

Executive Director

John Reinard
Department of Human Communication Studies
California State University, Fullerton,
Fullerton CA ;92834-6868
657-278-3618;
jreinard@Exchange.fullerton.edu

John Reinard (Ph.D., University of Southern California) taught at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, and Arizona State.University before accepting a professorship at California State Unviersity, Fullerton where he currently is Chair of the Department. A member of WSCA since 1970, he was Chair of six Interest Groups, served or chaired six committees of the Association, served on the editorial boards of nine journals, and nine times had his research listed on "Top Papers" programs at WSCA Conventions. He is the author of eight books in argumenation, statistics, and research methods. His work on Introduction to Communication Research Methods is in its fourth edition, in addition to a Chinese version. He has published or presented more than 100 articles, book chapters, and convention papers mostly in the areas of persuasion, argumentation, and legal communication. He also served as a Master Trainer for Motorola in the area of statistical process control. In his spare time he enjoys theatre, playing the piano, gourmet cooking, and deep sea fishing.