Honors Program Director, Communication Studies
Dr. Tiffany Gallicano is an associate professor and director of the Department of Communication Studies’ Honors Program. She teaches undergraduate classes such as Communication Foundations, Principles of Public Relations, Public Relations Ethics, Public Relations Writing, and Personal Branding and Social Media Management. She also teaches Public Relations Theory to graduate students. One of her favorite teaching quotes is, “The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be ignited” by Plutarch.
Dr. Gallicano received her master’s and doctoral degrees from the University of Maryland and worked at the University of Oregon for nine years as an assistant professor and then as an associate professor, where she won the Jonathan Marshall Award for Innovative Teaching from the School of Journalism and Communication.
She has professional public relations experience in nonprofit organizations, political campaigns and public relations agencies. She is a past head of the PR Division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC). Currently, she is the chair of the Standing Committee on Teaching for AEJMC and serves on the organization’s board of directors.
In her research role, she has authored and co-authored 26 refereed journal articles in the areas of relationship management, social media, ethics and pedagogy. She has won nine awards for her scholarship. Currently, she is writing papers based on a half-million, three-year grant she was awarded with an interdisciplinary team from the Department of Defense, which focuses on how messages spread on social media following shocking events.