Dr. Michael Rowley
Associate Professor of Communication
Dr. Rowley holds a Ph.D. in
communication theory and research from Florida State University, where his
studies focused on behavioral psychology, persuasion, public speaking, and
research methods.He received his B.A.
in public speaking and his M.A. in theory, persuasion,
and public speaking from the University of Central Florida.
Before coming to Huntington University in 1997, he served as instructor
of speech and statistics at Bainbridge College in Georgia.
He has presented papers at the American Cultural
Association, the Southern States Communication Association, the Association
for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, and the National Council
of Family Relations on topics as wide-ranging as "Synchronous and
Asynchronous Forums in Cyberspace for Theoretical Dialectic" and
"Spirituality and Religiosity as Factors in Adolescents' Risk for
Anti-Social Behaviors and Use of Resilient Behaviors." He is published in
both popular and scholarly venues, an example of which is "Critical Thinking
in the Classroom: An Entertaining Approach" for The Teaching Professor.
His dissertation is a statistical analysis of"Channel and Multiple
Sources: An Examination of Peripheral Cues." Dr. Rowley brings to the
classroom the relational skills he honed as a youth director in four
Methodist churches in Florida and Georgia. Mike and his wife Terra, a
music therapist,
live in rural Huntington County, Indiana, with their two children. The
Rowleys attend College Park United Brethren in Christ Church.
