Professor
B.S. Saint Xavier’s College
M.S. University of Kansas
Ph.D. University of Kansas
Prior
to joining LMU, Professor Roy served as a tenured associate professor
in the Department of Communication and Culture at Howard University. His
teaching interests are in intercultural communication, communication
theory, rhetorical theory and criticism, ethical/philosophical issues in
communication studies, and intercultural rhetoric.
Professor Roy is the author of the book: Selling Stereotypes: Images of Women in Indian Television Commercials. He has published articles in numerous refereed journals, including Communication
Studies, International and Intercultural Communication Annual, Journal
of Applied Communication, Journal of Popular Culture, Language and
Intercultural Communication, Southern Communication Journal, The Howard
Journal of Communications, and the Western Journal of Communication, to name a few.
He has received several prestigious awards for his research and
scholarship, including Howard University’s John H. Johnson School of
Communication’s 2006 Exemplar Award for Excellence in Research, Teaching
and Mentoring; 2003 B. Aubrey Fisher Best Article Award from the
Western States Communication Association; Researcher of the Year Award,
Howard University’s John H. Johnson School of Communications, 2002, and
the Ralph Cooley Award for Top Paper from International and
Intercultural Communication Division, National Communication
Association, 2002, among others. He has served on the editorial board of
several prestigious journals, including Communication Theory, Communication Studies, Kenneth Burke Journal, The Howard Journal of Communications, and the Language and Intercultural Communication Journal.
Professor
Roy’s current research focuses on the rhetorical dimensions of
nationalist identity movements and philosophical/ethical issues in
intercultural communication theory and research.
Contact
email
Ext. 87403