Dr. Tom Carmody

The Communication Department’s Legacy

December 20, 2019

I attended both the Religious Communication Association’s (RCA) national convention and the National Communication Association’s (NCA) national convention in Baltimore, MD from November 13-18, 2019. I have been a member of both organizations since 1984 and have enjoyed presenting papers, chairing and responding to panels, as I did this year, together with learning from fellow…Read More

Mentoring Does Not End When Students Graduate

November 22, 2018

I attended both the Religious Communication Association’s (RCA) national convention and the National Communication Association’s (NCA) national convention in Salt Lake City, UT from November 7-11, 2018. The 2018 theme was Communication at Play. I have been a member of both organizations since 1984 and have enjoyed presenting papers, chairing and responding to panels, as I did…Read More

Dr. Tom Carmody

Professor of Communication

Dr. Thomas Carmody is the longest-serving faculty member in the Department of Communication. He was hired as an adjunct professor in the fall of 1986 to coach the forensics team (speech and debate) and became a full time faculty member in the Fall of 1989. He was granted tenure in 1994. He continued teaching and coaching forensics until 1994 when he gave up the forensics team to assume additional teaching and administrative responsibilities within the Department. He has an earned doctorate in communication from Regent University in Virginia. He has been actively involved in National Communication Association since 1984 presenting numerous convention papers and has also served on the Executive Council of the national Religious Communication Association (RCA). Dr. Carmody’s research interests range from 19th century sermonic rhetoric to comic books and graphic novels and his work has been published by InterVarsity Press, Brill and Praeger.

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