Faculty

Nobleza Asuncion-Lande Mary Banwart Nancy Baym Tom D. Beisecker Kristine Bruss Diana B. Carlin Jay Childers Michael Dennis

Paul G. Friedman Jeffrey Hall Scott Harris Mary Lee Hummert Adrianne Kunkel Beth Manolescu Donn Parson

Dorthy Pennington Robert C. Rowland Tracy Russo Amy Schmisseur Dave Tell Yan Bing Zhang Emeritus Faculty

Tracy Callaway Russo Email: trusso@ku.edu Voice: 785-864-9877 Office: 104A Bailey Hall Edwards Campus voice: 913-897-8417

Associate Professor, Ph.D., University of Kansas
Dr. Russo's research focuses on communication behaviors in mediated environments, especially focusing on group member attachments to others in online teams and groups and in online classes and on how these attachment affect organizational outcomes. She taught the first completely online class in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. She was formerly Vice President of Knight-Ridder Financial Information. She is the director of the department's MA program at the Edwards Campus of the U of Kansas in Overland Park. In Fall 2000 Dr. Russo was selected as a finalist for the HOPE award, in the Spring of 2001 was selected as a Carnegie Scholar, and in 2003 received a Kemper Award for teaching and advising excellence.

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