The School of Communication's 2025 Investiture ceremony was indeed a time for celebration! The
#NUSoC recognized five stand-out faculty members and their achievements with named professorships.
The faculty honored, and their invested professorships, are as follows (as pictured left to right in the final photo):
-Mary Zimmerman (C81; GC84, 87), professor of performance studies and a Tony Award-winning director of stage, holds a prestigious Board of Trustees Professorship.
-Todd Rosenthal, professor of theatre and renowned set designer, is the Jaharis Family Foundation Professor
-Aymar Jean Christian, professor of communication studies and new media scholar, holds the Margaret Walker Chair
-Leslie Dechurch, professor and chair of the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders now holds the Sheikh Hamad Bin Khalifa Al Thani Chair in Communication
-Heather Hendershot, professor of communication studies with a joint appointment in the Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integr...