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Dean Karen Kornweibel is delighted to announce that Dr. Emily Scheinfeld has been selected as the 2024-2025 KSU Journey Honors College Faculty Fellow. 
 
Emily Scheinfeld is an associate professor within the School of Communication and Media at Kennesaw State University. She arrived on campus in 2020 and teaches within the Organizational Communication track with courses ranging from interpersonal communication, human communication, public speaking, lying and deception, nonverbal communication, business communication, and health communication. She has mentored students through the First Year Scholar Program, the Sophomore Scholars Program, the Undergraduate Research Club, independent studies, honors capstones, and master’s theses. She has also judged the Student Symposium on campus, worked with colleagues to finetune the school and university curriculum, and is the current advisor for Students Supporting Israel group on campus, and has been involved with Kennesaw Hillel since arriving on campus. 
 
Dr. Scheinfeld received her PhD from The University of Texas at Austin in 2016. Her research centers on how adult children and their parents communicate about difficult health issues, specifically examining how familial health communication differs from everyday family communication and the processes of these challenging health crises. She is currently exploring parent-child final conversations and grief, and the outcomes of these processes at various life stages. Her work is inherently interdisciplinary both inside the classroom and in her research. As fellow of the Honors College this year, she hopes to engage students by encouraging them to explore a variety of topics, engage in interdisciplinary studies, and interact with and be challenged by faculty and students from other departments and schools. Her course on challenging conversations in the fall inherently allows students to do just that, which can also prepare students for the workplace of their dreams by learning to interact with a diverse population, with their own diverse skills, but also how to be a successful citizen. As such, students can make meaningful change as leaders in their communities and their workplace. 
 
 
"As a mentor and teacher, I love working with students of all majors. I enjoy challenging their brains in various ways by showing them new skills, working new muscles, and preparing them for things in their college career and beyond. Through the Honors College fellowship, I’m excited to play an instrumental role in interdisciplinary teaching and connecting classroom experiences to future careers."

-Dr. Emily Scheinfeld