Areas of Expertise: Law, Ethnic Studies (American Indian focus), Social Work, Writing, Negotiation, Mediation, Arbitration UAC Courses: COMM 1270 (Analysis of Argument), COMM 3550 (Principles of Visual Communication), COMM 5300 (Mass Communication Law)

Don MacAngus is an Assistant Professor Lecturer at the University of Utah Asia Campus. He began his teaching career at the Salt Lake City campus, and has been teaching full time for nearly 20 years. He is the longest serving professor at the Utah Asia Campus at Incheon, South Korea.

He holds a JD from the SJ Quinney College of Law, a Masters of Social Work, a Bachelors in Communication, and an AA in Military Science. He is a military veteran, a grandfather, a businessman, a teacher, a lecturer, an author, a world traveler, and a Master Mediator, approved by the Courts of the State of Utah.

UAC Courses: Strategic Communication Theory & Practice, Comm. Theory & Life, Intercultural Comm., PR Cases and Campaigns, Principles of Advertising, Principles of Public Speaking, Special Topics in Strategic Comm.

Dr. Sejin Kim currently serves as Director of the Communication Program at the University of Utah Asia Campus. He received his bachelor's degree from University of Wisconsin-Madison and worked as an actuarial consultant at a U.S. consulting firm located in Seoul. After this professional experience, Dr. Kim decided to pursue his graduate degrees in Communication (M.S. from University of Louisiana and Ph.D. from Colorado State University). His current research interests pertain to strategic message design, persuasion, information processing, and public campaigns (e.g., health, environment, risk, and science). Dr. Kim has published journal articles and book chapters, and also presented papers at various national and international conferences. Through his research work, he would like to contribute to the creation of more effective messages in strategic communication as well as identifying appropriate channels for current and future communication campaigns. Dr. Kim and his wife are lucky to raise fraternal twins. Raising the twins offers them one more special reason to positively contribute back to the global community. Dr. Kim enjoys visiting beautiful national parks and meeting new friends from different parts of the world.

Dr. Jaehyeon Jeong is an Assistant Professor (Lecturer) at The University of Utah Asia Campus. Previously, he taught in the Klein College of Media and Communication at Temple University, where he received his Ph.D in Mass Media and Communication. He obtained his bachelor’s degree in Anthropology from Seoul National University and master’s degrees in Visual Communication and in Media, Culture, and Communication from Yonsei University and New York University, respectively. Dr. Jeong’s broad research program stands at the intersection of critical cultural studies, media industry studies, and global communication. He has published multiple peer-reviewed journal articles, monographs, edited book, book chapters, and online essays on Korean television, media globalization, diasporic identity, food and nationalism, comics industry/culture, etc. Dr. Jeong is teaching Kickstart to Communication, Principles of Visual Communication, Video Production I, and Globalization and Media at the University of Utah Asia Campus.

Areas of Expertise: digital journalism/technology, scholastic journalism, fake news issues, public relations, constitutional law UAC Courses: COMM 1130 (Media Writing), COMM 1610 (Intro to News Reporting), COMM 3555 Digital Journalism, COMM 4590 Writing for Strategic Communication, COMM 4670 (Specialty Reporting), COMM 5630 (Mass Communication History)

Jeffrey Hedrick is an Assistant Professor (Journalism Lecturer) of Communication at the University of Utah Asia Campus. He received his Ph.D. from Bowling Green State University (2006) and a Master of Journalism from Temple University (2002). His areas of specialization include journalism, public relations, technology, and constitutional law. His research interests include adoption/use of mobile technologies, perceptions of fake news outlets, how smaller to midsize newspapers cover news, assessment of learning outcomes (scholastic journalism and accreditation issues), and public perceptions of online organizations (website confusion). Prior to his current position, he served at department chair for a smaller HBCU in Texas for five years and taught at an ACEJMC-accredited smaller program in Alabama. He also served as a webmaster for various organizations and was an amateur radio station DJ for eight years. Originally from southern California, he has a desire to visit all 50 states (40 thus far) and every major national park in America. His hobbies include collecting music CDs, coin collecting, and hiking. He hopes to continue visiting parks and hiking in Korea.

Prior to joining the UAC, C-H Kim (Ph.D. in Marketing, University of Oregon) was on the faculty in the School of Communication, Sogang University, serving as Dean, Director, Chair and other administrative positions. His major research interests include marketing communication, advertising, brand management, and consumer psychology. He has published research papers in academic journals such as Journal of Academy of Marketing Science, Journal of Business Research, Journal of Advertising, Mass Communication and Society, and Current Issues and Research in Advertising and served as co-editor for Creating Images and the Psychology of Marketing Communication. In addition, he has presented research papers at major international research conferences such as ICA, AEJMC, ACR, AMA, AMS, ACP as well as Korean conferences and has published more than 40 research articles in Korean academic journals. His industry collaborations include consulting for corporations such as SK Telecom, POSCO, and several major ad agencies in Korea such as Cheil Comm., Daehong Comm., and HS Ad among others and working for government organizations including the City of Seoul as a consultant and served as a board member at Korea Broadcasting Advertising Corporation(KOBACO). For academic community services, he served as chief editor of the Korean Journal of Adverting and the Advertising Research (Korean), and acted as co-chair of Advertising and Consumer Psychology(ACP) Conference which was held in Seoul. Currently, he is teaching Absolute Communication at the UAC, and graduate courses at Sogang University as professor emeritus and serves as Chair of Board, Kiturami Culture and Scholarship Foundation.

UAC Courses: COMM 1020 – Public Speaking

Marisa Hill has been teaching communication for almost 20 years. She enjoys teaching about the thing we do more than anything else — communication. She teaches courses related to public communication, rhetorical analysis, persuasion in everyday life, and communication theories. Marisa has also taught at Boise State University, Texas A&M University and Idaho State University. She is a PhD Candidate from Texas A&M University. Her research interests range from the First Amendment Right of Petition (the “forgotten right”) to social movement rhetoric to war rhetoric to public presentation in different cultures. In other words, studying communication in times of change and through various contexts. Marisa was recently awarded a Fulbright-Hays Fellowship to participate in a group project in Taiwan where she will study public speaking norms and pedagogy in different cultures (now projected for June 2021). In Idaho, she helped create a pilot public speaking training course in conjunction with Jim Poston for the initial Boise Refugee Speaker’s Bureau, through the Idaho Office of Refugees (2015). This volunteer course helped provide refugees specialized training to aid them as they engage in public dialogue and advocacy. She continues to work with refugee families and agencies. Although she still claims Texas as “home,” and lived in Idaho for 15 years before coming to UAC, she is delighted to be living and teaching in Korea. Marisa enjoys spending time with her family; they love water sports, hiking, trying new restaurants, camping, and watching college sports. They have a goal to visit all of the National Parks. They look forward to doing all of those very same things, but in Korea!