Beau Bingham
Department of Communication and Journalism
Senior Lecturer, Director of the Oral Communication Center
Beau Bingham (M.A., New Mexico State University, 2002) is the director of the Oral Communication Center and a senior lecturer in the Department of Communication and Journalism. His academic interests include apprehension, public speaking, interpersonal communication, business & professional communication and computer-mediated communication, specifically the influence social validation plays in society and the media equation.
Beau enjoys outdoor activities, including hunting, fishing, camping and animals. The most exotic animal Beau has ever owned is an elk. However, today most of his time is spent with two border collies named Chip and Bear.
Beau holds several communication awards from leadership conferences in Idaho, Texas and Pennsylvania. However, his real love is in the classroom where he earned the Blaine Goss Teaching Award. When not in the classroom, Beau can be found working one-on-one with students in the Oral Communication Center.
