Jarman, Bannister receive appointments at Wichita State Jarman, Bannister receive appointments at Wichita State

Jeffrey Jarman has been named director of the Elliott School of Communication. He has served as interim director since fall 2016. Jarman's primary research interests are analyses of political deliberations within the public sphere, including the influence of political debates and fact-checking on the public. He teaches courses in strategic communication, political communication and research methods.

Jarman is also the director of Wichita State's competitive debate. Since 1999, he has authored the annual overview of the new high school debate topic used by thousands of high school debaters around the nation.

Andi Bannister, professor of criminal justice, has been named interim director of the School of Community Affairs.

Bannister serves concurrently as director of the federally funded Regional Community Policing Institute at Wichita State. She has been awarded more than $8 million in federal grants during the past 10 years. She has conducted research in Europe and Asia, provided training on computer crime and community policing to the Royal Thai Police, and provided training and technical assistance to a wide range of police agencies, notably in Kansas and Nebraska.

Bannister is an academic fellow with the Washington, D.C.-based Foundation for the Defense of Democracies and has studied terrorism issues in Israel with police, military and intelligence organizations as part of that fellowship.
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Contact: Jeffrey Jarman, 316-978-6075 or jeffrey.jarman@wichita.edu; or Andi Bannister, at 316-978-5896 or andra.bannister@wichita.edu.