Thomas Mccloskey Email & Phone Number

Silver Spring, MD, US

Gainesville, Florida, United States

Graduate Instructor of Strategic Writing for Public Relations in the Master of Arts in Mass Communication program in the College of Journalism and Communications.

Washington DC-Baltimore Area

• Taught graduate courses on Digital Communication and Civic Engagement.
• Coached and provided feedback on written and oral communication.
• Tutored students on writing and presentation strategies in an online environment.

• Supervised and evaluated 12 faculty from History, Communication, and Philosophydepartments in an online teaching environment for four eight-week terms each year.
• Conducted four online workshops on student engagement and tutoring approaches forundergraduate instructors and faculty support service administrators.
• Assessed and coached faculty on teaching approaches for announcements, discussion boardengagement, and grading feedback each week.

College Park, Maryland, United States

• Taught nearly 1,000 undergraduate students in argumentation, debate, public speaking, and critical thinking courses.
• As an Elevate Faculty Fellow, worked with a team of five faculty and graduate students to assess and redesign the basic communication course, serving over 70 sections of 19-students each term, and oversaw, tracked, and.
• As a Graduate Teaching Fellow, explored issues of disability and accessibility by meeting with university stakeholders around campus with a team of eight graduate students from different departments, and conducted 12.

College Park, Maryland, United States

• Postdoctoral Researcher. Recruited, trained, organized, and supervised 15 Graduate Writing Fellows in the Graduate Writing Center serving a population of 10,000 graduate students.
• Developed the university’s first graduate workshops on written and oral communication, facilitating 12 events a term for graduate students across campus.
• Facilitated four graduate writing retreats and seminars on writing skills each year, serving over 30 graduate students per-session.
• Worked with the Writing Center Director to design and implemented improvements to graduate Writing Center services, including adding online and drop-in appointments to serve more students.

Chula Vista, California, United States

• Coached and mentored undergraduate speech and debate students for competitions.
• Taught undergraduate students in writing, argumentation, and public speaking.

Long Beach, California, United States

• Taught undergraduate public speaking, argumentation, and small group communication courses.
• Coached and mentored team of undergraduate speech and debate students for competitions.

Ochakiv Raion, Mykolayiv, Ukraine

• Full-time English as a Foreign Language teacher at Ochakiv School Number 4, teaching conversational English and grammar to Grades 6-11 and also American Country Studies Literature classes to Grades 9-11.
• Taught diverse topics at summer camps, spearheading teacher-training activities for fellow TEFL Volunteers and writing grants to support various secondary projects, and worked at six different summer camps throughout.

Forest Grove, Oregon, United States

• Coached and mentored a team of undergraduate speech and debate students for competitions.

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Commuication

Doctoral Dissertation: Cold War II: Defining Ukrainian Sovereignty and Identity Advisor: Dr. Shawn Parry-Giles

Master Of Arts - Ma, Communication And Media Studies

Master’s Thesis: Borderland: A Burkean Analysis of the 2010 Ukrainian Presidential Election Advisor: Dr. Craig R. Smith

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba

Bachelor's Thesis: Strike Three: The Racial Implications of America’s Drug War Advisor: Dr. Melissa Buis Michaux