Dreama G. Moon

Dreama G. Moon is a Professor of Communication in the Department of Communication & Media Studies at California State University San Marcos. She currently serves as Faculty Director for Inclusive Excellence for the campus, demonstrating her deep commitment to equity and justice initiatives. With an interdisciplinary background spanning communication, human relations, and criminal justice, Dr. Moon brings a unique perspective to her teaching and research in critical intercultural communication.

Dr. Moon's educational background includes:

• Ph.D. in Communication from Arizona State University (1998)
• M.A. in Human Relations and Organizational Development
• B.A. in Criminal Justice

Her research focuses on the communicative processes by which relations of domination are constructed, negotiated, reproduced, and resisted, with special attention to race and white supremacy. Working within a critical intercultural/human rights framework, Dr. Moon examines how power operates through discourse to maintain systems of inequality. Her scholarship critically engages with whiteness studies, gender and communication, and social identity formation, challenging conventional understandings of race relations in contemporary society. She has developed innovative courses such as The Communication of Whiteness (COMM 454) and Power, Discourse, and Social Identity (COMM 430) that address these critical issues directly.

Dr. Moon's publications reveal consistent engagement with critical race theory, whiteness studies, and intercultural communication. Her work spans multiple decades examining how racial hierarchies are maintained and challenged through communication practices, from early work on "Concepts of culture" (1996) to more recent analyses of "Be/coming white" (2016) in the colorblind era. Her research demonstrates methodological diversity across rhetorical analysis, critical discourse analysis, and cultural studies approaches.

Throughout her career, Dr. Moon has demonstrated exceptional commitment to social justice applications of communication scholarship. Her practical contributions include starting the first battered women's group for incarcerated women in the country, serving as a National Partner in Communicating Common Ground (an anti-hate initiative of the National Communication Association), developing the Annual Whiteness Forum, and launching the Words Matter campaign. These initiatives reflect her belief in the transformative potential of communication scholarship to address systemic inequities.

Dr. Moon teaches a variety of courses including Intercultural Communication (COMM 330), The Communication of Whiteness (COMM 454), Gender and Communication (COMM 435), Power, Discourse, and Social Identity (COMM 430), and Research Methods and Design (COMM 390), demonstrating her commitment to educating students about critical issues of identity, power, and communication.