Rate My Professor Hannah Deuyour

Hannah Deuyour serves as Collegiate Assistant Professor and Associate Director in the School of Communication within the College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech). She joined the faculty in 2010 and was appointed Associate Director effective July 3, 2023, succeeding Douglas Cannon. In this role, she contributes to the school's operations and student services. Previously, she chaired the School of Communication honorifics committee since 2019 and advised student organizations including Lambda Pi Eta, the National Communication Association's official honor society, and Spark, a group for creatives across art mediums. Deuyour also holds the position of Associate Director and Collegiate Assistant Professor at the Whole Health Consortium at Virginia Tech. She is the designated contact for several academic programs, including the Communication major, Public Relations major, Sports Media and Analytics major, Advertising minor, and Strategic Communication minor.

Deuyour earned her Ph.D. in communication and information from the University of Tennessee and her master’s degree in public health from Virginia Tech. She is a Certified Health Education Specialist (CHES®). Her teaching portfolio encompasses principles of public relations, issue management in public relations, introduction to health communication, issues in health communication, and graduate-level health communication courses. She developed the undergraduate Pathways minor in health communication and introduced a new graduate health communication class, while actively working on a graduate certificate program in health communication. These efforts provide students with essential tools to disseminate health information across diverse settings, fostering health literacy amid heightened post-pandemic interest in the field. A first-generation college student from Wytheville, Virginia—a Southwest Virginia native—Deuyour is committed to supporting similar students. She received the PRSA Shooting Star Award in 2021 for her contributions. Additionally, she engages in higher education pedagogy, presenting at events like the Conference on Higher Education Pedagogy.