Graduate Faculty Researchers at the College
Administrators
- Dean H. Dan O'Hair (University of Oklahoma): Organizational communication, health communication, and risk communication
- Associate Dean for Graduate Programs Tim L. Sellnow (Wayne State University): Risk and crisis communication
- Chair of the Department of Communication and Associate Dean for Research Nancy Harrington (University of Kentucky): Health communication and interpersonal communication
- Director of the School of Journalism & Telecommunications Beth Barnes (Northwestern University): Advertising and marketing communications
- Director of the School of Library & Infrmation Science Jeff Huber (University of Pittsburgh): Health information outreach, health information literacy, consumer health informatics, community health informatics, health sciences information and communication
Research Staff
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College Grants Officer: Diana Burdette
Department of Communication
- Michael Arrington (University of South Florida): Health communication, narrative inquiry, interpersonal and family communication, communicating social report, communication and race/ethnicity, and African American studies
- Douglas Boyd (University of Minnesota): Comparative systems of broadcasting, international broadcasting, broadcasting and national development, and new media technology
- Elisia L. Cohen (University of Southern California): Health and risk communication, mass media and culture, and public argument
- Pamela Cupp (University of Kentucky): Instructional communication, health interventions, metacognition and sensation seeking
- Alan DeSantis (Indiana University): Critical, social and rhetorical theory and criticism
- Don Helme (University of Kentucky): Health campaigns, persuasive messages, adolescent substance abuse, anti-tobacco coalitions, physician-patient communication
- J. David Johnson (Michigan State University): Information seeking, health communication, innovation, network analysis and organizational communication
- Derek Lane (University of Oklahoma): Message reception, instructional communication, interpersonal communication, and group communication
- Seth Noar (University of Rhode Island): Health behavior change, safer sexual behavior, theoretical models, gender, methodology and statistics
- Phil Palmgreen (University of Michigan): Audience uses of mass communication, media effects, and communication campaigns
- Caroline Rankin (University of Texas, Austin): Interpersonal communication and personal relationships, relational history, conflict, emotion, STD prevention, communication theory and methodology
- Kevin Real (Texas A&M University): Organizational communication, group communication, health communication
- Deanna D. Sellnow (University of North Dakota): Instructional communication, music as communication
- Laura Stafford (University of Texas at Austin): Interpersonal communication, relational communication, relationship maintenance, long-distance relationships.
School of Journalism and Telecommunications
- Chike Anyaegbunam (University of Iowa): Communication and international development, integrated strategic communication, new media technologies and rural development, rural health communication, participatory communication research and people empowerment
- Al Cross: Director of the Institute for Rural Journalism and Community Issues
- Deborah Chung (Indiana University): Visual communication, implications/effects of communication technologies on journalism practice and culture, and interactive features on news websites
- Jim Hertog (University of Minnesota): Political economy of the mass media, advertising and society, social marketing and information campaigns
- Phillip Hutchison (University of Utah): Media history; media, culture and society; the relationship between theories of narrative, media forms, and media framing
- Bobi Ivanov (University of Oklahoma): Influence of mass media communication, message processing, resistance to influence (particularly inoculation)
- Yung Soo Kim (Southern Illinois University at Carbondale): Visual communication, international communication, multimedia productions
- Richard Labunski (University of California-Santa Barbara; J.D. Seattle University School of Law): Media law, new media technology and the First Amendment
- Tom Lindlof (University of Texas): Social uses and effects of media, cognition and mediated communication, cultural studies of communication, and qualitative research methods
- Mark Stuhlfaut (Michigan State University): Creativity and the socially creative processes in advertising
- Zixue Tai (University of Minnesota-Twin Cities): Global media and communication, social impact of new media, social network analysis
- Chan Yun Yoo (University of Texas at Austin): Consumer behavior and marketing communications, interactive advertising, and advertising media planning
School of Library and Information Science
- Dennis Carrigan (M.P.A., Harvard; M.S.L.S., University of Kentucky) Assistant Director of the School of Library & Information Science: Library management issues and problems to include the problem that serials present to the academic library, collection development
- Donald O. Case (Stanford University): Information-seeking behavior, information technologies, telecommunications policy, social uses and effects of computers
- Sujin Kim (University of Pittsburgh): Information systems and technology, database management and warehousing, information seeking behavior, health science librarianship, and medical informatics
- Rebecca Miller (Emporia State University): Intercultural knowledge transfer, research methods, needs assessment and evaluation, knowledge transfer in non-profit/volunteer organizations
- Lisa O'Connor (Kent State): The cultural foundations of library science, information literacy, assessment and business librarianship
- Stephanie D. Reynolds (University of North Texas): Young adult literature, bibliotherapy, bibliocognition, response to literature in social networks
- Kwan Yi (McGill University): Information retrieval and automatic text categorization of digital information