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Associate Professor of Mass Communication; Director, Communication Research Center

Michelle Amazeen, Ph.D.

Research interests: Recognition of and reactions to persuasion, particularly in covert contexts, and inoculation to influence

Chris Beaudoin, Ph.D.

Research interests: Influence of mediated communication on social and health outcomes

Nivea Canalli Bona, Ph.D.

Research interests: Communication in Grassroots and Social Movements, Community, Popular, Alternative and Local Media, Activism and Participatory Media Literacy, Communication for Development.

T. Barton Carter, J.D.

Research interests: First amendment, communication law, new communication technologies

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Assistant Professor, Department of Mass Communication, Advertising & Public Relations

Katy Coduto, Ph.D

James Cummings, Ph.D.

Research interests: Human-computer interaction, psychological processing of media, multitasking, emotion, motivation, physiological responses

Anne Danehy, M.A.

Research interests: Political persuasion, health care behavior and motivation, public health prevention messaging research

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Assistant Professor of Journalism and Emerging Media Studies

Joan Donovan, Ph.D.

Research interests: The ways that people incorporate and repurpose everyday technologies to meet social and political ends.

Edward Downes, Ph.D.

Research interests: Congressional and political communication, nonprofit PR, social effects of media

Michael Elasmar, Ph.D.

Research interests: Belief systems, media impact, intergroup perceptions, international communication, intercultural communication, public diplomacy

Roy Grundmann, Ph.D.

Research interests: Film and media in modernist and postmodernist contexts, history of narrative cinema, art cinema, avant-garde film and experimental media

Traci Hong, Ph.D.

Research interests: New media effects and processes, particularly in the context of health

Charlotte Howell, Ph.D.

Research interests: Religion and television, broadcast history, production studies, cultural studies, and genre studies

Juwon Hwang, Ph.D.

Research interests: Health Communication, new communication technology, health interventions, underserved populations

Master Lecturer, Department of Mass Communication, Advertising & Public Relations

Dana Janbek, Ph.D.

Research interests: ICT use by refugee populations, global terrorism and new media

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Associate Professor of Film and Television

Deborah Jaramillo, Ph.D.

Research interests: Television studies, television history, political economy of communication, media industries, television news

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Assistant Professor, Mass Communication, Advertising, and Public Relations

Yi Grace Ji, Ph.D.

James E. Katz, Ph.D.

Research interests: Uses and social consequences of emerging communication technologies

Arunima Krishna, Ph.D.

Research interests: Publics’ communication behaviors related to controversial social issues, particularly issues related to scientific knowledge

Assistant Professor of Public Relations

Ejae Lee, Ph.D.

Research interests: Authenticity in corporate communication, corporate social responsibility, corporate social advocacy, organization-public relationships

Assistant Professor of Emerging Media

Ayse Lokmanoglu, Ph.D.

Research interests: Political communication, social media, computational methods, critical computational studies

Assistant Professor of Media Science

AnneMarie McClain, Ph.D.

Research interests: Children’s media, educational media, family-child communication, media representation, anti-bias education

William McKeen, Ph.D.

Research interests: Journalism, literary journalism

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Affiliated fellow, Universidad de los Andes

Pablo Miño, Ph.D.

Patrice Oppliger, Ph.D.

Research interests: Persuasion theories, media effects, influence of the media and popular culture on adolescents

Chris Chao Su, Ph.D.

Research interests: media audiences, social media, comparative approaches, computational methods

Tammy Vigil, Ph.D.

Research interests: Political communication, rhetoric, popular culture, political debates and media effects

Chris Wells, Ph.D.

Research interests: Political communication, civic participation, interactive media

Donald Wright, Ph.D.

Research interests: Communication ethics, employee communication and social media

H. Denis Wu, Ph.D.

Research interests: Political communication, media effects, international communication

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Professor and Chair, Department of Mass Communication, Advertising, and Public Relations

Sung-Un Yang, Ph.D.

Research interests: Strategic communication management, including organization-public relationships, organizational reputation management, social media communication effectiveness, and public diplomacy

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Assistant Professor

Cen April Yue, Ph.D.

Research interests: Public relations, internal workplace communication, leadership communication, corporate social responsibility and ethics

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