Faculty Research Interests
Our faculty interests range across a number of topics, with particular emphasis in: interpersonal,
organizational, health, intercultural, rhetoric, performance, and communication in the digital age.
Dr. Bradley Adame: Crisis/risk communication, social influence and message design, issues related to public health and community sustainability.
Dr. Elissa Adame: Leadership communication, organizational training and change, organizational learning, especially in healthcare contexts.
Dr. Jess Alberts: Conflict, division of labor, workplace bullying, humor/teasing, women and negotiation.
Dr. Benjamin Broome: Facilitation, dialogue, peacebuilding, intercultural conflict.
Dr. Pauline Hope Cheong: Social and cultural implications of communication technologies including digital and social media, Big Data, Internet of Things and Artificial Intelligence, changing knowledge, learning, and authority, religious and voluntary organizations.
Dr. Steve Corman: Organizational communication, strategic communication, networks, framing, narrative, computational modeling, and terrorism.
Pauline Davies: Science communication and broadcasting, science in society, cancer and physical sciences communication.
Dr. Olga Idriss Davis: Health equity, identity and culture, critical health communication, diaspora performance.
Dr. Sarah “Amira” De la Garza: Culture and identity, spirituality and postcolonial/performance ethnography.
Dr. Uttaran Dutta: Intercultural communication, communication for development and social change, grassroots innovation, health communication, communication design, visual communication, science communication and environmental communication.
Dr. Belle Edson: Contemporary rhetorical studies, feminist theory, the rhetoric of social movements and performance studies.
Dr. Laura Guerrero: Relational communication, nonverbal, emotion.
Dr. Heewon Kim: Communication technologies, health communication, and organizational communication.
Dr. Benjamin LeMaster: Critical/cultural communication studies, performance studies, identity and cultural performance, intersectional queer of color and transfeminist criticism, popular culture including horror and monstrosity.
Dr. Linda Lederman: Health communication, alcoholism and recovery communication, experience-based learning.
Jennifer Linde: Artistic director and coordinator of performance activities at The Empty Space.
Dr. Paul Mongeau: Interpersonal communication and social influence.
Dr. Clark Olson: Civil Communication.
Dr. Jonathan Pettigrew: Interpersonal and family communication, health communication and prevention service.
Dr. Anthony Roberto: Health communication campaigns, persuasion and interpersonal communication.
Dr. Liesel Sharabi: Interpersonal and relational communication, communication technologies, multimodality, romantic relationships
Dr. YoungJu Shin: Substance use prevention, public health intervention, narrative persuasion, immigrant health and communication.
Dr. Sarah Tracy: Organizations, work-life wellness, emotion and workplace bullying.
Dr. Joris Van Ouytsel: Digital media on relationship experiences and sexuality, specifically sexting, cyber-dating abuse, relationship development. communication technologies.
Dr. Alaina Zanin: Organizational and health communication in unique contexts, specializing in structuration,
sensemaking and framing theories as well as issues of power, gender, and body work.