Degree Program Offered: Doctor of Philosophy

Director of Graduate Program: Professor Craig Scott, School of Communication and  Information, 4 Huntington Street, College Avenue Campus (732-932-7500, ext. 8270; Fax: 732-932-6916)

Website: http://comminfo.rutgers.edu

Email: joan.chabrak@rutgers.edu

Members of the Graduate Faculty

Mark Aakhus, Associate Professor of Communication, SC&I; Ph.D., Arizona
Organizational communication; decision-making and disputing processes; new communication technology

Nicholas J. Belkin, Professor of Library and Information Science, SC&I;
Ph.D., London
Information science; information retrieval theory; interactive information retrieval; users' interactions with information; human-computer interaction in information systems

Galina Bolden, Assistant Professor of Communication, SC&I; Ph.D., California (Los Angeles)
Conversation analysis

Jack Bratich, Associate Professor of Journalism and Media Studies, SC&I; Ph.D., Illinois (Urbana)
Popular culture; social and political theory; media and democracy; technology and society

Marija Dalbello, Associate Professor of Library and Information Science, SC&I; Ph.D., Toronto
Print and digital literacy; orality; print culture; textual communities; social memory

Marya Doerfel, Associate Professor of Communication, SC&I; Ph.D., SUNY (Buffalo) Organizational communication; organizational culture; network analysis; semantic network analysis

Gustav W. Friedrich, Professor of Communication, SC&I; Ph.D., Kansas
Communication theory; instructional communication; applied communication

Jennifer Gibbs, Associate Professor of Communication, SC&I; Ph.D., Southern California  
Organizational communication; mediated communication; global virtual teams

Carol Gordon, Associate Professor of Library and Information Science, SC&I; Ph.D., Boston
Concept formation and information search in young people

David Greenberg, Associate Professor of Journalism and Media Studies, SC&I; Ph.D., Columbia 
American political and cultural history; politics and media

Kathryn Greene, Associate Professor of Communication, SC&I; Ph.D., Georgia
Health-message design targeting; adolescent risk taking; disclosure of health issues

Jacek Gwizdka, Assistant Professor of Library and Information Science, SC&I; Ph.D., Toronto
Human-computer interaction; personal information management; user profiling

Keith N. Hampton, Associate Professor of Communication, SC&I; Ph.D., Toronto
Relationship between new information and communication technologies, social networks, and the urban environment

Paul B. Kantor, Professor of Library and Information Science, SC&I; Ph.D., Princeton
Networked information and decision systems; digital libraries; economies of information; value studies of library and information systems

James E. Katz, Professor of Communication, SC&I; Ph.D., Rutgers
Societal and policy implications of telecommunications and new communication technologies; research methods

Susan Keith, Associate Professor of Journalism and Media Studies, SC&I; Ph.D., North Carolina (Chapel Hill)
Mass media ethics and journalistic decision making; mass communication law

Montague Kern, Associate Professor of Journalism and Media Studies, SC&I; Ph.D., Johns Hopkins
Media, political institutions, and public policy; persuasion; political communication

Robert W. Kubey, Professor of Journalism and Media Studies, SC&I; Ph.D., Chicago
Mass communication theory and effects; psychology and politics of media; media literacy; sociology of culture; research methods

Deepa Kumar, Associate Professor of Journalism and Media Studies, SC&I; Ph.D., Pittsburgh    
Critical media studies; globalization; class; gender; social movements; war

Michael E. Lesk, Professor of Library and Information Science, SC&I; Ph.D., Harvard
Digital libraries; digital preservation; the economics of digital information

Laurie Lewis, Associate Professor of Communication, SC&I; Ph.D., California (Santa Barbara)
Organizational communication; organizational change

Ya-Ling Lu, Assistant Professor of Library and Information Science, SC&I; Ph.D., California (Los Angeles)
Children's literature; children's services; information use, need, and seeking

Claire McInerney, Associate Professor of Library and Information Science, SC&I; Ph.D., SUNY (Albany)
Knowledge management; information ethics; virtual organizations

Hartmut B. Mokros, Professor of Communication, SC&I; Ph.D., Chicago
Language and social interaction; communication and identity; psychopathology and wellness; research methodology

Smaranda Muresan, Professor of Library and Information Science, SC&I; Ph.D., Columbia
Digital libraries; computational approaches for language learning and understanding; machine translation; relational learning

Daniel O. O'Connor, Associate Professor of Library and Information Science, SC&I; Ph.D., Syracuse
Research methods; library science

John V. Pavlik, Professor of Journalism and Media Studies, SC&I; Ph.D., Minnesota
Journalism technology and new media technologies; Spanish-language media; journalism and media ethics

Michael Pazzani, Professor of Computer Science, SAS, and Vice President for Research and Graduate and Professional Education; Ph.D., California (Los Angeles)
Machine learning and artificial intelligence

Marie L. Radford, Associate Professor of Library and Information Science, SC&I; Ph.D., Rutgers
Interpersonal and nonverbal communication; librarian-user interactions; media stereotypes; cultural studies; qualitative methods

Barbara Reed, Associate Professor of Journalism and Media Studies, SC&I; Ph.D., Ohio 
History and contemporary studies of ethnic press and magazines

Brent D. Ruben, Professor of Communication, SC&I; Ph.D., Iowa
Communication theory; organizational quality; health and medical communication; communication and information systems; communication education

Jorge Reina Schement, Professor of Communication and Dean, SC&I; Ph.D., Stanford
Information policy; global telecommunications; social aspects of the information age; Spanish-language media

Craig R. Scott, Associate Professor of Communication, SC&I; Ph.D., Arizona State
Organizational communication; new communication technologies; issues of identification and anonymity; communication theory

Chirag Shah, Assistant Professor of Library and Information Science, SC&I; Ph.D., North Carolina (Chapel Hill)
Information seeking/retrieval behavior; social media; digital libraries

Lea P. Stewart, Professor of Communication, SC&I; Ph.D., Purdue
Organizational communication; diversity; gender; sexual harassment; health communication

Jennifer Theiss, Assistant Professor of Communication, SC&I; Ph.D., Wisconsin (Madison)
Interpersonal communication; romantic relationship development

Ross J. Todd, Associate Professor of Library and Information Science; SC&I; Ph.D., Sydney
Human information behavior; adolescents' information seeking and utilization; school librarianship; knowledge management

Jana Varlejs, Associate Professor of Library and Information Science, SC&I; Ph.D., Wisconsin (Madison)
Library education; continuing professional education

Nina Wacholder, Associate Professor of Library and Information Science, SC&I; Ph.D., CUNY
Organization of information; information access; computational linguistics

Itzhak Yanovitzky, Assistant Professor of Communication, SC&I; Ph.D., Pennsylvania
Health communication; persuasion; communication and social changes; research methodology

Associate Members of the Graduate Faculty

Jeffrey Boase, Assistant Professor of Communication, SC&I; Ph.D., Toronto
Communication and information technology; social networks; survey design; social theory; community

Caron Chess, Associate Professor of Human Ecology, SEBS; Ph.D., SUNY (CESF) Environmental communication; risk communication; public participation

Nelson L. Chou, Librarian II, Head, East Asian Library; Ph.D., Chicago
Library and information science; history of books and libraries; East Asian librarianship; computational linguistics

Christina Dunbar-Hester, Assistant Professor of Journalism and Media Studies; SC&I, Ph.D., Cornell
Social studies of technology; media activism; gender; ethnography

David Karpf, Assistant Professor of Journalism and Media Studies, SC&I; Ph.D., Pennsylvania
Internet and politics; politics and technology; social media and political action

Vikki Sara Katz, Assistant Professor of Communication, SC&I; Ph.D., Southern California
Community-based approaches to health interventions; immigrant family dynamics; ethnic media; community ecologies

Rebecca Reynolds, Assistant Professor of Library and Information Science, SC&I; Ph.D., Syracuse
Technology and learning in youth; digital literacy

Joe Sanchez, Assistant Professor of Library and Information Science, SC&I; Ph.D., Texas (Austin)
Collaboration and user experience in virtual worlds; social informatics; LIS pedagogy; ethnography/cyber-ethnography

Aram Sinnreich, Assistant Professor of Journalism and Media Studies, SC&I; Ph.D., Southern California
Digital culture; music; critical theory; games; copyright; intellectual property; free speech

Jerome Aumente, Professor Emeritus of Journalism and Mass Media, SC&I; Director, Journalism Resources Institute; M.S., Columbia
Communication and information technology

Michael J. Bzdak, Visiting Part-Time Lecturer in Communication, SC&I; Ph.D., Rutgers
Organizational communication; corporate social responsibility; CSR theory and practice

Jon L. Oliver, Assistant Dean for Network and Information Technology, SC&I; M.S., Rutgers
Information retrieval and dissemination in distance education

Gary Radford, Professor of Communication, Fairleigh Dickinson; Ph.D., Rutgers
Communication theory and philosophy; semiotics; interpersonal communication

Doug Riecken, IBM TJ Watson Laboratories; Ph.D., Rutgers
Human-computer interaction; information personalization; intelligent user interfaces and agents

Tefko Saracevic, Professor Emeritus of Library and Information Science, SC&I; Ph.D., Case Western Reserve
Information science; information education; information seeking and retrieving

Anselm Spoerri, Assistant Professor of Library and Information Science, SC&I; Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Information visualization; information appliances

Betty J. Turock, Professor Emerita of Library and Information Science, SC&I; Ph.D., Rutgers
Management; information services; information policy

Leonard T. Vercellotti, Assistant Research Professor, Eagleton Institute of Politics, Ph.D. North Carolina (Chapel Hill)
Public opinion; ethnic media; political communication