Faculty

The Ph.D. program faculty in the School of Communication and Information (SC&I) is a body that makes key administrative and curriculum decisions related to this program, which is offered through the Graduate School–New Brunswick. The program faculty meets at least once every semester, and students are invited to attend and speak (but not as voting members) unless the director declares a meeting open to voting members only (e.g., when conducting annual reviews of students).

Full-time tenure-track faculty members from SC&I who have passed their third-year review are typically considered Full Members of the Graduate Faculty and are denoted by an asterisk(*). Associate Members of the Graduate Faculty are similar, but have not yet been reappointed following their third year, and are denoted by a caret (^). Affiliate members are tenured or tenure-track members from other programs at Rutgers as well as retired or emeritus SC&I faculty who are still participating in the program in some way and are designated by a plus (+). Adjunct members will include individuals who are not from Rutgers University or who are non-tenure track at Rutgers. Full, Associate, Affiliate, and Adjunct Members of the Graduate Faculty may serve as a member of a student's dissertation committee. Only Full Members may chair a dissertation committee. Full and Associate (but not Adjunct or Affiliate) members have voting rights in this program.

Ph.D. Program Faculty

Mark Aakhus* (Ph.D., Arizona) Associate Professor - Organizational communication; decision making and disputing processes; new communication technology

Jerome Aumente+ (M.S., Columbia) Professor Emeritus, Adjunct Member - Communication and information technology

Nicholas Belkin* (Ph.D., London) Professor - Information science; information retrieval theory; interactive information retrieval; people's interactions with information; human-computer interaction in information systems

Galina Bolden* (Ph.D., California [Los Angeles]) Assistant Professor  - Conversation analysis

Jack Bratich* (Ph.D., Illinois [Urbana]) Associate Professor - Popular culture; social and political theory; media and democracy; technology and society

Michael Bzdak (Ph.D., Rutgers) Visiting Part-time Lecturer in Communication, Adjunct Member - Organizational communication; corporate social responsibility; SCR theory and practice

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

Marija Dalbello* (Ph.D., Toronto) Associate Professor and Ph.D. director - Social history and theory of knowledge and information; print culture and book history; social memory; digital humanities

Marya Doerfel* (Ph.D., SUNY [Buffalo]) Associate Professor - Organizational communication; organizational culture; network analysis; semantic network analysis

Christina Dunbar-Hester^ (Ph. D., Cornell) Assistant Professor - Social studies of technology; media activism; gender; ethnography

Gustav Friedrich+ (Ph.D., Kansas) Professor - Communication theory; instructional communication; applied communication

Jennifer Gibbs* (Ph.D., Southern California) Associate Professor - Organizational communication; mediated communication; global virtual teams

Carol Gordon* (Ed.D., Boston) Associate Professor - Concept formation and information search in young people

David Greenberg* (Ph.D., Columbia) Associate Professor - American political and cultural history; politics and media

Kathryn Greene* (Ph.D., Georgia) Associate Professor - Health message design targeting adolescent risk-taking and disclosure of health issues

Jacek Gwizdka* (Ph.D., Toronto) Assistant Professor - Human-computer interaction; personal information management; user profiling

Keith Hampton^ (Ph.D., Toronto) Associate Professor - New media; social network analysis; social capital; research methods; social isolation; urban and community theory

Paul Kantor* (Ph.D., Princeton) Professor - Networked information and decision systems; digital libraries; economics of information; value studies of library and information systems

David Karpf^ (Ph.D., Pennsylvania) Assistant Professor - New media and political institutions; blogs; political communication; internet-mediated advocacy groups

James Katz* (Ph.D., Rutgers) Professor - Societal and policy implications of telecommunications and new communication technologies; research methods

Vikki Katz^ (Ph.D., Southern California) Assistant Professor - Community-based approaches to health interventions; immigrant family dynamics; ethnic media; communication ecologies

Susan Keith* (Ph.D., North Carolina [Chapel Hill]) Assistant Professor - Mass media ethics and journalistic decision making; mass communications law

Montague Kern* (Ph.D., Johns Hopkins) Associate Professor - Media; political institutions and public policy; persuasion; political communication

Robert Kubey* (Ph.D., Chicago) Professor - Mass communication theory and effects; psychology and politics of media; media literacy; sociology of culture; research methods

Deepa Kumar* (Ph.D., Pittsburgh) Associate Professor - Critical media studies globalization; class; gender; social movements; war

Michael Lesk* (Ph.D., Harvard) Professor - Digital libraries; digital preservation and the economics of digital information

Laurie Lewis* (Ph.D., California [Santa Barbara]) Associate Professor - Organizational communication; stakeholders; change; interorganizational collaboration; NGO/NPOs

Ya-Ling Lu* (Ph.D., California [Los Angeles]) Assistant Professor - Children's literature; children's services; information use, need, and seeking

Jenny Mandelbaum* (Ph.D., Texas) Associate Professor - Interpersonal communication; conversational analysis

Regina Marchi* (Ph.D., California [San Diego]) Assistant Professor - Social movements and news; grassroots media; Latino popular culture and media

Claire McInerney* (Ph.D., SUNY [Albany]) Associate Professor - Knowledge management; information ethics; virtual organizations

Hartmut Mokros* (Ph.D., Chicago) Professor - Language and social interaction; communication and identity; psychopathology and wellness; research methodology

Smaranda Muresan* (Ph.D., Columbia) Assistant Professor - Digital libraries; computational approaches for language learning and understanding; machine translation and relational learning

Mor Naaman* (Ph.D., Stanford) Assistant Professor - Mobile and ubiquitous computing; interactive multimedia systems; location- and context-aware computing

Daniel O'Connor* (Ph.D., Syracuse) Associate Professor - Research methods; library science

Jon Oliver (M.S., Rutgers) Assistant Dean for Network and Information Technology, Adjunct Member - Information retrieval and dissemination in distance education

John Pavlik* (Ph.D., Minnesota) Professor - Journalism technology and new media technologies; Spanish-language media; journalism and media ethics

Michael Pazzani+ (Ph.D., California [Los Angeles]) Professor - Investigation and analysis of learning methods that use prior knowledge; cognitive knowledge discovery

Marie Radford* (Ph.D., Rutgers) Associate Professor - Interpersonal and nonverbal communication; librarian-user interactions; media stereotypes; cultural studies; qualitative methods

Gary Radford (Ph.D., Rutgers) Professor, Fairleigh Dickinson University, Adjunct Member - Communication theory and philosophy; semiotics; interpersonal communication

Barbara Reed* (Ph.D., Ohio) Associate Professor - History and contemporary studies of ethnic press and magazines

Rebecca Reynolds^ (Ph.D., Syracuse) Assistant Professor - Computer-supported collaborative learning among youth in constructionist design-oriented environments

Doug Riecken (Ph.D., Rutgers) Adjunct Member - Human-computer interaction; information personalization; intelligent user interfaces and agents

Brent Ruben* (Ph.D., Iowa) Professor - Communication theory; organizational quality; health and medical communication; communication and information systems; communication education

Joe Sanchez^ (Ph.D., Texas [Austin]) Assistant Professor - Collaboration and user experience in virtual worlds; social informatics; library and information science pedagogy; ethnography/cyberethnography

Tefko Saracevic+ (Ph.D., Case Western Reserve) Professor - Information science; information education; information seeking and retrieving

Jorge Reina Schement* (Ph.D., Stanford) Professor and Dean - Information policy; global telecommunications; the social aspects of the information age; Spanish-language media

Craig Scott* (Ph.D., Arizona State) Associate Professor - Organizational communication; new communication technologies; issues of identification and anonymity; communication theory

Chirag Shah^ (Ph.D., North Carolina) Assistant Professor - Information retrieval; collaborative information seeking; social/community information seeking; social media

Aram Sinnreich^ (Ph.D., Southern California) Assistant Professor - Digital culture; music; critical theory; games; copyright; IP; free speech

Anselm Spoerri (Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Assistant Professor, Adjunct Member - Information visualization; information appliances

Lea Stewart* (Ph.D., Purdue) Professor - Organizational communication; diversity; gender; sexual harassment; health communication

Jennifer Theiss* (Ph.D., Wisconsin) Assistant Professor - Interpersonal communication and romantic relationship development

Ross Todd* (Ph.D., Technology-Sydney [Australia]) Associate Professor - Human information behavior; adolescents' information seeking/use; school librarianship; knowledge management

Betty Turock+ (Ph.D., Rutgers) Professor Emeritus, Adjunct Member - Management; information services; information policy

Jana Varlejs+ (Ph.D., Wisconsin) Associate Professor - Library education; continuing professional education

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

Nina Wacholder* (Ph.D., CUNY) Assistant Professor - Organization of information; information access; computational linguistics

Jennifer Warren^ (Ph.D., Pennsylvania State) Assistant Professor - Health communication/information seeking; underserved identities; health disparities; community health interventions

Matthew Weber^ (Ph.D., Southern California) - Assistant Professor - Organizational communication; social networks; network analysis; communication and information technology; news; media; new media; organizational change

Todd Wolfson* (Ph.D., Pennsylvania) Assistant Professor - Role of new information/communication technologies in global social movements; engaged scholarship; ethnography

Itzhak Yanovitzky* (Ph.D., Pennsylvania) Associate Professor - Health communication; persuasion; communication and social changes; research methodology

Xiaomu Zhou^ (Ph.D., Michigan) Assistant Professor - Health informatics; computer-supported cooperative work; human-computer interaction