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 jointly 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 in 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 nontenure 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 - Collaboration and conflict
processes; communication-information technology; discourse and organizations;
corporate social responsibility; sustainability
Melissa Aronczyk* (Ph.D.,
New York) Assistant Professor - Critical promotional culture and
promotional media; nationalism/national identity; globalization; politics and media;
sociology of culture
Jerome Aumente+ (M.S.,
Columbia) Professor Emeritus, Affiliate Member - Communication and information
technology; international journalism and media studies
Nicholas J. Belkin* (Ph.D.,
London) Distinguished 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]) Associate Professor - Conversation
analysis in English and Russian; communication across linguistic and cultural
barriers; nonverbal communication
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; health care
workforce; CSR theory and practice
Marija Dalbello* (Ph.D.,
Toronto) Associate Professor and Ph.D. Director - Theory and
history of information; social history of knowledge; visual epistemology;
cultural informatics; history of the book; digital humanities
Marya Doerfel* (Ph.D., SUNY [Buffalo]) Associate Professor - Organizational communication; social networks;
disrupted networks; community transformation; interorganizational collaboration
Christina Dunbar-Hester^ (Ph.D., Cornell) Assistant Professor - Social studies of technology,
media; technology and activism; users and technical (sub)cultures; gender and
technology; ethnography; sociology of work
Ingrid Erickson^ (Ph.D.,
Stanford) Assistant Professor - Information technology and
organizational behavior; locative technologies and social media; innovation and
collaborative work practices
Lauren Feldman^ (Ph.D.,
Pennsylvania) Assistant Professor - Media and politics; public
opinion; partisan media; the intersection of entertainment and politics; climate
change communication
Gustav Friedrich+ (Ph.D., Kansas) Professor Emeritus - Communication theory; instructional
communication; applied communication
Bernadette Gailliard^ (Ph.D., California [Santa Barbara]) Assistant Professor - Organizational communication;
membership negotiation; identity, race, gender, and class intersections;
work-life balance; mixed methods
Jennifer Gibbs* (Ph.D.,
Southern California) Associate Professor - Organizational
communication; communication technology; global virtual teams; distributed
collaboration
David Greenberg* (Ph.D.,
Columbia) Associate Professor - American political and cultural
history; politics and media
Kathryn Greene* (Ph.D., Georgia) Professor - Health message design targeting involvement
in processing adolescent risk-taking; disclosure and information management
surrounding health issues
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) Distinguished Professor - Networked information and
decision systems; homeland security problems; information and intelligence; collaborative/social
systems; behavioral economics
James Katz+ (Ph.D., Rutgers) Professor Emeritus - Social aspects and consequences of new media and social media, especially mobile phones
Vikki Katz* (Ph.D., Southern California) Assistant Professor - Family communication;
immigrant family dynamics and media ecologies; children as family
communicators; ethnic media; community-based and mixed methods
Susan Keith* (Ph.D., North Carolina [Chapel Hill]) Associate Professor - Traditional
and new media journalistic practice; media ethics;, mass communication laws
Montague Kern+ (Ph.D., Johns
Hopkins) Professor Emeritus - Media and politics; digital
media and democracy; media and elections; media convergence; media and war;
news framing; documentary film studies
Robert Kubey* (Ph.D.,
Chicago) Professor - Mass communication theory and effects;
psychology and politics of media; media literacy; sociology of culture; content
analysis; research methods; psychology of creativity
Deepa Kumar* (Ph.D., Pittsburgh) Associate Professor - Critical media studies;
globalization; class; gender; imperialism; war; Middle East; Islam and
Orientalism
Michael Lesk* (Ph.D., Harvard) Professor - Digital libraries; digital preservation and the
economics of digital information
Laurie Lewis* (Ph.D.,
California [Santa Barbara]) Professor - Organizational
communication; stakeholder communication; organizational change; nonprofits; inter-organizational collaboration
Jenny Mandelbaum* (Ph.D., Texas) Professor - Interpersonal communication; conversational
analysis
Regina Marchi* (Ph.D.,
California [San Diego]) Associate Professor - Race, gender, and
class in media; media and social movements; youth, media, and civic engagement;
media and globalization
Claire McInerney* (Ph.D.,
SUNY [Albany]) Associate Professor - Knowledge management; information ethics;
virtual organizations; community informatics and health; gender and technologyLisa Mikesell^ (Ph.D., California [Los Angeles])
Assistant Professor - Qualitative methods; conversation analysis and
ethnography; health communication/doctor-patient interaction; mental health
services; intervention/implementation; patient-centeredness/engagement
Hartmut Mokros* (Ph.D.,
Chicago) Professor - Language and social interaction; communication and
identity; psychopathology and wellness; research methodology
Daniel O'Connor* (Ph.D.,
Syracuse) Associate Professor - Research methods; library
science
Jon Oliver (M.S., Rutgers) Assistant Dean, Adjunct Member - Information retrieval and
dissemination in distance education
John Pavlik* (Ph.D.,
Minnesota) Professor - Impact of new technology on journalism;
media and society; Spanish-language media; journalism and media ethics (on
leave until January, 2014)
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 - Librarian-user interactions;
evaluation of virtual and traditional reference service; Interpersonal
communication; media stereotypes; cultural studies; qualitative methods; research
design
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) Distinguished Professor - Communication systems theory and
the role of communication processes in organizational, educational, health, and
intercultural settings
Joe Sanchez* (Ph.D., Texas [Austin]) Assistant Professor - Collaboration and user
experience in virtual worlds; social informatics; library and information science pedagogy
Tefko Saracevic+ (Ph.D., Case
Western Reserve) Professor Emeritus - Information science; information
education; information seeking and retrieving
Jorge Reina Schement* (Ph.D.,
Stanford) Distinguished Professor - Information policy; global
telecommunications; Spanish-language media; information-consumer behavior
Craig Scott* (Ph.D., Arizona
State) Professor - Organizational communication; new communication
technologies; issues of identification and anonymity; communication theory
Chirag Shah* (Ph.D.,
North Carolina) Assistant Professor - Information seeking and
behavior; social media
Aram Sinnreich* (Ph.D., Southern California) Assistant Professor - Digital culture;
music; critical theory; games; copyright; intellectual property; free speech
Anselm Spoerri (Ph.D.,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Lecturer/Assistant Professor, Adjunct
Member - Information visualization
Lea Stewart* (Ph.D., Purdue) Professor - Organizational communication; diversity; gender; sexual
harassment; health communication
Jennifer Theiss* (Ph.D., Wisconsin [Madison]) Associate Professor - Interpersonal
communication in romantic relationships, marriages, and families
Ross Todd* (Ph.D., University
of Technology [Sydney, Australia]) Associate Professor - Human information
behavior; adolescents' information seeking and utilization; school
librarianship; qualitative research methods
Betty Turock+ (Ph.D., Rutgers) Professor Emerita - Management; information services; information
policy
Jana Varlejs+ (Ph.D., Wisconsin [Madison]) Professor Emerita - Library
education; continuing professional education; information literacy; library and information science history
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)
Associate Professor - Organization of information; information access;
computational linguistics
Jennifer Warren* (Ph.D.,
Pennsylvania State) Assistant Professor - Health communication;
underserved identities; health disparities; tobacco use; targeted ehealth
interventions; community-based participatory research
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 and
communication technologies on contemporary global social movements
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; human-computer interaction (HCI);
computer-supported cooperative work (CSCW)
