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  School of Communication and Information 2015–2017 Faculty and Administration Department of Communication  

Department of Communication


Chair: Laurie Lewis

Mark Aakhus, Professor; B.A., North Dakota; M.A., Washington State; Ph.D., Arizona
Collaboration and conflict processes; communication-information technology; discourse and organizations; corporate social responsibility; sustainability

Galina Bolden, Associate Professor; B.A., Minnesota; M.A., Ph.D., California (Los Angeles)
Conversation analysis in English and Russian; communication across linguistic and cultural barriers; nonverbal communication

Marya Doerfel, Associate Professor; B.A., M.A., Ph.D., SUNY (Buffalo)
Interorganizational communication; organizational communication; social networks; networked forms of organizing; collaboration; semantic networks

Meara Faw, Assistant Professor; B.A. Whitworth; M.A., Ph.D., Washington
Interpersonal communication and health; social support and health

Bernadette Gailliard, Assistant Professor; B.S., American; M.A., California (Santa Barbara)
Organizational communication; membership negotiation; identity, race, gender, and class intersections; work-life balance, mixed methods

Jennifer Gibbs, Associate Professor; B.A., Pomona; M.A., Ph.D., Southern California
Organizational communication; mediated communication; global virtual teams

Kathryn Greene, Professor; B.A., M.A., Ph.D., Georgia
Health message design targeting adolescent risk-taking; disclosure of health issues

Keith Hampton, Associate Professor; B.A., Calgary; M.A., Ph.D., Toronto
New media; social network analysis; social capital; research methods; social isolation; urban and community theory

Alexa Hepburn, Research Professor; M.A., Dundee (U.K.); Ph.D., Glasgow Caledonian (U.K.)
The role of emotion in communication; the role of transcription in the analysis of communication; interactional study of helplines and the application of findings to helpline practioners

Brian Householder, Assistant Teaching Professor; B.A., Humboldt State, M.A., Wake Forest; Ph.D., Georgia
Interpersonal communication; social influence

Vikki Katz, Associate Professor; B.A., California (Los Angeles); M.A., Ph.D., Southern California
Community-based health interventions; immigrant family dynamics; children's information seeking/ translating; ethnic media;, communication ecologies

Jeffrey Lane, Assistant Professor; B.A., Wesleyan; M.A., Ph.D., Princeton
Urban ethnography, urban sociology; social affordances of Internet technologies

Laurie Lewis, Professor; B.A., Washington; M.A., Illinois (Urbana-Champaign); Ph.D., California (Santa Barbara)
Organizational communication; stakeholder communication; organizational change; nonprofits; interorganizational collaboration

Nikolaos Linardopoulos, Assistant Teaching Professor; B.A., McGill (Canada); M.S., Ph.D., Drexel
Mediated communication; pedagogy

Matthew Maddex, Instructor; B.A. California State; M.A., Miami; Ph.D. Louisiana
Rhetoric and argumentation; persuasion and propoganda; pop culture; civic engagement

Jenny Mandelbaum, Professor; B.A., Oxford; M.A., Ph.D., Texas (Austin)
Interpersonal communication; conversational analysis

Lisa Mikesell, Assistant Professor; B.A., Pennsylvania; M.A., Ph.D., California (Los Angeles)
Language and social interaction; health communication and health services

Hartmut Mokros, Senior Associate Dean and Professor; B.A., M.A., Minnesota; Ph.D., Chicago
Language and social interaction; communication and identity; psychopathology and wellness; research methodology

Katherine Ognyanova, Assistant Professor; B.Sc., M.A., Sofia; Ph.D., University of Southern California
Computational social science and network analysis; impact of technology on social structures, political and civic engagement, and the media

Jonathan Potter, Dean and Distinguished Professor; B.A., Liverpool (U.K.); M.A., Surrey (U.K.); Ph.D., York (U.K.)
Discourse analysis; discursive psychology

Brent Ruben, Executive Director, Rutgers Center for Organizational Development and Leadership; and Distinguished Professor; B.A., M.A., Ph.D., Iowa
Communication theory; organizational quality; health and medical communication; communication and information systems; communication education

Craig Scott, Professor; B.A./B.S., Regis; M.A., San Diego State; Ph.D., Arizona State
Organizational communication; new communication technologies; issues of identification and anonymity; communication theory

Lea Stewart, Livingston Campus Dean; Director, Center for Communication and Health Issues; and Professor; B.A., Allegheny; M.A., Ph.D., Purdue
Health communication campaigns; gender; communication ethics

Jennifer Theiss, Associate Professor; B.A., St. Norbert; M.A., Ph.D., Wisconsin (Madison)
Interpersonal communication and romantic relationship development

Jennifer Warren, Assistant Professor; B.S., M.A., New York; Ph.D., Pennsylvania State
Health communication; underserved identities; health disparities; tobacco use; targeted ehealth interventions; community-based participatory research

Matthew Weber, Assistant Professor; B.S., M.S., Northwestern; M.A., Ph.D., Southern California
Organizational communication; social networks; network analysis; communication and information technology; news; media; new media; organizational change

Itzhak Yanovitzky, Associate Professor; B.A., M.A., Haifa (Israel); Ph.D., Pennsylvania
Health communication; persuasion; communication and social changes; research methodology

 
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