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  School of Communication and Information 2019-2021 Faculty and Administration Department of Communication  

Department of Communication



Chair: Craig Scott

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

Mark Beal, Professor of Professional Practice in Public Relations; B.A., Rutgers; M.A., Kent State
Public relations and communications

Galina Bolden, 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

Erin Christie, Teaching Instructor; B.A., Rowan; M.A., Montclair; Ph.D., Rutgers
Social interaction; identity and interaction; interpretive microanalysis

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

R. Richard Dool, Teaching Professor; B.A., Fordham; M.S., Thomas Edison State; M.A., Seton Hall; D.Mgmt., Maryland
Organizational renewal; leadership communication

J. Sophia Fu, Assistant Professor; B.A., Hong Kong Baptist; M.A., M.S., and Ph.D., Northwestern
Organizational communication; social networks; technology; innovation; entrepreneurship; computational social science; collaboration; nonprofit organizations

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

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

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

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

Matthew Matsaganis, Associate Professor; B.A., National and Kapodistrian (Greece); M.A., Emerson; M.A., Ph.D., Southern California
Organizational communication; health communication; communication and technology; political communication

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

Katherine Ognyanova, Assistant Professor; B.Sc., M.A., Technical University Sofia (Bulgaria); Ph.D., 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 Leadership; 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; communication technologies in the workplace; issues of identification and anonymity; hidden organizations

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

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

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