Faculty

The Ph.D. program faculty in the School of Communication, Information and Library Studies (SCILS) 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 members of the graduate faculty are denoted by an asterisk(*). Associate members of the graduate faculty are denoted by a caret (^). All others are classified here as adjunct members of the graduate faculty. Full, associate, 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) members have voting rights.

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 [UK]) Professor - Information science; information retrieval theory; interactive information retrieval; people's interactions with information; human-computer interaction in information systems

Ralph Blasingame (D.L.S., Columbia) Professor Emeritus, Adjunct Member - Management

Jeffrey Boase^ (Ph.D., Toronto [Canada]) Assistant Professor - Communication and information technology; social networks; survey design; social theory; and community

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

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

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

Nelson Chou (Ph.D., Chicago) Librarian II, Head, East Asian Section, Alexander Library, Adjunct Member - History of books and libraries; East Asian librarianship; computational linguistics

Marija Dalbello* (Ph.D., Toronto [Canada]) Associate Professor - Print and digital literacy; orality; print culture; textual communities; social memory

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

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

Jennifer Gibbs* (Ph.D., Southern California) Assistant 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 [Canada]) Assistant Professor - Human-computer interaction; personal information management; user profiling

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

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

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) Assistant 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 and organizational change

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 - Journalism 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; and 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

Andrew Pleasant (Ph.D., Cornell) Assistant Professor, Department of Human Ecology, Adjunct Member - Health, environment, and science literacy and communication; social change

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

Gary Radford (Ph.D., Rutgers) Professor, Fairleigh Dickinson, 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

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

Jeffrey Robinson* (Ph.D., California [Los Angeles]) Associate Professor - Physician-patient and interpersonal interaction; qualitative research

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

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 telecommunication; the social aspects of the information age; Spanish-language media; and information-consumer behavior

Michelle Scollo (Ph.D., Massachusetts) Lecturer and Assistant Professor, Adjunct Member - Ethnography of communication; cultural and intercultural communication

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

William Solomon* (Ph.D., California [Berkeley]) Associate Professor - Sociology of mass media; historical sociology; labor studies

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 and utilization; 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, Adjunct member - Public opinion; ethnic media; political communication

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

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

Xiangmin Zhang (Ph.D., Toronto [Canada]) Assistant Professor, Adjunct Member - Interactive information retrieval; human-computer interaction