Tenure-line Faculty

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  • Iccha Basnyat

    Iccha Basnyat

    Associate Professor

    Culture, gender and health inequalities; critical health communication; global health communication; health equity; South and South East Asia

  • Melissa A. Broeckelman-Post

    Melissa A. Broeckelman-Post

    Basic Course Director

    Professor

    Instructional Communication, Public Speaking, Interpersonal Communication, Research Methods, Communication Theory

C

  • Xiaomei Cai

    Xiaomei Cai

    Associate Chair

    Associate Professor,Undergraduate Honors Director

    Children and media; Media effects; online privacy

  • Chris Clarke

    Chris Clarke

    Associate Professor

    health and environmental risk perception, communication. Director, Science Communication Graduate Program; Director, Ph.D. program

  • Richard T Craig

    Richard T Craig

    MA Program Director

    Media ownership, telecommunication/media policy, media political economy, media representation of marginialized groups (race,gender, religion, etc...), popular culture

D

  • Pratiti Diddi

    Pratiti Diddi

    Assistant Professor

    Crisis, health, and strategic communications, message design, social media

G

  • Tim Gibson

    Tim Gibson

    Associate Professor

    Critical media studies, mass communication theory, and urban communication

  • Thalia R Goldstein

    Thalia R Goldstein

    Associate Professor

    Developmental Psychology; Social Cognitive Development; Social and Emotional Learning; Play, Pretend, Imagination; Theatre, Drama and The Arts

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  • Sojung Claire Kim

    Sojung Claire Kim

    Associate Professor

    Health, Risk, and Crisis Communication, Emerging Media, Strategic Message Intervention Design and Evaluation, Misinformation Correction, Quantitative Research Methods, Eye Tracking Technology

  • Gary L. Kreps

    Gary L. Kreps

    Distinguished University Professor, Director; Center for Health and Risk Communication

    Health communication/promotion, health equity, multicultural relations, social organization, applied research methods, health informatics, communication campaigns, global health, and social change

L

  • Samuel Robert Lichter

    Samuel Robert Lichter

    Professor

    Political communications, political sociology, and health and risk communication

M

  • Akila-Ka Ma'at (Jennifer R. Warren)

    Akila-Ka Ma'at (Jennifer R. Warren)

    Assistant Professor

    Black Women's Health: Maternal Mental and Perinatal Health, Tobacco/Nicotine Product Use, Infectious Disease, Health Seeking Behavior, Identity Negotiation in Health Contexts, Agency & Self-Determination, Community-Based Participatory Research

  • Edward Wile Maibach

    Edward Wile Maibach

    Distinguished University Professor

    Climate change communication, public health communication, social marketing

  • Jim J McAuley

    Jim J McAuley

    Professor

    Aging, health and long-term care

  • Star A. Muir

    Star A. Muir

    Associate Professor

    Rhetoric and technology, public communication, digital natives

N

  • Anne M. Nicotera

    Anne M. Nicotera

    Professor

    Health communication, nursing communication, communicative/interactive constitution of organization, race and gender, diversity, and culture and organizations

S

  • Sergei A Samoilenko

    Sergei A Samoilenko

    Assistant Professor

    strategic communication, crisis communication, political communication, public relations, reputation management, post-socialist studies

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  • Kimberly Meltzer Weisman

    Kimberly Meltzer Weisman

    Chair

    Professor

  • Kevin B Wright

    Kevin B Wright

    Professor

    Health communication, social media and interpersonal relationships, life span communication, and interpersonal issues in health communication

Z

  • Xiaoquan Zhao

    Xiaoquan Zhao

    Professor

    Health communication, persuasion, media effects, information seeking, tobacco prevention, and climate change communication