Arizona State University

Leads journalism education as a dean, with background in journalism strategy, philanthropy, nonprofit administration, and media management.

Focuses on border and global journalism and community-engaged journalism education across the U.S.-Mexico borderlands and Latin America.

Studies how AI, social robotics, and digital media shape community, religious authority, and smart-city governance across cultures, including how extremist narratives and rumors spread online.

Studies emotional and nonverbal communication in close relationships, including intimacy, forgiveness, jealousy, hurt, and conflict, using quantitative relationship-science methods.

Studies how networked publics make sense of news events and how information disorder, misinformation, cyber-rumoring, incivility, and dark web communities reshape public information.

Studies early romantic relationship development, such as first dates and friends-with-benefits relationships, and the cognitive processing of persuasive and fear appeal messages.

Studies health communication campaigns, persuasion, and social influence, along with interpersonal communication, with expertise in quantitative research methods.

Studies emotional labor, compassion, workplace bullying, burnout, and organizational flourishing, and develops qualitative methodology such as phronetic iterative analysis.

Studies risk perception and responses to campaigns that inform decisions about disaster preparedness, concussion reporting, and climate change, aiming to build theories of message design.

Studies mass media history, including the history of local TV news, Spanish-language television, and presidential media relations, using historical methods.

Studies First Amendment, privacy, fair trial, and press access rights, using legal and historical methods to examine conflicts between free press and other rights.

Studies culture-centered design and communication for sustainable development, health, and social change with marginalized indigenous and rural communities in India, using participatory methods.

Studies interactions among organizations, media, and public policy, focusing on organizational and issue identity and knowledge and power, through narrative and network analysis.

Studies decolonial possibility in international aid and development and how African speculative fiction imagines futures beyond Western development logics, through rhetorical and critical analysis.

Studies sports media framing practices that stereotype and marginalize women's athletics and minority athletes.

Studies the design and effects of strategic persuasive messaging, including belief systems, message repetition, and message fatigue, mainly in health and science contexts using experiments.

Studies organizational justice, state and legal violence against activists, unions, migrant workers, and survivors, and health inequities in Asia and the Global South through feminist critique.

Studies how values and worldviews shape audiences' selection and processing of science information and misinformation, and how these processes develop from childhood into adulthood.

Studies adolescent sexting, cyber dating abuse, image-based sexual abuse, and how digital media and AI shape relationships and sexuality, at the intersection of interpersonal and health communication.

Studies family communication and substance-use prevention by designing, delivering, and evaluating health interventions with communities in the US and Latin America and the Caribbean.

Studies how sports journalists' routines, social media use, source selection, and role conflicts shape content, including comparisons of American and Russian doping coverage.

Studies how media shape and reflect norms about culture, gender, and sexuality, using critical discourse analysis, with work on LGBTQ communication and journalists' workplace wellbeing.

Works on media law, media ethics, and the philosophy of mass communication, including press freedom and the treatment of journalists covering protests.

Studies how dating apps, algorithms, AI, and AR/VR shape mate selection and relationship development, using multilevel modeling, structural equation modeling, and machine learning.

Studies social media in news communication patterns, including hashtags as a way to uncover online communities, meme circulation, and digital freedom of expression.

Studies discourse, identity, power, and resistance at the intersection of health and organizational communication in settings such as sports teams and healthcare organizations, using ethnography.

Studies leadership communication, organizational training and change, and learning processes, including feedback strategies that improve learning outcomes.

Studies how Indigenous and community media, journalism, and documentary film challenge dominant narratives about the Amazon and support decolonial, environmental knowledge.

Studies experimental and transnational social-justice performance as an artist-scholar, creating performances and installations on social justice and environmental concerns.

Studies globalization, cultural politics of taste, platformization, and political economy in postcolonial Nigerian visual cultures, including Afrobeats and global Black relationalities.

Studies strategic message features that drive perception and engagement in health, science, and misinformation contexts, using experiments, machine learning, NLP, and eye-tracking.