Bowling Green State University

Studies how activists use alternative media for communicative resistance and how activist media shape US political communication, drawing on interviews with activists and media producers.

Studies psychological and physiological processing of media content and form, especially telepresence and binge-watching, alongside work on STEM faculty diversity and academic leadership.

Studies close relationships, sexualities and identity negotiation in interpersonal and family communication using critical qualitative methods, arts-based research and poetic inquiry.

Studies the history of US electronic media and communication law, using historical research on broadcast regulation and technology, plus online journalism and journalism education.

Studies globalization, digital labor, feminism and digital diasporas, using feminist ethnography of South Asian women and online communities across the global north and south.

Examines political discourses surrounding immigrant identities and popular music as rhetoric through intercultural communication and rhetorical criticism.

Studies misinformation, social media influencers, online video, and online and international advertising, with comparative cross-national work on audiences and international conflicts.

Studies how mentoring, academic leadership, supportive communication and institutional change support faculty and student success and reveal the hidden curriculum of higher education.

Studies international and critical intercultural communication, including gender and identity in transnational performance, and communication for social, economic and environmental justice.

Studies crisis, health and sport communication and public relations, including health campaigns, social marketing and social norms programming for college students.

Studies how mediated stories shape perceptions of social issues such as poverty and crime, focusing on narrative engagement, perceived realism and conceptual work on narrative persuasion.

Explores the symbolic-material aspects of discourse, education and technology, drawing on media ecology, rhetoric and social theory, with interests in organizational communication.

Analyzes the rhetoric and embodied communication of leaders in peacebuilding, social justice and environmental movements, using rhetorical and media criticism.

Studies advertising effectiveness and consumer psychology, including nostalgic advertising, influencer marketing and word-of-mouth.

Studies how social and emerging media use shapes political attitudes, engagement and perceptions of fake news, using survey research.

Studies, as a geographer, the political economy of urban culture industries and how technology and the built environment produce mass culture, including New York City and MTV.

Examines, as a historian and critical media scholar, how women writers integrate trauma into their work, including the history of #MeToo-style writing and faith in first-person writing.

Studies how message and creator traits shape engagement with AI chatbots and social media in strategic and health communication, using quantitative and computational methods.

Studies human-machine communication, examining how conversational agents and AI-driven technologies can advance health, strengthen interpersonal relationships and support wellbeing.