George Mason University

Studies the intersections of culture, gender, and health in South and Southeast Asia, along with health information seeking, exchange, and sense-making.

Studies strategic communication as used in public relations and in strategic and emergency communication, including public relations theory.

Studies instructional communication and public speaking pedagogy in the basic communication course, along with interpersonal communication and communication theory.

Studies children and media, especially children's online privacy and parents' sharenting, along with media effects and adolescent health prevention.

Studies the political economy of media, including ownership, telecommunication policy, and media representation of marginalized groups in popular culture.

Studies climate change and public health communication and social marketing, including the Climate Change in the American Mind polling project and climate reporting by TV weathercasters.

Studies organizational communication from a constitutive perspective, developing structurational divergence theory and a measure of intractable conflict, especially in nursing and healthcare.

Studies how journalists adapt to change, including opinion and commentary in news, civility, and journalists as a community of practice.

Studies social support and health outcomes, provider-patient interaction, family health, and social media in interpersonal relationships and health.

Studies health message design and effects, campaign evaluation, and health information seeking on tobacco control, substance use, cancer risk, and climate change.

Studies health and environmental risk perception and message design on fracking, vaccine safety, and climate change, partly drawing on national survey data.

Studies critical media studies and the political economy of communication, focusing on urban communication, gentrification, and homelessness.

Studies argumentation, persuasion, and political communication about public policy through rhetorical criticism, alongside social innovation and entrepreneurship.

Studies the scholarship of teaching and learning in introductory communication courses and the experiences of stigmatized populations, especially around gender identity.

Studies health and risk message design and misinformation correction on issues like cancer, vaccination, and climate change, using eye tracking.

Studies rhetoric and technology, including attention and distractibility among digital natives in teaching and learning, and earlier environmental communication.

Studies subversive strategic communication, character assassination, and reputation management, along with climate misinformation, crisis communication, and political campaigns.

Studies how social media shapes public relations and strategic communication in health and crisis-risk contexts, with attention to message design.