Ohio University

Studies how places such as the National Mall become rhetorically constructed sites of public memory and fan pilgrimage, using rhetorical and qualitative methods.

Studies the public understanding of health and healing, health campaigns and messaging, and international health and development, combining rhetorical, critical, qualitative, and quantitative methods.

Studies the intersection of health communication, popular culture, celebrity, and fandom, including how celebrity health narratives and pandemic messaging reach media audiences.

Studies communication in interpersonal, family, group, and health contexts, with an interest in the scholarship of teaching and learning.

Studies family, home, and social identity in urban north India, including arranged marriage and Partition refugees, using ethnography, oral history, and life history methods.

Studies the personality attributes that lead to success in media and creative professions, along with cross-platform audience behaviors and sports fandom.

Studies nations, media, and health narratives in populations in India and the United States from a critical intercultural and health communication perspective.

No research statement is available; brings agency experience in interactive and integrated advertising and marketing for consumer and technology brands.

Studies media ethics, theory of the public sphere, mass media and communication theory, metaphor theory, new media, and international media.

Studies media law and journalism history, focusing on libel law, public records law, and free expression, including the use of libel law during the U.S. civil rights struggle.

Studies how storytelling and art function in health organizing, public advocacy, and social change, drawing on narrative, aesthetic, and feminist perspectives.

Studies podcasting, magazine editing and production, celebrity journalism, media organization and ownership, and journalism pedagogy.

Studies how social group membership and identity shape relational communication in instructional settings and families, including narrative sense-making about birth, breastfeeding, and parenting.

Studies how media can promote health behavior and reduce disparities, narrative processing effects on attitudes, and patient–provider communication of international medical graduates.

Works in documentary production and studies and screenwriting, including documentaries on artist and activist Rockwell Kent.

Studies what motivates citizen contributions to online news, credibility and audience community online, and how social media, VR, and 360-degree video connect journalists and audiences.

Studies political communication, including political advertising and debates, along with place-based research and the teaching of political communication and rhetoric.

Studies queer media production and consumption, fan cultures, digital media cultures including cancel culture, and LGBTQ activism from a critical media studies perspective.

Studies the communicative construction of organizational membership, from involuntary membership of inmates to high-stakes volunteering and stigmatized members such as parolees.

Studies community and participatory journalism, applied journalism ethics, and audience feedback in the news media such as letters to the editor and online comments.

Conducts theory-based research on the new media environment, including interactions between media and society and new media and health communication in India.

Works in interpersonal, family, and organizational communication and communication pedagogy, including team-based and community-based learning.

Studies classroom communication effectiveness, including how students' emotional experiences relate to note-taking, learning activities, and cognitive performance.

Studies the music business and emerging music industry, entrepreneurship and technology, artificial intelligence and music, music production, and experiential learning.

Studies the history and development of the recording industry, how technology, commerce, and culture shape popular music, the post-modern music business, and audio preservation.

Works in character animation and short animated storytelling.

Works on broadcast and digital journalism, media storytelling for social impact, de-marginalization, and leadership development, using mixed methods.

No research statement is available; background in broadcast news and audio production, including an audio production textbook.

Studies the concepts in public discourse that produce national identity and political action in Turkey and the Middle East, using rhetorical analysis and conceptual history.

Works on longform and immersion journalism and the researched essay, using narrative tools of creative nonfiction to craft true stories.

Studies the power and politics of gender in organizations, including membership and commodification in the breastmilk banking industry, using critical-qualitative methods.

Studies audience engagement, content virality, and brand strategy on digital platforms, health and crisis messaging, and ethical AI adoption, using social media analytics.

No research statement is available; trained in rhetorical studies and teaches persuasion, communication theory, and interpersonal and family communication.

Studies radio and TV programming and promotion, free speech and the regulation of electronic media, and management and leadership in media businesses.

Studies culture and communication with a focus on Confucianism and Chinese perspectives on rhetoric and communication.

Works on immersive storytelling, user interface design, and the history and production of animation, including theme parks and digital games.

Studies gender equity, communication for social change, entertainment-education, and indigenous identity through folk culture via participatory field research in Ecuador, Norway, and India.

No research statement is available; works as a documentary and narrative filmmaker with an emphasis on storytelling, technology, and community engagement.

Works as a philosopher and media theorist on media activism and critical perspectives on the information society.

Studies stigma, social support, and disclosure among people with marginalized identities across interpersonal and organizational contexts, including maternity leave and maternal rage.

No research description is available; holds a communication studies faculty appointment on the Athens and Chillicothe campuses.

Studies mobile photography on Instagram and how it perpetuates geographic stereotypes, along with the digital divide, rural development policy, and media constructions of poverty.

Studies how everyday talk and public discourse, from patient–clinician encounters to policy, shape structural health disparities, difficult health conversations, and communicating difference.

Studies how people experiencing homelessness and survivors of intimate partner violence participate in civic and policymaking processes, using community-engaged ethnographic and rhetorical methods.

Works in traditional animation and visual storytelling, combining live action and animation to investigate gender representation in the digital age.

Studies threats to journalistic editorial independence and the mechanisms journalists use to cope with them, drawing on investigative and documentary journalism experience.

Studies diversity and inclusion in newsgathering and media leadership, young journalists' role perceptions, and news coverage of online social movements.

Studies the role of vulnerability in storytelling competitions, drawing on narrative performance and storytelling.