University of Miami

Makes biographical, experimental, and animated documentary films on artistic and historical figures such as Chopin, Cicero, and García Lorca.

Studies and practices data visualization and infographics for visual journalism, including how charts mislead and the ethics of visualization design.

Designs and tests persuasive health message interventions and develops measures of risk perceptions and norms that shape health decision-making.

Uses documentary media making and visual storytelling to address sustainability, the environment, and the Indian diaspora.

Studies media economics, new communication technologies such as high-definition television, and international communication and telecommunications policy.

Writes on news reporting, feature writing, computer-assisted reporting, and online news, including Latin American and sports journalism.

Designs and studies games for social impact, including Black game studies and games about love and affection, through design practice and scholarship.

Creates and studies immersive media and extended reality experiences within human-centered computing, including climate-focused XR projects.

Studies journalists' working conditions, safety, and professional values in Latin America through comparative research such as the Worlds of Journalism Study.

Studies identity negotiation, masculinity, race, and culture in intercultural communication with a social justice orientation.

Produces and edits documentary and narrative films, often portraits of artists, screened at festivals and on public television.

Studies feminist film history and Hollywood women producers, such as Hitchcock collaborator Joan Harrison, through archival biography and film criticism.

Studies journalism cultures and media systems in non-Western countries using journalist surveys and interviews in India, Botswana, and the BRICS nations.

Examines harmful narratives on social media and media advocacy for social change using ethnography, content and visual analysis, interviews, and surveys.

Documents the history of network television and radio programming and studies politics and media, media effects, and audience analysis.

Creates cinematography for narrative, documentary, and immersive 360-degree films distributed in theaters, festivals, and television.

Edits and writes environmental journalism on the worldwide water crisis, drawing on decades as a foreign correspondent to foster cross-cultural communication.

Studies advertising as a cultural institution, including multicultural advertising, femvertising, brand glocalization, and chatbot and AR advertising.

Studies how children, families, and vulnerable audiences process advertising and persuasive media, and develops media literacy approaches.

Produces independent documentaries on human rights and journalism in Latin America, including stories of a Guatemalan torture survivor and a Chilean journalist.

Designs serious and social impact games and gamified learning tools that address health, labor, and social justice issues with nonprofit partners.

Studies Black film history and aesthetics through archival research and critical analysis, including Josephine Baker's films and Jamaican nontheatrical cinema.

Studies advertising effects, public service advertising, and targeted health messages, as well as branding and social media marketing.

Studies how organizations and governments use public relations, CSR, corporate social advocacy, and internal communication to promote health and social change.

Examines Blackness and queerness in television and comedy through media industry, audience reception, fandom, and archival studies.

Applies user-centered design and mixed methods to improve risk communication products such as hurricane forecast graphics and occupational and mobile health tools.

Studies instructional, intercultural, and organizational communication, including communication apprehension and nonverbal communication in teaching.

Studies how political news about protests, social movements, and backlash is produced and consumed in Brazil and the United States amid declining media trust.

Develops community-based health interventions and campaign messages to reduce health disparities, including HIV prevention among Latinos and in Guatemala and Zambia.

Studies cognitive and social effects of virtual reality in education and climate change awareness using lab and field studies combined with AI.

Writes and directs award-winning narrative feature films and theater, with a focus on film directing and production.

Works in acting for the camera, directing, and stage and screen production.

Studies corporate public relations, including CSR, crisis communication, corporate reputation, and cross-cultural and social media strategies.

Uses qualitative and critical methods to study how minoritized epistemologies and feminist movements shape journalism in Latin American and Latinx contexts.

Studies presence in immersive environments and delegation of thinking to AI agents using experiments, behavioral measures, and drift diffusion modeling.

Builds and evaluates AI and machine learning systems for human-machine communication, human-centered AI, augmented reality, and music information retrieval.

Studies purpose-driven, brand activist, and CSR advertising messages and advertising practitioners' perspectives in agencies.

Studies social factors shaping public perceptions of emerging science and technology using quantitative and computational methods.

Uses qualitative methods to study narratives of chronic illness and culture, focusing on Black maternal health and endometriosis.

Examines how social media, AI, and emerging digital technologies affect journalism and communication using quantitative and qualitative analytics.

Studies how new media technologies, influencers, VTubers, and AI shape persuasion in CSR, crisis communication, and responses to misinformation.