University of Missouri

Teaches newspaper editing and reporting as managing editor of a student-staffed community newsroom, drawing on long metro newspaper experience.

Studies how people process and respond to mediated messages across video games, VR, social media, and AI, focusing on identity, cognition, and behavior through effects studies.

Teaches digital advertising and media sales, focusing on media buying, planning, and analytics that help news publishers grow revenue and engagement.

Teaches reporting and editing as a teaching editor at a student-staffed community newspaper, with an emphasis on mentoring journalism students.

Teaches strategic design and visual communication for advertising, drawing on professional work in art direction, branding, and package design.

Studies the relationship between power and organizing, especially organizational culture and sexual harassment and social class.

Studies leadership, organizational communication, visual communication, narrative, and persuasion in strategic communication and advertising.

Teaches advertising account management, strategic planning, and audience research, drawing on brand strategy work for national retail and restaurant clients.

Teaches television reporting and helps lead a university-run commercial TV newsroom, drawing on experience covering disasters such as Hurricane Katrina.

Makes and teaches documentary film, creating hybrid nonfiction features that explore performance, reenactment, and documentary journalism.

Teaches and practices investigative and data journalism, including computer-assisted reporting, data literacy, and mapping for stories.

Studies health journalism, science communication, and narrative persuasion from a media sociology perspective, including national surveys of health journalists.

Studies how families communicate to make sense of adversity and diversity, using narrative theory and methods in contexts such as miscarriage, adoption, and international families.

Teaches investigative reporting and directs a state government reporting program, drawing on training work in investigative and data journalism.

Studies international news coverage and foreign policy, analyzing how U.S. news organizations cover other regions of the world.

Studies communication across all phases of disasters and the mental health and political consequences of community crises, including media coverage of terrorism and resilience.

Teaches news writing and cross-platform editing, serves as opinion editor of a student-staffed community newspaper, and works with high school journalism workshops.

Works on news product management and business strategy for sustainable local journalism, aligning community information needs with digital products.

Teaches photojournalism and visual editing and leads documentary video projects, including work on rural Missouri families and youth.

Leads undergraduate journalism education, focusing on curriculum design, accreditation, assessment, and faculty development.

Leads a journalism school as dean, focusing on journalism education, experiential learning, strategic planning, and industry partnerships.

Designs and tests health and science messages, using online and lab experiments to study cognitive and emotional processing, e.g., for clinical trial recruitment.

Studies marginalized identity and ethics in organizational life, including identity negotiation and her theory of stigma management communication.

Directs a university-run commercial TV newsroom and teaches newscast producing, drawing on experience producing local and election news coverage.

Studies African American press history, especially the Black Press in the early 20th century, and media management and newsroom diversity, using historical research.

Teaches broadcast reporting, drawing on experience producing television newscasts and directing small-market radio news and sports.

Studies advertising and health communication, including artificial intelligence in advertising and the psychological processing of digital health messages.

Teaches magazine journalism and edits a student city magazine, with interests in feature, service, and travel writing.

Studies First Amendment theory and law and press freedom, examining historical contexts and how AI, deepfakes, and social media challenge free expression.

Teaches news literacy, multimedia journalism, and social media strategy, with expertise in online teaching and international training for journalists.

Studies tailored health communication and community-based participatory research, including photovoice, along with employee and corporate communication.

Leads a student-staffed community newspaper as executive editor, focusing on community newspaper management and digital news practice.

Writes narrative nonfiction and service journalism, including books on Black colleges and culture, and teaches magazine and travel journalism.

Studies the effects of partisan media, presidential debates, campaign ads, and political humor, focusing on the causes, consequences, and remedies of political polarization.

Studies communication in diverse modern families, especially adoptive families and children's perceptions, and links family communication to religious and political identities.

Edits news at a student-staffed community newspaper, bringing long experience in transportation, business, and investigative reporting and multimedia storytelling.

Studies the history of photojournalism and the influences that shape how subjects are depicted in news photographs, using historical research.

Studies modern American art, cultural history, new journalism, and contemporary literature, and teaches arts and cultural reporting for magazines.

Studies organizational identities and practices in local newsrooms and gender and media, using a sociological approach to journalism's digital transition.

Teaches audience strategy and engagement, guiding newsroom social media strategy with a background in sports storytelling and digital marketing.

Studies how identity shapes health attitudes and communication about disease prevention, science accessibility, and marginalized groups in entertainment media, using mixed methods.

Studies media history and how alternative media shape national and transnational dialogues on race, class, and gender, using critical/cultural approaches.

Works in health and crisis communication; the department profile gives no further detail on research focus or methods.

Studies the broader societal impacts of research, institutional capacity for research engagement, and belonging in academia, linking science communication and research management.

Studies the interplay of media use and social relationships, including how portrayals of social groups shape perceptions and how parasocial relationships form, from a psychological view.

Produces long-form audio journalism and podcasts that build community, combining oral history with public radio reporting.

Studies broadcast journalism education, developing a model for teaching skills, ethics, and theory to improve learning and self-efficacy, and also studies local and mobile news.

Studies journalists as an occupational group in the U.S. and China, using historical and comparative sociology to trace gender, race, and social movements in journalistic identity.

Teaches news reporting and editing, drawing on leadership of a community newspaper and early practice in public (civic) journalism.

Supervises sports coverage at a student-staffed community newspaper and teaches sports journalism and digital news editing, including tests of pay models and social media practice.

Teaches advertising campaigns and audience persuasion, drawing on agency experience leading integrated marketing, brand launches, and repositioning efforts.

Studies communication about sensitive and stigmatized health topics, such as vaping and urinary tract infections, using interpretive qualitative methods informed by bioethics.

Edits community news and draws on experience in statehouse reporting, public health communications, public relations, and speech writing.

Directs a public radio newsroom and teaches broadcast journalism, drawing on experience leading public media coverage of state politics.

Directs marketing for a student-staffed business news outlet, drawing on freelance graphic design and strategic communication experience.

Teaches video production and drone journalism, drawing on experience as a television photojournalist and editor.

Studies science, risk, and health communication, especially theory-based interventions and persuasive messaging about addiction and tobacco to inform behavior change and regulation.

Studies rural and local news and information ecosystems, centering audiences' lived experiences to improve news organizations' viability in their communities.

Produces and teaches television news, drawing on bilingual reporting experience in Costa Rican and U.S. broadcast newsrooms.

Studies African American communication about mental health and mental illness, aiming to increase mental health help-seeking.

Studies science and risk communication, including scientists' public engagement and public attitudes toward controversial scientific and environmental issues.

Teaches advertising copywriting and branding, drawing on agency experience building integrated campaigns and internal communication strategies.

Studies how search engines, social platforms, and AI systems shape health and political information, using algorithm audits, NLP, surveys, and digital trace data.

Produces documentary journalism and public health reporting, with interest in immigrant life in the rural Midwest.

Studies organizational communication about diversity, equity, and inclusion using critical and interpretive perspectives, including transnational and intersectional organizing.