University of Nebraska–Lincoln

Studies how popular film and television represent social activism, feminism, and antiracist struggle, using critical media criticism of Hollywood memories of the 1960s.

Studies how storytelling and communicated narrative sense-making help individuals and families cope with difficulty and illness, and develops narrative-based interventions for caregiving.

Studies the political and cultural rhetoric of the U.S. far right and white masculinity in film, television, and digital culture through psychoanalytic rhetorical criticism.

Studies intergroup and family communication, including multiethnic-racial and interfaith families, intergroup contact and dialogue that reduce prejudice, and identity socialization.

Studies how identity, supportive communication, and decision-making shape health outcomes for rural, immigrant, and refugee communities using community-based participatory and mixed methods.

Studies health disparities and communicative inequalities among marginalized communities, including migrant worker health activism and patient-provider bias, using multimethod research.

Studies the rhetoric of political exile, social movements, and anti-colonial internationalism through transnational archival research grounded in materialist philosophy.