University of South Florida

Studies culture, health, and underprivilege in marginalized communities through the culture-centered approach, using critical ethnography and autoethnography.

Studies how identities are co-constituted in relational communication, focusing on bullying and LGBTQ+ cultures, using autoethnography, fieldwork, and phenomenology.

Studies careers, work-life policy, resilience, gender, and engineering design and ethics in organizations, including NSF-funded development of engineering ethics scales.

Studies media representations, Black feminist thought, and hip hop culture in everyday life, using autoethnography and interpretive cultural analysis.

Studies uncertainty, medical decision making, and communication of genetic cancer risk among previvors and in patient-clinician interaction.

Studies listening, performances of music and sound, and creative approaches to inquiry from a performance studies perspective.

Studies organizational communication from the perspectives of communities worldwide, examining culture, structure, and agency amid global economic and environmental issues.

Studies presidential and political communication, media content and effects, and how leaders use communication technologies for democratic governance, using quantitative methods.

Studies how people navigate difficult conversations, influence goals, and communicative resilience in families, health, and workplaces, including military families.

Studies power, authority, and accountability in discourse across health, crisis, and institutional settings, using discourse analysis of talk and texts.

Studies the intersections of performance and pedagogy, including public speaking instruction and instructor development.

Studies how organizing around embodied difference shapes work, health, and food justice, using feminist and narrative analysis of discourse and materiality.

Studies ethnic and gender diversity in media and culture, including narrative images of motherhood and the Madonna, and diversity teaching and intervention.

Studies how social support, interpersonal conversation, and identity shape responses to persuasive health messages among racial and sexual minorities, using mixed methods.

Studies how social and cultural assumptions shape everyday organizing and organizational agency, using ethnographic, rhetorical, and interview methods.

Studies rhetoric of violence, neoliberalism, gender, and borders in contemporary Mexican visual culture, using rhetorical theory, film criticism, and memoir.

Studies the role of new media and technology in political and health contexts, using surveys, experiments, content analysis, and computational tools.