University of Washington

Studies the rhetoric of science and American public address through rhetorical criticism and theory, including scientific argument and public controversy.

Analyzes the rhetoric of consumer capitalism, branding, and popular culture, and the possibilities for political action and resistance within market logic.

Studies how mediated and interpersonal communication shape public opinion, political trust, and citizen behavior across issues and multiple continents.

Analyzes representations of multiracial and Asian American people in film, visual culture, and popular media, focusing on race, gender, and ecology.

Studies journalism as a profession and NGOs as newsmakers in international news, through comparative research in France and the United States.

Studies how journalism, activism, and technology companies shape publics around climate and other social problems, including networked journalism and surveillance.

Studies literary journalism, journalism and fiction, media ethics and management, and media and religion through historical and literary analysis of Anglo-American prose.

Studies digital equity and health communication, such as telemedicine, language access, and immigrant family information access, through community-based research.

Studies the social dynamics of online communities engaged in peer production, like Wikipedia and free/open source software, using community data science.

Studies social and political uses of digital technologies in authoritarian former Soviet states, including digital inequalities, opposition movements, and misinformation correction.

Examines media narratives about and by Black women, including the commercial branding of Black women's empowerment, through feminist media and audience studies.

Examines rhetorical-scientific constructions of women's sexual health and vernacular bioethics using rhetorical criticism, field methods, and queer feminist STS.

Studies how communication environments shape democracy, including perceived polarization and political expression, using experiments, surveys, and computational text analysis.

Studies interpersonal and group interaction, social influence, and human-AI relationships using experiments, surveys, and computational analysis of behavioral traces.

Studies identity and race in interpersonal relationships such as interracial friendships and families, using critical qualitative methods like interviews, photovoice, and ethnography.