University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee

Studies social influence across personal, relational, organizational, media, and public contexts, often synthesizing research through meta-analysis.

Studies persuasion and media effects in health, political, and charitable appeals, including message framing and stigmatizing campaigns, using online experiments.

Studies rhetoric and public culture, focusing on public controversy, intersectional race and gender identity, white supremacist and anti-suffrage rhetoric, and gun violence in Milwaukee.

Studies cross-cultural and international communication, developing a theory of culture that addresses limits of Hofstede's dimensions and Hall's context theory.

Studies interpersonal and family communication in long-distance relationships and deployed military families, mainly through in-depth interviews, plus community stories of gun violence in Wisconsin.

Studies the intersection of organizational and interpersonal communication, including work-life concerns, emotions at work, conflict, leadership, and remote workers' technology use.

Studies how communication technologies shape interpersonal relationships, self-disclosure, and small-group and health communication, including meta-analysis of mediated vs. face-to-face interaction.

Studies 19th- and 20th-century African American rhetoric and literature, rhetorics of place and citizenship, and civic engagement in urban settings such as the Black Freedom Movement.

Uses critical rhetorical analysis to study how technology shapes public sensibilities and how subaltern groups use rhetoric to engage authoritative control, including television and film.

Uses critical qualitative and ethnographic methods to study identity, race, and anti-racist solidarity among South Asian Americans and critical intercultural communication pedagogy.

Uses rhetorical criticism to study public memory, how publics argue about the past, and Black American women's memory work and rhetorical activism.

Studies sports media and journalism, including boundary work and ethics of in-house sports reporters, media framing of head injuries, and candidates' social media messaging.

Studies the racialization of South Asian American diaspora communities in digital and social media, their media activism, and media representations of India and Indian Americans.