Wayne State University

Studies conflict, incivility and bullying in workplaces, especially academia, and how organizational structure and culture enable or prevent them.

Studies how people use communication to maintain relationships and cope with stress, including long-distance relationships, computer-mediated interaction and work-family conflict.

Studies crisis and risk communication, health promotion, agency coordination, crisis ethics, and failure of complex systems and post-crisis renewal.

Studies message design and effects in health, risk and science communication, especially how metaphor and figurative language shape attitudes, and evidence synthesis methodology.

Studies how people initiate, maintain and end relationships through social media and relational technologies, including AI.

Studies media framing, news routines and securitization, using content analysis of media content and examining how frames shape audience attitudes.

Studies gender and intersectionality in journalism, public sphere and counterpublic theory, and online hate speech and harassment.

Studies the cultural history of US journalism, from the antebellum and Civil War press to civil rights reporting, and news coverage of race, Latinos and immigration.

Studies media effects, digital media, crisis public relations and science communication, including journalists' handling of fake news and scientific uncertainty, using computational methods.

Studies telecommunications and space policy and the use of drones and satellites to monitor climate change, water scarcity and migration, focusing on MENA, the EU, Africa and the Caribbean.

Studies organizing around environmental resources, corporate social responsibility and meaningful work using ethnography, interviews, focus groups and discourse analysis.

Studies health, risk and crisis communication on food safety and disability, using mixed methods, critical interpretive and autoethnographic analysis, including Arab American communities in Detroit.

Studies mass media effects on perception and public opinion, how media frame debates, and the role of ethnic media in ethnic communities and identity.

Studies crisis rhetoric and organizational legitimacy, culture and diversity in communication, hip hop identity and social movement rhetoric from a critical perspective.

Studies how social media and technology shape public opinion about democracy, including surveillance, censorship, content moderation and disinformation, using large-scale surveys and experiments.

Studies argumentation and rhetoric of public memory, protest and controversy, Native American discourse, and competitive speech and debate pedagogy through rhetorical criticism.

Studies African American rhetoric, analyzing how Black speakers, writers and activists advocate for equality and social change, including rhetoric of Black maternal health.

Studies how media and gender norms shape Black women's singlehood and sexual socialization, using interviews in Detroit, and how screen media affects young children's health.