Graduate Field Faculty

Rosemary Avery 

• Concentrations: science, environment and health communication
• Research interests: impact of advertising on health-related behavior

Natalie Bazarova

• Concentrations: communication; social psychology communication
• Research interests: interpersonal, small group and computer-mediated research

danah boyd

• Concentrations: media communication and society
• Research interests: sociotechnical systems; data/AI/machine learning; technology studies; social networks/fabrics/graphs; equity; ethnography

Sahara Byrne

• Concentrations: social psychology communication; media communication and society; science, environment and health communication
• Research interests: cognitive development and media effects; persuasion and the boomerang effect

Monica Cornejo

• Concentrations: communication; social psychology communication
• Research interests: interpersonal; undocumented immigrants; migration; advocacy; health and wellbeing

Brooke Erin Duffy

• Concentrations: media communication and society
• Research interests: new media and society; media and creative industries; gender and feminist media studies; digital labor; qualitative research methods

Susan Fussell

• Concentrations: social psychology communication; human-computer interaction
• Research interests: human-computer interaction; social psychology communication; computer-mediated communication; computer-supported collaborative work; intercultural communication; social computing

Tarleton Gillespie

• Concentrations: media communication and society
• Research interests: digital copyright; technology and cultural participation; critical discourse of technology; new media and society; commercialization of digital media

Amelia Greiner Safi

• Concentrations: communication; media communication and society; science, environment and health communication
• Research interests: translational research; role of communication in policy making and impacts for health, environment, and urban planning; media and health

Stephen Hilgartner

• Concentrations: communication; science, environment and health communication
• Research interests: science, technology and media; risk; the flow of knowledge

Lee Humphreys

• Concentrations: media communication and society; human-computer interaction
• Research interests: human-computer interaction; media communication and society; social uses and effects of communication technology; new media and society; mobile communication; urban communication

Steven Jackson

• Concentrations: media communication and society; science, environment and health communication
• Research interests: communication policy; scientific communication collaboration; science and technology studies

Malte Jung

• Concentrations: communication; human-computer interaction
• Research interests: communication; human-computer interaction

René Kizilcec

• Concentrations: human-computer interaction; social psychology communication
• Research interests: learning, education, technology, equity

Bruce Lewenstein

• Concentrations: communication; science, environment and health communication
• Research interests: history and evaluation of public communication of science and technology; models of science communication; documentation and history of contemporary science

Neil Lewis, Jr.

• Concentrations: communication; organizational communication; science, environment, and health communication; social psychology communication
• Research interests: motivation and goal pursuit processes, particularly as they relate to disparities in education, health, and the environment; behavioral science and policy

Michael Macy

• Concentrations: communication; social psychology communication; media communication and society
• Research interests: collective action; emergence of norms; networks and cascades; game theory; agent-based modeling; social psychology

Drew Margolin

• Concentrations: communication; media communication and society; organizational communication
• Research interests: communication; language and communication; media communication and society; organizational communication

Alan Mathios

• Concentrations: social psychology communication
• Research interests: consumer protection; antitrust law and economics; public utility regulation; federal and state regulation

J. Nathan Matias

• Concentrations: communication; human-computer interaction; social psychology communication
• Research interests: digital governance; behavior changes in groups and networks shaped by algorithms; pervasive experimentation in society with a special focus on citizen behavioral science and behavioral consume protection

Katherine McComas

• Concentrations: science, environment and health communication
• Research interests: risk communication; community involvement; public participation

Poppy McLeod

• Concentrations: social psychology communication; media communication and society
• Research interests: communication in small groups; interagency coordination in social services

Wunpini Mohammed

• Concentrations: communication, media communication and society
• Research Interests: decolonization, indigenous language media, social movements, global media, feminisms

Jeff Niederdeppe

• Concentrations: media communication and society; science, environment and health communication
• Research interests: science, environment and health communication; media communication and society; mass communication; media campaigns; persuasive message design

Danny Parker

• Concentrations: communication, media communication and society, social psychology of communication
• Research Interests: ethnography; urban and rural poverty; structural inequality; political identity and behavior; collective narratives and group formation; news production

Gordon Pennycook

• Concentrations: human-computer interaction; media communication and society; science, environment and health communication; social psychology of communication 
• Research Interests: misinformation; judgment and decision making; social media; science communication; artificial intelligence

Dawn Schrader

• Concentrations: communication
• Research interests: moral psychology; ethics; lifespan developmental psychology; privacy and technology; cognitive psychology

Jonathon Schuldt

• Concentrations: science, environment and health communication; social psychology communication
• Research interests: science, environment and health communication; message framing; food labeling; social cognition

Katherine Sender, Director of Graduate Studies

• Concentrations: media communication and society
• Research interests: media and gender, sexuality, LGBTQ studies, critical race studies, media and globalization, audiences, media production, documentary production

Andrea Stevenson Won

• Concentrations: human-computer interaction; science, environmental, and health communication; social psychology communication
• Research interests: virtual reality; augmented reality; avatars; visual feedback; nonverbal behavior; synchrony

Alex Susskind

• Concentrations: social psychology communication
• Research interests: organizational change and development; communication technology and business processes

Claire Wardle

• Concentrations: communication; media communication and society; science, environmental, and health communication
• Research Interests: journalism, misinformation, user-generated needs, technology, impact of AI on communities

Connie Yuan

• Concentrations: communication; media communication and society
• Research interests: social network; knowledge management; communications technologies