Faculty Research Interests

CCI Administration

Name	Position	Research Areas
Suzie Allard	Associate Dean for Research, Director of the Center for Information & Communication Studies, Chancellor’s Professor; CCI Board of Visitors Professor	Science Data Science/Health Information & Communication Library & Information Science Education Intercultural/International Information Issues
Virginia W. Kupritz	Associate Dean for Academic Programs, Director of Graduate Studies, Inaugural William H. Swain Professor; Professor	Workplace privacy Intergenerational communication Computer-mediated communication Architectural communication Intercultural communication Ethnographic research methods Training transfer in organizations

Tombras School of Advertising & Public Relations

Name	Position	Research Areas
Robyn Blakeman	Associate Professor	Advertising and Graphic Design
Courtney Carpenter Childers	Associate Professor, Executive Director, Adam Brown Social Media Command Center	Advertising to children Food/beverage marketing Parental responses to advertising Societal issues Social media marketing Influencer marketing
Moonhee Cho	Assistant Professor	Organization-Public Relationship/Engagement Nonprofit Management; Fundraising Empowerment Strategic Use of Emerging Media
Elizabeth Avery Foster	Director, Professor	Health Communication Crisis Communication Public Relations Public Health Campaigns
Eric Haley	Professor	Advocacy Advertising Account Planning Health Communication Advertising and Society Issues
Derrick Holland	Assistant Professor	Transparency in Public Relations Messaging Public Relations Campaigns Environmental Communication Public Health Campaigns
Mariea Hoy	DeForrest Jackson Professor	Advertising Disclosures Online Privacy Advertising & Childhood Obesity DTC Rx Advertising Advergaming/Social Gaming
Michael J. Palenchar	Associate Professor	Risk Communication Crisis Communication Issues Management Community Right to Know & Front Groups Public Relations Social Media and Risk/Crisis Communication
Matthew Pittman	Assistant Professor	Social Media and Cognition Sustainability Campaigns Green/Environmental Advertising
Candace White	Professor	Comparative global public relations Public relations as a component of public diplomacy (corporate diplomacy) Intercultural communication Perceptions of public relations practices Public diplomacy Corporate social responsibility
Sifan Xu	Assistant Professor	Social Identities Organization-Public Relationships Community-Based Crisis Communication Risk Communication

School of Communication Studies

Name	Position	Research Areas
Jenny Crowley	Assistant Professor	Interpersonal Communication Stigma Social Support Information Management
John Haas	Associate Professor	Organizational communication effectiveness Public communication effectiveness Communication in education and society
Michael R. Kotowski	Associate Professor, Director of Graduate Studies	Social Influence Interpersonal/Small Group Research Methodology
Laura Miller	Associate Professor	Interpersonal and health communication
Emily A. Paskewitz	Assistant Professor	Group Communication Organizational Communication Applied Communication
Joan R. Rentsch	Professor	Mindfulness Team Member Schema Similarity Cognition in organizations Organizational Behavior
Michelle Violanti	Associate Professor	Organizational leadership Instructional communication and assessment Culture and language Health and wellness
DaJung (DJ) Woo	Assistant Professor	Organizational Communication Interorganizational Collaboration Knowledge and Expertise Sharing in Organizations Organizational Implications of Technologies
Courtney N. Wright	Associate Professor, Director of Undergraduate Studies & Honors Program	Interpersonal Communication Conflict Management, Bargaining & Negotiation Inclusion & Communicating Differences Instructional Communication & Teacher-Training Communication Training & Development

School of Information Sciences

Name	Position	Research Areas
Suzie Allard	Associate Dean for Research, Director of the Center for Information & Communication Studies, Chancellor’s Professor; CCI Board of Visitors Professor	Science Data Science/Health Information & Communication Library & Information Science Education Intercultural/International Information Issues
Dania Bilal	Professor	Youth informatics Information behavior, child-computer interaction Information retrieval, relevance, web search engines Human-computer interaction, interface design and usability User information discovery & information literacy STEM data management and curation Library automation
Wade Bishop	Associate Professor	Geographic information systems (GIS) Geographic Information Librarianship Research Data Management FAIR Data Principles Virtual reference
Rachel Fleming-May	Associate Professor	Academic libraries, librarianship, and users Conceptual, theoretical, and foundational issues in LIS Information behavior Evaluation and assessment of libraries and information resources Qualitative approaches to LIS research The Intersection of Literature and Information
Carolyn Hank	Assistant Professor	Sociology of Information Social Media Information Policy Data Curation
Devendra Potnis	Associate Professor	Information tools & services (mobile apps, wearable devices, e-Books, info systems, social media, assistive tech, & websites) for individuals (students, farmers, women, & youth), organizations (libraries, small businesses, microfinance), & governments Information literacy (financial literacy of disadvantaged communities) Information behavior – seeking, searching, processing, using, and forwarding information Information networks of communities (e.g., farmers in rural India, childbirth and motherhood groups) Innovations (e.g., inclusive innovation for unbanked women, sustaining and scaling innovations in libraries)
Vandana Singh	Associate Professor	Human computer interaction User experience Usability Open source software Online customer support Computer supported cooperative work
Peiling Wang	Professor	Open Peer Review (OPR) in Open Science (OS) Data mining and knowledge discovery Database design and migration Information behaviors Cognitive and affective computing Research methodologies and methods Citation analysis
Cindy Welch	Clinical Associate Professor, Coordinator of Youth Services	Youth services in public libraries and library history Children’s and teens’ services in public libraries, YA literature, the history of public libraries Communications technology adoption/use by children’s and YA librarians in public libraries
Xiaohua (Awa) Zhu	Associate Professor	Intellectual property Electronic resources licensing and management Information policy Open government/open access/open data Social informatics Academic libraries

School of Journalism & Electronic Media

Name	Position	Research Areas
Julie Andsager	Professor	Media messages about health, medicine, and science Public opinion
Stuart N. Brotman	Howard Distinguished Endowed Professor of Media Management and Law, Beaman Professor of Journalism and Electronic Media	Telecommunications /electronic mass media law and policy International communications regulation Global broadband development Media management transformation Intellectual property Internet governance Cybersecurity Freedom of expression Media and journalism ethics Leadership in media industries Digital media production, distribution, and exhibition Media history News distortion and disinformation
Nicholas Geidner	Associate Professor	Effects of Internet technologies on journalism and group formation.
Mark Harmon	Professor	Television news gatekeeping Connections between media and materialistic values
Rob Heller	CCI Board of Visitors Professor	Photojournalism history New technology Newspaper design Typography
Barbara Kaye	Professor	Users and uses of online political information Profanity on television Media Effects
Bob Legg	Associate Professor	Media Effects
Mark Littmann	Hill Chair of Excellence in Science Writing, CCI Board of Visitors Professor	Astronomy and the history of astronomy Writing about science for the general public Science writing as literature History of science Teaching science and science writing
Catherine Luther	Director, Professor	International communication Press-state relations Intergroup conflict Terrorism and the media Issues involving media and social group representations
Michael T. Martinez	Assistant Professor of Practice	First Amendment Law – Media and the courts Visual Communication – Political coverage History – Journalism practice
Amber Roessner	Associate Professor	History of media and its intersection with American culture and collective memory The practice of mass communications, in particular sports and politics Race, gender, class & the mass media Critical & cultural studies
Erin Whiteside	Associate Professor	Sports media Cultural studies Feminist theory Media diversity sexuality gender