Faculty Research and Teaching Interests

Interpersonal, Intergroup, and health communication

Doris Acheme, Ph.D., University of Oklahoma. Intergroup and intercultural communication, language attitudes, racial identity processes, quantitative and qualitative methods.

Analisa Arroyo, Ph.D., University of Arizona. Interpersonal, relational, and family communication, body image, mental health and well-being.

Soroya J. McFarlane, Ph.D., University of Miami. Health communication, health disparities, culture, community-engaged research, mixed methods.

Mackensie Minniear, Ph.D., University of Nebraska, Lincoln. Family communication, intergroup communication, race, ethnicity, critical views of family and interpersonal communication.

Chelsea L. Ratcliff, Ph.D., University of Utah. Health communication, persuasion and social influence, message effects, communicating uncertain science to the public, ELSI, quantitative research methods.

Sachiko Terui, Ph.D., University of Oklahoma. Global health communication, health literacy, health disparities, cross-cultural comparisons, health interventions, mixed research methods.

rhetorical studies

Maryam Ahmadi, Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison. Rhetorical theory and history, critical studies of colonialism and empire, global rhetorics, and social movement studies.

Barbara A. Biesecker, Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh. Modern and contemporary rhetorical theory and criticism, cultural studies, visual studies, and feminist studies.

Jessica Chaplain, Ph.D., University of Utah. 

Kelly Happe, Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh. Rhetorical theory and criticism, rhetorics of science and medicine, biopolitics, Marxist, critical race and feminist theories and methods.

Roger Stahl, Ph.D., Penn State University. Critical theory, media theory, popular culture, and discourse of war, security, and propaganda.

Belinda Stillion Southard, Ph.D., University of Maryland. Rhetorical criticism, public address, transnationalism, gender studies, and social change.

Bjørn Stillion Southard, Ph.D., University of Maryland. Public address, discourses concerning race and law, the history of American speech and debate practices.