Dawna
Irene Ballard
Assistant Professor, University of Texas, Austin
Dissertation title and year: The Communicative Construction
of Time: Explication and Partial Test of a Meso Organizational
Model, 2002
Research area: mutual influence between time and communication
in the workplace
Teaching area: organizational communication, time and
communication in the workplace, and communication in
work teams
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Aaron Castelan Cargile
Associate Professor, Cal State University, Long Beach
Dissertation title and year: Understanding Language
Attitudes: The Investigation of an American-Japanese
Context, 1996
Research area: Intercultural Communication
Tim
Cole
Associate Professor, DePaul University
Dissertation title and year: Models of Information Manipulation
Underlying Deceptive Messages: An Empirical Comparison
and Contrast, 1996
Teaching area: deceptive communication, romantic relationships,
introduction to human communication, research methods,
interpersonal communication, communication theory, intergroup
behavior, and quantitative reasoning.
Research area: evolutionary psychology, deceptive communication,
and false confessions.
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Travis
Dixon
Assistant Professor, University of Illinois, Urbana-Chapagne
Dissertation title and year: Overrepresentation and
Underrepresentation of African American and Latinos
as Lawbreakers on Television News, 1998
Research area: Social and Psychological Effects of the
Mass Media, Effects of Mass Media Stereotyping on Viewers,
Racial Representations in the Mass Media, Public Policy
Implications of Research on the Role of Mass Media in
Society
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Ashley
Duggan
Assistant Professor, Boston College
Dissertation title and year: One Up, Two Involved: An
Application and Extension of Inconsistent Nurturing
as Control Theory to Couples Inclusing One Depressed
Individual, 2004
Research area: nonverbal and health communication. She
is currently working on projects examining interpersonal
control tactics in romantic couples including one depressed
individual, emotional experience and expression in provider-patient
contexts, and nonverbal communication behaviors in conversations
about physical and mental health.
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Jake
Harwood
Professor, University of Arizona
Dissertation title and year: The Role of Response Strategy
and Attributed Thoughts in Mediating Evaluations of
Intergenerational Patronizing Talk, 1994
Research area: intergroup communication with a particular
focus on age groups
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Robert
McCann
Associate Professor, USC
Dissertation title and year: Intra and Intergenerational
Communiction in the Workplace: Perspectives from Thailand
and the United States of America, 2003
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Patrick
O'Sullivan
Associate Professor, Illinois State University
Dissertation title and year: What You Don't Know Won't
Hurt Me: Strategic Self-presentational Uses of Interpersonal
Communication Technology in Romantic Relationships,
1997
Research area: I am working to develop theoretical frameworks
for why and how individuals select and use communication
technologies (older low-tech and newer high-tech) for
a range of social purposes and goals, as well as the
outcomes associated with those uses. I am striving to
embed the study of communication technologies more comprehensively
in theories of communication.
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Nicholas
Palomares
Assistant Professor, UC Davis
Dissertation title and year: Toward a Theory of Goal
Detection in Social Interaction: The Effects of Contextual
Ambiguity and Tactical Fuctionality on Goal Inferences
and Inference Certainty, 2005
Research area: Message production and processing/comprehension of language and conversational behavior in social interaction. Specifically, he examines goal detection, such as how individuals infer others' goals accurately, and gender-based language, such as the cognitive mechanisms responsible for language differences and similarities between men and women.
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Bryant
Paul
Assistant Professor, Indiana University
Dissertation title and year: Investigating the Impact
of Pornography Depicting Females as Underage, 2003
Research area: First Amendment Law and Policy, the effects
of sexual messages in the media, Media and sports, and
evolutionary psychological explanations for media effects.
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Stacy
Le Smith
Associate Professor, USC
Dissertation title and year: Children's Comprehension
of and Fear Reactions to Television News, 1999
Research area: developmental differences in children's
reactions to mass media, with a particular interest
in youngsters" responses to violence in the news.
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Sunwolf
Associate Professor, Santa Clara University
Dissertation title and year: Unlocking the Jury Box:
Structure, Leadership, and Storytelling in Jury Deliberations,
1998
Research area: Interpersonal communication, group processes
(including teams, cliques, juries, gangs), persuasion
(including social psychology of color and the marketing
influences in shopping), interpersonal conflict (toxic
relationships and emotional blackmail), oral storytelling
(folktales, ghost stories, legends), and senior research
thesis.
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Angela
Williams
Senior Lecturer, Cardiff Univerisity, Wales
Dissertation title and year: "Attention, attention
. . . I love attention": Younger Persons' Perceptions
of Satisfying and Dissatisfying Conversations with Older
People, 1994
Research area: social psychological approaches to language
and communication. She has particular interests in life-span
development and has published over 40 book chapters
and articles dealing with issues such as the communication
of agism, communication accommodation and intergroup
theory, perceptions of elder and teenage communicators,
Eastern and Western perspectives on intergenerational
communication, language attitudes (e.g., attitudes to
Welsh English) and media images of elders.
Teaching area: Communication Research Methods, Communicating
in Relationships, and an MA level module on Quantiative
Methods in Language and Communication Research
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Mike
Yao
Assistant Professor, City University of Hong Kong
Dissertation title and year: Predicting the
Adoption of Self-Protections of Online Privacy: A Test
of an Expanded Theory of Planned Behavior Model
Rene Dailey
Assistant Professor, University of Texas at Austin
Dissertation title: Confirmation and Adolescent
Development: The Relationship Between Parental Confirmation
and Adolescent Self-esteem, Identity, and Openness
Research area: interpersonal and family communication.
Her work includes examining topic avoidance in intimate
relationships as well as how partners’ attachments
styles are related to communication in their relationships.
She is also interested in how family communication impacts
child and adolescent development. Specifically, her
current research focuses on the relationship between
parental confirmation and adolescents’ socio-emotional
development (e.g., self-esteem, identity) and communication
patterns (e.g., openness).
Carmen
Lee
Assistant Professor, Michigan State University
Dissertation title: Attraction in Context:
Examining How Personal and Social Attraction Affect
Communication Accommodation
Teaching: She is teaching a course on the “Dark
Side of Interpersonal Relationships” during Spring,
2006. She also teaches “Communication in Close
Relationships” (Fall 2005 & Spring 2006).
Research: Her area of expertise related to health communication
research involves research on communicative abuse in
personal relationships.
Daisy Lemus
Assistant Professor, California State University-Northridge
Research area: organizational communication extends
to the areas of group communication and technology,
organizational change, and the use of mixed methods
in organizational communication research. She has collaborated
with multiple scholars in various areas of communication
and her work has been published in Human Communication
Research, Journal of Communication, and Communication
Yearbook 27. Additionally, she participates in the annual
conferences of the International Communication Association
(ICA), National Communication Association (NCA), Western
States Communication Association (WSCA), and The Academy
of Management (AOM).
Laurie Lewis
Associate Professor Communication, Rutgers University
Dissertation title: Users' Interaction-based responses to intra-organizational adoption of
innovations: A multi-method investigation of components of a model of innovation
modification.
Research area: Organizational Communication