Communication & Media at Northwestern University

47 faculty and 82 courses in Communication & Media at Northwestern University.

Faculty

• Pablo J. Boczkowski, Professor; Hamad Bin Khalifa Al-Thani Professor h-index 38
  Notable: ““News comes across when I’m in a moment of leisure”: Understanding the practices of incidental news consumption on social media” (2018) · 420 citations
• Molly Losh, Jo Ann G. and Peter F. Dolle Professor of Learning Disabilities and Associate Dean for Research h-index 36
• Yingdan Lu, Assistant Professor h-index 12
  Notable: “Screenomics: A Framework to Capture and Analyze Personal Life Experiences and the Ways that Technology Shapes Them” (2019) · 188 citations
• Aaron Shaw, Associate Professor
• Angela G. Ray, Associate Professor
• Aymar Jean Christian, Professor; Director, Master of Science in Leadership for Creative Enterprises
  Es on the political economy of legacy and new media, cultural studies and community-based research. He published his first book, Open TV: Innovation Beyond Hollywood and the Rise of Web Television, on New York University Press, and is writing his second book
• Beverly A. Wright, Professor
• Bharath Chandrasekaran, Department Chair; Ralph and Jean Sundin Endowed Professor
• Bonnie Martin-Harris, Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs; Alice Gabrielle Twight Professor
• Bruce L. Lambert, Professor
• Calvin Liang, Assistant Professor
• Claudio Benzecry, Professor
• Claus-Peter Richter, Professor
• Courtney Lynam Scherr, Associate Chair; Associate Professor; Director of Undergraduate Studies
• Darren Gergle, Bao Family Professor in Human-Computer Interaction
• David Zarefsky, Professor Emeritus
• Dilip Gaonkar, Professor, Culture and Communication; Director of the Center for Global Culture and Communication
• Duri Long, Assistant Professor
• Elizabeth Norton, Associate Professor
• Ellen Wartella, Professor Emerita
• Erik C. Nisbet, Professor; Owen L. Coon Endowed Professor in Policy Analysis and Communication
• Ágnes Horvát, Associate Professor
• Heather Hendershot, Professor; Cardiss Collins Professor of Communication Studies and Journalism
• James Schwoch, Professor
• Jeremy Birnholtz, Department Chair; Professor
  Es on the mechanisms and dynamics of attention and self-presentation as these play out in online environments. Department Communication Studies SoC Administration
• Joe F. Khalil, Associate Professor in Residence
• Larissa Buchholz, Associate Professor
• Leslie DeChurch, Professor; Sheikh Hamad Bin Khalifa Al Thani Chair in Communication
• Marwan M. Kraidy, Dean Northwestern Univ, Qatar; Professor, Communication Studies
• Matthew Kay, Associate Professor; Co-Director of Graduate Studies for the PhD in Technology and Social Behavior
• Megan York Roberts, Associate Chair; Professor
• Michelle Shumate, Professor, Delaney Family University Research Professor
• Monita Chatterjee, Professor
• Moya Bailey, Professor
• Nathan Walter, Associate Professor
• Nicholas Diakopoulos, Professor
• Nina Kraus, Professor of Neurobiology, Otolaryngology; Director of the Hugh Knowles Center
• Noshir Contractor, Jane S. & William J. White Professor of Behavioral Sciences
• Pamela Souza, Professor; Fellow, Hugh Knowles Center
• Paul Arntson, Professor Emeritus
  Understanding communities, civic responsibility, and the connections between organizations. He has conducted research and training programs in British, Australian, and American primary care contexts, using self-help groups and neighborhood associations
• Rayvon Fouché, Professor; Associate Dean for Graduate Education
• Robert Hariman, Owen L. Coon Professor of Argumentation and Debate
• Sameer Ashaie, Assistant Professor
• Sulafa Zidani, Assistant Professor
• Susan Dun, Associate Professor of Instruction
• Thomas J. Billard, Associate Professor
• Viorica Marian, Ralph and Jean Sundin Endowed Professor of Communication Sciences and Disorders

Courses

• Communication in Context: Introduction COMM_ST 101-1
• Communication in Context: Analysis & Research COMM_ST 101-2
• Public Speaking COMM_ST 102-0
• Argumentation and Debate COMM_ST 103-0
• Computing Everywhere COMM_ST 159-0
• Research Methods in Communication Studies COMM_ST 201-0
• Theories of Persuasion COMM_ST 205-0
• Principles of Rhetorical Criticism COMM_ST 215-0
• Media & Publics Across Cultures COMM_ST 221-0
• Communication and Culture COMM_ST 225-0
• Communication & Technology COMM_ST 227-0
• AfroFeministFutures COMM_ST 228-0
• Theories of Relational Communication COMM_ST 241-0
• Intro to Health Communication COMM_ST 246-0
• Black Feminist Health Science Studies COMM_ST 248-0
• Team Leadership and Decision Making COMM_ST 250-0
• Team Leadership and Decision Making (Study Abroad) COMM_ST 250-SA
• Understanding Media Markets: Users, Makers and Metrics COMM_ST 255-0
• Introduction to Strategic Communication COMM_ST 261-0
• Risk Communication COMM_ST 263-0
• Media Effects COMM_ST 270-0
• Power in Entertainment COMM_ST 274-0
• Persuasive Images: Rhetoric of Popular Culture COMM_ST 275-0
• Forensics COMM_ST 290-0
• First-Year Seminar COMM_ST 294-0
• Topics in Communication Studies COMM_ST 295-0
• Undergraduate Seminar COMM_ST 298-0
• Current Issues in Privacy COMM_ST 301-0
• Law of the Creative Process COMM_ST 302-0
• Communication and Misinformation COMM_ST 303-0
• Rhetoric, Democracy & Empire in Classical Athens COMM_ST 310-0
• Rhetoric and Public Commemoration COMM_ST 314-0
• Rhetoric of Social Movements COMM_ST 315-0
• Voice, Violence, and Democracy COMM_ST 317-0
• Rhetoric of U.S. Women's Rights, Colonial to 1920 COMM_ST 324-1
• Rhetoric of U.S. Women's Rights, 1920-Present COMM_ST 324-2
• African American Rhetoric COMM_ST 326-0
• Health Communication and Precision Medicine COMM_ST 339-0
• Community Integration of Labeled People COMM_ST 340-0
• Communication and Aging COMM_ST 341-0
• The Experience of Chronic Illness: Body, Self, and Story COMM_ST 342-0
• Interpersonal Conflict COMM_ST 344-0
• Family Communication COMM_ST 345-0
• Organizational Leadership COMM_ST 350-0
• Organizational Leadership (Study Abroad) COMM_ST 350-SA
• Technology & Human Interaction COMM_ST 351-0
• Social Network Analysis COMM_ST 352-0
• Social Network Analysis (Study Abroad) COMM_ST 352-SA
• Collaboration Technology COMM_ST 353-0
• Audience Analysis COMM_ST 355-0
• Algorithms and Society COMM_ST 358-0
• Theories of Organizational Communication COMM_ST 360-0
• Bargaining and Negotiation COMM_ST 363-0
• Collective Decision Making & Communication in Organizations COMM_ST 364-0
• Organizational Assessment COMM_ST 365-0
• Nonprofit Communication Management COMM_ST 367-0
• The Construction of Value in Cultural Markets COMM_ST 369-0
• Ethnographies of Culture COMM_ST 370-0
• Cultural Analytics COMM_ST 371-0
• Creativity in Context COMM_ST 372-0
• Environmental Art and Advocacy COMM_ST 373-0
• Interactive Museum Exhibit Design COMM_ST 374-0
• The Sociology of Online News COMM_ST 375-0
• Contemporary Television COMM_ST 376-0
• Communication, Innovation and Leadership COMM_ST 377-0
• Online Communities and Crowds COMM_ST 378-0
• Digital Propaganda and Repression COMM_ST 379-0
• Political Communication COMM_ST 380-0
• Media, Movements, & Social Change COMM_ST 381-0
• Media, Communication, and Environment COMM_ST 383-0
• Science, Technology, and Society COMM_ST 386-0
• Critical Internet Studies COMM_ST 387-0
• Internet and Society COMM_ST 388-0
• Practicum in Communication Research COMM_ST 389-0
• Children's Culture COMM_ST 390-0
• Global Culture, Commerce and Communication COMM_ST 392-0
• Communication Studies Research Seminar COMM_ST 394-0
• Topics in Communication Studies (Upper) COMM_ST 395-0
• Topics in Communication Studies (Study Abroad) COMM_ST 395-SA
• Honors Seminar COMM_ST 397-0
• Undergraduate Seminar (Upper) COMM_ST 398-0
• Independent Study COMM_ST 399-0

Faculty counts are directory headcounts; the named list may be a subset. h-index shown only for ORCID-backed or high-confidence OpenAlex matches. Data as of 2026-07-02.