30 faculty and 28 courses in Communication and Media Studies at University of Connecticut.
- Anne Oeldorf-Hirsch, Associate Professor h-index 24
The use of social media for information sharing, community building, and well-being. Specifically, her work investigates the features of these communities that shape how we communicate with and through them. Her recent work focuses
Notable: “The biggest lie on the Internet: ignoring the privacy policies and terms of service policies of social networking services” (2018) · 602 citations
- Svetlana Kalnova, Assistant Professor in-Residence h-index 2
Food marketing to children and young adults, prevention of undergraduate college drinking, use of social media for weight gain prevention among college students, and parental perceptions of their children’s eating behavior. He
- Amanda Cooper, Assistant Professor
Es on dementia caregiving and the ways that families can communicate to maintain their relationships and sustain well-being while living with dementia. Her research has been published in journals such as the Journal of Social and Personal R
- Amanda Denes, Professor
Interpersonal and health communication, with emphases in biosocial models of communication, sexual communication, and communication processes related to maintaining healthy relationships. Overall, the aim of her research is to identify c
- Anne Basaran, Associate Professor in-Residence
Normative, attitude, and behavioral change via traditional and new media technologies Mass media effects on health Cross-cultural implications for health interventions Research methods (mixed methods, quantitative methods, qualitative metho
- Branden Birmingham, Assistant Professor in-Residence
- C. Arthur Vanlear, Professor Emeritus
Communication in interpersonal relationships, relationship formation and evolution, and marital and family communication, as well as communication and relationships as part of the alcoholism recovery process. He is also co-author of
- Carolyn A. Lin, Professor
Advertising, public relations, marketing, intercultural, and political communication Online media, social media, mobile media, augmented reality, and generated AI Risk, crisis, health, science, and environmental communication Biometric resp
- David Atkin, Professor
- Diana Rios, Associate Professor
Interdisciplinary and include mass media, Chicana/o-Latina/o studies, ethnicity and race, gender, and women’s studies. Professor Rios served as Associate Director, and later Director, of what is now El Instituto. She has received
- Elizabeth Hintz, Associate Professor
Interpersonal, Family, and Health Communication Women’s Health Issues Gender and Feminist Approaches Qualitative Methods Links Google Scholar ResearchGate
- Emily Hutter, Visiting Assistant Professor
Crisis & risk, decision-making behavior, information-seeking, and behavioral intention. Her research is published in journals such as Progress in Disaster Science, Health Security, The Journal of Emergency Management, and Journa
- James Watt, Professor Emeritus
- Jiyoun Suk, Assistant Professor
Computational Social Science Political Communication Mis/Disinformation Digital politics and gender Social justice and activism Research Affiliations Communication and Emerging Media (CEM) Lab Communication Methods Innovation Lab (CMIL) Web
- Jocelyn Steinke, Professor
Science communication STEM Identity Broadening STEM participation through media intervention Mass media effects Select Publications Steinke, J.; Gilbert, C.; Coletti, A.; Holland Levin, S.; Suk, J.; Oeldorf-Hirsch, A. (2024). Women in STEM
- John Christensen, Associate Professor
- Kenneth Lachlan, Professor, Department Head
Media dependencies during crises and disasters, community-level risk mitigation interventions, and the role of cognitive processing styles in responding to emergency messages. Courses Taught Comm 2000Q: Research Methods in Communica
- Kirstie Farrar, Associate Professor, Director of Graduate Studies
The effects of the mass media on individuals, particularly concerning violent video games and aggression. Her work has appeared in the Journal of Communication , Media Psychology , Mass Communication & Society , Presence: Teleop
- Kristine Nowak, Professor
- Leslie Snyder, Professor Emerita
- Mark Hamilton, Professor
On social influence — which includes marketing, persuasion, language effects, chronemics, and culture. Dr. Hamilton has published in all of the major communication journals except Communication Research. He has over 25 years of exp
- Paul Jalbert, Professor Emeritus
- Rory McGloin, Associate Professor
Predictors and outcomes of organizational communication training and development Entrepreneurial mindset, self-efficacy, and business communication skills Characteristics of effective communication amongst leaders Perceptions of online sour
- Sara Stifano, Associate Professor in-Residence
Focused primarily on the effect of emotion in decision-making, particularly in risky situations. Her current research projects focus on the creation and implementation of health messages that utilize emotional education in narrative med
- Saraswathi Bellur, Associate Professor
Es on understanding the psychological and physiological effects of interactive media on key communication processes and outcomes. With several publications in flagship journals in the field, Dr. Bellur’s work has contributed to both t
- Sharde M. Davis, Associate Professor
Interpersonal communication, with emphases in racial and gender identity, resistance, counter hegemony, and resilience, intra/intergroup dynamics, and supportive communication. Her specific line of research explores how Black women’s com
- Stephen Stifano, Professor in-Residence, Director of Undergraduate Studies
Instructional Communication, the Communication of Emotion, and Curricular and Program development. He provides training for the department’s teaching assistants, instructs and coordinates the large-lecture introductory communicati
- Thomas Meade, Associate Professor in-Residence
Es on personality differences of children and emerging adults with and without access to devices such as smartphones, tablets, etc. Research Interests Media Effects Social Marketing
- Tyler Page, Associate Professor
- Zexin Ma, Assistant Professor
Narrative Persuasion Health Communication Media Psychology Misinformation Health Disparities Courses Taught Comm 3498: Health Communication in Mass Mediated Context Comm 5770: Health Communication Research Affiliation Communication and Soci
Roster/catalog compiled from the college’s public directory. 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.