Communication and Media Studies at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

24 faculty and 40 courses in Communication and Media Studies at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Faculty

• Harrison, Kristen, Richard Cole Eminent Professor h-index 38
  Notable: “The Relationship Between Media Consumption and Eating Disorders” (1997) · 699 citations
• Lazard, Allison, Professor h-index 35
  Notable: “Putting Environmental Infographics Center Stage” (2014) · 176 citations
• Lee, Suman, Professor, Director M.A. in Strategic Communication h-index 33
  Notable: “p53 and its 14 kDa C-terminal domain recognize primary DNA damage in the form of insertion/deletion mismatches” (1995) · 403 citations
• Kreiss, Daniel, Edgar Thomas Cato Distinguished Professor h-index 32
  Notable: “Digitalization” (2016) · 389 citations
• Austin, Lucinda, Associate Professor, Associate Dean for Graduate Studies and Research h-index 24
  Es on social media’s influence on strategic communication initiatives, namely health and crisis communication, and explores publics’ perspectives in corporate social responsibility and organization-public relationship building. Austin has p
  Notable: “How Audiences Seek Out Crisis Information: Exploring the Social-Mediated Crisis Communication Model” (2012) · 599 citations
• McGregor, Shannon C., Associate Professor, Director of PhD Program h-index 20
  Es on the role of media and social media in political processes, with a focus on the interplay of three groups essential to a functioning democracy: politicians, journalists and the public. McGregor’s interdisciplinary and mixed-method rese
  Notable: “Social media as public opinion: How journalists use social media to represent public opinion” (2019) · 392 citations
• Reid, Amanda, Associate Professor h-index 18
  Notable: “You have no credibility: Nursing students’ experiences of horizontal violence” (2006) · 176 citations
• McGuigan, Lee, Assistant Professor h-index 12
  Notable: “An impulse to exploit: the behavioral turn in data-driven marketing” (2017) · 89 citations
• Clark, Meredith D., Associate Professor of Race and Political Communication h-index 11
  Notable: “Beyond the Hashtags: #Ferguson, #Blacklivesmatter, and the Online Struggle for Offline Justice” (2016) · 539 citations
• Hester, Joe Bob, Associate Professor h-index 11
  Advertising, interactive media and media agenda setting. Before coming to the UNC School of Media and Journalism in 2001, Hester taught at Texas Tech University where he won several teaching awards, including the Ex-Students Associa
  Notable: “The Economy and Second-Level Agenda Setting: A Time-Series Analysis of Economic News and Public Opinion about the Economy” (2003) · 226 citations
• Aikat, Deb, Professor
• Anderson, Shaun, Knight Chair in Sports, Race and Media
• Barnes, Spencer Ryan, Associate Professor
• Boynton, Lois, Associate Professor
  Es on ethical decision-making by public relations practitioners and journalists, as well as the topics of professionalism, social responsibility and the need and impact of DEI initiatives. Boynton’s work has appeared in academic journals in
• Comello, Nori, Professor
• Czabovsky, Lightning, Associate Professor
• Dillman Carpentier, Francesca Renee, W. Horace Carter Distinguished Professor
  Es on how different parts of a media message can slip under our radar and affect our thoughts, beliefs and actions in small but significant ways, often without our express knowledge. Part of this research is learning more about what motivat
• Ekstrand, Tori, Professor
  Es on First Amendment law, media and technology policy, and more recently on the evolving relationship between academic freedom, governance and digital platforms in the United States and Europe. Ekstrand’s current work increasingly situates
• Friedman, Barbara, Associate Professor
• Gibson, Rhonda, Professor, Director M.A. in Media and Communication
  Es on the effects of exemplification in journalism on issue perception and the effects of images of sexual minorities in the media. Her research has been published in Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, Communication Researc
• McDonald, Trevy, Associate Professor, Associate Dean of ABIDE
  Include: media socialization, audience studies, oral history, and race and gender. She is the owner of Reyomi Global Media Group, an independent book publishing and consulting company based in Durham, N.C. McDonald is the co-editor of two s
• Noar, Seth M., James Howard and Hallie McLean Parker Distinguished Professor
• Tuggle, C.A., John H. Stembler Jr. Distinguished Professor
• Zhao, Xinyan (Eva), Assistant Professor

Courses

• First-Year Seminar: Organizing and Communicating for Social Entrepreneurs COMM 51
• First-Year Seminar: Collective Leadership Models for Community Change COMM 53
• First-Year Seminar: Is There Life after College?: The Meaning of Work in Contemporary Life COMM 57
• First-Year Seminar: The Politics of Performance COMM 61
• First-Year Seminar: African American Literature and Performance COMM 62
• First-Year Seminar: The Creative Process in Performance COMM 63
• First-Year Seminar: Paying Attention: The Art of Documentary COMM 68
• First-Year Seminar: Understanding Place through Rhetoric COMM 73
• First-Year Seminar: Researching Society and Culture COMM 75
• First-Year Seminar: Food Politics from an Organizational Communication Perspective COMM 82
• First-Year Seminar: Networked Societies COMM 83
• First-Year Seminar: Make A Zine! Do-It-Yourself Writing, Publishing, and Distribution COMM 84
• First-Year Seminar: Think, Speak, Argue COMM 85
• First-Year Seminar: Surveillance and Society COMM 86
• First-Year Seminar: Technologies of Popular Culture COMM 88
• First-Year Seminar: Special Topics COMM 89
• Communication and Social Process COMM 100
• Public Speaking COMM 113
• Introduction to Interpersonal and Organizational Communication COMM 120
• Introduction to Media Production COMM 130
• Introduction to Media History, Theory, and Criticism COMM 140
• Popular Music COMM 142
• Introduction to New Media COMM 150
• Introduction to Performance Studies COMM 160
• Rhetoric and Public Issues COMM 170
• Argumentation and Debate COMM 171
• Small Group Communication COMM 223
• Introduction to Gender and Communication COMM 224
• Audio/Video/Film Production and Writing COMM 230
• Introduction to Communication Technology, Culture, and Society COMM 249
• Computational Art and Generative Media COMM 250
• Introduction to American Film and Culture, 1965-Present COMM 251
• Introduction to Performance and Social Change COMM 260
• Introduction to the Performance of Culture COMM 262
• Performing Literature COMM 263
• Media Studies of Japan COMM 288
• Undergraduate Learning Assistant in Media Production COMM 291
• Persuasion COMM 312
• Cultural Diversity COMM 318
• Introduction to Organizational Communication COMM 325

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.