Graduate Program Faculty Research Descriptions
The Ph.D. program in communication consists of three research sub-areas: Communication and Cognition, Computational Communication, and Political Communication. Several faculty are affiliated with more than one sub-area.
Mario Biagioli – Distinguished Professor (Computational Comm)
Scientific communication; publication ethics and misconduct; science and technology studies; copyright law; media history; brands
Greg Bryant – Professor (Comm & Cognition)
Vocal communication; cross-cultural vocal production and perception; voice acoustics; pragmatics; music cognition; evolution and human behavior
Steven Clayman – Professor (Comm & Cognition)
Conversation analysis; interaction in journalism and politics; interaction and social institutions
Rick Dale – Professor (Comm & Cognition and Computational Comm)
Dynamical systems of interpersonal communication; computational modeling; analysis of naturalistic behavior; cognitive science
Tao Gao – Assistant Professor (Computational Comm and Comm & Cognition)
Human social perception and cognition; development of artificial intelligence; intention recognition; statistical modeling in cognitive science
Tim Groeling – Professor (Political Comm)
Media bias; presidential communication; party cohesion and the media; political communication
Martie Haselton – Professor (Comm & Cognition)
Intimate relationships; psychology of mating; social endocrinology; bias in social inference; sex differences; evolution and human behavior
Kerri Johnson – Professor (Comm & Cognition)
Nonverbal visual communication; body motion analysis; social categorization; social vision
Jungseock Joo – Assistant Professor (Computational Comm and Political Comm)
Artificial intelligence; deep learning; computer vision; human-AI interaction; social and political event analysis; visual persuasion; computational communication
Georgia Kernell – Assistant Professor (Political Comm)
Party strategy; voter behavior; electoral competition; political communication; U.S. and comparative politics; formal theory; quantitative methods
PJ Lamberson – Associate Professor (Computational Comm)
Mathematical and computational modeling; social networks; social influence; collective intelligence; computational communication
Francis Steen – Associate Professor (Computational Comm)
Multimodal communication in mass media; advertising; entertainment; cognitive modeling; computational communication; data science
Steve Stroessner – Professor (Comm & Cognition)
Stereotyping and prejudice; human and machine interaction; social cognition
Lynn Vavreck – Professor (Political Comm)
Campaigns; elections; public opinion; advertising; messaging; political communication
Anne Warlaumont – Associate Professor (Comm & Cognition and Computational Comm)
Early vocal development; evolution of human vocal signals; word learning; computational communication
