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Communication Faculty
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David Atkin
Professor
Office: PCSB 206 Phone: 486-3090
david.atkin@uconn.edu
Professor Atkin has done grant-supported work on the adoption, use and regulation of new media. He received the field's Krieghbaum Under-40 award, granted annually to a junior scholar for distinction in research. Atkin also won University Distinguished Research as well as Teaching Awards prior to his arrival here. He's ranked among the 80 most prolific scholars in the history of our discipline, the 25 most prolific since 1995, and the two most prolific scholars telecom as well as communication policy. Books include Communication Technology & Society, The Televiewing Audience, and Communication Technology & Social Change. |
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Ross Buck
Professor & Graduate Program Director
Office: PCSB 222 Phone: 486-0565 PSYC; 486-4494 COMM
ross.buck@uconn.edu
Evolution of human behavior, communication, and social structure. Social development of emotion expression: Overt, nonverbal, cognitive, and physiological aspects. Cognitive and emotional factors in human adaptation, including the relationships of emotional expression, stress, immune system functioning, and disease (cancer, cardiovascular disease, psychosomatic illness). Cognitive and emotional factors in human communication and social behavior. Nonverbal sending accuracy: Gender and personality differences, relationships with right vs. left hemisphere brain functions. Nonverbal receiving ability: Empathy, social perception/attribution. Brain mechanisms of emotion and motivation, especially in humans.
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David D'Alessio
Associate Professor (Stamford Campus)
Office: UC-Stamford 329 Phone: 203-251-8418
david.d'alessio@uconn.edu
His research interests are in new communication technologies, political communication, research methodologies. He is presently examining the use of the Internet by political campaigns as well as information seekers.
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Jeff Farrar
Instructor in-Residence
Office: IPUA 203 Phone: 486-0558
jeff.farrar@uconn.edu
Research on small group communication, with particular attention to intergroup communication and identity formation.
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Kirstie Farrar
Assistant Professor
Office: PCSB 221 Phone: 486-2632
kirstie.farrar@uconn.edu
Research in the area of effects of the mass media on individuals. Specific interests include the effects of the mass media on adolescent socialization. Current research focuses on the effects of televised portrayals of sexual intercourse on young people and the effects of different contextual features of violent video games on aggression related outcomes.
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Mark Hamilton
Associate Professor
Office: PCSB 141 Phone: 486-4569
mark.hamilton@uconn.edu
His research interests include persuasion, language, nonverbal communication, and research methods. He has published in Human Communication Research, Communication Monographs, the Journal of Language and Social Psychology, and other journals. His current research is centered on the personality antecedents to message processing strategies; the causes and effects of verbal aggression, and structure of belief systems.
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Paul Jalbert
Associate Professor (Stamford Campus)
Office: UC-Stamford 349 Phone; 203-251-8428
paul.jalber@uconn.edu
His research investigates the ideological manifestations in the reportage of international events and issues. He has published work in the areas of Africa, the Caribbean, and the Middle East. His latest project is an edited collection entitled, Media Studies: Ethnomethodological Approaches (1999).
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Carolyn Lin
Professor & Head
Office: PCSB 203 Phone: 486-3984
carolyn.lin@uconn.edu
Her research interests focus on the content, uses and effects of new media technologies, health communication, advertising and international communication. She is the founder of the Communication Technology Division at the Association for Education in Journalism & Mass Communication. Some of her current research projects include four federally funded studies that implement interactive-media technology based health intervention programs, an externally funded study that examines the diffusion effects of digital and satellite radio technology, in addition to a book on communication technology and social change. She was a recipient of a University Distinguished Research Faculty award.
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Kristine Nowak
Associate Professor
Office: PCSB 218 Phone: 486-4080
kristine.nowak@uconn.edu
Dr. Nowak supervises the HCI lab in the communication science department. Her research focuses on how people use computer media, with
particular attention to the influence of different types of avatars on
the person perception process. Her work also evaluates the extent to
which computer media influence people's satisfaction and effectiveness
in reaching communication goals. Her work has been published in the
Journal of Communication, Journal of Computer Mediated Communication,
Presence, Media Psychology and other journals. For more information, visit the Human-Computer Interaction Lab.
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Diana Rios
Associate Professor
Office: PCSB 207 Phone: 486-3187
diana.rios@uconn.edu
Former Associate Director, Puerto Rican & Latino Studies Institute. Her research cuts across specialties in communication by considering mass and intercultural communication processes--particularly in Audience Media Use. Her research areas are interdisciplinary: Communication, Chicana/o-Latina/o Studies, Ethnicity/Race, Gender/Women Studies. Professor Rios has won several awards for outstanding contributions to the university. Has held numerous offices in AEJMC, recently voted Teaching Standards Vice Chair. Bain Scholar at UC Berkeley for research on Brown-Black communication.
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Leslie Snyder
Professor
Office: PCSB 201 Phone: 486-4383
leslie.snyder@uconn.edu
Additional Appointments: Director of the Center for Health Communication and Marketing, a CDC Center of Excellence; Principal Investigator at the Center for Health/HIV Intervention & Prevention. Dr. Snyder conducts research on communication campaigns, health, media effects, & international communication. She currently has funding to design a safe sex video game aimed at urban youth, and has completed research funded by NIH examining the effect of alcohol advertising effects on youth. She is also conducting research on the comparative effectiveness of different types of health interventions, including HIV campaigns.
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Melissa Tafoya
Assistant Professor
Office: PCSB 220 Phone: 486-3687
melissa.tafoya@uconn.edu
Dr. Tafoya’s research interests include the dark side of interpersonal relationships (infidelity, jealousy, aggression, conflict, etc.), conflict management and negotiation across contexts, family communication processes in different family structures (step-, half-, and full sibling relationships through the life course, divorced families, stepfamilies, nuclear families, in-law, parent-child, etc.), nonverbal communication (i.e., affection & aggression), physiology/biology and communication, communicative framework research (identifying the role communication plays in various areas: road rage, infidelity, emotional ambivalence, etc.); and theory (various evolutionary theories, biology theory, social learning theories, social exchange theory, systems theory). Her current research focuses on how experiences vary in different sibling relationships (step-, half-, full-).
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Sjef van den Berg
Undergraduate Advisor (Assistant Professor, Retired)
Office: PCSB 105A Phone: 486-4585
sjef.vandenberg@uconn.edu
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Arthur Vanlear
Associate Professor
Office: PCSB 140 Phone: 486-2631
art.vanlear@uconn.edu
His research interests include communication in interpersonal relationships, relationship formation and evolution, marital and family communication, as well as communication and relationships as part of the alcoholism recovery process. He is also coauthor of Dynamic Patterns in Communication Processes.
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Alex Wang
Associate Professor (Stamford Campus)
Office: UC-Stamford 364 Phone: 203-251-8558
alex.wang@uconn.edu
Professor Wang researches how consumers and audiences process information. His research focuses on information processing, psychology, integrated marketing communication, and Internet advertising.
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