| Name |
Sequence |
Interest |
| Glenda
Alvarado, Ph.D (Texas Tech) |
Advertising |
Sport sponsorship and sport advertising.
Local and regional advertising. Hispanic media buying. |
| Jay
Bender, J.D. (University of South Carolina) |
Print and Electronic Journalism |
First Amendment law. Print media law. Commercial speech law. |
| John
Besley, Ph.D. (Cornell University) |
Print and Electronic Journalism |
Relationships between media use, citizen
engagement and risk perceptions. How news and entertainment content – whether
in newspapers, on television, or online – frames scientific
risk, and the impact of this framing on attitudes towards new
technologies, health beliefs, and scientific authorities. |
| Kenneth
Campbell, Ph.D. (University of North Carolina) |
Print and Electronic Journalism |
Media representation of minorities particularly African Americans.
Media history. Media and collective memory. |
| Shirley
Staples Carter, Ph.D. (University of Missouri, Columbia) |
Advertising and Public Relations |
Freedom of expression and values analysis in advertising.
Open government. Women and leadership. Multicultural issues
in journalism and mass communication. |
| Erik
L. Collins, Ph.D. (Syracuse U); J.D. (Ohio State
University) |
Print and Electronic Journalism; Associate
SJMC Director |
Mass media law. Commercial speech law. Public
relations management. Public relations and crisis communication. |
| Kathy
Roberts Forde, Ph.D. University of North Carolina) |
Print and Electronic Journalism |
History of journalism. History of the book
and print culture. Literary journalism. First Amendment and libel. |
| August
E. Grant, Ph.D. (University of Southern California) |
Print and Electronic Journalism |
Convergent journalism and new forms of
journalistic content. New media technologies. Media audience
behavior. Media organizational structure. |
| Keith
Kenney, Ph.D. (Michigan State University) |
Visual Communications |
Visual communication research methods. Visual
communication theory. |
| Seihill
Kim, Ph.D. (Cornell University) |
Advertising and Public Relations |
Media effects. Political communication. Public
health. |
| Tom
Klipstine, Ph.D. (Bowling Green State University) |
Advertising and Public Relations |
Writing for the electronic media. Crisis
communication. Integrated marketing communication. |
| Bruce
E. Konkle, Ed.D. (University of South Carolina) |
Visual Communications |
Journalism curriculum and instruction. Scholastic journalism
history (U.S.). South Carolina high school journalism history.
History of secondary education in the South. |
| Carol
J. Pardun, Ph.D. (University of Georgia) |
Director of the School of Journalism and
Mass Communications |
Impact of the media on adolescents. Content
analysis of the media. Impact of advertising on society. |
| Andrea
Tanner, Ph.D. (University of South Carolina) |
Print and Electronic Journalism |
Health Communication, in particular, how
media present health information and how mass communication
can be used to promote changes in health behavior. Television
news. Journalism education. |
| Miron
Varouhakis, Ph.D., (Michigan State University) |
Print and Electronic Journalism |
Deviance and minority groups. Religion
and the media. Online media.; International communication.
Intelligence and security studies. |
| Brooke
Weberling,
Ph.D. (University of North Carolina) |
Advertising and Public Relations |
Nonprofit public relations and health
communication, including advocacy, fundraising and funding
issues, framing of various health issues, and campaigns or
strategies to increase stakeholder support. |
| Ran
Wei, Ph.D. (Indiana University – Bloomington) |
Advertising and Public Relations |
New media/communication technology. Media effects. Advertising
and society. |
| Tom
Weir, Ph.D.(University of Missouri) |
Advertising and Public Relations |
Psychological appeals of advertising. Advertising
education. Information processing. Mass media theory. |
