What We Study
We study how people connect, persuade, care for one another and build personal relationships and communities.
Our work ranges from the doctor’s office to the boardroom to the global stage, across face-to-face and technology-mediated contexts. Our faculty and students explore these topics in three research clusters. Explore each one below.
Global Media, Culture, and Performance Studies
Scholars explore how communication technologies, culture, performance and media, including emerging digital applications such as artificial intelligence, shape creative and critical forms of global engagement.
Health and Strategic Communication
Scholars in this research area hold expertise in organizational, interpersonal, intercultural, critical, health, and strategic communication and examine the production, dissemination, and evaluation of goal-oriented messages and their outcomes.
Organizational and Interpersonal Communication in Contemporary Contexts
Investigating communication in organizational and interpersonal relationships, scholars focus on how people navigate contemporary contexts to support well-being and personal and professional success.