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Maria Leonora (Nori) Comello
comello.1@osu.edu
Advisor:
Michael Slater
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Nori Comello is a doctoral candidate in the School of Communication at The Ohio State University. Her research interests lie at the intersection of health communication, media effects, and identity. Her dissertation examines the effects of mediated messages on activated self concept and on health-behavior outcomes. Nori has a number of publications in refereed journals, including a sole-authored piece on identity that will appear in a forthcoming issue of Communication Theory. Nori’s research is complemented by experience in obtaining grant funding for research and in public relations practice. Prior to her entry in the PhD program, she worked as a research associate on grant-funded prevention projects in academia and was successful in receiving her own funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation on a supplement study. As part of her work on grant-funded projects, she developed media advocacy and training materials for community-based campaigns. Outside of academia, she has worked in PR for non-profit and for-profit sectors. She is eager to share her enthusiasm for research and communication practice with students in the classroom.
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Laurel S. Gleason
gleason.62@osu.edu
Advisor:
R. Lance Holbert
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Laurel S. Gleason is a third-year doctoral candidate in the School of Communication. She received her law degree from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law (J.D., 1993). Ms. Gleason returned to the academy in 2006 after a long hiatus during which she worked as both a trial lawyer and as corporate in-house counsel. Her dissertation focuses on the discursive production of political legitimacy in the 9/11 Commission Hearings. She has solo-authored an essay focused on deliberative polling which will appear in the Winter 2010 volume of Critical Review , as well as six conference papers dealing with various aspects of political communication. Ms. Gleason has also solo-authored a paper dealing with discourse and international relations scholarship under review with the Journal of Language and Politics and co-authored a paper with R. Lance Holbert and R. Kelly Garrett that is in the process of being revised and resubmitted to the Journal of Communication.
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Myiah J. Hutchens
hively.15@osu.edu
Advisor:
William Eveland
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Myiah J. Hutchens is a doctoral candidate in the School of Communication at The Ohio State University whose research focuses on the processes through which interpersonal discussion and mass media influence political and health related outcomes. Much of her research focuses on the socialization process and uses advanced quantitative analysis strategies. She has three peer reviewed publications (Political Communication, Journal of Communication, Methods and Measures), in addition to several articles under review and invited publications. She has taught courses in public speaking, persuasion, public relations writing, quantitative methods, advertising effects, and interpersonal theory, for which she won a School award for excellence in teaching. She has won four awards for top papers at conferences and was recognized as the top non-ABD researcher at OSU in 2008.
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Kristen D. Landreville
landreville.1@osu.edu
Advisor:
R. Lance Holbert
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Kristen D. Landreville is a PhD candidate at the School of Communication at The Ohio State University. She studies political communication, entertainment media, public opinion, and new media. Her area of research concerns the intersection of mass and interpersonal communication on political and social outcomes, especially how uncertainty, emotion, and engagement in political entertainment influence political discussion. She has 6 published journal articles and 5 published book chapters. Two manuscripts are currently under review and 8 projects are in progress. Kristen is a multi-method researcher and uses surveys, focus groups, and experimental design in her research. Statistical abilities include structural equation modeling, OLS regression, and formal mediation/moderation investigation. She has experience teaching persuasive communication, visual communication, online media, research methods, mass communication and society, and news writing, reporting, and editing.
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Teresa Myers
myers.867@osu.edu
Advisor:
Andrew Hayes
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Teresa Myers focuses on media, public opinion, and foreign policy in her research. She is broadly interested in how citizens come to understand involvement in foreign interventions; including how contextual effects at the community level influence an individual’s understanding of and opinion about foreign affairs. In addition to this substantive focus, Teresa has taken focused coursework in survey research methodology and quantitative analysis, completing a Graduate Interdisciplinary Specialization in Survey Research. Teresa has been active in research during her time as a graduate student, winning three top-paper awards and co-authoring a grant, along with authoring or co-authoring three publications and ten conference papers. She has been awarded a University Graduate Fellowship, the Carol Carr Brown Graduate Award, a Survey Research Summer Fellowship, and the 2009 Graduate Teaching award.
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Jatin Srivastava
srivastava.33@osu.edu
Advisor:
Prabu David
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Jatin Srivastava is a doctoral candidate at The Ohio State University (expected graduation June 2010). He has a diverse academic background and possesses a bachelor’s degree in mathematics and physics, and master’s degrees in business management and mass communication. His employment experiences in different marketing positions involving sales and marketing and communication strategy planning also add to this diversity. His teaching interests include advertising and persuasive communication, mass communication, and new media and technology. He has taught independent undergraduate courses in persuasive communication, visual communication, the history of communication, and is scheduled to teach an undergraduate course on communication and society during the summer quarter at The Ohio State University. His primary research interests are rooted in new media technology. He has presented various papers at national conferences such as ICA,NCA, and AEJMC, and he has many manuscripts currently under review at peer-reviewed journals and others being prepared for submission. He has worked on analyzing competition among social networking websites MySpace and facebook, and relational communication on cancer blogs. He is interested in observing and analyzing issues and situations integral to the lives of consumers of new media technologies. He is currently working on projects examining communication multitasking and online advertisement processing.
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