Vincent J. Cicchirillo

Advisor:
Chad Mahood 

Troy Elias

Advisor: 
Osei Appiah 

Catherine Goodall

Advisor:
Michael Slater

Catherine Goodall
Ph.D. The Ohio State University, 2009.
Assistant Professor, Kent State Univeristy

Catheine conducts mass media research in the area of health communication. Her works tests and advances theory about how individuals process messages and how messages exert influence. Catherine has particular interest in attitude accessibility/automatic activation and its influence on message processes and outcomes. Her recent work has focused on message processing and outcomes that occur automatically, and to some extent beyond the message recipient’s awareness. Though her work takes a strong theory development approach, her research is driven by an applied interest of understating how to create more effective health messages.

Heather LaMarre

Advisor:
R. Lance Holbert
                        

Heather LaMarre
Ph.D. The Ohio State University, 2009.
Assistant Professor, University of Minnesota

Heather's research involves a social-psychological perspective to the study of persuasion and attitudes applied in a variety of mass communication contexts including strategic and political communication. Heather’s most recent work examined biased message processing of political messages in The Colbert Report (LaMarre, Beam, & Landreville, in press). In addition to her first authored piece in the International Journal of Press/Politics, LaMarre has three manuscripts in revision at Communication Research. Communication Monographs, and Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media. LaMarre has a total of nine manuscripts under review at strong journals including Media Psychology, Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media, Mass Communication and Society, and Communication Quarterly; six of which are first authored. Additionally, Heather has been awarded a research grant from the OSU Criminal Justice Research Center, presented a dozen conference papers, and co-authored an invited book chapter.

Seong-Jae(SJ) Min

Advisor:
Jerry Kosicki

Seong-Jae (SJ) Min
Ph.D. The Ohio State University, 2009
Assistant Professor, Pace University (New York)

SJ has successfully combined years of journalistic experiences, international exposure, and technological insights to build an original research agenda in political communication.  All of SJ’s studies have sought to discover the role of communication in citizens’ democratic life.  In particular, he has explored how political deliberation, both in face-to-face and computer-mediated settings, changes discussants’ democratic attitudes and political opinions.  His central research theme of communication and democracy is now expanded to include international and intercultural communication contexts.  His dissertation examined how culture shapes the way we engage in political discussion and how democracy through communication can be promoted at the international level.

Fei "Chris" Shen

Advisor: 
William Eveland          

Fei "Chris" Shen
Ph.D. The Ohio State University, 2009.
Assistant Professor, The City University of Hong Kong

Chris primarily focuses on political communication, public opinion, and the sociology of news, with particular interest in how the media can influence various democratic outcomes such as political knowledge and participation, how public opinion interacts with the information environment, and how societal-level factors such as political and economic conditions affect political communication. He considers himself a methodological “contextualist” who seeks to explain social phenomena and relationships between variables within social contexts.  He does research in both the U.S. and China, focusing on presidential campaigns and media influences in the U.S. as well as social movements and social transitions propelled by changes in the media landscape in China.  His recent work appears in the International Journal of Press/Politics, the Asian Journal of Communication, and Information Research, and he has papers in review at Communication Methods and Measures, Journal of Politics, and the Journal of Communication, among others.