Our faculty are internationally-recognized scholars in several areas of Communication Studies. While our Department’s research portfolio is diverse and interdisciplinary, several of our faculty are recognized leaders in the following areas of scholarship:
- Communication Research Methodology
- Communication Technology
- Family Communication
- Health Communication
- Interpersonal Communication
- Intergroup Communication
- Instructional Communication
- Mass Media
- Organizational Communication
Their productivity and impact on the field has been recognized by their peers, including Drs. Alan K. Goodboy, Matthew M. Martin, and Scott A. Myers holding distinctions as the Top 50 researchers in the field from 1996 to 2017. Furthermore, in the instructional communication subdiscipline, Drs. Scott A. Myers, Alan K. Goodboy, and Matthew M. Martin have been recognized as among the Top 10 researchers who have published articles in Communication Education from 2000 to 2016, the premier journal for instructional communication research.
Service to Scholarship
Based on their research expertise, our faculty members serve on the editorial boards
of prominent journals in the Communication Studies discipline. In addition to serving
as ad-hoc reviewers for numerous other disciplinary and interdisciplinary journals,
faculty members are editorial board members of:
- Communication Education
- Communication Methods and Measures
- Communication Monographs
- Communication Quarterly
- Communication Studies
- Communication Reports
- Communication Research Reports
- Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media
- Journal of Communication Pedagogy
- Journal of Family Communication
- Journal of Intercultural Communication Research
- Journal of Media Psychology
- Journal of Social and Personal Relationships
- Mass Communication & Society
- Southern Communication Journal
- Western Journal of Communication