Research
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.