Media
Ager, Mary
Associate Professor, Social Work
website | ager@uga.edu
Research Interests: Poverty, social policy, consumer debt, and social media
Ahn, Sun Joo (Grace)
Professor, Advertising
website | sjahn@uga.edu
Research Interests include Interactive digital media; communications; social interactions; virtual experiences; STEM
Cacciatore, Michael
Associate Professor and Assistant Department Head, Advertising & Public Relations
website | mcacciat@uga.edu
Research Interests include science communication, risk communication, and framing
Evans, Nate
Associate Professor, Advertising
website | nevens4@uga.edu
Research Interests include health communication, vaccine hesitancy, and consumers interaction with/and processing messaging
Graizbord, Diana
Assistant Professor, Sociology
website | dgraizbord@uga.edu
Research Interests include sociology of science, political sociology, globalization, and development and social change
Han, Jeong-Yeob
Associate Professor, Advertising
website | jeonghan@uga.edu
Research Interests include eHealth communication, social media, online communities, cancer communication, and media effects
Himelboim, Itai
Associate Professor, Advertising & Public Relations
Thomas C. Dowden Professor, Media Analytics
website | itai@uga.edu
Research Interests include social networks, social network analysis, political communication, and health communication
Jin, Yan
Professor and Assistant Department Head, Public Relations
website | yanjin@uga.edu
Research Interests include crisis, risk, conflict, misinformation, emotion, and social media
Nowak, Glen
Professor, Advertising Public Relations
Co-director, Grady College Center for Health & Risk Communications
website | gnowak@uga.edu
Research Interests include health communication, infectious and vaccine preventable disease communication
Phua, Joe
Associate Professor, Advertising
website | joephua@uga.edu
Research Interests include communication technologies, social media, public health, obesity, and smoking
Pjesivac, Ivanka
Associate Professor, Journalism
website | ivanka@uga.edu
Research Interests include media effects, international and cross cultural communication, and virtual reality journalism
Read, Glenna
Associate Professor, Advertising & Public Relations
2022-2024 GDP Participant, Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
website | glenna.read@uga.edu
Research Interests include: Video surveillance; Video interpretation bias; Media effects; Social representation; Message processing; Decision-making
Safadi, Hani
Associate Professor, Management Information Systems
website | hanisaf@uga.edu
Research Interests include healthcare IT, open-source organizing, social media, and online communities
Verma, Amitabh
Associate Professor, Environment + Design
website | averma@uga.edu
Research Interests include drawing, creativity, mental health, urban design, anxiety management, and architecture
Wojdynski, Bart
Associate Professor, Journalism
website | bartw@uga.edu
Research Interests include design, visual attention, news, advertising, and effects of images on persuasion