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
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

Schlesinger, Ari
Assistant Professor, School of Computing
website | ari.schlesinger@uga.edu
Research Interests include: Bias, Discrimination, and Inequality, Communication, Computational Methods, Culture, Diversity, Education and Learning, Ethnography, Gender, Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, Identity, Media, Organizations, Policy, Regulation, and Compliance, Sexuality and Sexual Identity, STEM, Work and Occupations

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