UC Santa Barbara General CatalogUniversity of California, Santa Barbara

Communication

Division of Social Sciences,
Social Sciences and Media Studies Building 4005
Telephone (805) 893-4479
E-mail: comminfo@mail.lsit.ucsb.edu
Website: www.comm.ucsb.edu  
Department Chair: Linda Putnam


 
Faculty
Tamara D. Afifi, PhD, University of Nebraska, Professor (family communication and interpersonal communication, divorce processes, information regulation, coping)
Walid A. Afifi, PhD, University of Arizona, Professor (uncertainty and information management, interpersonal and relational communication, health communication)
Andrew J. Flanagin, PhD, University of Southern California, Professor (communication and information technologies, information sharing and evaluation, collective action efforts)
Howard Giles, PhD, University of Bristol, Professor (intergenerational communication, aging and communication cross-culturally, successful aging, police-civilian interactions, community-oriented policing, intergroup communication, communication accommodation, ethnolinguistics, language attitudes)
Anna L. Jansma, PhD, UC Santa Barbara, Continuing Lecturer (theory, conflict management, gender, internship experience, intentional communities, peace)
Debra A. Lieberman, PhD, Stanford University, Continuing Lecturer (health communication, media and children, persuasion, research and design of digital games for learning and health, processes of learning and behavior change with interactive media)
Daniel G. Linz, PhD, University of Wisconsin, Professor (communication and law, race, media effects and social psychology)
Dana E. Mastro, PhD, Michigan State University, Professor (media and stereotyping, media and race/ethnicity, media effects, content analysis)
Miriam J. Metzger, PhD, University of Southern California, Professor (media effects, new technologies, communication law)
Charles R. Mullin, PhD, UC Santa Barbara, Continuing Lecturer (media law and policy, media entertainment, mass media and society)
Dorothy I. Mullin, PhD, UC Santa Barbara, Continuing Lecturer (communication and law, mass media and children, quantitative research methods)
Karen K. Myers, PhD, Arizona State University, Associate Professor (organizational communication, organizational socialization/assimilation, vocational anticipatory socialization, organizational identification, organizational knowledge, workplace relationships, workplace emotions, Science Technology Engineering & Mathematics (STEM))
Robin L. Nabi, PhD, University of Pennsylvania, Professor (persuasion, emotion, mass media effects, health communication)
W. J. Potter, PhD, Indiana University, Professor (media processes, effects and literacy, theory and methods)
Linda L. Putnam, PhD, University of Minnesota, Professor (organizational communication, negotiation and conflict management, labor unions, discourse and organizations, gender studies in organizations)
Scott A. Reid, PhD, University of Queensland, Associate Professor (social and evolutionary psychology of communication within and between groups, research methods)
Ronald E. Rice, PhD, Stanford University, Professor (social effects of new media and telecommunications, communication networks, bibliometrics, public communication campaigns, organizational communication, diffusion of innovations)
David R. Seibold, PhD, Michigan State University, Professor (organizational communication, interpersonal influence, small group decision-making, innovation and technology management)
Cynthia Stohl, PhD, Purdue University, Professor (group and organizational communication, globalization and international organizations, networks, collective action)
Michael S. Stohl, PhD, Northwestern University, Professor (globalization, international organizations and political communication with special reference to terrorism and human rights)
Rene Weber, PhD, Technische Universität Berlin, Associate Professor (media effects, audience research, cognitive communication science, research methods and statistics)

 
Emeriti Faculty
Anthony Mulac, PhD, University of Michigan (quantitative research, language studies and interpersonal communication)
John M. Wiemann, PhD, Purdue University (interpersonal and nonverbal behavior, communicative competence)

 
Affiliated Faculty
Bruce Bimber, PhD (Political Science)
Noah Friedkin, PhD (Sociology)
Diane M. Mackie, PhD (Psychological and Brain Sciences)
Brenda N. Major, PhD (Psychological and Brain Sciences)