Assistant Professor
Department of Communication Studies
My research focuses on interpersonal processes, including conflict, social support, and coping, as they occur in the health contexts. [read more=’Read more’ less=’Read less’] Specifically, I investigate how family members manage a variety of health stressors, including chronic illness, grief and loss, and mental illness.
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For more information: Faculty Connections > Dr. Erin Basinger
Associate Professor
Department of Communication Studies
My research involves the cognitive, physical, and emotional health and well-being of organizational members. [read more=’Read more’ less=’Read less’] I examine the intersection between work and life, stress and well-being, burnout, organizational conflict and negotiation, and workplace mistreatment including incivility and bullying. While mostly applying a qualitative/interpretive lens to the research, I also conduct quantitative analysis. Furthermore, I study members of the public safety profession (i.e. police officers and fire fighters). Specifically, I research stress and burnout over the career length. I have examined the aging, female professional and their experiences in dealing with menopause and aging in the workplace. My research appears in Communication Monographs, Communication Studies, International Journal of Business Communication, Women & Language, Qualitative Research Reports in Communication, and Negotiations and Conflict Management Research.
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For more information: Faculty Connections > Dr. Jaime Bochantin
Professor
Department of Communication Studies
My research interests are in the intersection of family, culture, and health communication. [read more=’Read more’ less=’Read less’] I publish regularly on topics such as children’s health, end-of-life communication, disability, and qualitative research methods. I have published over 50 academic books, journal articles, book chapters, and other publications and has received numerous research awards. I specifically study people with illnesses and conditions that are incurable as they face revisions in their personal identity and narrative and negotiate the liminal spaces between ‘well’ and ‘unwell,’ alive and dead, and power and marginalization. I am the author of Death: The Beginning of a Relationship (2010); Conversations about Qualitative Communication Research: Behind the Scenes with Leading Scholars (2014); Communicating Hope: An Ethnography of a Children’s Mental Health Care Team (2014); and Focus Groups: Applying Communication Theory through Design, Facilitation, and Analysis; and is lead author of Talking through Death: Communicating about Death in Interpersonal, Mediated, and Cultural Contexts (2018) and Straight Talk about Communication Research Methods (3rd edition, 2017)..
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For more information: Faculty Connections > Dr. Christine Davis
Research Affiliate Faculty
Department of Communication Studies
I have co-authored a book with Dr. Quinlan (2019) on social media-based health technology as they intersect ideas of “the good mother” and “the medical expert.”
For more information: Faculty Connections > Bethany Johnson
Associate Professor
Department of Communication Studies
My primary scholarly interests lie in the intersections between health, medical expertise and organizational communication. [read more=’Read more’ less=’Read less’] Drawing on narrative and feminist sensibilities, my work focuses on a range of social justice issues that affect marginalized populations including disability-rights and gender inequities (e.g., infertility, practitioner-patient communication). My research strengths are in interpretive/ethnographic, critical and rhetorical methodologies. I have published in: Health Communication, Journal of Holistic Nursing, Women’s Reproductive Health, The Journal of Men’s Studies, Sexuality and Culture, Women & Language, and Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning. From my ethnographic research, I produced two PBS documentaries in a regional Emmy award-winning series, Courage of Creativity: Creative Abundance (Co-Producer, with PBS) Beautiful Remedy (Associate Producer, with PBS), and Acoustics of Care (Co-Producer). My forthcoming book, published through Rutgers University Press with Bethany Johnson is titled, You’re doing it wrong! Mothering, media, and medical expertise (2019). For more information and to view documentary clips and research-informed infertility support cards, see: https://johnsonquinlanresearch.com/
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For more information: Faculty Connections > Dr. Margaret Quinlan