ICR Faculty
Berry, William Associate Professor and Associate Director for Administration and Resource Planning; Ph.D. (communications), Illinois; joint appointments in Advertising, Journalism, and Media Studies. Mass media in a democratic society; information technology; communications management. weberry@uiuc.edu
Brewer, William F. Professor; Ph.D. (psychology), Iowa; joint appointments in Psychology and the Beckman Institute. Cognitive psychology; human memory; cognitive science; knowledge representation; knowledge acquisition; text and discourse; psychology of science. wbrewer@uiuc.edu
Caban, Pedro Professor; Ph.D. (political science), Columbia. Political economy of Puerto Rico; US - Puerto Rico relations; and Latinos in the United States. pcaban@uiuc.edu
Christians, Clifford Professor; Ph.D. (communications), Illinois; joint appointments in Journalism and Media Studies. Communication ethics; philosophy of technology; Jacques Ellul; interpretive research; dialogic theory. cchrstns@uiuc.edu
Davis, Susan Professor; Ph.D. (folklore and folklife), University of Pennsylvania; joint appointment in Graduate School of Library and Information Science. Politics of contemporary public and commercial space; nature and its relation to mass commercial culture; history and memory on the landscape; the contemporary history of tourism; Southern California and San Diego history and culture. sgdavis@uiuc.edu
Denzin, Norman Professor and Associate Director for Graduate Studies; Ph.D. (sociology), Iowa; joint appointments in Sociology and Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory. Theories of social interaction; cultural studies; media (cinema); interpretive studies of the postmodern period; social psychology; biographical method in the human disciplines. n-denzin@uiuc.edu
Frost, Samantha Assistant Professor; Ph.D. (political science), Rutgers; joint appointments in Gender and Women's Studies and Political Science. Modern, contemporary, and feminist political theory; feminist theory and gender studies; queer theory. frost@uiuc.edu
Gill, Pat Associate Professor; Ph.D. (English) Cornell; joint appointment in Gender and Women's Studies Program. Film theory, psychoanalytic theory and interpretation, feminist theory and gender studies, cultural studies, critical and interpretive theories. patgill@uiuc.edu
Glennon, Ivy Associate Professor; Ph.D. (speech communication), Illinois; joint appointment in Advertising. Mass media theory and criticism, rhetorical theory and criticism, feminist theory. iglennon@uiuc.edu
Mastronardi, Maria A. Assistant Professor; Ph. D. (speech communication), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; joint appointments in Speech Communication and Women and Gender Studies. Cultural studies; feminist theory and methodologies; health communication; language and gender studies. mariamas@uiuc.edu
McCarthy, Cameron Professor; Ph.D. (curriculum and instruction), Wisconsin-Madison; joint appointment in Education. Curriculum theory; media studies; popular music; literary criticism; theories of race; sociology of knowledge. cmccart1@uiuc.edu
McChesney, Robert Professor; Ph.D. (communications), University of Washington; joint appointments in Graduate School of Library and Information Science, Media Studies; Senior Research Scientist, NCSA. History and political economy of communication, emphasizing the role media play in democratic and capitalist societies. rwmcches@uiuc.edu
Molina Guzman, Isabel Assistant Professor; Ph.D. (communications), University of Pennsylvania (Annenberg School); joint appointment in Latina/o Studies. Latina/o studies; feminist studies; critical media studies. imolina@uiuc.edu
Nerone, John Professor; Ph.D. (history), Notre Dame; joint appointment in Media Studies. History of communications; historical research methods; American culture. jnerone@uiuc.edu
Ono, Kent Professor; Ph.D. (rhetorical studies), Iowa; joint appointment in Asian American Studies. Rhetorical studies, media and cultural studies, film studies, Asian American history. kaono@uiuc.edu
Press, Andrea Professor and Director for Undergraduate Studies; Ph.D. (sociology), California-Berkeley; joint appointments in Media Studies, Speech Communication, and Gender and Women's Studies Program. Interpretive audience study; feminist theory; theoretical origins of cultural studies; philosophical bases of qualitative research methods in communications. press@uiuc.edu
Rustin, Nicole T. Assistant Professor; Ph.D. (American studies), New York University; joint appointment in Afro-American Studies and Research Program. African American cultural history and theory (including music, film, literature); gender and sexuality studies and theory; urban studies and theory. nrustin@uiuc.edu
Schiller, Dan Professor; Ph.D. (communication), University of Pennsylvania; joint appointment in Graduate School of Library and Information Science. History and political economy of communication. dschille@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu
Treichler, Paula A. Professor; Ph.D. (linguistics), Rochester; joint appointments in Medicine, Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory, and Gender and Women's Studies Program. Medical communication; feminist theory; language and gender; cultural studies; discourse analysis. ptreich@uiuc.edu
Valdivia, Angharad N. Professor; Ph.D. (communications), Illinois; joint appointments in Latina/o Studies, Media Studies, and Gender and Women's Studies Program. International communications, especially Latin America; development studies; race and gender. valdivia@uiuc.edu
Williams, Bruce Professor and Director; Ph.D. (political science), Minnesota; joint appointment in Urban and Regional Planning. Mass media and political discourse; media and public policy (especially environmental policy); philosophical bases of quantitative and qualitative research methods. brucewm@uiuc.edu
Affiliated Faculty
Aidman, Amy Assistant Dean, College of Communications, Ph.D. (communications), Illinois. Children and media, media literacy, and the social impacts of communication technologies. aidman@uiuc.edu
Chambers, Jason Assistant Professor; Ph.D. (U.S. history), Ohio State University. Joint appointment in Advertising. Race and advertising, commercial communications; history of African Americans and the advertising industry. jpchambe@uiuc.edu
Cook, Daniel T. Assistant Professor; Ph.D. (sociology), Chicago; joint appointments in Advertising, Sociology, and Leisure Studies. Consumer culture; sociology of childhood; children's consumer culture; urban consumption; leisure and culture; interpretive methods. dtcook@uiuc.edu
Delia, Jesse G. Professor and Dean, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences; Ph.D. (communication and human relations), Kansas; joint appointment in Speech Communication. Analysis of contemporary concepts; issues in the study of human communication and empirical investigations of both the function of social perception and related processes in focused interactions between adults; and the development of communicative routines and strategies in childhood and adolescence. j-delia@uiuc.edu
Desser, David Professor; Ph.D., University of Southern California; joint appointments in Cinema Studies, Comparative Literature, Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory, and East Asian Languages and Cultures. Asian cinema, American cinema, race and ethnicity in cinema. desser@uiuc.edu
Dovring, Karen. Research Adjunct Professor, Karin Dovring received her PhD (political religious communications), Lund University. Sweden. Political communication and propaganda. She is the author of many books, including Roads to Propaganda (1959), Frontiers of Communiciation (1975), and English as Lingua Franca: Double Talk in Global Persuasion (1997).
Ebert, Roger
Jones, Steven G. Adjunct Professor; Ph.D. (communications), Illinois. Social history of technology; Internet research; communication and sound; popular music studies; cultural studies. sjones@uic.edu
Liebovich, Louis W. Professor; Ph.D. (mass communications), Wisconsin Madison; joint appointments in Journalism and Media Studies. Media history; press and the presidency; media economic history; politics and the media. liebovich@uiuc.edu
Mullally, Donald
O'Guinn, Thomas Professor; Ph.D. (communications), Texas-Austin; joint appointments in Advertising and Business Administration. Consumer socialization; social reality; consumer behavior. toguinn@uiuc.edu
Rich, Robert Professor; Ph.D. (political science), University of Chicago; joint appointments in Law, Political Science, Medical Humanities and Social Sciences, Community Health, and Health Policy and Administration. American politics and policy with an emphasis on health policy, science policy, bureaucratic politics and organizational development, program evaluation, and strategic planning. r-rich1@uiuc.edu
Scott, Linda Associate Professor; Ph.D. (communications), University of Texas; joint appointment in Advertising. Commercial rhetoric and American cultural history. lscott1@uiuc.edu
Shavitt, Sharon Research Professor; Ph.D. (psychology), Ohio State; joint appointments in Business Administration and Psychology. Message processing and persuasion, attitudinal functions and goals, consumer behavior. shavitt@uiuc.edu
Sotirovic, Mira Research Assistant Professor; Ph.D. (mass communications), Wisconsin-Madison; joint appointment in Journalism. Mass media effects, public opinion, mass media and democratic processes. sotirovi@uiuc.edu
Stole, Inger Assistant Professor; Ph.D. (mass communication), Wisconsin-Madison; joint appointment in Advertising. History and political economy of advertising; public relations and consumer movements. istole@uiuc.edu
Vargas, Patrick Assistant Professor; Ph.D. (psychology), Ohio State University; joint appointment in Advertising. Implicit attitudes; attitude-behavior relations; attitudes toward advertising; stereotyping and prejudice; information processing and persuasion. pvargas@uiuc.edu
Emeritus/Emerita Faculty