Current Ph.D. Advisees:
Yuan Wang (expected graduation: spring 2023)
Kathryn Thier (expected graduation: spring 2023)
Tong Lin (expected graduation: spring 2024)
Sophie Xia (expected graduation: spring 2025)
Xingman Wu (expected graduation: spring 2026)
Former Ph.D. Advisees:
Victoria Ledford, Graduation (2022)
Dissertation: “Overcoming opioid stigma through communication: An extension of the model of stigma communication”
Recipient of the Charles Richardson Award for the most outstanding Ph.D. student in the department
Current employment: Tenure-Track Assistant Professor, School of Communication and Journalism, Auburn University
Yan Qin, Graduation (2021)
Dissertation: “Reminding me of the future: Episodic future thinking as a strategy for mobile health interventions”
Current employment: Tenure-Track Assistant Professor, Department of Communication, Hainan University
Zexin Ma, Graduation (2018)
Dissertation: “Persuasive effects of narratives in immersive mediated environments”
Recipient of the Charles Richardson Award for the most outstanding Ph.D. student in the department
Current employment: Tenure-Track Assistant Professor, Department of Communication,Journalism, and Public Relations, Oakland University
Irina Iles, Graduation (2017)
Dissertation: “Improving chronic illness medication adherence: A counterfactual thinking-based model of persuasive communication”
Recipient of the Charles Richardson Award for the most outstanding Ph.D. student in the department
Current employment: Social Scientist, Food and Drug Administration
Bo Yang, Graduation (2017)
Dissertation: “Impact of web content feedback system on the effectiveness of health promotion messages on YouTube: A norms based inquiry”
Current employment: Tenure-track Assistant Professor, Department of Communication, University of Arizona
Kelly Madden Daily, Graduation (2014)
Dissertation: “Explicating the Hostile Media Perception: How source credibility influences partisans’ responses to balanced news coverage of health policies”
Recipient of the Charles Richardson Award for the most outstanding Ph.D. student in the department
Current employment: Associate Professor, Department of Communication, La Salle University, Philadelphia, PA
Jarim Kim, Graduation (2014)
Dissertation: “The impact of consideration of future consequences and temporal framing on acceptance of the Human Papillomavirus vaccine”
Current employment: Tenure-Track Assistant Professor, Department of Communication, Yonsei University, South Korea