Vikki Katz joined the School of Communication and Information at Rutgers University as Assistant Professor of Communication in 2009.  She holds a M.A. and a Ph.D. in Communication from the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California, and a B.A. in Communication and Urban Education from UCLA.

Dr. Katz's research interests lie at the intersections of community wellness, family communication, mediated communication, and immigration.  She has conducted research on media targeted to immigrant, ethnic minority and indigenous audiences, most recently for a book co-authored with Drs. Matthew Matsaganis & Sandra Ball-Rokeach, titled Understanding Ethnic Media: Producers, Consumers, and Societies (Sage Publications, 2011). Her primary research focuses on children of immigrants who are the main English speakers in their families, and the roles that they play as brokers of language, culture, and media for their families at home and in the community.  She employs mixed methods, community-based approaches in her research.

Dr. Katz teaches courses in the areas of family communication, mediated communication theory, research methodologies, intercultural communication, ethnic media and communicating memory.

In Spring 2012, I am teaching: Family Communication and Communication & Community Wellness (for MCIS and Ph.D. students).

In Fall 2012, I am teaching: Family Communication (Comm 478) and Mediated Communication Theory (Comm 354).