Mark Aakhus (Ph.D., University of Arizona) Associate Professor - Collaboration and conflict processes, communication-information technology, discourse and organizations, corporate social responsibility, sustainability
Nicholas Belkin (Ph.D., London) Professor - Information science, information retrieval theory, interactive information retrieval, people's interactions with information, human-computer interaction in information systems
Galina Bolden (Ph.D., University of California-Los Angeles) Associate Professor - Conversation analysis in English and Russian, communication across linguistic and cultural barriers, nonverbal communication
Jack Bratich (Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana) Associate Professor - Popular culture, social and political theory, media and democracy, technology and society
Marija Dalbello (Ph.D., University of Toronto) Associate Professor - Theory and history of information, social history of knowledge, visual epistemology, cultural informatics, history of the book, digital humanities
Marya Doerfel (Ph.D., SUNY Buffalo) Associate Professor - Inter-organizational communication, organizational communication, social networks, networked forms of organizing, collaboration, semantic networks
Christina Dunbar-Hester (Ph.D., Cornell University) Assistant Professor - Social studies of technology; media, technology, and activism; users and technical (sub)cultures gender and technology, ethnography, sociology of work
Ingrid Erickson (Ph.D., Stanford University) Assistant Professor – Information Technology and organizational behavior, locative technologies and social media, innovation and collaborative work practices
Jennifer Gibbs (Ph.D., University of Southern California) Associate Professor - Organizational communication, mediated communication, global virtual teams
Carol Gordon (Ed.D., Boston University) Associate Professor – Adolescents’ information seeking and use, instructional interventions and information use, school librarianship, action research, qualitative research methods
David Greenberg (Ph.D., Columbia University), Associate Professor - American political and cultural history, politics and media
Kathryn Greene (Ph.D., University of Georgia) Associate Professor - Health message design targeting adolescent risk-taking, disclosure of health issues
Keith Hampton (Ph.D., University of Toronto) Associate Professor - New media, social network analysis, social capital, research methods, social isolation, urban and community theory
Paul Kantor (Ph.D., Princeton University) Professor - Networked information and decision systems, collaborative/social systems, digital libraries, sensors and detectors, image retrieval systems, behavioral economics
James Katz (Ph.D., Rutgers University) Professor (on leave) – Social aspects of New Media and Social Media, especially mobile phones
Vikki Katz (Ph.D., University of Southern California) Assistant Professor – Community-based health interventions, immigrant family dynamics, children's information seeking/ translating, ethnic media, communication ecologies
Susan Keith (Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) Associate Professor - Traditional and new media journalistic practice, media ethics, mass communication laws
Montague Kern (Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University) Associate Professor – Media and politics, digital media and democracy, media and elections, media convergence, media and war, news framing, documentary film studies
Robert Kubey (Ph.D., University of Chicago) Professor - Mass communication theory and effects, psychology and politics of media, media literacy, sociology of culture, content analysis, research methods
Deepa Kumar (Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh) Associate Professor - Critical media studies, globalization, class, gender, imperialism, war, Middle East, Islam and Orientalism
Michael Lesk (Ph.D., Harvard University) Professor - Digital libraries, digital preservation and the economics of digital information
Laurie Lewis (Ph.D., University of California-Santa Barbara) Professor - Organizational communication, stakeholder communication, organizational change, nonprofits, and inter-organizational collaboration
Ya-Ling Lu (Ph.D., University of California-Los Angeles) Assistant Professor - Children’s literature, children’s services, information use, need, seeking
Jenny Mandelbaum (Ph.D., University of Texas) Professor - Interpersonal communication, conversational analysis
Regina Marchi (Ph.D., University of California-San Diego) Associate Professor - Race, class, gender and media, social movements and news, community media, Latino popular culture
Claire McInerney (Ph.D., SUNY Albany) Associate Professor - Knowledge management, information ethics, virtual organizations, community informatics and health, gender and technology
Hartmut Mokros (Ph.D., University of Chicago) Professor - Language and social interaction, communication and identity, psychopathology and wellness, research methodology
Smaranda Muresan (Ph.D., Columbia University) Assistant Professor - Digital libraries, computational approaches for language learning and understanding, machine translation, relational learning
Mor Naaman (Ph.D., Stanford University) Assistant Professor – Social Media, interactive multimedia systems, mobile and ubiquitous information systems, and location-aware computing
Daniel O'Connor (Ph.D., Syracuse University) Associate Professor - Research methods, library science
John Pavlik (Ph.D., University of Minnesota) Professor - Journalism technology and new media technologies, Spanish-language media, journalism and media ethics
Marie Radford (Ph.D., Rutgers University) Associate Professor - Interpersonal and nonverbal communication, librarian-user interactions, media stereotypes, cultural studies, qualitative methods
Barbara Reed (Ph.D., Ohio University) Associate Professor - History and contemporary studies of ethnic press and magazines
Rebecca Reynolds (Ph.D., Syracuse University) Assistant Professor - Computer-supported collaborative learning among youth in constructionist design-oriented environments
Brent Ruben (Ph.D., University of Iowa) Professor - Communication theory, organizational quality, health and medical communication, communication and information systems, communication education
Joe Sanchez (Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin) Assistant Professor – Collaboration and user experience in virtual worlds, social informatics, LIS pedagogy
Jorge Reina Schement (Ph.D., Stanford University) Professor and Dean - Information policy, global telecommunications, Spanish-language media, and information-consumer behavior
Craig Scott (Ph.D., Arizona State University) Associate Professor - Organizational communication, new communication technologies, issues of identification and anonymity, communication theory
Chirag Shah (Ph.D., University of North Carolina) Assistant Professor - Information retrieval, collaborative information seeking, social media
Aram Sinnreich (Ph.D., University of Southern California) Assistant Professor - Digital culture, music, critical theory, games, copyright, IP, free speech
Lea Stewart (Ph.D., Purdue University) Professor – Health communication campaigns, gender, communication ethics
Jennifer Theiss (Ph.D., University of Wisconsin) Associate Professor - Interpersonal communication and romantic relationship development
Ross Todd (Ph.D., University of Technology-Sydney, Australia) Associate Professor - Human information behavior, adolescents' information seeking and utilization, school librarianship, knowledge management
Nina Wacholder (Ph.D., CUNY) Associate Professor - Organization of Information, information access, computational linguistics
Jennifer Warren (Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University) Assistant Professor – Health communication, underserved identities, health disparities, tobacco use, targeted e-health interventions, community-based participatory research
Matthew Weber (Ph.D., University of Southern California) Assistant Professor - Organizational communication, social networks, network analysis, communication and information technology, news, media, new media, organizational change
Todd Wolfson (Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania) Assistant Professor – Role of new information/ communication technologies in global social movements
Itzhak Yanovitzky (Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania) Associate Professor - Health communication, persuasion, communication and social changes, research methodology
Xiaomu Zhou (Ph.D., University of Michigan) Assistant Professor - Health informatics, computer-supported cooperative work, human-computer interaction
In addition to these core faculty who are in SC&I and actively involved with the Ph.D. program, there are a number of affiliate and adjunct faculty who are in other parts of Rutgers or at other prestigious institutions of higher education. See faculty/student handbook for listing.
