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

Jeffrey Boase (Ph.D., University of Toronto) Assistant Professor - Communication and information technology, social networks, survey design, social theory, community

Galina Bolden (Ph.D., University of California-Los Angeles) Assistant 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 - Print and digital literacy, orality, print culture, textual communities, social memory

Marya Doerfel (Ph.D., SUNY Buffalo) Associate Professor - Organizational communication, organizational culture, network analysis, semantic network analysis

Gustav Friedrich (Ph.D., University of Kansas) Professor - Communication theory, instructional communication, applied communication

Jennifer Gibbs (Ph.D., University of Southern California) Assistant 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

Jacek Gwizdka (Ph.D., University of Toronto) Assistant Professor - Human-computer interaction, digital libraries, personalization, cognitive differences, user profiling

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 – Social aspects of New Media and Social Media, especially mobile phones

Vikki Katz (Ph.D., University of Southern California) Assistant Professor – Community based approaches to health interventions, immigrant family dynamics, ethnic media, communication ecologies

Susan Keith (Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) Assistant Professor - Mass media ethics and journalistic decision-making, mass communications law

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) Assistant 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) Associate Professor - Organizational communication, stakeholder communication, organizational change, nonprofit organizations, 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) Associate Professor - Interpersonal communication, conversational analysis

Claire McInerney (Ph.D., SUNY Albany) Associate Professor - Knowledge management, information ethics, virtual organizations, community informatics and health, gender and technology

Regina Marchi (Ph.D., University of California-San Diego) Assistant Professor - Race, class, gender and media, social movements and news, community media, Latino popular culture

Hartmut Mokros (Ph.D., 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

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

Tefko Saracevic (Ph.D., Case Western Reserve) Professor - Information science, information education, information seeking and retrieving

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

William Solomon (Ph.D., University of California-Berkeley) Associate Professor - Sociology of mass media, historical sociology, labor studies

Lea Stewart (Ph.D., Purdue University) Professor – Health communication campaigns, gender, communication ethics

Jennifer Theiss (Ph.D., University of Wisconsin) Assistant 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

Jana Varlejs (Ph.D., University of Wisconsin) Associate Professor - Library education, continuing professional education, information literacy

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/ information seeking, underserved identities, health disparities, community health interventions

Todd Wolfson (Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania) Assistant Professor – Role of new information/ communication technologies in global social movements; engaged scholarship

Itzhak Yanovitzky (Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania) Associate Professor - Health communication, persuasion, communication and social changes, research methodology

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.