Faculty

Dolores Albarracín, Ph.D.
MARTIN FISHBEIN PROFESSOR OF COMMUNICATION AND PROFESSOR OF PSYCHOLOGY
SOCIAL ACTION LAB WEBSITE Attitudes and social cognition. Motivational processes in attitude and behavior change. Action goals and cognitive processes. Applications of social cognition to disease prevention programs.
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Joseph N. Cappella, Ph.D.
GERALD R. MILLER PROFESSOR OF COMMUNICATION
Social cognition, communication theory, health communication, persuasion and politics, nonverbal behavior, and statistical and mathematical methods. Studies on cognitive processing of verbal and visual materials, organization of social interaction, and message effects.
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Michael X. Delli Carpini, Ph.D.
PROFESSOR OF COMMUNICATION AND WALTER H. ANNENBERG DEAN
The extent, sources, and impact of public deliberation. The causes and consequences of the blurring between news and entertainment. Generational differences in political and civic participation. The impact of the media on political knowledge and democratic engagement.
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Amy Gutmann, Ph.D.
CHRISTOPHER H. BROWNE DISTINGUISHED PROFESSOR OF POLITICAL SCIENCE AND PROFESSOR OF COMMUNICATION Dr. Gutmann is a member of the Standing Faculty in both the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg School for Communication and the School of Arts and Sciences, with secondary faculty appointments in Philosophy in the School of Arts and Sciences and...
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Robert C. Hornik, Ph.D.
WILBUR SCHRAMM PROFESSOR OF COMMUNICATION
Public health communication, mass media effects, research methodology. Evaluations of large-scale public health communication interventions, studies of effects of mass media coverage on health behavior, cancer communication.
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John L. Jackson, Jr., Ph.D.
RICHARD PERRY UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR OF COMMUNICATION, AFRICANA STUDIES AND ANTHROPOLOGY
Ethnographic methods in media analysis. Impact of mass media on urban life. Mediamaking as a form of community-building and proselytizing among religious organizations. Globalization and the remaking of ethnic/racial diasporas. Visual studies and theories of reality. Racialization and media technology.
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Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Ph.D.
ELIZABETH WARE PACKARD PROFESSOR OF COMMUNICATION
Political communication, rhetorical theory and criticism. Studies of various forms of campaign communication, as well as the discourse of the presidency.
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John B. Jemmott III, Ph.D.
KENNETH B. CLARK PROFESSOR OF COMMUNICATION AND PSYCHIATRY
Health communication and behavior, HIV prevention, behavioral interventions, sexual risk behavior, cultural influences on risk-reduction, violent behavior among adolescents, theories of health behavior, and design and methodology.
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Elihu Katz, Ph.D.
DISTINGUISHED TRUSTEE PROFESSOR OF COMMUNICATION
Functions and effects of mass media in different social systems, diffusion of ideas and innovations, dynamics of public opinion. Recent studies of the live broadcasting of political ceremony, the reception of American popular culture overseas, public opinion in conflict situations, pre-election polling.
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Marwan Kraidy, Ph.D.
PROFESSOR OF COMMUNICATION
Global communication studies, media institutions and public discourse, Arab media, politics and culture.
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Klaus Krippendorff, Ph.D.
GREGORY BATESON PROFESSOR OF COMMUNICATION
The role of language and dialogue in the social construction of reality: identities, institutions, cultural artifacts, power, Otherness, and meanings. Emancipatory epistemology (hermeneutics) of human communication and the design of technology. Content analysis, semantics, pragmatics of social interaction, and related research methods. Conversation theory, information theory, and cyberspace. Second-order...
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Carolyn Marvin, Ph.D.
FRANCES YATES PROFESSOR OF COMMUNICATION
Cultural studies, public space, freedom of expression, social construction of taboo, history of literacy, written language practice as a system of cultural authority, symbols and rituals of nationalism, social impact of communication technologies, history of communication technologies.
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Paul Messaris, Ph.D.
LEV KULESHOV PROFESSOR OF COMMUNICATION
Research on visual communication and digital media.
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Devra Moehler, Ph.D.
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF COMMUNICATION
Political communication, communication and development, comparative politics. African politics, political behavior, democratization, political economy of development, comparative research design, field research methodology, and statistical analysis.
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Diana Mutz, Ph.D.
SAMUEL A. STOUFFER PROFESSOR OF COMMUNICATION AND POLITICAL SCIENCE
Diana C. Mutz, Ph.D. Stanford University, teaches and does research on public opinion, political psychology and mass political behavior, with a particular emphasis on political communication.
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Sharrona Pearl, Ph.D.
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF COMMUNICATION
Twitter:@Sharronapearl Ph.D., Harvard University B.A., York University Culture and Communication studies. The study of facial features, known as physiognomy, and their relationship to character traits. Visual culture; self-fashioning and visual judgment; science and performance; freak shows through history; gender and sexuality studies; celebrity...
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Victor Pickard, Ph.D.
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF COMMUNICATION
The history and political economy of media institutions, U.S. and global media activism, the normative foundations and politics of media policy.
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Monroe Price
DIRECTOR OF CENTER FOR GLOBAL COMMUNICATION STUDIES AND ADJUNCT FULL PROFESSOR
Monroe E. Price is the director of the Center for Global Communication Studies at the Annenberg School. He is also the Joseph and Sadie Danciger Professor of Law and Director of the Howard M. Squadron Program in Law, Media and Society at the Cardozo School of Law. He directs the Stanhope Centre for Communications Policy Research in London and is the Chair of the Center for Media and Communication...
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Vincent Price, Ph.D.
PROVOST, UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA

As chief academic officer, Dr. Price oversees all aspects of the University related to teaching, learning, scholarship, and research.
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Joseph Turow, Ph.D.
ROBERT LEWIS SHAYON PROFESSOR OF COMMUNICATION, ASSOCIATE DEAN FOR GRADUATE STUDIES
Research on digital cultural industries, especially at the intersection of the internet, marketing, and society. Studies on database marketing, media and privacy, digital out-of-home media, the process of innovation in the mass media, and the relationship between media and the medical system.
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Charles R. Wright, Ph.D.
PROFESSOR EMERITUS OF COMMUNICATION AND SOCIOLOGY
Sociological analysis and the sociology of communication. Studies on the sociology of mass communication, the enduring effects of education, mass communication behavior and social structure.
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Guobin Yang, Ph.D.
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF COMMUNICATION AND SOCIOLOGY
Digital media and social theory; social movements; online activism; global communication; cultural sociology; media and communication in China.
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Barbie Zelizer, Ph.D.
RAYMOND WILLIAMS PROFESSOR OF COMMUNICATION
DIR., SCHOLARS PROGRAM IN CULTURE AND COMMUNICATION
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