Broadly, Dr. Aghazadeh's research explores public relations, activism, advocacy, and health communication. More specifically, she examines how public relations shapes culture for stigmatized and taboo health issues (such as mental health and pregnancy loss), often employing, cultural, critical, and rhetorical approaches to public relations. She also analyzes how advocacy and activism intersect with public relations to make social change. She has taught a variety of public relations class that span multi-media writing, social media, and news writing and she centers active and experiential learning in the classroom.
Research and Teaching Interests
- public relations, advocacy and activism, health communication
