Expertise

Areas of Research:

  • Emergent Media
  • Health
  • Organizational Communication & Interpersonal Communication.

Research Areas: Interpersonal communication, personal relationships, relationship dissolution, emerging technology, social media, mobile dating applications, research methods, mixed methodology

Subject Area:

  • Interpersonal Communication.

 

Past Affiliations

Assistant Professor, Department of Communication Studies, College of Communication and Information Sciences, University of Alabama

Assistant Professor, Communication & Journalism, University of Wyoming (past)
January 2014 - July 2017

Doctoral Student, Communication Studies, University of Texas at Austin (past)
August 2009 - May 2014

Lecturer, Communication Studies, Eastern Illinois University (past)
August 2007 - August 2009

Graduate Student, Communication Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (past)
August 2005 - August 2007

Undergraduate Student, Communication Studies, University of Wisconsin-LaCrosse (past)
August 2001 - May 2005

Communities
Communication, Management Information Systems, Information Science/Systems, Audiology, Speech-Language Pathology
Degrees
PhD, University of Texas at Austin, Communication Studies, 2014
MA, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Communication Studies, 2007
BS, University of Wisconsin-LaCrosse, Communication and Political Science, 2005
Keywords
arts and humanities qualitative methods (social sciences) interactive media multimedia or interactive communications technology interpersonal communication quantitative psychology social psychology gender differences emotions sexuality and sex roles sociology of the family
Associations
International Association of Relationship Research
International Communication Association
Society for Personality and Social Psychology
Society for the Study of Emerging Adulthood
Southern States Communication Association
The National Communication Association
Western States Communication Association