Faculty and Graduate Students

Dan Brouwer, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

My general research interests span public sphere and counterpublic sphere studies, rhetorical criticism, the rhetoric of social movements, and cultural performance. My research on counterpublics, or discursive arenas created and employed by marginal peoples, involves examination, analysis, and publication of marginal, sometimes dissident, voices. Within health communication, my research takes the form of critical analyses of official and vernacular discourses about HIV/AIDS and people with HIV/AIDS, such as studies of representational practices by gay men with HIV/AIDS in the pages of radical, underground print magazines and an analysis of HIV/AIDS tattoos.

Brouwer, D. C. (in press). From San Francisco to Atlanta and back again: Ideologies of mobility

in the AIDS Quilt’s search for a homeland. Rhetoric and Public Affairs, 10, 703-723.

Brouwer, D. C. (2005). Counterpublicity and corporeality in HIV/AIDS zines. Critical Studies in

Media Communication, 22, 351-371.

Brouwer, D. C. (2004). Privacy, publicity, and propriety in congressional eulogies for

Representative Stewart B. McKinney (R-CT). Rhetoric and Public Affairs, 7, 191-214.

Brouwer, D. C. (1998). The precarious visibility politics of self-stigmatization: The case of

HIV/AIDS tattoos. Text and Performance Quarterly, 18, 114-136.

Kellie E. Carlyle, Ph.D., M.P.H.

Assistant professor

kcarlyle@asu.edu

My research focuses on the design, implementation, and evaluation of health communication campaigns, as well as the communicative risk and protective factors associated with the health issue under investigation. My current lines of research focus on media framing of health issues such as intimate partner violence, communication skills of volunteers in crisis centers and shelters, and the relationship between parent-child communication and the adult child’s involvement in dating violence.

Carlyle, K.E., Slater, M.D., & Chakroff, J.L. (in press). Newspaper coverage of intimate partner

violence: Skewing representations of risk. Journal of Communication.

Carlyle, K.E., & Steinman, K.J. (2007). Demographic differences in the prevalence,

co-occurrence and correlates of adolescent bullying at school. Journal of School Health, 77, 623-629.

Carlyle, K.E., & Roberto, A.J. (2007). The relationship between counseling self-efficacy and

communication skills of volunteer rape crisis advocates. Communication Research Reports, 24, 185-193.

Roberto, A.J., Zimmerman, R.S., Carlyle, K.E., Abner, E.L., Cupp, P.K., & Hansen, G.L. (2007).

The effects of a computer-based HIV, STD, and pregnancy prevention intervention: A nine-school trial. Health Communication, 12, 53-76.

Noar, S.M., Carlyle, K.E., & Cole, C. (2006). Why communication is crucial: Meta-analysis of

the relationship between safer sexual communication and condom use. Journal of Health Communication, 11, 365-390.

Sarah 'Amira' De la Garza, Ph.D.

Associate Professor
Acting Director, North American Center for Transborder Studies

delagarza@asu.edu

My commitment to the study of human communication is based on the firm conviction that all human beings deserve the right to be fully conscious of whether they are expressing themselves freely. Culture and the systems of meaning-making that we co-create as interactive human beings can both facilitate and impede expression. I emphasize the use of spiritual practice as part of the ethnographic method to uncover the ways in which culture manifests itself in society, organizations, and individuals. I believe the research process can be an empowering and awakening experience for all scholars, and love my teaching and engagement with students because of this. In the area of health communication, I've studied doctor-patient interaction ethnographically and have worked on grants that focused on drug resistance strategies and Native American child abuse prevention. I have been contracted on NIDA and CDC grants as a trainer and methodologist supervising qualitative and focus group research & evaluation for federal grant recipients. Note: My published work may also be found under my previous name, Maria Cristina Gonzalez.

González, M.C. (1994). An Invitation to Leap From a Trinitarian Ontology in Health

Communication Research to a Spiritually Inclusive Quatrain, (1994) in Communication Yearbook XVII, Stanley Deetz, Editor, Newbury Park: Sage, 378-387.

González, M.C. (1992). Is it better across the border?: Comparing Health Care in Mexico and

the United States. In Berlin Ray, E. (ed.) Case Studies in Health Communication. Norwood, N.J. Erlbaum.

González, M.C. (1990). Treatment With Dignity: Family Theme Analysis and Discovery of

Pathways to Healing in Perpetrators and Adult Victims of Child Abuse. Proceedings of the 8th Annual National American Indian Conference on Child Abuse and Neglect, American Indian Institute, Oklahoma City.

Kory Floyd, Ph.D.

Professor

kory@asu.edu

Dr. Floyd's research focuses on the communication of affection in personal relationships, and on the interplay between communication, physiology, and health. He has studied affectionate communication in a host of family relationships, as well as between romantic partners, friends, and even new acquaintances. His work in the Communication Sciences Laboratory demonstrates how affectionate behavior can alter stress hormones, lower blood sugar, reduce cholesterol, and improve immune system parameters. His current project, funded by the National Institutes of Health, investigates the role of oxytocin in the stress-alleviating effects of affectionate communication.

Floyd, K., & Roberts, J. B. (in press). Principles of endocrine system measurement in

communication research. In M. J. Beatty, J. C. McCroskey, & K. Floyd (Eds.), Biological dimensions of communication: Perspectives, methods, and research. Cresskill, NJ:Hampton Press.

Floyd, K., & Cole, T. (in press). Communication and biology: The view from evolutionary

psychology. In M. J. Beatty, J. C. McCroskey, & K. Floyd (Eds.), Biological dimensions of communication: Perspectives, methods, and research. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press.

Floyd, K., Hesse, C., & Pauley, P. M. (in press). Hug me, heal me: Affectionate communication

and health. In M. J. Beatty, J. C. McCroskey, & K. Floyd (Eds.), Biological dimensions of communication: Perspectives, methods, and research. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press.

Floyd, K., Judd, J., & Hesse, C. (in press). Affection exchange theory. In D. O. Braithwaite & L.

A. Baxter (Eds.), Engaging theories in interpersonal communication: Multiple perspectives. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Floyd, K., Mikkelson, A. C., & Hesse, C. (2007). The biology of human communication (2nd

ed.). Florence, KY: Thomson Learning.

Linda C. Lederman, Ph.D.

Professor and Dean, Division of Social Sciences, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

linda.lederman@asu.edu

Prof. Lederman's research focuses on the relationship among the domains of human interaction, experiential learning and various health issues, including, alcohol and other drugs, tobacco, domestic violence and leadership and change in organizational life, and her work has been funded by grants from the U.S. Department of Education Safe and Drug Free School Program ($425,000; $250,000; $98,000), National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) ($6 million), the U.S. Department of Justice ($400,000), the N.J. Consortium ($60,000) and the U.S. Department of Education Fund for the Improvement of Post Secondary Education (FIPSE) ($250,000). She has won awards from the U.S. Department of Education for a Model Program and as mentor of the Model Program Award for another university.

Lederman, L.C. (2008). Beyond these walls: Exemplary readings in health communication.

Cambridge, England: Oxford University Press.

Lederman, L.C. & Stewart, L.P., (2005). Changing the culture of college drinking: A socially situated prevention campaign. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press.

Lederman, L.C., LeGreco, M.A., Schuwerk, T. & Cripe, E. (2008). A final word: The future of

health communication. In L.C. Lederman (Ed.) Beyond these walls. Cambridge, England: Oxford University Press.

Lederman, L.C. ( 2006). Fences may make good neighbors, but not in prevention. Monograph.

Lederman, L.C. Stewart, L. P. & Russ, T. (in press). Addressing college drinking through

curriculum infusion: A study of the use of experience-based learning in the

communication classroom. Communication Education.