Jen Eden
Vice President, Professional Programs; 2008-2009
Assembly Member, 2007-2008
Jen.Eden@asu.edu
Doctoral Student and Graduate Teaching Associate
Hugh Downs School of Human Communication
Jen is currently a third year doctoral student in the Hugh Downs School of Human Communication. She earned her B.A. and M.A. degrees
in Communication Studies from Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, IL. Jen's areas of emphasis are interpersonal communication and
quantitative methods, and her current research focuses of unrequited love. Specifically she is studying the differences between, and
health outcomes of, unrequited love and unrequited liking. Jen is also a member of a research team in the Hugh Downs School whose
focus is studying sexual communication in initial romantic relationships with emphases in differentiating between friends-with-benefits,
hookup, and reciprocal love, relationships. Outside of working on her Ph.D., Jen is an avid triathlete and recently finished her first
Quarter-Ironman. She also recently adopted a beagle that she named Akabudy.