HIHIC Affiliated Faculty
Todd Chambers, Ph.D.
Assistant Vice Provost for Academic & Career Advising
Research Interests: Media management and economics, the use of Spanish-language media, adoption of communication
technology and health communication.
Email: todd.chambers@ttu.edu
Ioana Coman, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Public Relations
Research Interests: International communication, crisis and risk communication and media, with an emphasis
on new media and social media
Email: ioana.coman@ttu.edu
Lyombe Eko, Ph.D.
Professor, Journalism & Creative Media Industries
Research Interests: Comparative Internet law and policy, comparative and international communication,
and visual communication studies with a focus on political cartoons.
Email:leo.eko@ttu.edu
Sherice Gearhart, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Public Relations
Research Interests: Political communication (especially in new media contexts), public opinion formation
and expression, intercultural and international communication, media coverage of disparities,
polarizing media, spiral of silence theory, framing, and agenda-setting.
Email:sherice.gearhart@ttu.edu
Zijian Harrison Gong, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Advertising
Research Interests: Investigating motivated processing to understand how message design and layout impact
selective attention, recall, and attitude formation; examining source and message
factors that impact the persuasive ability of mass media content.
Email:harrison.gong@ttu.edu
Mark Gring, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Communication Studies
Research Interests: Examination of epistemic commitments on sociopolitical engagements. I am particularly
interested in why and how religious commitment affects people engaging each other
culturally and politically. I desire to go beyond the usual church and state political
interactions and also examine education, technology, and popular culture.
Email:mark.gring@ttu.edu
Amy Heuman, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Communication Studies
Research Interests: Identity and culture; intersectional negotiations of race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality,
and socioeconomic status within/among U.S. co-cultures as they navigate mainstream
structures; ethnographic and community engagement based research.
Email:a.heuman@ttu.edu
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Lucinda Holt, M.A.
Assistant Professor of Practice – Hispanic Media, Journalism & Creative Media Industries
Assistant Director for External Engagement,
Harris Institute
Research Interests: Journalism in Mexico, press freedom, narcoculture, crime and cartel coverage, and
print journalism.
E-mail:lucinda.l.holt@ttu.edu
Kerk F. Kee, Ph.D.
Professor, Professional Communication
Research Interests: Corporate & organizational, health, science, social media.
E-mail:kerk.kee@ttu.edu
Lisa Low, M.B.A.
Professor of Practice, Public Relations
Research Interests: social media, online reputation management, inclusive teaching and learning practices,
cross-cultural communications and storytelling in public relations and strategic communications.
Email: lisa.low@ttu.edu
T.J. Martinez, M.F.A.
Assistant Professor of Practice, Journalism & Creative Media Industries
Research Interests: Documentary and Film Production.
Email: tj.martinez@ttu.edu
Bryan McLaughlin, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Advertising
Research Interests: social identity, political polarization, political narratives, narrative transportation
and identification, media representations of minorities.
Email: bryan.mclaughlin@ttu.edu
Robert Moses Peaslee, Ph.D.
Associate Dean, Honors College
Associate Professor, Journalism & Creative Media Industries
Campus Coordinator, International Film Series
Research Interests: Fandom and identity, international mass communication, critical approaches to media
culture, film production and criticism.
Email: robert.peaslee@ttu.edu
Narissra Maria Punyanunt-Carter, Ph.D.
Professor, Communication Studies
Research Interests: Romantic Relationships, Humor, Mediated Communication, Parasocial Interactions, Instructional
Communication, Religious Communication, Advisor-Advisee Relationships, Father-Daughter
Relationships, and Racial Stereotypes in the Media
Email: n.punyanunt@ttu.edu
Eric Rasmussen, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Public Relations
Research Interests: Children and media, parental mediation, media effects, persuasion, media literacy
Email:eric.rasmussen@ttu.edu
Melissa Santillana, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Journalism & Creative Media Industries
Research Interests: international media flows, activist movements and protest, feminist activism, digital
media, and digital inequality.
Email:melissa.santillana@ttu.edu
Sarah Schiffecker, Ed.D.
Lecturer & Assistant Director of International Graduate Affairs, Media & Communication
Research Interests: intercultural communication and competence, experiences of transitionality, institutional
communication in a higher education context, comparative and international communication
Email:Sarah.Schiffecker@ttu.edu
Don H. Shin, Ph.D.
Professor & Chair, Professional Communication
Research Interests: AI and media, misinformation, digital media, human-media interaction, algorithmic
journalism
Email: don.h.shin@ttu.edu
Miglena Sternadori, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Journalism & Creative Media Industries
Research Interests: Gender stereotypes and sexual scripts in media content, marketing appropriations
of feminist agendas, implicit bias and attitudes, international cultural diffusions,
the role of media in identity construction and social role performativity, framing,
news routines, cognitive and affective processing of media messages.
Email:miglena.sternadori@ttu.edu
Cam Stone, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Practice, Journalism & Creative Media Industries
Research Interests:History and production of Hispanic media, history of radio, television and film, audio
production, use of Spanish-language media, technology adoption, international mass
communication, and media effects.
Email:cam.stone@ttu.edu
Kenton T. Wilkinson, Ph.D.
Professor, Journalism & Creative Media Industries
Institute Director, Thomas Jay Harris Regents Professor in Hispanic and International Communication
Research Interests: Hispanic-oriented media in the U.S., international communication, influences of culture
and language in cross-cultural and health communication.
Email:kent.wilkinson@ttu.edu
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