The UCLA Department of Communication is an interdisciplinary group of scholars interested in communication at many levels of analysis, including digital and mass media, political communication, and interpersonal social interaction.
Our department offers courses on a wide range of topics in communication and related disciplines, and we have several highly active research labs. Stay tuned for exciting new developments in our degree offerings
I use video to investigate the co-operative organization of human language and action, conversation, aphasia, and scientific practice.
I have been teaching Oral Communication and the Field Studies Internship class for the last forty years. I use a method, recursion, that I both studied and developed.
I specialize in intercultural communication with an emphasis on the ability to communicate with those who are members of groups different from one’s own.
I study legal communication, persuasion, and mass media. I am also the founder of the UCLA Communication Studies Archive.
I study language acquisition, the neurobiology of language, the neurobiology of learning, the evolution of language, evolutionary psychology, and evolutionary biology.
My research is on how art and culture communicates social and political ideas. My recent work addresses African American art, film, and politics.
