The core faculty of the joint Ph.D. program in Mass Communications are:

• Dominique Brossard – Professor & LSC chair
• Chris Cascio – Assistant Professor
• Kaiping Chen – Assistant Professor
• Sedona Chinn – Assistant Professor
• Katheryn Christy – Assistant Professor
• Kathleen B. Culver – Associate Professor
• Greg Downey – Professor
• Lewis A. Friedland – Professor
• Lucas Graves – Associate Professor
• Jing Wang – Assistant Professor
• Young Mie Kim –  Professor
• Nan Li – Assistant Professor
• Kathryn McGarr – Assistant Professor
• Douglas McLeod – Professor
• Todd Newman – Assistant Professor
• Lindsay Palmer – Associate Professor
• Karyn Riddle – Professor
  
• Susan Robinson – Professor
• Hernando Rojas – Professor & SJMC director
• Dietram Scheufele – Professor & LSC Director of Graduate Studies
• Dhavan V. Shah – Professor
• Hemant Shah – Professor
  
• Bret Shaw – Associate Professor
• Robin Shepard – Associate Professor
• Michael Wagner – Professor & SJMC director of graduate studies
  
• Michael Xenos – Professor & LSC Director of Undergraduate Studies
• Sijia Yang – Assistant Professor

Upon being admitted to the Ph.D. in Mass Communications program, students will be assigned a temporary advisor in their selected area of study.