Generally speaking, my research addresses the broad relationships between gender, culture, and communication. I am specifically interested in the role communication plays in constructing beliefs about gender, sex, sexuality, and identity. Questions that interest me include:  How does gender "get done" in mass media? How have the discourses of gender, sex, and sexuality in media shifted across time? I am also interested in how the term "culture" is deployed in such popular discourses as a mechanism for explaining gender-related phenomena, which often raises additional questions: What is meant by the term "culture" as it is used in contemporary mass media - especially broadcast television news?  Do ideas about "nation" and "culture" become conflated with one another? What does it mean to use such terms synonymously and interchangeably?

Umphrey, L. R., Wickersham, J. A., & Sherblom, J. C. (2008). Student perceptions of the instructor’s relational characteristics, the classroom communication experience, and the interaction involvement in face-to-face versus video conference instructions. Communication Research Reports, 25(2), 102-114.