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Jennifer Peterson, Assistant Professor
Office: Johnston Hall Room 233
Phone: (414) 229-3127
e-mail: jenlpet@uwm.edu
Curriculum Vita: Vita ( PDF 28K )
Degree:
Ph.D., Health Communication, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
M.A., Mass Communication and Technology, Purdue University
B.A., Technical Writing and Communication, Purdue University
Research Interests:
My research focuses on health communication, social support, and coping with illness, particularly in the case of people with rare or stigmatized illnesses. I also have studied the impacts of technology on the support process, particularly in groups. My most recent projects have focused on the support experiences of women living with HIV. I am currently working on a project that examines the family experience of HIV when the mother is living with HIV or AIDS.
Teaching:
COMMUN 481: Interpersonal Issues in Health Communication
COMMUN 660: Communication and HIV/AIDS
COMMUN 681: Communication in the World of AIDS
COMMUN 702: Qualitative Research Methods
COMMUN 860: Interpersonal Issues in Health Communication
Grants:
Families coping with HIV: The impact of a mother's HIV infection, Research Growth Initiative, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, $139,244.
Publications:
Peterson, J. L. (submitted). The challenges of seeking and receiving support for women living with HIV. Health Communication.
Brashers, D. E., Rintamaki, L. S., Hsieh, E., & Peterson, J. L. (2006). Pragma-dialectics and self-advocacy in physician-patient interactions. In M. A. van Rees & P. Houtlosser (Ed.), Considering Pragma-Dialectics. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
Meyers, R. A., Berdahl, J. L., Brashers, D. E., Considine, J. R., Kelly, J. R., Moore, C., Peterson, J. L., & Spoor, J. R. (2005). Understanding Groups from a Feminist Perspective. In M. S. Poole & A. B. Hollingshead (Eds.) Handbook of Small Group Theory. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Alexander, S. C., Peterson, J. L., & Hollingshead, A. B. (2003). Help at your keyboard: Support groups on the internet. In L. Frey (Ed.) Group communication in context: Study of bona fide groups. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
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