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In coordination with an undergraduate-run organization called Students Teaching Students, CAS department faculty members mentor exemplary students who develop and teach 1-credit courses on a variety of subjects that advance expertise in communication and its role in public life. This semester, Associate Teaching Professor Lori Bedell is supporting undergraduates Kara Miller (who was in Lori’s RCL course a few years back) and Jess Strait as they teach a course titled “Period Talk: The Impact of Stigma on the Menstrual Equity Movement.”
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James Dillard

Distinguished Professor of Communication Arts and Sciences
jpd16@psu.edu
(814) 865-7088
217 Sparks Building University Park , PA 16802
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Curriculum Vitae

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Curriculum Vitae

https://cas.la.psu.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/8/2022/04/DILLARD-VITAE-CURRENT.doc

Education

B.A., University of Kansas, 1976.
M.A., Arizona State University, 1978.
Ph.D., Michigan State University, 1983.

Professional Bio

James Dillard conducts research on the production and effects of persuasive messages. His Goals-Plans-Action model of interpersonal communication has contributed to understaning how individuals create messages designed to change relationships, acquire goods, and shape political opinion. Professor Dillard’s research on the role of emotion in persuasion is often applied to the questions of public health. He is a former Editor of Human Communication Research and co-editor of The Persuasion Handbook (with M. Pfau and L. Shen), a Fellow of the International Communication Association, the recipient of the John E. Hunter Award for Meta-Analysis (twice), and a recipient of the NCA Golden Anniversary Award for article of the year. Dillard serves as a member of the Risk Communication Advisory Committee to the Food and Drug Administration. He teaches graduate and undergraduate on persuasion/social influence (CAS550 and CAS302), on measurement in communication science (CAS597) and interpersonal influence (CAS497).