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Students Teaching Students

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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JunHyung Han

Graduate Assistant in Communication Arts and Sciences
Preferred Pronouns: He/Him/His
jzh6521@psu.edu
316 Sparks Building University Park, PA 16802
Photo of JunHyung Han. He stands in front of a plain white background with his arms folded. He wears a light blue button-up shirt with a solid navy tie and dark pants.

Education

B.A., Korea University, 2023
M.A., University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 2025
Ph.D., Penn State University, anticipated 2029

Professional Bio

JunHyung Han is a researcher passionate about understanding the dyadic nature of interpersonal influence—how messages exchanged between two people mutually shape meaning, behavior, and relationships. His work aims to bridge message production and processing theories, focusing on advice and persuasion in complex goal-driven situations, both in human–human and human–AI contexts. In his master’s program, he wrote papers on 1) extending Advice Response Theory into an AI advice context, 2) mutual persuasion in the patient–provider context, and 3) resilience and social support in the context of chronic stressors. In his Ph.D. program at Penn State, he will focus on developing a comprehensive dyadic theory of interpersonal influence, integrating multiple-goals approaches, social support theories, and turn-by-turn analyses to explore how message features and relational contexts shape outcomes, particularly in health and chronic stress contexts.