Heather M. Zoller, Ph.D.

Research

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My research in health and organizational communication focuses on the politics of illness prevention and health promotion.

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I investigate activist, dialogic and participatory methods that promote safe and healthy work in sustainable environments and equitable economies.

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I combine theory and practice to consider: 

• How illness attributions (diagnostic framing) shape interventions in the structural causes of health disparities.

• How health activism and community organizing can challenge health risks linked to corporate influence & issues management. 

• How communicative theorizing of power and resistance can promote transformative, democratic social change.

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Teaching

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• Undergraduate courses include:

  • Communicating Health, Science, & Environment (2004)

  • Communication and Health Politics (4066)

  • Organizational Communication (3008)

• Graduate courses include:

  • Advanced Qualitative and Rhetorical Research Methods

  • Organizational Communication: Power & Politics

  • Dialogue and Communication

  • Health Communication: Meaning, Culture, & Power

  • Health Communication and Political Issues Management