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.

• I investigate how illness attributions (diagnostic framing) facilitate or impede organizing to address the structural root causes of health disparities. I focus particularly on the role of health activism and community organizing in challenging corporate influences on occupational, environmental, and economic health.

• Theoretical concerns include power, resistance, and transformative social change, corporate issues management and health social movements, as well as participatory communication and dialogue.

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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