Stephen M Haas

Associate Professor
Communication - Tenure-Track Faculty
137 McMicken Hall
513-556-4442
stephen.haas@uc.edu

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Education

Ph.D., Ohio State University, 1999 (Communication).

M.A. , University of Cincinnati, 1991 (Communication).

B.A., University of Cincinnati, 1990 (Communication).

Professional Summary

Stephen M. Haas (PhD, Ohio State University) is an Associate Professor and served as Graduate Director from 2002-2007. At the national level, he has served as Chair of the Health Communication Division of the National Communication Association in 2006, and was Vice Chair and Conference Planner for the Division in 2005.

His teaching and research interests are in the areas of health communication and interpersonal/relational communication. Much of his work has explored communication dimensions of persons living with chronic illness including: (a) relationship maintenance in couples coping with HIV or AIDS, (b) the communicative management of uncertainty in illness, and (c) patient self-advocacy in physician-patient interactions. His research has been published in communication and medical journals such as Human Communication Research, Communication Monographs, the Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, Health Communication, AIDS Care, and the Journal of Nursing in AIDS Care. He also has published several book chapters, including recent chapters in Maintaining Relationships through Communication: Relational, Contextual, and Cultural Variations (2003) (Lawrence Earlbaum), and a chapter in Beyond These Walls: Readings in Health Communication (2008) (Oxford Press).

Dr. Haas has been the recipient of several prestigious national awards. In 2004, he received the Distinguished Article of the Year Award from the Health Communication Division of the National Communication Association--an award that recognizes research that has had a significant impact on the field of Health Communication. He also has received the National Communication Association's Golden Anniversary Monograph Award for the top article or book published in the Communication discipline in 2000. In addition, he received the National Communication Association's Gerald R. Miller Dissertation Award recognizing the top dissertation in the field of Communication in 1999, as well as, receiving the International Communication Association's top dissertation award in the Interpersonal Communication Division. His research has been funded by several National Institute of Health agencies including the National Institute of Mental Health, the National Institute of Nursing Research, and the National Institute of Allergies and Infectious Diseases AIDS Clinical Trials Division.

A former faculty member at Rutgers University from 1998-2001, he received his B.A. and M.A. in communication from the University of Cincinnati.

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