Savannah Meier

Biography:

Savannah received her B.A. in Interpersonal and Organizational Communication from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Savannah completed her M.S. in Risk Communication at Purdue University, researching how risk-related news spreads through digital social networks. She has continued at Purdue to complete her PhD in Risk Communication at the Brian Lamb School of Communication.

Research and Teaching:

Savannah’s research interests overlap risk and organizational communication, mainly focusing on judgment and decision making in environmental, health, science, and technological contexts. Utilizing experimental research methods, some of her project topics include risk perception measurements, emotional contagion, amplification of risk events, affect and judgment, depoliticizing science, source effects (e.g., reputation, trust), and artificial intelligence messaging.

For her PhD, Savannah was awarded the College of Liberal Arts’ Dean’s Fellowship, a prestigious 6-year research and travel fellowship.

Savannah’s teaching experience includes instructor of record for both Introduction to Presentational Speaking and Introduction to Organizational Communication, as well as teaching assistant for Quantitative Methods for Communication Research. Savannah is Assistant Director of COM 114 and COM 217, which oversees course development, website development, training of new employees, and classroom observation for approximately 80 course sections per semester.

For more details, see her LinkedIn at http://www.linkedin.com/in/savannahmeier