Professor Emmers-Sommer (Ph.D., Ohio University) serves as the Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Education for GCUA. She is also a professor in the Department of Communication Studies. Her research areas include interpersonal and health communication, media, and sex and gender issues. Emmers-Sommer's work focuses specifically on sexual coercion, safer sex, and the impact of mediated sexual violence on attitudes toward women. An award-winning instructor, her work appears in Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, Human Communication Research, Journal of Communication, Communication Monographs, and Sex Roles, among others.