Appendix A: Profile of Heather M.

Zoller from the University of

Cincinnati Website

Heather M. Zoller
Title: Professor
Office: 143 McMicken Hall
Tel: 513-556-4468
Email: heather.zoller@uc.edu
Dr. Heather M. Zoller is a Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in
the Department of Communication at the University of Cincinnati.
Her research in organizational and health communication investigates the politics
of public health, with an emphasis on the intersections of community organizing,
health activism, and corporate PR/issue management. She focuses on how the
social construction of health influences our ability to address the political,
economic and environmental roots of health disparities. Topics include corporate
health & wellness promotion, occupational heath, environmental health and
sustainability, globalization, power and resistance, identity and gender, dialogue
and participation.
Her work appears in Communication Monographs, Communication Theory,
Journal of Applied Communication Research, and Communication Yearbook,
among others. She is co-editor of the book "Emerging Issues and Perspectives in
Health Communication: Meaning, Culture, and Power" with Mohan Dutta.
Dr. Zoller is a Senior Editor at Health Communication. She also serves on the
Editorial Board at Journal of Applied Communication Research, Mangement
Communication Quarterly, Health Communication, and the Journal of
International and Intercultural Communication.
Dr. Zoller teaches undergraduate and graduate courses such as Advanced
Communication Theory; Communication and Health Politics; Organizational
Identity, Image, and Issue Management; Organizational Communication: Power
and Politics; and Dialogue and Communication.