OPCaM Executive Committee
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Cynthia Peacock, co-director (PhD, University of Texas) is an assistant professor in the Department of Communication Studies at the University of Alabama. She specializes in political communication and examines the ways in which people form, change, and express their political opinions. Her work focuses on news selection and political discussion and the roles of partisanship and disagreement in both. Her current projects examine hyperpartisan news use, politically dissimilar romantic relationships, and the gender gap in political expression. Among other journals, her work has appeared in Mass Communication & Society, Journalism, Communication Studies, and Social Science Computer Review.
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Jessica Maddox, co-director (Ph.D., University of Georgia) is an award-winning social media researcher who studies Internet popular culture and social media platforms. She is an assistant professor in the Department of Journalism and Creative Media at the University of Alabama. Her research examines content creators and how platforms play a role in shaping Internet popular culture. Her work has been published in New Media & Society, Critical Studies in Media Communication, Television & New Media, Social Media + Society, and Feminist Media Studies and has also been featured in CNN, The Hill, Digital Diplomacy, Mashable, and CBC Radio One. She's a native of Atlanta, Georgia, who is slowly learning how to say "roll tide."
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Matthew Barnidge (Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison) is an assistant professor in the Department of Journalism & Creative Media at the University of Alabama. His research specializes in political communication and news audiences on digital media platforms, and he studies these topics in comparative and multiple national contexts. He sits on the editorial boards of several prominent journals in the field of communication, including Journal of Communication and Communication Research, and he has published more than 35 peer-reviewed articles in journals such as Journal of Communication, Political Communication, International Journal of Press/Politics, and Digital Journalism, among others. Matthew is from Houston, Texas, and he spent two years living in Vienna, Austria, where he was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Vienna.
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Josh C. Bramlett (Ph.D., University of Missouri) is an assistant professor in the Department of Advertising and Public Relations at the University of Alabama. His research examines strategic political communication in contexts such as political campaign communication and digital political communication. His recent work has appeared in outlets such as the Atlantic Journal of Communication, Communication Quarterly, and Argumentation and Advocacy. During the 2020 election season, he frequently appeared on local radio in New Mexico to discuss presidential primary and general election debates. He is available for media commentary on topics such as televised candidate debates, political advertising, presidential speeches, and politicians and social media. Dr. Bramlett is a native of Conway, Arkansas and a lifelong fan of football, comics, and presidential history.
A.J. Bauer (Ph.D., New York University) is an assistant professor in the Department of Journalism and Creative Media at UA. He uses archival, ethnographic, and journalistic methods to research historical and contemporary right-wing media and conservative news in the United States and beyond. He is co-editor, with Anthony Nadler, of News on the Right: Studying Conservative News Cultures (Oxford, 2019). His work has appeared in American Journalism, Columbia Journalism Review, Radical History Review, and The Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) Misinformation Review. His commentary has appeared in New Inquiry, Abusable Past, The Guardian and TV Guide. His hobbies are memes and puns.
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Kaitlin Miller (Ph.D., University of Oregon) is an assistant professor in the Department of Journalism and Creative Media at the University of Alabama. Using sociological perspectives, her research in journalism studies focuses on harassment of journalists, political communication, and media ownership. She is a former live TV reporter and teaches a variety of courses in broadcast journalism. Her work has been published in Journalism, Journal of Media Ethics, Journalism Practice, and Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media.
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Jessy Ohl (Ph.D., University of Nebraska-Lincoln) is associate professor of Rhetoric and Political Discourse at the University of Alabama. His research specializes in the relationship between rhetoric, democracy, and violence. He teaches graduate courses in Contemporary Rhetorical Theory, Visual Communication, and Public Memory/Forgetting. His research has been published in Rhetoric Society Quarterly, Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies, Argumentation & Advocacy, and the Quarterly Journal of Speech, among others.
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