Wei Sun, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
gracie.lawsonborders@howard.edu
Dr. Wei Sun, associate professor, is a Fulbright Specialist in Communications/Journalism. Her research interests include intercultural communication, new media studies, health communication, and international communication. She is the Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Communication, Culture and Media Studies at Howard University. She teaches doctoral seminars in Race, Culture and Social Justice, Intercultural Communication, Qualitative Research Methods, Social Media, Communication and Culture, Diversity and Leadership, and Community and Public Health. Dr. Sun’s publications have appeared in the Journal of Faculty Development, the Howard Journal of Communications, Intercultural Communication Studies, and World Communication, etc. Her scholarly works on health communication, social media, and intercultural communication have been included in many academic books. She received her PhD from Howard University, an MA from Edinboro University of Pennsylvania, an MA from Beijing Normal University (China), and her BA from Qufu Normal University (China).
Research Interests
Dr. Wei Sun’s research interests include intercultural communication, media studies, health communication and minority invisibility.
Creative and Published Works
Sun, W. (2018). A critical discourse of “Minority Women for Trump” campaigns on social media. In N. Bilge & M. I. Marino (Eds.). Reconceptualizing New Media and Intercultural Communication in a Networked Society (pp.303-327). Hersey, PA: IGI Global Publishing.
Sun, W. (2017). “The enemy at the door”: My friend’s lonely and silent battle to breast cancer. In K. M. Williams and F. S. Morant. (Eds.). Reifying Women’s Experiences with Invisible Illness (pp.123-137). Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.
Sun, W. & Crtichfield, A.J. (2012). Inoculating Invisibility and Communicating Cancer Among Survivors, Health Providers and Caregivers: The Friendly Circle of Cancer Patients Chinese Blog. In P. H. Cheong, J. Martin and L. Macfadyen (eds). New Media and Intercultural Communication. Peter Lang.
Sun, W. (Forthcoming). A Qualitative Exploration of Millennial Employees’ Work Related Stress and Retention. In S.Smith (Ed.). Recruitment, Retention, and Engagement of a Millennial Workforce. Lexington Books.
Sun, W., Herbert, S.& Jenkins, J. (Forthcoming). College Millennials’ Career Preparedness to the Workforce: They Say They Are Ready. In S. Smith (Ed.).
Recruitment, Retention, and Engagement of a Millennial Workforce. Lexington Books.
Sun, W. (forthcoming). China’s National Media Coverage of Counter-terrorism and its Netizens’ Reactions, In E. K. Ngwainmbi (Ed.). Citizenship, Democracy, and Media Engagement among Emerging Economies and Marginalized Communities, Palgrave MacMillan.
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