Department of Communication

Contact and Overview

Email Address

grayjb@appstate.edu

Office Hours

Tuesday: 8:45-9:30 a.m. • 12:15-1:45 p.m.
Thursday: 8:45-9:30 a.m. • 12:15-1:45 p.m.

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Education

Ph.D., Communication, University of Kentucky
Certificate, Medical Behavioral Science, University of Kentucky
Dissertation: Framing the Evidence: A Test of an Integrated Message Strategy in the Exercise Context

Curriculum Vitae

Teaching

Currently Teaching (Fall 2025)

COM 2131 Health Communication
COM 3928 Communication Research Methods

Courses Taught

COM 2131 Health Communication
COM 3131 Health Communication in Interpersonal Settings
COM 3132 Health and Mass Media
COM 3928 Communication Research Methods
COM 4511 Senior Honors Thesis
COM 5300 Advanced Research Methods
HON 4010 Senior Honors Thesis/Project
HON 3500 Independent Study

Research Specialties

Health Communications
Research Methods
Interpersonal Communication
Theory

Publications

• Gray, J.B. (proposal accepted, chapter writing in process) Do Your Worst: Writing “Bad” Survey Questions. In J. Bowman, Teaching Research Methods in Communication Studies
• Gray, J.B. (2023). Fleeing from boring explanations of explanations: Using escape rooms to teach communication theory. Communication Teacher 37(4), 266-271.
• Gray, J.B. (2022). Scratching the surface: An autoethnography to begin to understand illness experience in lice infestation. The Qualitative Report, 27(8), 1579-1589.
• Gray, J.B., Winn, W., Cazier, J., Volstad, S. (2020). Stories of breast cancer: Using text analytics to understand better the illness experience. International Journal of Multiple Research Approaches, 12(2), 202-215.
• Articles in the Journal of Health Communication
• Journal of Communication in Healthcare
• Global Health and Medicine
• Communication Teacher
• College Teaching
• Communication Research Reports

Recent Awards

• Nominee, College Outstanding Advisor
• Most Helpful Faculty
• University Research Council Grants