Welcome to the website for the doctoral program in Public Communication at Georgia State University! Located in the heart of downtown Atlanta, Georgia, and with over thirty tenure track faculty with strong national and international reputations (and approval to hire eight more over the next four years) and over forty doctoral students (almost all on full teaching and research assistantships), we are one of the largest and most dynamic doctoral Communication programs in the country. 

In the fastest growing city in the fastest growing state in the South, and with a warm and inviting climate, we are within minutes of CNN, Turner Broadcasting System (TBS), the Martin Luther King Center for Non-Violent Social Change, the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Georgia State Capitol, the Atlanta Journal Constitution, the High Museum of Art, and the largest civil rights research collection in the world (the Auburn Avenue Library).  With all of these resources at hand, we are undoubtedly one of the best places to study communication in the United States.

Students seeking to engage in research and teaching related to international media, health communication, critical race studies, presidential rhetoric, popular culture, identity construction, media effects, discourse theory, social movements, communication campaigns, rhetorical theory and criticism, and a wide range of related areas will find a very pleasant and intellectually invigorating home here.

If you find our program of interest, and want to consider obtaining your doctorate in a program that artfully combines methodological and theoretical rigor with Southern hospitality, please do not hesitate to contact me to discuss your interests.

Sincerely,

Professor Mary Stuckey,

Graduate Director (404) 413-5642