Jennifer Hoewe

Jennifer Hoewe is an associate professor within the Brian Lamb School of Communication at Purdue University. She studies media psychology and political communication.
Specifically, her research program focuses on how political issues and groups of people are depicted in media content and how that content influences media consumers, particularly in terms of their cognitive processing, their attitudes, and their own identity.
Dr. Hoewe has published more than 45 scholarly publications and has won several research and teaching awards. She is the former head of the Communication Theory and Methodology Division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC). She also holds a courtesy appointment in the Department of Political Science at Purdue University.