Professor of Public Relations
Journalism Building, Room 253, Grady College of Journalism & Mass Communication, 120 Hooper Street, Athens, GA 30602-3018
Dr. Yan Jin is a professor of public relations and assistant head of Department of Advertising and Public Relations in the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Georgia (UGA). She is also the associate director of UGA's Center for Health and Risk Communication. Dr. Jin teaches undergraduate Public Relations (PR), PR Research, PR Administration, AdPR Health, Crisis Communication, and PR Campaigns courses. She also teaches doctoral-level mass communication theory course. Her primary research programs are in the areas of crisis communication and strategic health risk communication, focusing on the role of emotions and social media in crisis communication theory and application.
Dr. Jin has authored numerous refereed journal articles and book chapters. Her work was published in The Handbook of Crisis Communication, Communication Research, Journal of Applied Communication Research, Journalism and Mass Communications Quarterly, Journal of Public Relations Research, Public Relations Review, and Journal of Contingency and Crisis Management, etc. She is the co-editor of the scholarly book Social Media and Crisis Communication (Routlege, 2017): https://www.routledge.com/Social-Media-and-Crisis-Communication/Austin-Jin/p/book/9781138812000. Dr. Jin’s research activities on public relations leadership, crisis management, and strategic health communication have been funded by the Plank Center for Leadership in Public Relations, the National Institutes of Health, the C. R. Anderson Research Foundation, and the Arthur W. Page Center for Integrity in Public Communication. Dr. Jin is an academic advisor of the Corporate Communications International (CCI) and serves on the national research committee of the Association for Business Communication (ABC).
Dr. Yan Jin is an Associate Professor of Public Relations and associate director of the Grady College’s Center for Health and Risk Communication. Prior to joining the University of Georgia, Dr. Jin was an Associate Professor of Public Relations at the Virginia Commonwealth University, where she founded the Center for Media+Health and served as its inaugural executive director. Dr. Jin has taught undergraduate and graduate public relations and research methods courses. Her research interest is in the area of crisis communication and strategic conflict management, as well as how emotions influence organizational decision making and publics’ responses. Dr. Jin has authored numerous refereed journal articles and book chapters. Her work was published in The Handbook of Crisis Communication, Communication Research, Journal of Applied Communication Research, Journalism and Mass Communications Quarterly, Journal of Public Relations Research, Public Relations Review, and Journal of Contingency and Crisis Management, etc. She is the co-editor of the book, Social Media and Crisis Communication, to be published by Routledge. Dr. Jin’s research activities on public relations leadership, crisis management, and strategic health communication have been funded by the Plank Center for Leadership in Public Relations, the National Institutes of Health, the C. R. Anderson Research Foundation, and the Arthur W. Page Center for Integrity in Public Communication. Dr. Jin is an academic advisor of the Corporate Communications International (CCI) and serves on the national research committee of the Association for Business Communication (ABC).
Dr. Yan Jin is an Associate Professor of Public Relations and associate director of the Grady College’s Center for Health and Risk Communication. Prior to joining the University of Georgia, Dr. Jin was an Associate Professor of Public Relations at the Virginia Commonwealth University, where she founded the Center for Media+Health and served as its inaugural executive director. Dr. Jin has taught undergraduate and graduate public relations and research methods courses. Her research interest is in the area of crisis communication and strategic conflict management, as well as how emotions influence organizational decision making and publics’ responses. Dr. Jin has authored numerous refereed journal articles and book chapters. Her work was published in The Handbook of Crisis Communication, Communication Research, Journal of Applied Communication Research, Journalism and Mass Communications Quarterly, Journal of Public Relations Research, Public Relations Review, and Journal of Contingency and Crisis Management, etc. She is the co-editor of the book, Social Media and Crisis Communication, to be published by Routledge. Dr. Jin’s research activities on public relations leadership, crisis management, and strategic health communication have been funded by the Plank Center for Leadership in Public Relations, the National Institutes of Health, the C. R. Anderson Research Foundation, and the Arthur W. Page Center for Integrity in Public Communication. Dr. Jin is an academic advisor of the Corporate Communications International (CCI) and serves on the national research committee of the Association for Business Communication (ABC).
Dr. Yan Jin is an Associate Professor of Public Relations and associate director of the Grady College’s Center for Health and Risk Communication. Prior to joining the University of Georgia, Dr. Jin was an Associate Professor of Public Relations at the Virginia Commonwealth University, where she founded the Center for Media+Health and served as its inaugural executive director. Dr. Jin has taught undergraduate and graduate public relations and research methods courses. Her research interest is in the area of crisis communication and strategic conflict management, as well as how emotions influence organizational decision making and publics’ responses. Dr. Jin has authored numerous refereed journal articles and book chapters. Her work was published in The Handbook of Crisis Communication, Communication Research, Journal of Applied Communication Research, Journalism and Mass Communications Quarterly, Journal of Public Relations Research, Public Relations Review, and Journal of Contingency and Crisis Management, etc. She is the co-editor of the book, Social Media and Crisis Communication, to be published by Routledge. Dr. Jin’s research activities on public relations leadership, crisis management, and strategic health communication have been funded by the Plank Center for Leadership in Public Relations, the National Institutes of Health, the C. R. Anderson Research Foundation, and the Arthur W. Page Center for Integrity in Public Communication. Dr. Jin is an academic advisor of the Corporate Communications International (CCI) and serves on the national research committee of the Association for Business Communication (ABC).
Dr. Yan Jin is an Associate Professor of Public Relations in The Robertson School of Media and Culture,Virginia Commonwealth University, where she teaches public relations courses at both graduate and undergraduate levels. Her research interest is in the area of crisis communication and strategic conflict management, as well as how emotions influence strategic communication decision making and publics’ responses. Recently she has applied these research frameworks to strategic health communication. - See more at: http://masscomm.vcu.edu/public-relations/faculty/dr-yan-jin/#sthash.MKi0lgvJ.dpuf
Background
- University of Missouri, Ph.D.
- University of Missouri, M.A.
- Peking University, B.A.
- Krieghbaum Under-40 Award, Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, 2014
- University of Georgia, Associate Professor, 2014-present
- Virginia Commonwealth University, Associate Professor, 2011-2014
- Virginia Commonwealth University, Assistant Professor, 2005-2011