Matthew Seeger
Matthew Seeger, has been a faculty member and administrator at Wayne State University for 29 years and is currently Dean of the College of Fine, Performing and Communication Arts. His research interests concern crisis and risk communication, health promotion and communication, crisis response and agency coordination, the role of media, including new media, in crisis, crisis and communication ethics, failure of complex systems and post-crisis renewal. He has worked with the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for more than a decade and is an affiliate of the National Center for Food Protection and Defense where he studies issues of food safety and recalls. Seeger also works with the National Center for Border Security and Immigration and the International Crisis Communication Group.
His work on crisis, risk and communication has appeared in many publications including the Handbook of Crisis and Risk Communication, International Encyclopedia of Communication, Journal of Health Communication Research, Health Promotion Practice, International Journal of Crisis and Contingency Management, Communication Yearbook, the Handbook of Public Relations, Handbook of Applied Communication Research, Public Relations Review, Communication Studies, and more. Seeger is the author or co-author of seven books on crisis and risk communication, including Communication and Organizational Crisis (2003), Crisis Communication and the Public Health (2008) and Effective Risk Communication (2009) and Theories of Crisis Communication (In Press). He has advised over 35 doctoral dissertations in the areas of risk and crisis communication.