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Keli Steuber

Assistant Professor

Keli Ryan Steuber joined the Communication Studies faculty after earning her Ph.D. from Penn State in 2009. Her research specialization is in interpersonal and family communication, and her work examines how individuals and spouses manage information within their social networks during health and relational transitions. Her research is published in outlets such as Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, Journal of Applied Communication Research, Communication Monographs, and Human Communication Research.

She was recently awarded funding by The Office for the Vice President of Research at The University of Iowa for her research proposal titled Sustainability and Surveillance of Online Communities: Examining Structural Components that Contribute to Private, Health-Related Disclosures. This study will examine reasons infertile women turn to online communities for emotional support, the way their online interactions coincide with their face-to-face relationships, and structural preferences women have for disclosing within these online venues.

She teaches courses at both the graduate and undergraduate levels. Her recent courses include the undergraduate research methodology class, Studying Communication: Methods (036:005), the undergraduate Life-Span Communication course (036:166), and graduate courses in Quantitative Methodology (036:370) and Privacy Management in Interpersonal Relationships (036:381). Each semester, she also selects students to be members of an undergraduate research team that receives advanced methodological training through the process of serving as research assistants on ongoing projects.