1. Joshua A. Dunn (M.A., The Ohio State University) is a doctoral candidate in the College of Media and Communication at Texas Tech University. His research examines the influence of character involvement during mediated intergroup contact and identity formation.
2. Bryan McLaughlin (Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2014) is an assistant professor in the Department of Advertising at Texas Tech University. His research examines how social identity categories are constructed and maintained through communication, how these social identity categories are processed cognitively, and the effects of this processing on sociopolitical attitudes and behaviors.