Susan Allen

Graduate Student 

Susan Allen is a third-year Ph.D. student in the Communication Department who studies intercultural communication, social influence, and public relations. Her research interests include terrorism studies, interpersonal communication problems across cultures, and negotiation.  She is currently working on a study involving terrorism preparedness for the Crisis Research Center, a study on persuasive strategies in al Qa'ida messages created between 1986 and 2006, an interview project on the integration of Muslim-American students into the campus community, and survey research on serial arguments in the workplace.

Alberini has a long-standing interest in the monetary valuation of mortality and morbidity risk reductions, and has conducted a number of surveys in the US, Canada, Italy, UK, France and the Czech Republic where she asked individuals to report their willingness to pay to reduce their own (or their own and others’) mortality risks for specified causes (e.g., cardiovascular and respiratory illnesses, cancer and other chronic illnesses linked with contaminated site exposures). She has also examined how housing values and workers’ pay vary with the health risks at one locale and with workplace risks.