Contact Information
702 South Wright Street
Urbana IL 61801
Biography
I study how people communicate about their health in interpersonal relationships. I am centrally interested in who is or can be read as a “credible” patient. I also explore how various cultural systems, from families to medical institutions enable or constrain communicative labor to be recognized, believed, and taken seriously. From a critical perspective, I consider how we might leverage communication to address raced, classed, and gendered disparities in health care.
Research Interests
Health Communication, Qualitative Methods, Identity, d/Discourse, Health Disparities
Education
M.A., Communication, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
B.A., Communication, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Courses Taught
Instructor of Record
- CMN 101: Public Speaking
- CMN 260: Introduction to Health Communication
- CMN 336: Family Communication
Faculty Extender
- CMN 507: The Future of Work in Health Communication
- CMN 595: Communication and Health Disparities
Highlighted Publications
Babu, S., Koven, M., Thompson, C. M., & Makos, S. (2024). (Re)making scales: Communicative enfranchisement in women’s narrative discourses about health dismissal. Health Communication, Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/10410236.2024.2386716
Thompson, C. M., Babu, S., Gerlikovski, E. R., McGuire, M., Makos, S., Ranallo, A., & Robieson, I. (2023). Living with long COVID: A longitudinal interview study of individuals’ communicative resilience over the “long haul.” Health Communication, Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/10410236.2023.2257941
Thompson, C. M., Babu, S., & Makos, S. (2023). A grounded theory of credibility work and illness: Explication and application to the case of women on trial in health care. Communication Research, Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/00936502231184318