Sandra Petronio, PhD (Senior Affiliate Faculty)
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Bio
Dr. Petronio is a Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis, Core Faculty in the Indiana University Center for Bioethics in the School of Medicine, and adjunct faculty in the Indiana University School of Nursing. She has a B.A. in interdisciplinary social science from The State University of New York at Stony Brook, received her M.A. in social psychology and a Ph.D. in communication from The University of Michigan. Dr. Petronio was a faculty member in the Department of Speech Communication at the University of Minnesota, and at Arizona State University in the Hugh Downs School of Human Communication. She has also served as Director of the Interdisciplinary Ph.D. Program in Communication in the Department of Communication and School of Medicine at Wayne State University, and Director of the Speech Communication Area in the Department of Communication.
Dr. Petronio’s areas of research are in privacy, disclosure, and confidentiality studied within health and family contexts. She developed the evidenced-based “Communication Privacy Management” theory, publishing a SUNY press book “Boundaries of Privacy: Dialectics of Disclosure” on this theory. This book has won the Gerald R. Miller Award from the National Communication Association and the book award from the International Association of Relationship Research. Dr. Petronio has published five books, including one on HIV/AIDS and disclosure, numerous articles in scholarly journals and books, served as a journal editor for the Western Journal of Communication and for several special issues of Communication Research and the Journal of Applied Communication Research. In June 2005, Petronio was invited by the Consortium on Social Science Associations to give a Congressional Briefing on issues of privacy in Washington, DC, and is also the Immediate Past President of the International Association of Relationship Research.