Khairul Islam

Fall 2024 Schedule:

• PRL 215 800 Survey of Public Relations MWF 10:20 - 11:15 am Lanigan 102A
• PRL 215 810 Survey of Public Relations MWF 11:30 am - 12:25 pm Lanigan 103
• PRL 313 800 Public Relations Writing & Mass Media 1:50 - 2:45 pm Mahar 104

Research and Publications

He conducts research in strategic crisis communication at the intersection of public health, organizations, and the role of media. He is a mixed methods scholar. Specifically, his research investigates communication processes and effects involving extreme events.

His research has been featured in many peer reviewed journals, including Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management; Journal of Business Ethics; Communication Studies; Health Communication; The Learning Organization; Journal of International Crisis and Risk Communication Research; and American Water Works Association Journal among others.

His research was awarded a competitive grant from The Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC). Additionally, his contributions have been acknowledged through multiple top paper awards, including those bestowed by The Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, The Central States Communication Association (CSCA), and The International Crisis and Risk Communication Conference (ICRCC).

Publications

• Islam, K., Seeger, M., Sopory, P. (2024). Compound crisis communication and household

• preparedness: Examining the effects of evidence type and crisis message fatigue. Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-5973.12609

• Akhther, A., & Islam, K. (2024). Instructional health-risk communication: A content analysis of vaping-associated lung injury outbreak coverage in U.S. college newspapers. Communication Studies, 1–19. https://doi.org/10.1080/10510974.2024.2363276

• Day, A. M., O’Shay, S., Islam, K., Seeger, M. W., Sperone, F. G., & McElmurry, S. P. (2024).  Boil water notices as health-risk communication: risk perceptions, efficacy, and compliance during winter storm Uri. Scientific Reports, 14(1), 850. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-50286-y

• Islam, K., Laskey, A., Schwetschenau, S., Sheppard, R., Smith, R., Sobeck, J., ... & Seeger, M. (2023). Crisis management of interdependent systems, communication and coordination: A perspective on medium‐scale events. Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-5973.12479
• Islam, K., Akhther, N., & Seeger, M.W. (2023). Variability in media content of public health outbreak coverage: A crisis communication approach. Communication Studies, 74(2), 113- 130. https://doi.org/10.1080/10510974.2023.2183516
• Laskey, A., Stanley, E., Islam, K., Schwetschenau, S., Sobeck, J. Smith, R., McElmurry, S.P., Kilgore, P. Taylor, K., & Seeger, M.W. (2023). Re-imagining resilience as multi-disciplinary, multi-level, and interconnected. The Natural Hazards Review. https://ascelibrary.org/doi/10.1061/NHREFO.NHENG-1471.
• Islam, K., Edwards, A. L., Shi, D., Lim, J. R., Sheppard, R., Liu, B. F., & Seeger, M. (2022). Crisis communication and learning: U.S. higher education’s responses to a global pandemic. The Learning Organization, 29(4), 357- 376. https://doi.org/10.1108/TLO-10-2021-0121
• Akhther, N., & Islam, K. (2022). Communicating mental health coping resources among college students of color: A resilience approach to COVID-19 response. Journal of International Crisis and Risk Communication Research, 5(2), 203- 232. https://doi.org/10.30658/jicrcr.5.2.5
• Day, A.M., Islam, K., O’Shay-Wallace, S., Taylor, K., McElmurry, S.P., Seeger, M.W. (2022). Consumer response to boil water notifications during winter storm Uri. American Water Works Association Journal, 114(5). https://doi.org/10.1002/awwa.1919
• Liu, B. F., Shi, D., Lim, J. R., Islam, K., Edwards, A. L., & Seeger, M. (2021). When crises hit home: How U.S. higher education leaders navigate values during uncertain times. Journal of Business Ethics, 179(2), 353–368. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-021-04820-5
• Liu, B. F., Lim, J. R., Shi, D., Edwards, A. L., Islam, K., Sheppard, R., & Seeger, M. (2021). Evolving best practices in crisis communication: Examining U.S. higher education’s responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. Journal of International Crisis and Risk Communication Research, 4(3), 451-484. https://doi.org/10.30658/jicrcr.4.3.1
• O’Shay-Wallace, S., Day, A.M., Islam, K., McElmurry, S.P., & Seeger, M.W. (2020). Boil water advisories as risk communication: Consistency between CDC guidelines and local news media articles. Health Communication, 37(2), 152–162. https://doi.org/10.1080/10410236.2020.1827540.
• Seeger, M. W., Islam, K., & Seeger. H. S. (2021). Emergency preparedness, response, and strategic communication for natural disasters. In Baton, C. (Eds.), The handbook of strategic communication. Wiley Blackwell.

Education

Ph.D., Department of Communication, Wayne State University

BGC-PHP, Department of Family Medicine and Public Health Sciences, Wayne State University 

M.S., School of Media and Journalism, Arkansas State University

M.A., Department of Information Science and Library Management, Dhaka University

B.A., Department of Information Science and Library Management, Dhaka University