Brett Sherrick

Get to Know Assistant Professor Brett Sherrick

My primary research areas are video games, positive media psychology, and media industries and my primary teaching interests are video games, mass communication, and research methods. I typically work with graduate students who are interested in games, game cultures, and mass communication.

I want graduate students to be successful people - not just successful graduate students. As an advisor, I encourage students to clearly define the purpose of their graduate education and then help them identify ways to make the best use of their graduate work to achieve their goals. I hope to help graduate students develop the skills, connections, and perspectives that they need to be successful - in either academic or industry fields. I like to involve students in my work but also hope to help them develop their own.

Education

PhD, The Pennsylvania State University
MA, University of North Carolina at Wilmington
BA, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Bio

Brett Sherrick (Ph.D., The Pennsylvania State University) is an associate professor in the Brian Lamb School of Communication at Purdue University and the co-founder and co-director of the Purdue Research In Media Effects (PRIME) Lab. His research interests include entertainment media, media psychology, and media industries, and he primarily examines these topics from a social scientific perspective. He is particularly interested in how video games and other media can improve the lives of media consumers. He has authored more than 20 peer-reviewed publications, and he was named a Promising Professor by the Mass Communication and Society Division at the Association for Educators in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC).