Josh Johnson

Biography

Josh is a fifth-year doctoral candidate studying family communication in the Brian Lamb School of Communication. He previously received his B.A. in Communication/Rhetoric from Biola University (2019) and his M.A. in Interpersonal Communication from Purdue University (2021). He also recently accepted a faculty position as an Assistant Professor of Communication at Olivet Nazarene University and is currently finishing his PhD remotely in Bourbonnais, Illinois.

Research and Teaching

Josh’s research interests lie at the intersection of interpersonal communication, family, and disclosure. He loves studying the parent-child relationship and how adolescents communicate with their parents. For his dissertation, Josh is currently studying adolescents’ willful disclosure with their parents about pornography. His other projects have explored the role of parental communication in the identity formation of young people as well as the kinds of memorable messages young adults recall receiving from their fathers. Josh also enjoyed teaching multiple undergraduate communication courses during his on-campus experience at Purdue. He TA’d for Dr. Josh Boyd as a graduate teaching assistant in Critical Perspectives on Communication (COM 204). He also taught Introduction to Presentational Speaking (COM 114), Interpersonal Communication (COM 212), and Advanced Presentational Speaking (COM 314/315).