Contact Information
702 South Wright Street
Urbana IL 61801
Biography
Sara is a PhD student in the Department of Communication at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Her research examines how people communicate about health and identity, especially in the context of contested illness. She also studies the sociolinguistic features of individuals' storytelling about health (dismissal).
Research Interests
Interpersonal Communication, Health Communication, Patient-Provider Communication, Qualitative (Field) Methods, Discourse and Identity
Education
M.A., Communication, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
B.A., Communication, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Courses Taught
CMN 101: Public Speaking
CMN 260: Introduction to Health Communication
Recent Publications
Thompson, C. M., Babu, S., & Makos, S. (2022). “It does make you feel like you’re crazy”: Women’s experiences of health-related communicative disenfranchisement. Health Communication, Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pec.2022.07.013
Thompson, C. M., Pulido, M. D., Babu, S., Zenzola, N., & Chiu, C-Y. (2022). Communication needs and barriers within interactions between persons living with multiple sclerosis and their health care providers: A scoping review. Patient Education & Counseling, Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pec.2022.07.013
Thompson, C. M., Babu, S., Romo, L. K., Pulido, M. D., Liao, D., & Kriss, L. (2022). “I changed, I had to realize that I was wrong”: Identity gap management amidst evolving uncertainty. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 39(4), 844-863. https://doi.org/10.1177/02654075211048253