Sandra Ketrow,
Professor of Communication Studies

Independence Hall
(401)874-4733
fax: (440)874-4722
Ketrow@uri.edu

Research Interests: The evolution of Dr. Ketrow's research began with her investigations into leadership and other role specializations in group decision-making. Over time, she has held a programmatic focus on nonverbal aspects of interaction in various contexts, including interpersonal, group, and organizational. Most recently, Ketrow's explorations of human communication have been in sensitivity to nonverbal cues and argumentation (particularly in groups), and nonverbal aspects of group communication. She is engaging in two book projects, involving interpersonal disclosure, and gender and communication. Her research has been published in such academic outlets as Small Group Communication, Management Communication Quarterly, Psychological Reports, and The Handbook of Group Communication Theory and Research, along with forthcoming work in Mental Measurements Yearbook.

Dr. Ketrow's sojourn at the University of Rhode Island began in the fall of 1986, when she was drawn to come back to academia and the sea. She teaches undergraduate courses in interpersonal communication, group communication, nonverbal communication, gender and communication, and communication theory. She currently serves as the director of the Master of Arts graduate program in Communication Studies. She is one of the first Technology and Teaching Fellows at URI, and is often tinkering or torturing her students and colleagues with some new electronic toy. When she is not surfing the World Wide Web, in warmer weather she might be surfing on her longboard with her friends from Chicks on Sticks and SurfRider and actually enjoying a tropical storm or nor'easter.