Jennifer Bevan

Jennifer L. Bevan (B.A., M.A., University of Delaware; Ph.D., University of Georgia, 2003) is an associate professor in the Department of Communication Studies at Chapman University and a Core Faculty Member in the M.S. Program in Health and Strategic Communication. Before joining Chapman in 2007, she served on the faculty at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas and at the University of Southern California. Her research and teaching interests center upon interpersonal and health communication processes within close relationships. Specific research topics include the negotiation of difficult interactions such as ongoing conflict, jealousy, sexual resistance, uncertainty, and topic avoidance, as well as related psychological and physical health correlates of these experiences. She teaches courses in interpersonal communication, nonverbal communication, conflict, and empirical research methods.

Dr. Bevan’s publications include over 35 peer-reviewed scholarly communication and biomedical articles appearing in such journals as Communication Monographs, Human Communication Research, Communication Research, Personal Relationships, Social Science and Medicine, Journal of Health Communication, and Patient Education and Counseling. Her dissertation, “Intrapersonal Consequences of Another’s Jealousy Expression: Toward a Reaction Model of Jealousy in Close Relationships” received the 2004 Interpersonal Communication Division Dissertation Award from the International Communication Association. A research study published in the November 2009 edition of Communication Research Reports determined that Dr. Bevan was the 24^th (out of 3,800 authors) most published scholar across regional, national, and international peer-reviewed communication journals from 2002 to 2006. She currently serves as the co-editor of the annual journal Contemporary Argumentation and Debate with her husband Dr. Gordon Stables of the University of Southern California.