Janet (Jess) Alberts is President's Professor and director of the online master's in communication in the Hugh Downs School of Human Communication at Arizona State University. She teaches introduction to human communication and has co-authored a textbook on human communication titled "Human Communication in Society." She also teaches courses on conflict and negotiation. Her research focuses on conflict in personal and professional relationships. She is particularly interested in marital disagreements, how couples divide up domestic chores, and how romantic couples conduct their daily interactions. In addition, she explores ways to reduce workplace bullying and to improve legal negotiations and community mediation practices. To do so, she has conducted discourse analytic, metaphoric analytic and quantitative analyses. Because of her experiences studying (and participating in) marital conflict, she appeared on the Oprah Winfrey Show to discuss how couples can fight and complain more effectively. Alberts is also the founder and co-director of the Transformation Project, which focuses on how communication can transform people’s lives.
Spring 2021 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
COM 100 | Intro to Human Communication |
COM 312 | Comm, Conflict & Negotiation |
COM 492 | Honors Directed Study |
COM 493 | Honors Thesis |
COM 792 | Research |
COM 799 | Dissertation |
Fall 2020 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
COM 100 | Intro to Human Communication |
COM 493 | Honors Thesis |
COM 792 | Research |
COM 799 | Dissertation |
Summer 2020 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
COM 692 | Research |
COM 799 | Dissertation |
Spring 2020 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
COM 312 | Comm, Conflict & Negotiation |
COM 595 | Continuing Registration |
COM 690 | Reading and Conference |
COM 792 | Research |
COM 799 | Dissertation |
Fall 2019 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
COM 100 | Intro to Human Communication |
COM 493 | Honors Thesis |
COM 691 | Seminar |
COM 792 | Research |
COM 799 | Dissertation |
Summer 2019 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
COM 792 | Research |
COM 799 | Dissertation |
Spring 2019 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
COM 492 | Honors Directed Study |
COM 792 | Research |
COM 799 | Dissertation |
Fall 2018 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
COM 100 | Intro to Human Communication |
COM 690 | Reading and Conference |
COM 799 | Dissertation |
Summer 2018 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
COM 690 | Reading and Conference |
COM 792 | Research |
COM 799 | Dissertation |
Spring 2018 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
COM 100 | Intro to Human Communication |
COM 312 | Comm, Conflict & Negotiation |
COM 792 | Research |
COM 799 | Dissertation |
Fall 2017 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
COM 100 | Intro to Human Communication |
COM 792 | Research |
COM 799 | Dissertation |
Summer 2017 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
COM 792 | Research |
Spring 2017 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
COM 100 | Intro to Human Communication |
COM 792 | Research |
COM 799 | Dissertation |
Fall 2016 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
COM 100 | Intro to Human Communication |
COM 312 | Comm, Conflict & Negotiation |
COM 792 | Research |
COM 799 | Dissertation |
Summer 2016 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
COM 799 | Dissertation |
COM 100: Introduction to Human Communication
COM 312: Communication, Conflict and Negotiation
COM 691: Conflict and Negotiation
COM 598: Communication and Conflict Transformation
President's Professor
Advisor, Kendra Knight, Gerald R. Miller Dissertation Award, for her dissertation entitled “The Influence of Response Threshold and Perceptions of Domestic Labor Conflict on Labor Allocation and Conflict Patterns in Marital Dyads. National Communication Association
Top Three Paper in Interpersonal Communication, International Communication Association, Knight, K. & Alberts J. K. Response thresholds predict demand-withdraw communication in division of labor conflict.
Top Paper in Interpersonal Communication, Central States Communication Association, Riforgiate, S., Alberts, J. K., & Mongeau, P. Testing threshold levels: Conflict, equity, and satisfaction in dividing domestic labor.
ASU Professor of the Year, Special Recognition, Associated Parents Professorship
Article of the Year Award, Applied Communication Division of the National Communication Association. For Nightmares, Demons and Slaves: Exploring the painful metaphors of workplace bullying. Management Communication Quarterly, 20(2),148─185. (S.J. Tracy, P. Lutgen-Sandvik, J.K. Alberts)
Outstanding Achievement & Contributions Award, Commission on the Status of Women
Recipient of the Faculty Last Lecture Series Award. Spring 1999