Research InterestsCrisis Communication
Risk Communication
Disaster Communication
Agriculture Communication Research PublicationsSellnow, T. L., & Sellnow, D. D. (Eds.). (2024). Handbook of risk and safety. De Gruyter.
Sellnow, T. L., & Sellnow D. D. (2024). Before crisis: The practice of effective risk
communication. Cognella Academic Publishing.
Ulmer, R. R., Sellnow, T. L., & Seeger, M.W. (2023). Effective crisis communication: Moving
from crisis to opportunity (5th ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Sellnow, T. L., & Seeger, M. W. (2021). Theorizing crisis communication (2nd ed.). Malden,
MA: Wiley-Blackwell.
Littlefield, R. S., Sellnow, D. D., Sellnow, T. L. (2021). Integrated marketing
communications in risk and crisis communication contexts: A culture centered approach. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.
Seeger, M. W., & Sellnow, T. L. (2019). Communication in times of trouble: Best practices of
crisis communication and emergency risk communication. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell.
Seeger, M. W. & Sellnow, T. L. (2016). Narratives of crisis: Telling the stories of ruin and
renewal. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.
Mayer, M., Vega, J., Demarco, I. Eicher, R., Molina, D. F., Lee, C., Naufel, J. P., Sheng, X.,
Sublette, J., Freihaut, R., & Sellnow, T. L. (2023). Message Convergence as Reassurance about the Safety of the Food Supply Concerning African Swine Fever Virus. Animal Health Therapy Reports. Advance online publication. http://antpublisher.com/index.php/AHTR/article/view/533/688
Edwards, A. L., Freihaut, R., Sellnow, T. L., Sellnow, D. D., Getchell, M. C., & Parrish, A.
(2023). Engaged learning : Lessons learned by subject-matter experts from COVID-19 in the U.S. swine industry. Journal of Applied Communication Research. Advance online publication. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/00909882.2023.2178853
Soares, R., Jin, X., Spence, P., & Sellnow, T. L. (2023). Interacting arguments in crisis
communication: The influence of message convergence on risk and crisis messages. Journal of contingencies and crisis management. Advance online publication. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/1468-5973.12456
Lapinski, M. K., Seeger, M., Sellnow, D., Sellnow, T., & Thompson, T. L. (2022). Re-imagining
One Health: A perspective from social science. Metode Science Studies Journal, 13, 95-101. https://doi.org/10.7203/metode.13.23821
Hu, Q., An, S., Kapucu, N., Sellnow, T., Yuksel, M., & Freihaut, R. (2022). Dynamics of
interorganizational emergency communication on Twitter: the case of Hurricane Irma. Disasters. Advanced online publication. https://doi.org/10.1111/disa.12547
Johansson, B., Lane, D. R., Sellnow, D. D., & Sellnow, T. L. (2021). No heat, no electricity, no
water, oh no!: an IDEA model experiment in instructional risk communication. Journal of Risk Research, Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/13669877.2021.1894468
Edwards, A. L., Sellnow, T. L., Sellnow, D. D., Iverson, J., Parrish, A., & Dritz, S. (2021).
Communities of practice as purveyors of instructional communication during crises. Communication Education, 70(1), 49-70.
Sheppard, R. J., Sellnow, T. L., Sellnow, D. D., Parrish, A. J., & Brand, J. D. (2020).
Instructional crisis communication for an industry: Model and anti-model biosecurity standards for the prevention and control of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza. Journal of Applied Communications, 104(3), article 7.
Sellnow, D. D., & Sellnow, T. L. (2019). The IDEA model for effective instructional risk and
crisis communication by emergency managers and other key spokespersons. Journal of Emergency Management, 17, 67-78.
Spence, P. R., Lachlan, K. A., Lin, X, Westerman, D., Sellnow, T. L. Rice, R., and Seeger, H.
(2019). Let me squeeze a word in: Exemplification effects, user comments and response to a news story. Western Journal of Communication, 83, 501-518. doi: 10.1080/10570314.2019.1591495
Getchell, M. C., & Sellnow, T. L. (2019). Engaging stakeholders through social media and
emergent organizations: The West Virginia Water Crisis Recovery as a case study. Journal of Emergency Management, 17, 321-333.
Sellnow, D. D., Sellnow, T. L., & Martin, J. M. (2019). Strategic Message Convergence in
Communicating Biosecurity: The Case of the 2013 Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea Virus. Communication Reports, 32(3), 125-136.
Herovic, E., Sellnow, T., Sellnow, & Sellnow, D. (2019). Challenges and opportunities for pre-
crisis emergency risk communication: Lessons learned from the earthquake Community. Journal of Risk Research. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/13669877.2019.1569097
Sellnow, D. D., Johansson, B., Sellnow, T. L., & Lane, D. R. (2019). Toward a global
understanding of the effects of the IDEA model for designing instructional risk and crisis messages: A food contamination experiment in Sweden. Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management, 27, 102-115.
Koliba CJ, Moegenburg SM, Zia A, Parker J, Sellnow T, et al. (2019) Decision-making in
livestock biosecurity practices amidst environmental and social uncertainty: Evidence from an experimental game. PLoS ONE 14(4): e0214500. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0214500
Sellnow, T. L., Sellnow, D. D., Helsel, E. M., Martin, J., & Parker, J. S. (2018). Crisis
communication in response to rapidly emerging diseases in the agriculture industry: Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea Virus as a cases study. Journal of Risk Research. Advanced online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/13669877.2017.1422787
*Wombacher, K., Herovic, E., Sellnow, T. L., & Seeger, M. W. (2018). The complexities of
place in crisis renewal: A case study of the Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting. Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management, 26, 164-172. *Identified by the journal as one of the most downloaded manuscripts in 2018.
*Sellnow, T. L., Parker, J. S., Sellnow, D. D., Littlefield, R. R., Helsel, E. M., Getchell, M. C.,
Smith, J. M., & Merrill, S. C. (2017). Improving biosecurity through instructional crisis communication: Lessons learned from the PEDv outbreak. Journal of Applied Communications, 101(4). https://doi.org/10.4148/1051-0834.1298 *Winner of the 2018 Journal of Applied Communications Article of the Year
Ivanov, B., Sellnow, T. L., Getchel, M. C., & Burns, W. J. (2017). The potential for
inoculation messages and post-inoculation talk to minimize the social impact of politically-motivated acts of violence. Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management, 26, 414-424.
Sellnow, D. D., Lane, D. R., Sellnow, T. L., & Littlefield, R. S. (2017). The IDEA model as a
best practice for effective instructional risk and crisis communication. Communication Studies, 68, 552-567.
Miller, A. N., Sellnow, T., Neuberger, L., Todd, A., Freihaut, R., Noyes, J., Allen, T., Alexander,
N., Vanderford, M., & Gamhewage, G. (2017). A systematic review of literature on training in crisis and risk preparedness. Journal of Health Communication, 22, 612-629. DOI: 10.1080/10810730.2017.1338802
Sellnow, D. D., Iverson, J. O., & Sellnow, T. L. (2017). The evolution of the Operational
Earthquake Forecasting (OEF) community of practice: The L’Aquila communication
crisis as a triggering event for organizational renewal. Journal of Applied Communication
Research, 45, 121-139.
Spence, P. R., Lachlan, K., Sellnow, T L.., Rice, R. G., & Seeger, H. (2017). That is so gross
and I have to post about it: Exemplification effects and user Comments on a news
story. Southern Communication Journal, 82, 27-37. doi: 10.1080/1041794X.2016.1265578
Lin, X., Spence, P. R., Sellnow, T. L., & Lachlan, K. A. (2016). Crisis communication,
learning and responding: Best practices in social media. Computers in Human Behavior,
65, 601-605.
Spence, P. R., Sellnow-Richmond, D., Sellnow, T. L., & Lachlan, K. A. (2016). Social
media and corporate reputation during crises: The viability of video-sharing websites for providing counter-messaging to traditional broadcast news. Journal of Applied Communication Research, 44, 199-215.
Ivanov, B., Burns, W. J., Sellnow, T. L., Petrun, E. L., Veil, S. R., & Mayorga, M. W. (2016). Using an inoculation message approach to promote public confidence in protective agencies. Journal of Applied Communication Research, 44(4). doi: 10.1080/00909882.2016.1225165
Honors and AwardsMercator Fellow for the study of risk and crisis communication, The German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR), Berlin, Germany, 2021-2024.
Pegasus Professor Award (highest academic honor an educator can receive at UCF) – status awarded April 6, 2022.
William J. Petak Best Paper Award—American Society for Public Administration, April 2021.
Guest Scholar, Summer Doctoral Seminar (students competitively selected nationally), “Health Risk and Crisis Communication,” Hosted by Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, June 6-9, 2020.
2018 Journal of Applied Communications Article of the Year Award for, “Improving biosecurity through instructional crisis communication: Lessons learned from the PEDv outbreak.”—July, 2018.
Featured for Central States Communication Association Scholar Conversation—Featured at
the Central States Communication Association Conference, Milwaukee, WI, April 6, 2018.
Wayne N. Thompson Annual Lecturer—Western Illinois University, March 25-28, 2018.
Luminary Award for notable contributions in research at UCF – status awarded 2017.
Distinguished Speaker Series—University of Central Florida College of Sciences: “Communicating During Crisis: Making Connections that Matter with Diverse Publics” (with Deanna Sellnow), 2016
Gerald M. Phillips Award for Distinguished Applied Communication Scholarship—National Communication Associate, 2015
A Teacher Who Made a Difference Award—University of Kentucky, 2012
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