Faculty and Staff Profile

Bryan Denham

Educational Background

Ph.D. Communications with Minor in Applied Statistics
University Of Tennessee 1996

MA Communications
California State University, Fullerton 1993

BA Journalism and Political Science
Indiana University 1989

Courses Taught

Introduction to Human Communication
Introduction to Journalism
Basic Public Speaking
Newspaper Feature and Opinion Writing
Magazine Article Writing
Communication in a World Context
Communication Theory
Mass Communication Theory
Communication Research Methods
Sports Communication
Sports Media Criticism
Public Relations in Sports
Advanced Sports Communication (Media, Sport and Health)
Principles of Public Relations
Public Communication and Popular Culture
Political Communication
Mass Communication: History and Criticism
Senior Communication Seminar

Graduate
Theory and Research in Mass Communication
Empirical Research Methods
Special Topics (Media, Sport and Health)
Media in Politics
Sports Writing

Profile

Dr. Denham has been a faculty member at Clemson for 26 years and has served two times as Department Chair. He studies the media, health, and policy dimensions of substance use in sport and society and has published more than 70 refereed journal articles in 50 unique outlets across the behavioral, social, and health sciences. He has also published 50 non-refereed articles and 12 book chapters, in addition to the Wiley text Categorical Statistics for Communication Research. Dr. Denham serves on four editorial boards and has reviewed manuscripts for more than 80 scholarly journals.

Research Publications

Statistics Text
Denham, B. (2016). Categorical statistics for communication research. Chichester, West Sussex UK: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Monographs
Denham, B. (2022). Oriental irritants and occidental aspirants: Immigrant representations in Hearst magazines, 1905-1945. Journalism & Communication Monographs, 24, 4-64.

Denham, B. (2020). Magazine journalism in the golden age of muckraking: Patent-medicine exposures before and after the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906. Journalism & Communication Monographs, 22, 100-159.

Selected Journal Articles
Denham, B. (2024). Magazine journalism and drugs of abuse, 1945-1965: Similarly hazardous substances, markedly different sources of information. Journal of Magazine Media, 24, 32-59.

Denham, B. (2022). Sports Illustrated tackles drugs in sports: Examining the influence of a seminal magazine series. Sport in History, 43, 234-260.

Denham, B. (2021). Dietary supplements in the USA: Problematic trends. Public Health Nutrition, 24, 2771-2775.

Denham, B. (2020). Male athlete representations in men's magazines: A study in mediated sport stacking. Communication and Sport, 8(6), 782-802.

Denham, B. (2020). Sports participation and attitudes toward race and ethnicity: A study of twelfth-grade students in the United States. Sociology of Sport Journal, 37(2), 143-151.

Denham, B. (2019). Attitudes toward legalization of marijuana in the United States, 1986-2016: Changes in determinants of public opinion. International Journal of Drug Policy, 71, 78-90.

Denham, B. (2019). Coverage of the Russian doping scandal in the New York Times: Intramedia and intermedia attribute agenda-setting effects. Communication and Sport, 7(3), 337-360.

Denham, B. (2017). When contaminated dietary supplements cause positive drug tests: Methylhexaneamine as a doping agent in sport. International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics, 9, 677-689.

Honors and Awards

Faculty Award for Excellence in Research – Senior Scholar, College of Behavioral, Social and Health Sciences at Clemson University, April 2020.

Research Fellow, North American Society for the Sociology of Sport, November 2017.

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