Rate My Professor Lindsey Aloia

Lindsey Aloia is an associate professor of communication in the Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, where she joined as an assistant professor in 2015 in her first tenure-track position following her Ph.D. She advanced to associate professor in 2020 and assumed the role of Associate Dean in the Graduate School and International Education on August 21, 2023. In this administrative position, she directs international education efforts, supervises the offices of Sponsored Students and Special Programs, International Students and Scholars, Study Abroad and International Exchange, and the university's Rome Center, and leads international recruiting. Previously, Aloia served as director of the Center for Communication Research from 2018 to 2021 and as director of honors studies in Fulbright College.

Aloia earned her Ph.D. in communication arts and sciences from The Pennsylvania State University in 2013, a master's degree in communication from the University of Delaware, and a bachelor's degree in communication studies from The College of New Jersey. Her scholarship centers on interpersonal communication, particularly verbal aggression and conflict, exploring their causes, interpersonal influences, and consequences for emotional well-being, cognitive fitness, physiological health, and behavior. By 2020, she had published 24 peer-reviewed manuscripts, three book chapters, a special journal issue introduction, and presented at 31 regional, national, and international conferences, securing multiple top paper awards. Notable works include serving as lead editor for The Oxford Handbook of the Physiology of Interpersonal Communication (Oxford University Press, 2020), which earned the 2023 Gerald R. Miller Book Award from the National Communication Association's Interpersonal Communication Division, and "Associations between taking conflict personally and mental and physical health: An allostatic load perspective" in the Southern Communication Journal, recipient of the 2020 Rose B. Johnson Article Award. Her achievements include the 2020 Janice Hocker Rushing Early Career Research Award from the Southern States Communication Association, the University of Arkansas 2023 Outstanding Faculty Mentor Award, and the 2021 John E. King Award for Outstanding Service.