Rate My Professor Shae Morgan

Shae Morgan is an associate professor of audiology in the Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery and Communicative Disorders at the University of Louisville School of Medicine. He earned his AuD and PhD from the University of Utah in 2018. Following graduation, he served as an instructor at the University of Utah from January to April 2018 before joining the University of Louisville as an assistant professor in May 2018, later promoted to associate professor. His career trajectory reflects a commitment to advancing audiology education and research, with active involvement in teaching and mentoring students in the Doctor of Audiology program.

Morgan's primary research interests lie in social and emotional auditory perception, focusing on how listeners derive judgments about a talker's characteristics from their voice, the recognition of emotions in speech, and the influence of hearing loss on speech production and social inferences. His scholarly contributions include key publications such as 'Categorical and Dimensional Ratings of Emotional Speech' (2019), 'Adopting Change and Incorporating Technological Innovations in Pediatric Audiology Practice' (2022), and 'Perceived Anger in Clear and Conversational Speech' (2022). He has secured prestigious awards, including the 2017 New Century Scholars Doctoral Scholarship and the 2019 New Investigators Research Grant from the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Foundation for his project on auditory processing of suprasegmental speech information. In recognition of his teaching excellence, Morgan received the 2023 Teaching Innovation Award from the University of Louisville's Delphi Center. He teaches courses including Hearing Test Essentials, Pathologies of Hearing, Clinical Techniques, Acoustics, and Auditory Processing. Morgan is spearheading the OMeLiT project, which develops an innovative light therapy device resembling a hearing aid to treat bacterial ear infections in children without antibiotics, drawing from his earlier research on light's antibacterial properties. This multidisciplinary effort involves collaborators from biology, bioengineering, and other fields, supported by university pilot grants and aimed at NIH funding. As a member of ASHA and the American Academy of Audiology, his work impacts clinical audiology practices, pediatric hearing care, and technological innovations in the field.