CRYSTAL Y. (GROVES) LUMPKINS
Assistant Professor
Stauffer-Flint Hall 207D
785-864-7639 (office)
lumpkins@ku.edu
J-School profile
Community of Science: http://myprofile.cos.com/lumpkins
Expertise
Lumpkins’ research examines cancer communication, media relations training, and public relations. Her interests also include health workshops targeting minority populations and urban core economic development. Lumpkins’ doctoral dissertation investigated the merit of religiosity as a persuasive socio-cultural factor to influence health behavior among African American women. She has investigated effective strategies to communicate cancer prevention and coping among diverse populations, in addition to media effects of advertising and marketing nutrition targeting children and adolescents. Her theoretical frameworks have included the elaboration likelihood model (ELM), agenda setting/building, framing, media effects theories, priming, health belief model (HBM), the transtheoretical model, theory of reasoned action, stages of change, extended parallel process model (EPPM), persuasion knowledge model (PKM) and contingency theory.
Keywords
African Americans, women, breast cancer, religiosity, advertisements
Education
Ph.D. in Journalism, emphases in Strategic Communication and Health Communication – University of Missouri-Columbia; Dissertation topic: “Information Processing of Religious Symbols in Breast Cancer Advertisements among African American Women.”
Dual M.A., Media Communications and Management – Webster University.
Bachelor of Journalism Degree (B.J.) – University of Missouri-Columbia.
Selected Publications
Jiyang, B., Lumpkins, C. Y., Rodgers, S., Cameron, G., Luke, D. & Kreuter, M. (in press). “Cancer Ads: A Comparison of Advertising Strategies in Black vs. Mainstream Newspapers,” Social Marketing Quarterly.
Shaw, B., Han, J.Y., Kim, E., Gustafson, D., Hawkins, R., Cleary, J., McTavish, F., Pingree, S., Eliason, P., & Lumpkins, C. Y. (July 2007). “Effects of Prayer and Religious Expression within Computer Support Groups on Women with Breast Cancer,” Psycho-Oncology 16 (7), 676-687. Abstract: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17131348
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