Dr. Emily Galper

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Indiana University Bloomington

I’m a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Center for Sexual Health Promotion located within the Department of Applied Health Science, in the School of Public Health-Bloomington at Indiana University Bloomington.

I am an interdisciplinary scholar who studies sexual media and health with an emphasis on messaging for health behavior change. This work is important to me because of its capacity to enhance intrapersonal and interpersonal relationships in addition to its public health implications.

Interests

  • Health Communication

  • Behavior Change

  • Mixed-method Research

  • Media Effects

  • Sexual Media

Education

Ph.D. in Communication and Media, 2025

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

M.A. in Communication Studies, 2021

California State University, Northridge

B.A. in Communication Studies, 2019

California State University, Northridge

Skills

Software and Languages

SPSS, Qualtrics, Dedoose, R

Qualitative

Thematic Analysis, Textual Analysis, Grounded Theory

Quantitative

Survey, Experiment, Content Analysis, Meta-Analysis

Research Highlights

  • Published in Archives of Sexual Behavior

  • Published in Sexual Health