Stacey Hust

Biography

Biography

Stacey J.T. Hust (Ph.D., 2005, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) is a professor of communication and Associate Dean of Faculty Affairs and College Operations in The Edward R. Murrow College of Communication at Washington State University. She is nationally ranked by the Communication Institute for Online Scholarship for her health communication research focused on media and children, gender, conflict (sexual assault reduction), and substance abuse prevention. Her research identifies effective health communication messaging that can be used to reduce sexual assault and promote healthy sexual relationships among young people. She also investigates the media’s effects on youths’ romantic and sexual relationships.

Hust has published more than 60 manuscripts including an edited academic book, a refereed academic book, and refereed journal articles. Her research has been published in the Journal of Interpersonal Violence, Journal of Sex Research, Journal of Health Communication, Health Communication, and others. She has consistently funded her research since 2007. Her research has been sponsored by the National Insitute of Drug Abuse at the National Institutes of Health, the United States Department of Education, the Washington State Division of Alcohol and Substance Abuse, and the Washington State Alcohol and Drug Abuse Research Program. Dr. Hust is ranked 28th out of 3,091 national and international authors for the number of top conference papers (source: AEJMC).

Author

Scripting Adolescent Romance:
Adolescents Talk About Romantic Relationships and Media’s Sexual Scripts

Education

• Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Classes Taught

• Public Relations Management and Campaign Design
• Gender and the Mass Media
• Seminars in Public Relations
• Health Communication Theory and Campaigns
• Professional Marketing Communication Management and Campaigns

Awards

• 2024, Washington State University Public Impact Award, Research Excellence Award;
  this award recognizes researchers whose work has had significant impact and public benefit
• 2019, Outstanding Woman in Journalism and Mass Communication Education, Commission
  on the Status of Women, Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication,
  maximum of one awarded each year to a scholar who represented women well through
  excellence and high standards
• 2014, Mary Ann Yodelis Smith Award for Feminist Scholarship, maximum of one awarded
  each year by the Commission on the Status of Women, Association for Education in
  Journalism and Mass Communication

Research Interests

• Use of Media to Reduce Sexual Assault and Promote Healthy Sexual Relationships
• Parent-Child Communication About Media and Health
• Media Effects and Strategies to Prevent Alcohol Abuse
• Gender and the Mass Media

Most Recent Publications

• Hust, S.J.T., Willoughby, J.F., Couto, L., & Li, J. (2024). Parents & Cannabis: Adolescents’ reports of parent-related factors associated with their attitudes about and intentions to use cannabis. Journal of Children & Family Studies.
• Willoughby, J.F., Hust, S.J.T., Couto, L., Price, R., Johnson, O., Nickerson, C., Oladele, P., Gray, M., & Maykovich, B. (2024). Cannabis awareness program: A proof-of-concept study examining a health communication intervention to reduce cannabis misuse among college students. Journal of American College Health.
• Li, J., Hust, S.J.T., & Mei, X. (2024). Sexual consent, alcohol use, and Greek membership: Testing measurement invariance and group mean differences of two sexual consent measures. Journal of Sex Research.
• Hust, S.J.T., Kang, S., Couto, L., & Li, J. (2023). The Association of Fraternity Membership, Sports Media & Masculinity Norms with College Men’s Acceptance of Rape Myths.” Journal of Health Communication.
• Willoughby, J.F., Hust, S.J.T., Couto, L., Kang, S., Pingel, B., Li, J., Austin, B.W., Brooks, O., Burduli, E., & Barbosa-Leiker, C. (2023). A preliminary examination of narrative and non-narrative science and media literacy health communication messages to reduce intentions to use cannabis while pregnant. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors.
• Rodgers, K.B., Hust, S.J.T., Li, J., Kang, S., & Garcia, A. (2023). Sexual scripts and sexual consent: Gender stereotypes, music-media messages, and sexual consent expectancies among college men and women. Journal of Interpersonal Violence.
• Willoughby, J.F., Hust, S.J.T., Couto, L., Li, J., Kang, S., Nickerson, C.G., Price, R. & Munoz, S. (2023). The impact of sexual scripts in brand generated cannabis social media posts on sex-related cannabis expectancies: Does body appreciation moderate effects? Drug and Alcohol Review.
• Willoughby, J.F., Hust, S.J.T., Li, J., Couto, L. (2023). Exposure to Pro and Anti-Cannabis Social Media Messages and Adolescents’ and College Students’ Intentions to Use Cannabis. Health Communication.