Associate Dean
College of Arts and Humanities

Faculty of:
Cancer Research Center of
Hawaii
Contents
● Courses
College of
Arts and Humanities
University of
Hawaii at Manoa
2500 Campus
Road, Hawaii Hall 314
hyeryeon@hawaii.edu
www2.hawaii.edu/~hyeryeon
(808) 956-6051
● Speech 455 Political
Communication
● Speech 495 Health Communication
● Speech
664 Persuasion and Social Influences
● Speech
795 Seminar on Health Communication Research
Born in Korea, Hye-ryeon graduated from
Ewha Women’s University in Seoul, Korea in 1984. She came to the United States in 1986
for her graduate studies. She
received an M.A. degree in Journalism and Mass Communication from University of
Wisconsin at Madison in 1988. She
received another M.A. degree in Political Science and a Ph.D. degree in
Communication from Stanford University.
She worked as a research faculty at
the Arizona Cancer Center of the University of Arizona between 1995 and 2001.
She joined the faculty of Department of Speech at the University of Hawaii at
Manoa in the fall of 2001. She
also serves as faculty at the Cancer Research Center of Hawaii, the Center for
Korean Studies, and the Population Studies Program at the University of Hawaii
at Manoa. Her research and teaching
interest includes political communication, health communication, social science
methods and persuasion.
She is also served as the President
of the Korean American Communication
Association since 2005.
Click here for Hye-ryeon’s Academic Vitae
Last revised: February, 2010