Provost's Staff

Barbara Wilson is the Vice Provost with responsibilities to provide leadership in the areas of academic affairs and faculty affairs. She is also the Kathryn Lee Baynes Dallenbach Professor in the Department of Communication. Her research focuses on the social and psychological effects of the media, particularly on youth. She is co-author of Children, Adolescents, and the Media (Sage Publications, 2002; second edition, 2009) and three book volumes of the National Television Violence Study (Sage Publications, 1997-1998). She also co-edited the Handbook of Children, Media, and Development (Wiley-Blackwell, 2008). In 2008, she was elected as Fellow of the International Communication Association. Before joining the University of Illinois in 2000, she was on the faculty at the University of California, Santa Barbara.