Hye-Ryeon Lee, PhD

Professor
Undergraduate Chair
Department of Speech
University of Hawaii at Manoa
2560 Campus Rd.,
George Hall 326
Honolulu, HI 96822

Office
George Hall 329
ph: 808-956-3322
fax: 808-956-3947
email:
hyeryeon@hawaii.edu

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.Her research and teaching interest includes political communication, health communication, social science methods and persuasion.