Alesia Woszidlo

Alesia Woszidlo (Ph.D., University of Arizona) is the Director for the Institute for Leadership Studies and the Graduate Studies Director in Leadership in Diversity and Inclusion. She is also an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at the University of Kansas. She is an interpersonal communication scholar whose specialty is family communication and mental health. Her research examines the family of origin and how it affects the communication patterns used in romantic and family relationships. Additionally, she actively researches the association between mental health issues (e.g., anxiety, depression, stress, and negative affectivity), communication processes (e.g., conflict management, coping strategies, social skills deficits) and relationship quality (e.g., satisfaction, commitment, divorce proneness).