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Dr. Alyssa Rockers
Assistant Professor, Agricultural Media & Communications
Department of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences
College of Agriculture
Contact Information
113 AITC
Telephone: 615-277-1641
arockers@tnstate.edu
Research Areas
Consumer mothers
Women in agriculture
Interpersonal communication
Expectations around food choice
Identity and food choice
Teaching and learning agricultural communications
Peer Reviewed Publications
Rumble, J. N., Rockers, A. L. and Buck, E. B. (2021). The people or the message: Which is responsible for cognitive conflict? Journal of Agricultural Education, 64(2), 97 – 110. https://doi.org/10.5032/jae.2021.0498
Rockers, A., Settle, Q. and Cartmell, D. (2020) Agricultural mothers’ conversations & decision-making about food. Journal of Applied Communications, 104(4). https://doi.org/10.4148/1051-0834.2349
Settle, Q., Baker, L. M. and Rockers, A. (2020). What are reviewers looking for? A qualitative analysis of open-ended responses from a questionnaire sent to faculty in agricultural communications. Journal of Applied Communications, 104(2). https://doi.org/10.4148/1051-0834.2318
Settle, Q. and Rockers, A. (2019). Frindle: A review for agricultural communications courses. Journal of Applied Communications, 103(4). https://doi.org/10.4148/1051-0834.2304
Teaching
AGSC 2040: Research & Business Writing in Agricultural Sciences
Honors and Awards
2022 Outstanding Graduate Student for Community Award, The Ohio State University Department of Agricultural Communication, Education & Leadership
2021 Graduate Student Teaching Award, North American Colleges and Teachers of Agriculture
Education
PhD, Agricultural Communication, Education, and Leadership, The Ohio State University, 2022
MS, Agricultural Communications, Oklahoma State University, 2019
BS, General Agriculture/Communications, Missouri State University, 2017
Date joined TSU: August 2022