Keri K. Stephens

Keri K. Stephens, PhD, studies how people communicate when disasters strike and when the technologies and infrastructures they depend on break down. She is the George Christian Centennial Professor in Organizational Communication and Technology at The University of Texas at Austin, where she co-directs the Technology and Information Policy Institute. Stephens has written five books and more than 150 peer-reviewed articles, including the Handbook of Infrastructure Communication (Wiley, 2026) and The Social Scientist's Grant Guide (Bloomsbury, 2026). Her research on mobile technologies, artificial intelligence, and crisis communication has attracted more than 10 million USD from the National Science Foundation, Texas state agencies, and industry. She is an International Communication Association Fellow, a Distinguished Teaching Professor, and a TEDx speaker who lectures across the United States and abroad.