Chelsea Bihlmeyer is a computational social scientist in the Department of Communication Studies and a Gabriel Fellow with Data Driven WV within the Department of Management of Information Systems at West Virginia University. Her research interests include the intersection of epistemology and research methods, as these areas impact Social Influence/Persuasion, Prosocial and Antisocial Behaviors, and Health and Social Wellness.  

 

Prior to doctoral candidacy at WVU, Chelsea was awarded a Fulbright-EDUFI Student Grant to support a one-year appointment in the Department of Art at Aalto University in Helsinki, Finland. Chelsea’s interest in methodological assumptions is the impetus for her doctoral research, focusing on statistical analyses and mixed methodologies especially relevant to future research in computational methods and Natural Language Processing. Her work fluctuates between art and scholarship and has been shown in Kansas City, Dublin, Bloomington, Fort Lauderdale, Helsinki, and other cities nationally and internationally.

 

Chelsea has been the Instructor of Record for the following courses at West Virginia University:

• Fundamentals of Public Communication (COMM 104)

• Gender Communication (COMM 212)

• Nonverbal Communication (COMM 308)

• Health Communication (COMM 309)

• Business and Professional Communication (COMM 303)

• Social Media for the Workplace (COMM 335)