Shelia R. Cotten

Associate Vice President for Research Development
Provost’s Distinguished Professor
Division of Research
Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Criminal Justice
Department of Communication
Clemson University

Shelia R. Cotten, a sociologist, is the Associate Vice President for Research Development and Provost’s Distinguished Professor at Clemson University. Her research examines emerging technologies and their impacts on quality of life, health, workforce, and educational outcomes. Her research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, National Institute on Aging, American Center for Mobility, and other organizations. She is a former Chair of the American Sociological Association’s Communication, Information Technologies, and Media Sociology (CITAMS) section; she won the Public Sociology and the William F. Ogburn Senior Career Award from the CITAMS section. Prior to joining Clemson University in August 2020, she was an MSU Foundation Professor in the Department of Media and Information at Michigan State University.

Research Areas: Technology use, Impacts of technology, Emerging technologies, Health, Aging

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ORCID iD: 0000-0002-8657-8262 | Twitter: @shelia_cotten