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Hongmei Li

Hongmei Li (Ph.D, University of Southern California) is Professor of Strategic Communication at ¾Ã¾ÃÈÈÊÓƵ. Her research focuses on Strategic Communication (Advertising, PR, Branding and Corporate Communication), Global Communication, Public Diplomacy, Chinese Communication, Media and Society, Health Communication, New Technologies and Asian Americans. She has published more than 50 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters in leading communication journals and prominent book volume. Her work has appeared in leading academic journals such as Communication Theory, Journal of International & Intercultural Communication, International Journal of Communication, Public Relations Review, and Health Communication and Journal of Health Communication. She is also the author of  (2016).

She is now co-editing a book on U.S.-China relations (to be published by Michigan State University Press), focusing on hard, soft, smart and sharp powers. In addition, she has published many essays targeting the general public. She has won many research awards, fellowships and grants, including the PR Educator of the Year (PRSA, Cincinnati, 2022), ¾Ã¾ÃÈÈÊÓƵ Paper of the Year (2024, Communication and Society), Award for Excellence in Research and Innovation (Miami, 2025) and a recent grant of $120,000 from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission to document and digitize Asian histories in Ohio.

After obtaining her undergraduate degree from Peking University, she worked as an editor and copyright manager at a publishing house in Beijing.  She also worked as a volunteer for the Beijing Olympics and conducted research there in 2008. She was chosen as the inaugural George Gerbner Fellow at Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania and worked there from 2008-2010. At Georgia State University in 2010- 2015, she worked as an Associate Director at the Center for International Media Education and an affiliate of the Center for Asian Studies as well as an Associate of China Research Center, having fostered wide connections with the Asian community and media professionals. At Miami, Professor Li has served as the Area Coordinator of Strategic Communication since 2019 and have developed extensive experience and leadership in curriculum design, management and collaboration with other programs. She was chosen as a fellow for the Mid-American Conference (MAC)-Academic Leadership Development Program (ALDP) in 2022-23 and visited India in 2023 on a Fulbright-Hays scholarship. She is now serving as an Altman Faculty Fellow in 2025-26 at Miami's Humanities Center for a collaborative investigation of the Midwest in the U.S.