Research Interests: 

Intergroup communication, identity socialization, and cultural socialization. 

Publications and Conference Presentations: 

Minniear, M. & Smith, H. (November 2021) Research Roundtable: Ethnic-Racial Socialization Mapping. Presented at the National Communication Association annual meeting in Seattle, WA. 

Minniear, M., Soliz, J., & Smith, H. (November 2022) Examining Family Typologies in Ethnic-Racial Socialization Mapping. To be presented at the National Communication Association annual meeting in New Orleans, LA. 

Wicke, R., Smith, H., & Speece, M. (December 2021) Lightning Presentation: The Relationships Between Uncertainty Tolerance, Health Literacy, Information Seeking, and Information Verification During the Covid-19 Pandemic. Presented virtually at the Society for Risk Analysis annual meeting. 

Worsdale, A., Smith, H., & Macfarlane, S. (April 2022) LGBT Medical Mistrust and Perceptions of Patient-Provider Communication in the Southern United States. Presented at the Kentucky Conference for Health Communication

Minniear, M., Smith, H., & Soliz, J. (2023). Ego-centered network analysis of ethnic-racial socialization in families. Communication Monographs, 91(3), 373–395. https://doi.org/10.1080/03637751.2023.2292646

Smith, H., & Kelly, C. R. (2025). White nationalist fairytales: The Little Mermaid and neo-segregation in the Breitbart town square. Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies, 1–18. https://doi.org/10.1080/14791420.2025.2475758

Smith, H. & Soliz, J., (2025) Parental socialization of inclusive and prosocial worldviews: Conceptualizing and developing a measure of intergroup prosocialization. To be presented at the National Communication Association annual meeting in Denver, Co. 

Soliz, J., Smith, H., Kassler, K., & Cardwell, M. E. (2025) Experiences of Bias and Discrimination in Personal and Social Domains for Multiethnic Racial Individuals in the United States: Investigating the Role of Parental Socialization and Implications for Well-Being. To be presented at the National Communication Association annual meeting in Denver, Co. Top Paper Award, International and Intercultural Communication Division 

Taladay-Carter, C., Nabi, A., Richards, S., Hornberger, B., Shadoan, S., Smith, H., Szelag, R., Stahl, H., Wahed, K. H., & Kaur-Gill, S. (2025, November 20–23). The graduate classroom as a site for critical reflexivity in (un)learning culture in health communication: A collaborative autoethnography [Paper presentation]. National Communication Association 111th Annual Convention, Denver, CO, United States. Top Paper Award, Instructional Development Division.