Angela N. Gist-Mackey, Ph.D. CV

UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI – Department of Communication, Columbia, MO – 8/09 – 5/14

Graduate Instructor/Graduate Teaching Assistant

• Developed lecture and class activities instrumental to teaching the skill and theories of communication
• Developed supplemental opportunities outside the classroom for engagement and application of course material
• Created and maintains good rapport with approximately fifty students each semester
• Earned letters of teaching commendation every semester while employed as a graduate instructor
• Undergraduate Courses Taught:
  • Public Speaking (regular, business, and honors sections)
  • Survey of Communication Studies (teaching assistant)
  • Organizational Communication
  • Business and Professional Communication
  • Summer Institute on Communication and Culture: A First Look at Organizational Communication

University of Georgia – Department of Telecommunication, Athens, GA – 1/04 – 12/04

Graduate Research Assistant

• Assisted the Directors of the Michael J. Faherty Research and Management Laboratory with building and development of data sets forthe research project titled, Diversity in Broadcast Newsrooms
• Designed and developed the 2003 Annual report for Michael J. Faherty Research and Management Laboratory

University of Georgia – Educational Opportunity Center, Athens, GA – 1/04 – 5/05

Language and Social Studies Tutor

• Tutored adults in language skills and social studies in preparation for high school equivalency
• Assessed students skill levels
• Encouraged students scholastic abilities
• Created a course of study for students in GED program

SCHOLARSHIP

Published Scholarship

Kingsford, A. N., Gist-Mackey, A. N., & Pastorek, A. E. (accepted). Communication Pathways to Resilience: Phenomenological Exploration of Welfare Recipients Resilience to Stigma and Material Hardship. Journal of Applied Communication Research.

Gist-Mackey, A. N., Hall, A. R., & Davis, S. M. (in press). Being Black in the ivory: Telling our truth and taking up space In. J. Bauer & S. Blithe (forthcoming). Badass Feminist Politics: Exploring Radical Edges of Feminist Theory, Communication, and Activism. Rutgers University Press.

Piercy, C. W., & Gist-Mackey, A. N. (2021). Automation anxieties: Perceptions about technological automation and the future of pharmacy work. Human-Machine Communication, 2, 191-208. https://doi.org/10.30658/hmc.2.10

Gist-Mackey, A. N., Kunkel, A. D., & Guthrie, J. (2021). Surviving communicative labor: Theoretical exploration of the (in)visibility of gendered faculty work/life struggle. Academic Labor: Research and Artistry, 5(3), 20-48. Available at: https://digitalcommons.humboldt.edu/alra/vol5/iss1/3

Gist-Mackey, A. N. (2021). Experiencing Symbolic and Linguistic Violence at Predominately White Institutions as Student and Professor. In H. Oliha-Donaldson (Editor) (2021). Confronting Critical Equity and Inclusion Incidents on Campus: Lessons Learned and Emerging Practices. Routledge.

Gist-Mackey, A. N. & Dougherty, D. S. (2020). Sociomaterial struggle: An ethnographic analysis of power, discourse, and materiality in a working class unemployment support organization. Communication Monographs. https://doi.org/10.1080/03637751.2020.1818801

Gist-Mackey, A. N. (2020). The Pain of Performative Professionalism: Emotionally Embodying Business As Usual. Departures in Critical Qualitative Research, 9(2), 140-143. https://doi.org/10.1525.dcqr.2020.9.2.140

Gist-Mackey, A. N. & Kingsford, A. N. (2020). Linguistic inclusion: Challenging classed communication bias implicit in interview methods. Management Communication Quarterly, 34(3), 402-425. https://doi.org/10.1177/0893318920934128

Jensen, P., Cruz, J., Eger, E., Hanchey, J., Gist-Mackey, A. N., Ruiz-Mesa, K., & Villamil, A. (2019). Pushing Beyond Positionalities and Through “Failures” in Qualitative Organizational Communication: Experiences and Lessons on Identities in Ethnographic Praxis. Management Communication Quarterly, 1-31. https://doi.org/10.1177/0893318919885654

-        Awarded 2020 Best Article of the Year Award, National Communication Association, Ethnography Division

Byrd, G., Zhang, Y. B., & Gist-Mackey, A. N. (2019). Interability contact and the reduction of interability prejudice: Disability salience, intergroup anxiety, and relational solidarity. Journal of Language and Social Psychology, 38(4), 441-458. https://doi.org/10.1177/0261927X19865578

Pastorek, A. E. & Gist-Mackey, A. N. (2019). Leaving College for the Fast Track: Assimilation Experiences during Multiple Transitions. In R. S. Bisel & M. W.Kramer (Eds.) (2019). Case Studies in Organizational Communication: A Life-Span Approach. (pp. 31-37). Oxford University Press.

Gist-Mackey, A. N., & Guy, A. (2019). “You get in a hole, it’s like quicksand”: A grounded theory analysis of social support amid materially bounded decision-making processes. Journal of Applied Communication Research, 47(3), 237-259. https://doi.org/10.1080/00909882.2019.1617430

• Research Featured on local NPR radio, KUCR, Up-to-Date
• Research featured in NCA Communication Currents
• Research featured in University wide Newsletter, KU Today

Dougherty, D. S., Schraedley, M., Gist-Mackey, A. N., & Wickert, J. E. (2018). A Photovoice Study of Food Insecurity, Unemployment, and the Discursive-Material Dialectic. Communication Monographs, 85(2), 1-24. https://doi.org/10.1080/03637751.2018.1500700.

Gist-Mackey, A. N. (2018). (Dis)embodied Job Search Communication Training: Comparative critical ethnographic analysis of materiality and discourse during the unequal search for work. Organization Studies, 39(9),1251–1275. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1177/0170840617736936.

• Awarded 2019 Best Article of the Year Award, National Communication Association, Ethnography Division

Gist-Mackey, A. N., Wiley, M. L., & Erba, J. (2017). “You’re doing great. Keep doing what you’re doing”: socially supportive communication during first-generation college students’ socialization. Communication Education, 67(1), 52-72. https://doi.org/10.1080/03634523.2017.1390590

• Research featured in NCA Communication Currents
• Research featured in University wide Newsletter, KU Today

Gist, A. N. (2017). “I Knew America Was Not Ready For a Woman to Be President”: Commentary on the Dominant Structural Intersections Organized around the Presidency and Voting Rights. Women’s Studies in Communication, 40, https://doi.org/10.1080/07491409.2017.1302261

Gist, A. N. (2017). Class and Organizing. In C. R. Scott & L. Lewis. (Eds.) (2017). International Encyclopedia of Organizational Communication. (pp. 256-268). Wiley.

Gist, A. N. & Goldstein Hode, M. (2017). Race and Organizing. In C. R. Scott & L. Lewis. (Eds.) (2017). International Encyclopedia of Organizational Communication. (pp. 2031-2043). Wiley

Gist, A. N. (2016). Challenging Assumptions Underlying the Metamorphosis Phase: Ethnographic Analysis of Metamorphosis Within an Unemployment Organization. Qualitative Research Reports in Communication, 16(1). https://doi.org/10.1080/17459435.2015.1088891

Gist, A. N., Jensen, P. R., Wickert, J. E., & Meisenbach, R. M. (2016). Working with Stigma: Identity Management in the Quest for Employment" in J. P. Fyke, J. Faris, & P.M. Buzzanell (Eds.) (2016). Cases in organizational and managerial communication: Stretching boundaries. (pp. 31-35). Routledge.

Gist, A. N. (2015). Volunteering in the Age Old Search for Work in J. Mize Smith, & M.W. Kramer (Eds.), Case Studies in Volunteering and NGOs. (pp.186-191). Peter Lang Publishing.

Gist, M., & Gist, A. N. (2013). Self-Efficacy. Oxford Bibliographies Online: Management.https://doi.org/10.1093/obo/9780199846740-0043

Scholarship Under Review

Gist-Mackey, A. N., Kingsford, A. N., & Pastorek, A. E. (2021). Communicatively reifying and resisting: Qualitative exploration of public welfare(counter)narratives. Western Journal of Communication. Revise & Resubmit.

Tracy, S. & Gist-Mackey, A. N. (2021). Qualitative Methods. In. V. D. Miller & M. S. Poole (Editors) (2020). De Gruyter’s Handbook of Organizational Communication. De Gruyter. Under Review.

Wiley, M. L. & Gist-Mackey, A. N. (2021). Photovoice. In E. Ho, C. Bylund, & J. van Weert (Editors). Wiley International Encyclopedia of Health Communication. Wiley. Under Review.

Underhill, G. & Gist-Mackey, A. N. (2021). Grounded Theory In E. Ho, C. Bylund, & J. van Weert (Editors). Wiley International Encyclopedia of Health Communication. Wiley. Under Review.

Gist-Mackey, A. N. & Dougherty, D. S. (2021). Food, Social Class, and Unemployment: Job seekers’ classed relationships with Food as Figure and Ground In S. Dempsey (Ed.) (2020). From Foodies to Food Politics: Communicating and Organizing for Food Justice: Rowman & Littlefield. Under Review.

Scholarship In Progress

Erba, J., Gist-Mackey, A. N., Wiley, M. L. (2021). “They make it seem like you’re going to have the time of your life”: Exploring the role of media in the college preparation and expectations of first-generation college students.

Gist-Mackey, A. N., Woszidlo, A., Hepler, S., Sanyal, S., Sperling, J., Underhill, G., & Wilson, M. (2021). Communication as currency: Longitudinal mixed-methods study of a non-profit financial literacy program for low-income families.

Gist-Mackey, A. N. (2021). Gendered and classed biases in the communication expectations of hiring managers.

Gist-Mackey, A. N., Wickert, J. E., & Dougherty, D. S. (2021). Using communication withdrawal to manage unemployment stigma.

Sperling, J. A., & Gist-Mackey, A. N. (2021). Kaepernick’s Kneeling Protest: Symbolic Convergence and Meaning Divergence. Muyidi, A., Zhang, Y. B., &Gist-Mackey, A. N. (2021). Gender Discrimination, Social Support, and Government Support on Saudi Female Journalists’ Job Stress and Satisfaction.

Competitively Selected Conference Presentations

Kingsford, A., Gist-Mackey, A. N. & Pastorek, A. E. (2020, November). Communication Pathways to Resilience: Phenomenological Exploration of Welfare Recipients Resilience to Stigma and Material Hardship. Paper accepted to the Organizational Communication Division of the National Communication Association in Indianapolis, IN.

Piercy, C. W. & Gist-Mackey, A. N. (2020, November). Automation Anxieties: Two Studies Exploring Perceptions About Technological Automation and the Future of Work. Paper accepted to the Human Communication and Technology Division of the National Communication Association in Indianapolis, IN.

Hanchey, J. N., Cruz, J. M., Gist-Mackey, A. N., Leslie, K. J., Tarin, C. A., Kennedy, S., Lockwood Harris, K., Pham, V. N., Branton, S. E., & Mandhana, D. M. (2020, November). #ToneUpOrgComm: The Time for Intersectionality is Now. Panel accepted to the Organizational Communication Division of the National Communication Association in Indianapolis, IN.

Muyidi, A., Zhang, Y. B., Gist-Mackey, A. N. (2020, November). Saudi Female Journalists’ Perspectives: The Influence of Gender Discrimination, Sexual Harassment, Social Support, and Government Support on Work-Related Outcomes. Paper accepted to the Organizational Communication Division of the National Communication Association in Indianapolis, IN.

Gist-Mackey, A. N., Kunkel, A., Guthrie, J. (2019, November). Surviving Communicative Labor: Theoretical Exploration of the (In)Visibility of Gendered Faculty Work/Life Struggle. Paper accepted to the Organizational Communication Division of National Communication Association in Baltimore, MD.

Gist-Mackey, A. N., Kingsford, A., & Pastorek, A. E. (2019, May). Communicatively reifying and resisting: Qualitative exploration of public welfare (counter)narratives. Paper accepted to the Organizational Communication Division of the International Communication Association in Washington D.C.

Erba, J. E., Gist-Mackey, A. N., & Wiley, M. (2018, November). “They make it seem like you’re going to have the time of your life”: Exploring the role of mediain the college preparation and expectations of first-generation college students. Paper accepted to the Mass Communication Division of National Communication Association in Salt Lake City, UT.

Byrd, G., Zhang, Y. B., & Gist-Mackey, A. N. (2018, November). Interability contact and the reduction of interability prejudice: Disability salience, intergroup anxiety, and relational solidarity. Paper accepted to the International and Intercultural Communication Division of National Communication Association in Salt Lake City, UT.

Gist-Mackey, A. N. (2018, November). New Directions in Organizational Communication Pedagogy: Organizations as Sites & Agents of Social Justice and Change. Panel submission accepted to the Activism and Social Justice Division of National Communication Association in Salt Lake City, UT.

Gist-Mackey, A. N. (2017, November). “I’m so happy you’re Black…”: Racialized disclosure during ethnographic fieldwork. Paper panel submission accepted to the Ethnography Division in National Communication Association in Dallas, TX.

Gist-Mackey, A. N. & Guy, A. (2017, November). Drowning in “quicksand”: Theoretical exploration of social support in decision making processes among the financially insecure. Paper accepted to the Organizational Communication Division of National Communication Association in Dallas, TX.

Wickert, J., Gist-Mackey, A. N. & Dougherty, D. (2017, November). Using Communication Withdrawal to Manage Unemployment Stigma. Paper accepted to the Organizational Communication Division of National Communication Association in Dallas, TX

Gist-Mackey, A. N., & Cullen, C. (2017, October). Communicative intersections of gender and social class during hiring processes: Qualitative analysis of hiring managers’ communication expectations. Paper accepted to the Organization for the Study of Communication, Language, & Gender in Omaha, NE

Gist, A. N., Wiley, M. L., & Erba, J. (2016, November). “I knew that this wouldn’t be an easy step”

Qualitative analysis of social support communication during socialization processes of first-generation college students. Paper accepted to the Applied Communication Division of National Communication Association in Philadelphia, PA.

Dougherty, D. S., Schraedley, M., Gist, A. N., Wickert, J. E. (2016, November). Revealing/Concealing among the Unemployed: Body Class/Text Class Discourses of Food Insecurity. Paper accepted to Applied and Environmental Communication, Activism and Social Justice, Communication and the Future Scholar-to-Scholar of National Communication Association in Philadelphia, PA.

Gist, A. N. (2016, April). Challenging Classed Communication Privilege and Methodological Bias. Accepted to the Organizational and Professional Communication Interest Group in the Central States Communication Association Conference in Grand Rapids, MI.

Gist, A. N. (2016, April). Organizational Communication Curriculum Development. Accepted to the Organizational and Professional Communication Interest Group of the Central States Communication Association Conference in Grand Rapids, MI.

Gist, A. N. (2015, November). Childlike cultural assumptions of the working-class unemployed: Critical ethnographic analysis of a blue-collar unemployment support organization. Accepted to the Organizational Communication Division of the National Communication Association in Las Vegas, NV.

Lucas, K. L. & Gist, A. N. (2015). Organizing Social Class: Implications for Working-Class Dignity. Accepted to Academy of Management in Vancouver, BC.

Gist, A.N. (2015, May). Dis(embodying) job search communication: Critical, qualitative analysis of social class materiality, and discourse during unemployment. Accepted to Organizational Communication Division of the International Communication Association in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Gist, A.N. (2014, November). Material need or networking: A critical ethnographic analysis of job seekers relationship with food across social class lines. Paper accepted to the Organizational Communication Division of the National Communication Association in Chicago, IL.

Gist, A.N. & Dougherty, D.S. (2014, November). Weaving the web-of-power through divergent job search communication training for the working and middle classes. Paper accepted to the Organizational Communication Division of National Communication Association in Chicago, IL.

Gist, A.N. (2014, May). Classing organizational support: A critical, comparative ethnographic analysis of unemployment organizations. Accepted to Organizational Communication Division of the International Communication Association in Seattle, WA.

Gist, A.N. (2014, May). "(Re)imagining the metamorphosis phase of socialization: Ethical responsibility of preventing metamorphosis within unemployment organizations. Accepted to Organizational Communication Division Pre- Conference of the International Communication Association in Seattle, WA.

Gist, A.N. (2013, October). Preliminary Dissertation Findings - Managing unemployment: A comparative critical ethnographic analysis of unemployment organizations. Presented at the Organizational Communication Mini Conference in Urbana- Champaign, IL.

Goldstein Hode, M.& Gist, A.N. (2013, June). When Racism and Professionalism Collide: Negotiating Racial Identity Threats on a Predominantly White Campus. Presented at the Ethnicity and Race In Communication Division of the International Communication Association Convention in London, UK.

Gist, A.N., Dougherty, D.S., & Wickert, J.E. (2013, April). Liquefying identities: unemployment and the negotiation of social identity. Presented on the Top Paper Panel in Organizational and Professional Communication Interest Group of the Central States Communication Association annual convention in Kansas City, MO.

Wickert, J.E., Dougherty, D.S. & Gist, A.N. (2012, November). Lost in Uncertainty: How the Unemployed Experience and Manage their Uncertainty. Presented at the Applied Communication Division of National Communication Association in Orlando, FL.

Gist, A.N. (2012, November). Complicating Organizational Communication Research Agendas: Considering Social Class in Organizational Culture Scholarship. Presented at the Organizational Communication Division at NCA annual convention in Orlando, FL.

Gist, A.N. (2012, October). Dissertation Prospectus – Managing Unemployment: A critical ethnographic analysis of reemployment organizations. Presented at the Organizational Communication Mini Conference in Norman, OK.

Gist, A.N. (2012, April). Crystallizing Communication: Breaking our Intradisciplinary Regime. Presented at the Organizational Communication Division at CSCA annual convention in Cleveland, OH

Gist, A.N. (2011, November). An adapted typology and meta-theoretical analysis of discursive strategies: Communicative navigation of social class differences. Presented at the Organizational Communication Division at NCA annual convention in New Orleans, LA.

Gist, A.N. & Kramer, M.W. (2011, November). Communication and organizational outcomes in a volunteer organization: citizenship behavior and beyond. Presented at the Organizational Communication Division at NCA annual convention in New Orleans, LA.

Gist, A.N. (2010, November). The discourse of gossip, power, and organizations. Presented at the Organizational Communication Division at NCA annual convention in San Francisco, CA.

Meisenbach, R.J., Gist, A.N., & Chou, C. (2010, November). Working for a Cause?: Exploring Sources and Functions of Identification among Fund-raisers” Organizational Communication Division at NCA annual convention in San Francisco, CA.

Gist, A.N. (2010, October). Grad Student Scuttlebutt: A grounded theory analysis of gossip and sense making. Presented at the Organizational Communication Mini Conference in New Brunswick, NJ.

RESEARCH GRANTS & FUNDING

• Gist-Mackey, A. N. & Woszidlo, A. (November, 2020) Cultivation Grant. National Communication Association (awarded, $14,750).
• Dempsey, S., Dougherty, D. S., & Gist-Mackey, A. N. (November, 2019). Global Grand Challenges: Voices for Economic Opportunity. Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. (not awarded, $100,000)
• Piercy, C. W. & Gist-Mackey, A. N. (March, 2019) KU Research Grant Opportunities (not awarded, $14,664)
• Gist-Mackey, A. N. (February, 2019). KU General Research Fund. (awarded, $5,470)
• Gist-Mackey, A. N. & Piercy, C. W. (August, 2018) Job Seeking, Unemployment, & Social Support: Technology Access and Use among Blue-and White-Collar Workers. Russell Sage Future of Work. (not awarded, $48,450.00).
• Ecker-Lyster, M., & Gist-Mackey, A. N., & Coleman-Tempel, L. (October, 2017). A Comparative Phenomenological Study of First-Generation Students at Three Less-Selective Postsecondary Institutions. Spencer Foundation Research Grant. (not awarded, $50,000).
• Gist, A. N. (April, 2017) American Association of University Women, American Fellowships Summer/Short-Term Research Publication Grants. (awarded, $6,000)
• Gist, A. N. (October, 2016) NCA’s Advancing the Discipline Grant (not awarded)
• Gist, A. N. (August, 2016) New Faculty General Research Fund, University of Kansas (awarded, $8,000)
• Erba, J., Geana, M. & Gist, A. N. (April, 2015) Submitted Application for Waterhouse Family Institute Grant for the study of Communication and Society. (not awarded)
• Erba, J., Geana, M. & Gist, A. N. (March, 2015) Collaborative Research Seed Grant. University of Kansas Hall Center for the Humanities. (not awarded)
• Gist, A. N., Dougherty, D. S., & Wickert, J. E. (2011). Liquefying identities: unemployment and the negotiation of social identity. $1,000 grant from the Research Council, University of Missouri.
• Gist, A. N. (2013). Managing Unemployment: A Comparative Critical Ethnographic Analysis of Unemployment Organizations. $700 from Rebecca Verser & Alumni Graduate Student Support Fund.

COURSES TAUGHT

University of Kansas

Communication 930 Seminar in Ethnography and Social Interaction

• Designed (graduate) course structured around ethnographic research methods. The course
• Facilitated a learning environment around the qualitative research methods, principles and practices necessary for understanding, executing, and publishing qualitative research.
• Approximate enrollment: 7 graduate students, master’s and doctoral levels

Communication 930 Seminar in Speech: Dark Side of Organizational Communication

• Designed (graduate) course structured around communication theory, research, practices and experiences related to negative and destructive organizational communication phenomena.
• Facilitated a learning environment around the organizational communication concepts, principles and theories necessary for understanding, studying, and ethically evaluating our communication that produce harmful, unproductive, painful, unhealthy, and simply unbearable organizational experiences
• Approximate enrollment: 10 graduate students, master’s and doctoral levels

Communication 930 Seminar in Speech: Organizing Identity, Identification, and Stigma

• Designed graduate course structured around communication theory, research, practices and experiences related to identity, identification, and stigma in organized contexts
• Facilitated a learning environment around the organizational communication concepts, principles and theories necessary for understanding, studying, and ethically exploring our identities, identification, and stigma
• Approximate enrollment: 8-12 graduate students, master’s and doctoral levels

Communication 930/496: Seminar In/Capstone In: Communication & Organizational Culture (Online and In-Seat)

• Designed (undergraduate & graduate) course about the communicative development, maintenance, and transformation of organizational culture
• Facilitated a learning environment around the organizational communication concepts, principles and theories necessary for understanding, studying, and ethically participating in organizational culture
• Developed and taught on-line 8-week capstone for undergraduate majors
• Approximate enrollment: 8-10 graduate students, master’s level
• Approximate enrollment: 17-25 ungraduated students

Communication 548: Theories of the Interview

• Designed (undergraduate & graduate bridge) course about theory and practice of interviewing communication
• Facilitated a learning environment around the concepts, principles and theories necessary for understanding and applying successful communication behaviors in the following types of interviewing contexts: recruitment, employment, focus groups, informational, survey, persuasive, performance, counseling, and healthcare.
• Provided assessment on communication performance in dual roles as both interviewer and interviewee.
• Approximate enrollment: 10-20 undergraduate students

Communication 410: Micro-Level Organizational Communication

• Designed undergraduate course about interpersonal relational development and maintenance within organizational contexts primarily focusing on the workplace
• Facilitated a learning environment around the organizational communication concepts, principles and theories necessary for understanding and applying successful communication behaviors regarding the following organizational relationships: supervisor and subordinates, peer coworker, workplace friendships, romantic workplace relationships, customer and client, workplace relationships and society
• Approximate enrollment: 20-30 undergraduate students

Communication 210: Introduction to Organizational Communication (Online and In-Seat)

• Co-designed undergraduate online introductory course about organizational communication
• Developed online curriculum for 8-week online course for communication studies majors
• Facilitated a learning environment around the organizational communication concepts, principles and theories necessary for understanding communication in organizational contexts
• Course developed in partnership with the KU Center for Online Distance Learning
• Supervising and mentoring graduate teaching assistants instructing 2-4 sections per session in fall, spring, and summer sessions
• Supervised course conversation from online 8-week format to in-seat 16-week format
• Approximate enrollment: 20-30 undergraduate students

University of Missouri

Communication 1200: Public Speaking

• Served as graduate instructor of record
• Taught traditional, business, and honors sections
• Facilitated a learning environment around the basic concepts, principles, and theories necessary for understanding and executing ethical public speaking

Communication 3050: Survey of Communication

• Served as teaching assistant for large lecture, writing intensive course
• Worked with students to promote a better understanding communication theories and research in the areas of interpersonal, organizational, political, and mass media.
• Coached students in their development of analytical writing skills

Communication 3575: Business and Professional Communication

• Served as graduate instructor of record
• Conducted an applied course that fosters professional development in upper class students
• Taught students written, verbal, and nonverbal communication skills in the following areas: résumé development, cover letter construction, interviewing, professional presentations, small group communication, conflict management

Communication 4476: Organizational Communication

• Served as graduate instructor of record

• Facilitated a learning environment around the organizational communication concepts, principles, and theories necessary for understanding and applying successful communication within organizational contexts

2013 Summer Institute on Communication and Culture: A First Look at Organizational Communication

• Served as graduate instructor on teaching team in collaboration with Shanghai Normal University, MU Asian Affairs Center & Missouri International Training Institute, MU Office of the Provost & International Programs, and the MU Department of Communication.
• Developed course curriculum and facilitated student learning for a 2-week intensive course on organizational communication concepts, principles, and theories necessary for understanding and applying successful interactions within organizational contexts

INVITED PRESENTATIONS

Guest Lectures & Keynotes

Institute for Policy & Social Research – Panel Discussion

• Developed and participated on a 90 minute virtual panel discussion for the doctoral fellows regarding how to thrive as a woman of color in the academy. An audience of approximately 20 people present.
• Collaborated with Dr. Morgan Bryant and Dr. Astrid Villamil
• Friday, February 5, 2021

Organization for the Study of Communication, Language & Gender (OSCLG) 2020 Conference Keynote Panel

• Developed and participated on a 120 minute virtual presentation for the OSCLG Conference; Audience of Approximately 100 present
• Collaborated with Dr. Shardé Davis and Dr. Ashley Hall
• Friday, October 2, 2021

EPIC 2020 Conference Panel - Design and White Supremacy Culture: A Call and Response

• Developed and participated on a 60 minute virtual presentation for the EPIC 2020 Ethnography in Industry International Conference; Audience of Approximately 150 present
• Panelists included Dr. Angela Gist-Mackey, Ph.D. - University of Kansas; Melinda Weekes-Laidlow - Beautiful Ventures; William Lex Henry, University of West London; Nancy Douyon, Douyon Signature
• Tuesday, October 27, 2020

KU Social Psychology Department Colloquium

• Developed and facilitated 60 minute research presentation for the department of social psychology on-site workshop titled Struggling for Support: Qualitative inquiry about food insecurity, joblessness, and decision-making across social class lines
• Friday, October 23, 2020

Texas State University Guest Lecture

• Developed and facilitated 30 minute research dialogue for graduate seminar about Organizational Communication at Texas State University
• Friday, October 23, 2020

UMB Bank

• Developed and facilitated an approximately 90-minute on-site workshop titled Inclusive Leadership at UMB:

Leading from Where You Are

• Part 1 of a 3-part training series titled UMB Bank 2020 Inclusion Allies Series
• Tuesday, March 10, 2020; Thursday, October 15, 2020

Eckerd College Presidential Speaker Series

• Competitively selected to present a 60 minute research talk titled, “Socially Supportive Communities: Communication While Facing Upward and Downward Social Mobility,” for Eckerd College’s 2019 an annual lecture series
• October 10, 2019 - Open to the public

KU Teaching Summit - Why Higher Education: Expanding Our Vision of Undergraduate and Graduate Education

• Co-presented a 40 minute presentation titled, “Techniques and Tools for Mentoring GTAs and Adjuncts” in collaboration with Ann Lindbloom, Center for Online & Distance Learning and Dr. Stacey Vanderhurst, Women, Gender & Sexuality Studies.
• August 22, 2019

Office of Multicultural Affairs

• Invited to present a 2-hour workshop titled, “Communication, Culture, & Identity” to the diversity, equity, and inclusion offices at the University of Kansas including representatives from the Provost office, Emily Taylor Center for Gender Equity, Center for Sexuality and Gender Diversity, HawkLink, and the Office of Multicultural Affairs.
• August 1, 2019

Association for Talent Development (ATD) Panel

• Invited to be a panelist on a 90-minute ATD panel titled, “Today’s Students, Tomorrow’s Workers.”
• Part of a 5-person panel of higher education faculty and administrators to discuss how the workforce can prepare for Gen Z interns and entry-level employees
• June 11, 2019

UMB Bank

• Developed and facilitated an approximately 90-minute on-site workshop titled Recognizing Bias & Microaggressions at Work: How to Be a More Inclusive Communicator and Conscious Ally
• Part 2 of a 4-part training series titled UMB Bank 2019 Inclusion Allies Series
• Wednesday, June 5, 2019

Multicultural Scholars Professional Development Workshop – Navigating the Hidden Dynamics of Organizational Culture

• Developed and facilitated an approximately 60-minute online webinar for KU Multicultural scholars program to an audience of approximately 40 undergraduate students from underrepresented populations
• Wednesday, March 27, 2019

Humana Insurance

• Developed and delivered a keynote address for the 2019 Humana Learning Development Conference titled, Cultivating Organizational Culture Across Virtual Workspaces, which was presented to an live and virtual audience of ~1,900 people.
• February 26, 2019

Fort Leavenworth Army Base

• Developed and facilitated an approximate 90-minute workshop about professional online social networking using LinkedIn, which was open to approximately 15-20 transitioning Military officers and spouses nearing retirement
• April 26, 2017; May 30, 2018

NPC International

• Developed and facilitated an approximate 4-hour workshop in collaboration with Dr. Angie Pastorek for NPC International, regional franchiser for Wendy’s and Pizza Hut brand restaurants. Workshop addressed topics regarding professionalism, diversity, inclusion, and organizational culture. Training was required for store and regional management team.
• March 16, 2018

City of Leawood, Kansas

• Developed and facilitated an approximate 60-minute workshop titled Incivility and Bullying in the Workplace:

Prevention and Response Strategies for Targets, Bystanders & Managers required for ~70 city employees

• April 12, 2018

Leavenworth-Lansing Chamber of Commerce

• Invited by KU COMS Alum Brandon Johannes, President of the Leavenworth Lansing Chamber of Commerce
• Developed and facilitated an approximate 60-minute seminar on customer/client communication for small businesses a group of 15-20 entrepreneurs and business leaders
• September 6, 2017

Link & Learn Webinar – Everyday Negotiation: From Pushing Back to Pay Raises and Promotions

• Developed and facilitated an approximately 60-minute online webinar for KU Edwards campus program recruitment efforts; open to the public
• Thursday, February 20, 2020

Link & Learn Webinar – Office Humor and Communication: When “I’m Just Being Funny” Crosses the Line

• Developed and facilitated an approximately 60-minute online webinar for KU Edwards campus program recruitment efforts; open to the public
• Thursday, May 16, 2019

Link & Learn Webinar – Navigating the Hidden Dynamics of Organizational Culture

• Developed and facilitated an approximately 60-minute online webinar for KU Edwards campus program recruitment efforts; open to the public
• Friday, March 3, 2017 and Thursday, March 21, 2019

Link & Learn Webinar – Incivility and Bullying in the Workplace: Prevention and Response Strategies for Targets, Bystanders &Managers

• Developed and facilitated an approximately 60-minute online webinar for KU Edwards campus program recruitment efforts; open to the public
• Friday, September 8 and Thursday, September 21, 2017

Link & Learn Webinar – My Way or the Highway: Embracing & Navigating Workplace Conflicts

Why Can't We All Just Get Along? Recognizing & Navigating Workplace Conflicts

• Developed and facilitated an approximately 60-minute online webinar for KU Edwards campus program recruitment efforts; open to the public
• Friday, June 2 and Thursday, June 15, 2017; Thursday, July 19, 2018

Link & Learn Webinar - Communicating for Inclusion: Strategies Engaging People across Boundaries of Place & Culture

• Developed and facilitated an approximately 60-minute online webinar for KU Edwards campus program recruitment efforts; open to the public
• Friday, August 5 and Thursday, August 18, 2017; Thursday June 21, 2018

Link & Learn Webinar – Quality or Quantity? Crafting a Personal Networking Strategy that Works for You

• Developed and facilitated an approximately 60-minute online webinar for KU Edwards campus program recruitment efforts; open to the public
• Friday, July 8 and Thursday, July 21

Link & Learn Webinar – Handling Emotion in the Workplace

• Developed and facilitated an approximately 60-minute online webinar for KU Edwards campus program recruitment efforts; open to the public
• Friday, February 5 and Thursday, February 18, 2017

Communicating for Inclusion

• Developed and facilitated a series of 60-, 90-, and 120-minute training workshops with Dr. Angie Pastorek about communicatively constructing inclusive learning environments in higher education and other organizational contexts at the University of Kansas, Edwards campus faculty development, for annual KU Staff Summit, and for the Department of Enrollment Management, Chairs & Directors Training, and office ofProvost leadership team.
• February 12, 2016; February 16, 2017; September 28, 2017; October 26, 2017; February 14, 2018

Understanding, Addressing, & Avoiding Microaggressions

• Developed and facilitated an approximate 75 minute departmental training on communication and microaggressions within organizational settings.
• December 9, 2015

Gendered Power in Organizations

• Developed and facilitated an approximate 75 minute seminar on gender and power in organizational settings for an international group of 25-30 women participating in the Kansas Women’s Leadership Institute
• July 15, 2015; July 13, 2016; July 3, 2017; July 11, 2018

Communication & Networking: Maximizing Offline and Online Social Networks

• Developed and facilitated an approximate 60 minute workshop on interpersonal and online social networking, which was open to the public at the University of Kansas, Edwards campus.
• March 2, 2015 – Open to public

• April 27, 2015; April 28, 2016; March 1, 2018 – Presentation to COMS 730 Graduate Course, Writing & Speaking

Organizational Socialization & Ethics

• Developed, presented an approximate 45-minute presentation on organizational socialization and ethics to a graduate level seminar on Organizational Stakeholders.
• November 18, 2014

Advice for the Job Search Faculty Panel

• Spoke on a faculty panel regarding the job market search process in the communication discipline for the Organizational Communication Mini Conference in 2014 held at Purdue University.
• September 13, 2014

Learning Strategies – Time Management & Graduate Student Life

• Developed, presented a 45-minute presentation for interdisciplinary majors in a learning strategies class on time management and graduate teaching roles and responsibilities.
• October 3, 2013

Intercollegiate Communication Organization of Mizzou (iCOM) – Why Communication Rocks!

• Developed and presented a 45-minute presentation for undergraduate communication majors on the value of a communication degree and why communication majors are desired and sought after in the workforce.
• September 11, 2013

McNair Scholars Workshop – Presenting Research in Academia: from development to delivery

• Developed, presented, and conducted a 90-minute workshop for undergraduate researchers on how to develop and present academic conference research presentations on the topics of presentation preparation, structure and outlining, audiovisual aids (Microsoft PowerPoint and posters), delivery, academic networking.
• March 21, 2013

Business and Professional Communication Workshop

• Developed, presented, and conducted a 2-hour workshop on the topics of interviewing, résumé development, cover letter creation, small group communication, conflict management, and professional presentations.
• November 8, 2012

Lambda Pi Eta, Chi Beta Chapter – Advertising Industry Career Options

• Shared a presentation about the various career opportunities in the advertising industry
• November 7, 2012

Group Communication Course

• Presented a lecture on the practical application of group decision making processes in organizations.
• October 17, 2011

Ad Club – Advertising Industry Career Options

• Shared a presentation about the various career opportunities in the advertising industry
• February 9, 2010

Community Research Presentations

Self-sustainability through Employment Programming (S.T.E.P.) Coalition

• Presented a lecture sharing research results for a study analyzing the discourse and materiality of benefits cliff welfare phenomena in metro Kansas City.
• January 24, 2018

United Community Services of Johnson County

• Presented a lecture sharing research results for a study analyzing the experiences and constraints for low-income workers in Johnson County,Kansas.
• September 13, 2016

Columbia Volunteer Network Quarterly Meeting

• Presented a lecture sharing research results for a study looking at organizational citizenship behavior in volunteer organizations in Columbia, MO.
• July 6, 2011

GRADUATE ADVISING/CHAIRPERSON:

University of Kansas, Master of Arts Candidates

• Myleah Brewer, (Thesis Committee Member); expected graduation May, 2021
• Razan Mansour, (Thesis Committee Member); expected graduation May, 2021
• Tess Cameron (Comprehensive Exam Committee Member); Graduation July, 2020
• Tom Magee (Comprehensive Exam Committee Member); Graduation May, 2020
• Frances Soto (Comprehensive Exam Committee Member); Graduation July, 2019
• Janelle Martin (Comprehensive Exam, Committee Member); Graduation May, 2019
• Spencer Cramer, (Comprehensive Exam, Committee Member); Graduation May, 2018
• Chelsea Cullen (Committee Chair for Program/Thesis); Graduation July, 2018
• Brandon Drozd, (Committee Chair for Program/Comprehensive Exam), Graduation May, 2016
• Abigail Kingsford (Committee Chair for Program/Thesis), Graduation May, 2017
• Max Hobbs (Comprehensive Exam Committee Member), Graduation May, 2017
• John Chris Melvin (Comprehensive Exam Committee Member), Graduation May, 2017
• Gabrielle Byrd (Thesis Committee Member); Graduation May, 2017
• Michelle Reames (Comprehensive Exam Committee Member), Graduation December 2017
• Tara Litzenberger (Comprehensive Exam Committee Member), Graduation December, 2017

University of Kansas, Doctoral Candidates

• Savaughn Williams (Committee Chair for Program), expected graduation 2023
• Amy Braselton (Comprehensive Exam, Committee Member), expected graduation 2022
• Michelle Wilson (Comprehensive Exam, Committee Chair), expected graduation 2022
• Gaby Byrd (Comprehensive Exam Committee Member), expected graduation 2021
• Elnaz Parviz, (Comprehensive Exam Committee Member), expected graduation 2021
• Corey Petersen, (Comprehensive Exam Committee Member), expected graduation 2021
• Courtney McDaniel (Comprehensive Exam Committee Member), expected graduation 2021
• Alexandra Spadaro (Comprehensive Exam Committee Member), expected graduation 2021
• Greta Underhill (Committee Chair for Comprehensive Exams), expected graduation 2021
• Julien Sperling (Committee Chair for Comprehensive Exams), expected graduation 2021
• Shelley Hepler (Committee Chair for Comprehensive Exams), expected graduation 2021
• Abigail Kingsford (Committee Chair for Comprehensive Exams), expected graduation 2021
• Josh Morgan, (Dissertation Committee Member), Graduation 2020
• Ahmed Muyidi (Comprehensives Committee Member), Graduation 2020
• Elaina Ross, (Dissertation Committee Member), Graduation 2019
• Haley Vellinga, (Committee, Co-Chair Dissertation), Graduation 2019
• Gretchen Montgomery (Dissertation Committee Member), Graduation May 2019
• Marissa Wiley, (Dissertation Committee Member), Graduation May 2019
• Igor Ristić, (Dissertation Committee Member), Graduation 2018
• Terri Easley, (Dissertation Committee Member), Graduation May, 2016
• Phil Wagner, (Dissertation Committee Member), Graduation May, 2015

SERVICE

DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNICATION STUDIES, UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS

• Lambda Pi Eta Faculty Advisor, 2015-present
• Regents Center Campus Committee, 2014-2020
• Historically Black Colleges & University Recruitment Trips - March, 2016, February, 2017, February, 2018
• Graduate Research Competition Judge – April, 2015
• KU Edwards Organizational Communication Job Search Selection Committee, Spring, 2015
• Undergraduate Program Committee Member, 2014-2016
• Graduate Student Award Committee Member, 2014-2017
• Course Supervision, COMS 210

COLLEGE OF LIBERAL ARTS AND SCIENCES, UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS

• Multicultural Scholars Program, Director for Humanities – 2018-present
• CLAS Faculty Mentor for at-risk undergraduate students 2016-2018
• Astrum U Humanities Faculty Think Tank 2017-2019

UNIVERSITY SERVICE, UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS

• Communication for Inclusion Training Workshop for Charis & Directors – January 17, 2019
• Communication for Inclusion Training Workshop for the Office of the Provost – February 14, 2018
• Beinecke Scholarship Committee (award for underprivileged students) Committee Member 2018-2019
• KU Edwards Campus Leadership Committee Member 2014-2020

DISCIPLINARY SERVICE

• Awards Chair, National Communication Association, Organizational Communication Division 2019-2021
  • Chaired a sub-committee to develop the first annual teaching and mentoring awards for the Organizational Communication Division
• Editorial Board Member, Western Journal of Communication 2017-present
• Reviewer, Communication Monographs 2018-present
• Editorial Board Member, Journal of Applied Communication Research 2017-present
• Reviewer, Culture & Organization Journal, 2016-present
• Reviewer, Organization Studies Journal, 2015-present
• Reviewer, Human Communication Research Journal, 2014-present
• Reviewer, National Communication Association, 2014-present
• Reviewer, Central States Communication Association, 2014-present
• Reviewer, International Communication Association 2015-present

INDUSTRY EMPLOYMENT

JWT CET - Account Management Dept. Atlanta, GA 10/08-6/09

Senior Account Executive – Clients: Nokia North American Marketing, CDW G

• Main contact for clients listed above regarding business-to-business advertising and business-to-consumer global localization in North American market
• Managed adaptation of global business-to-consumer campaigns for North America from strategic planning through production for Nokia North American market
• Managed business-to-business communications efforts and lead generating campaigns for Nokia’s North American security product offering
• Managed mix of the following media for CDW G: radio, magazine, newspaper, online
• Managed relationship with CDW G channel contacts for federal and state and local government marketing efforts
• Managed analysis and optimization of lead generating campaigns with media department for Nokia
• Managed budget allocations and invoicing process on a monthly basis for advertising efforts
• Aided in accounts payable and receivable duties with accounting
• Trained and managed workload for Account Coordinators and Assistant Account Managers

Frederick Swanston - Account Management Dept. Alpharetta, GA 5/06-10/08

Account Executive – Clients: Bassett Furniture Direct, Northlake Medical Center, First Bank, Gladhill Furniture, Fitness Together, Exide Technologies, Black & Black Surgical, VeriFone, Beazer Homes, Village Podiatry Centers, Natural Gas Campaign for Consumer Choice

• Main contact for all clients listed above
• Coordinated strategic planning, internal research and campaigns for retail and brand advertising campaign efforts
• Managed all advertising projects from conception to production
• Managed all external and internal trafficking for print, outdoor, broadcast and interactive media
• Analyzed success of marketing and advertising efforts
• Served as print production manager over all direct mail efforts for the clients listed above
• Served as broadcast producer over post production on television and radio efforts for Gladhill & Bassett Furniture
• Managed budget allocations for monthly advertising efforts
• Aided in accounts payable and receivable duties for production of advertising
• Supported other team members as needed in any capacity needed
• Trained and manages workload for Assistant Account Executive

Fitzgerald + Co./Austin Kelley Advertising – Account Management Dept. Atlanta, GA - 5/05-5/06

Assistant Account Manager – AmSouth Bank Account Team

• Promoted in 8 months-received larger workload and more accountability with client
• Main client contact and project manager for all Area Marketing, from conception to production
• Managed all external trafficking for broadcast advertising
• Provided ongoing internal revisions of executional process
• Active member of Agency Job Opener Task Force
• Assisted the team in daily execution of print and broadcast advertising
• Provided back up administrative support for team
• Trained new Account Coordinator and serve as main contact for all responsibilities
• Involved in annual strategic planning and presentations of all new concepts

Account Management Coordinator – AmSouth Bank Account Team

• Assisted the team of four in daily execution of print, broadcast and interactive advertising;
• Managed external trafficking of all print advertising
• Maintained daily client correspondence regarding revisions, approvals, and development of creative materials
• Served as main contact between account team, publications, stations, media agency (Mindshare), and client
• Updated daily tracking tools for account team: status reports, media detail worksheets, competitive analysis, and accrual reports for monthlybilling
• Supported team in administrative tasks

HONORS AND AWARDS

2020-2021

• Donn W. Parson Graduate Faculty Mentorship Award (departmental)
• Community Engaged Scholarship Award (college) – This $1,000 award seeks to recognize a KU faculty member whose scholarship actively collaborates with a community partner through the creation of and dissemination of knowledge while contributing to the scholar’s discipline and strengthening the wellbeing of the community.

2019-2020

• 2019 Best Article of the Year Award, Ethnography Division, National Communication Association 2017-2018
• American Association of University Women’s (AAUW) Inaugural Ann Chipley Fellow
• Donn W. Parson Graduate Faculty Mentorship Award (departmental) 2015-2016
• Donn W. Parson Graduate Faculty Mentorship Award (departmental) 2013-2014
• Gus T. Ridgel Fellowship
• Nominated and Selected to serve as Doctoral Marshal 2012-2013
• Gus T. Ridgel Fellowship
• Superior Graduate Achievement Award
• Outstanding Graduate Service Award 2011-2012
• Gus T. Ridgel Fellowship
• Superior Graduate Achievement Award 2010-2011
• Gus T. Ridgel Fellowship
• Loren Reid Outstanding Graduate Student Teaching Award 2009-2010
• Gus T. Ridgel Fellowship
• iCOM Outstanding Teaching Assistant of the Year Award 2002-2003
• Helen Hoover Scholarship
• Mary Jo & A. Robert Kent Scholarship
• Thurgood Marshall Scholarship 2001- 2002
• Templeton/Blackburn Achievement Award
• Dean’s Scholarship
• Ohio University Multicultural Scholarship 2000-2001
• Director’s Scholarship
• Ohio University Multicultural Scholarship 1999-2000
• Sharon Stevens Brehm, Provost Scholarship
• Pepsi Scholarship
• Director’s Scholarship