Faculty Research Archive

Dr. Austin has two main research tracks: Organizational Socialization and Marginalized Identities. Lately, her research explores the content of conversations had between supervisors and incoming organizational members during the pre-entry/offer consideration phase. She is interested in if/how personal...

I have always been fascinated with social skills and the ways in which our interactions influence our relational, mental, and physical well-being. Accordingly, my research interests lie at the intersection of relational and health communication, with a focus on navigating health-related interactions...

Dr. Burnette’s research interests include political campaign rhetoric, the construction of gender in public discourse, historical political debates, and freedom of speech issues. She received the 2014 Southern States Communication Association James Madison Prize for Outstanding Research in First Amendment...

Applied Communication, Instructional Communication, Training & Development, Assessment, Persuasion, Social Influence, Higher Education , Interpersonal and Family Communication

Throughout my academic career, I have been interested in how people learn about and feel part of organizations. My research, therefore, seeks to advance research at the intersection of organizational socialization and organizational identification scholarship. Specifically, my theory-driven program of...

Organizational Communication
Difference and Intersectionality
Work-Life and Health Communication
LGBTQ+ Work and Health
Transgender and Queer Communication
Ethnography and Qualitative Inquiry
Organizational Identity and Identification
Rhetorical Criticism and Critical Media Studies
Social...

Interpersonal and Health Communication
Interpersonal and Instructional Communication
Supportive Communication
Communicative Coping
Instructor-Student Communication
Student Adjustment to College

Dr. Fox's research falls into three categories; 1) organizational rhetoric, with a focus on power, control and learning in organizations, 2) health communication with a focus on the U.S. nursing shortage and nursing work, and 3) the rhetoric of social movements, with foci in environmental rhetoric, freedom...

Interpersonal Communication in the Instructional Context
Helicopter Teaching
The Student-Teacher Relationship
Conducting Workshops that assist others in living their "Best Self--Best Life"

Dr. Keeley is considered on of the leading experts in the area family communication at the End-of-Life. Her focus for over two decades has been to explore "Final Conversations" (i.e., all verbal and nonverbal messages from the time of a terminal diagnosis until the moment of death) from the family members...

Public memory
Cultural analysis of popular media
Women's images
Women's public address

Health Communication, Cancer Communication, Visuals, Emotion, Skin Cancer, Health Campaigns

Close Relationships (couples, families, friendships); Difficult, Taboo, or Stigmatized Self-Disclosure; Under-Studied Relationships; Long-Distance Relationships; Dark Side (e.g., hurtful messages, hazing, jealousy)

Translational Health Research; communication; community health interventions; communication about cancer, end of life; health equity for persons with disabilities, Latinos, women, older adults, women and children; communication training; interdisciplinary teams; research mentoring; student research and...