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Celebrating Faculty Excellence<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Faculty at the School of Communication Studies are dedicated to investing their time in quality research in the varying aspects of organizational and interpersonal communication. This faculty showcase shows how they are producing high-impact work that positively impacts not just the field, but the world around us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Celebrating Faculty Excellence<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Faculty at the School of Communication Studies are dedicated to investing their time in quality research in the varying aspects of organizational and interpersonal communication. This faculty showcase shows how they are producing high-impact work that positively impacts not just the field, but the world around us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Faculty & Staff Directory<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Our faculty’s research<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Assistant Professor Roth Smith<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

On Relationality and Organizationality: Degrees of durability, materiality, and communicatively constituting a fluid social collective<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this Organization Studies <\/em>article, Roth studies how loosely structured fluid social collectives may attain degrees of \u201corganizationality\u201d depending on whether or not they achieve certain organization-like elements. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read Roth Smith’s full article<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Associate Professor Emily Paskewitz<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

\u201cPut the phone away!\u201d: Does text message content influence perceptions of group member texting?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this Computers in Human Behavior <\/em>journal article, Paskewitz and her co-author focus on how knowledge of text message content may influence the positive or negative perceptions of mobile phone use in meetings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read Emily Paskewitz’s full article<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Associate Professor Laura Miller<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe Aren\u2019t Here to Win; We are Here Not to Lose\u201d: Emergency Physicians\u2019 Communicative Management of Uncertainty<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this Health Communication<\/em> journal article, Miller and co-authors explore hospital emergency department physicians\u2019 experiences of uncertainty in their everyday work environment. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read Laura Miller’s full article<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Assistant Professor Quinten Bernhold<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Pathways to connection: An intensive longitudinal examination of state and dispositional hope, day quality, and everyday interpersonal interaction<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this Journal of Social and Personal Relationships<\/em> article, Bernhold and co-authors build on hope theory to demonstrate that state and trait hope are associated with daily interpersonal experiences. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read Quinten Bernhold’s full article<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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The Communication Studies faculty are national leaders in the social scientific study of interpersonal and organizational communication\u2014actively publishing in top journals, securing grant funding, and engaged with the community.\u00a0They actively collaborate with each other, our students, and colleagues at other universities.\u00a0They have served as editors of leading journals, published groundbreaking research, and been recognized as among the most published in the discipline.”<\/p>\nJon Hess<\/span>
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School of Communication Studies faculty news<\/h2>\n\n\n\n