RECENT GRADUATE STUDENT PUBLICATIONS

Note: The following are listed by the graduate student's last name with co-authors listed in parentheses. Co-author names in italics indicate current or former faculty members from the Department of Communication at Texas A&M University.

2008

Baker, J. S., Conrad, C., Cudany, C., & Willyard, J. (2008). The devil in disguise: Vioxx, drug safety, and the FDA. In R. Heath and E. Toth (Eds.), Rhetorical and critical perspectives on public relations (2nd Edition). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

Bochantin, J., & Cowan, R. (2008). On being “One of the Guys”: How female police officers manage tensions and contradictions in their work and their lives. The Ohio Communication Journal, 46, 145-170.

Conrad, C., & Malphurs, R. (2008). Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Rhetorical suggestions for management scholars. Management Communication Quarterly, 22, 123-147.

Poole, M. S., & Ahmed, I. (2008). Decision-Making Processes in Organizations. In W. Donsbach (Ed.), The International Encyclopedia of Communication. Blackwell.

Stephenson, M. T., Morgan, S. E., Roberts-Perez, S. D., Harrison, T., Afifi, W., & Long, S.D. (2008). The role of religiosity, religious norms, subjective norms, and bodily integrity on signing an organ donor card. Health Communication, 23, 436-447.

Willyard, J., Miller, K., Shoemaker, M., & Addison, P. (2008). Making sense of sibling responsibility for family caregiving. Qualitative Health Research, 18, 1673-1686.

2009

Brown, D. L. (In Press). In defense of slavery and difference: George Fitzhugh and Negro Slavery. In W. Zach & U. Paulla (Eds.), Racism, Slavery, and English Literature. Tubringen: Stauffenburg.

Collins, D., & Street, R. (2009). A dialogic model of conversations about risk: Coordinating perceptions and achieving quality decisions in cancer care. Social Science and Medicine, 68, 1506-1512.

Conrad, C., Cudahy, C., Baker, J. S., & Willyard, J. (In Press). The dialectics of organizational crisis management. In W. T. Coombs (Ed.), Managing organizational crises. New York: Wiley-Blackwell.

Cowan, R. L. (In Press). “Having the last laugh”: Employee resistance strategies and resources in workplace bullying situations. Rocky Mountan Communication Review.

Cowan, R. L., & Bochantin, J. E. (In Press). Pregnancy and motherhood on the thin blue line: Female police officers experiences in a highly masculinized work environment. Women and Language, 32.

Lu, J. (In Press). Chinese culture and software copyright. New Media & Society.

Lu, J. (In Press). Internet software piracy: A local resistance of users’ perspective to global software copyright enforcement. Journal of International and Intercultural Communication.

Lu, J. (In Press). Internet software piracy in China: Technology, culture, and patriotism. Electronic Journal of Communication.

Malphurs, R. (In Press). A mediated love affair: Why the media turned on President George W. Bush. In Sara Quay and Amy Damico (Eds.), 9/11 in Popular Culture. Westport, CT: Greenwood.

Malphurs, R. (In Press). 8 seconds or 8 years: President George W. Bush’s cowboy diplomacy. In Sara Quay and Amy Damico (Eds.), 9/11 in Popular Culture. Westport, CT: Greenwood.

Putnam, L. L., & Bochantin, J. (2009). Gendered bodies: Negotiating normalcy and support. Negotiations and Conflict Management Research, 2, 57-73.

Schaefer, Z. A. (In Press). Finding feminized economies: A review of A postcapitalist politics. Organization.

Stephens, K. K., Houser, M. L., & Cowan, R. L. (In Press). RU able to meat me: The impact of student’s overly casual email messages to instructors. Communication Education.

Stephens, K. K., Cowan, R. L., & Houser, M. L. (In Press). Organizational norm congruency and interpersonal familiarity in email: Examining messages from two different perspectives. Journal of Computer Mediated Communication.

Sukovic, M. (2009). Motherhood as the Key Component of Female Identity. In C. P. Kottak (Ed.), Anthropology: The Exploration of Human Diversity (p. 419). New York: McGraw-Hill.

Weber, I., & Lu, J. (In Press). Commodifying digital television in China: A socio-linquistic analysis of media discourse, technology deployment, and control. New Media & Society.

Westgate, C. J. (In Press). Tomando la Temperatura de la Arena y el Cielo: From Blue Sand to Red Sky in the Many Voices of Lila Downs. In M. Holling and B. Calafell (Eds.), Somos de una Voz? New Directions in Latin@ Communication. New York: Peter Lang.

Westgate, C. J. (In Press). Fellow-Travelers at the Conjunction: Williams and Educational Communicators. In L. Grossberg, M. Seidl and R. Horak (Eds.), About Raymond Williams. New York: Routledge.

Westgate, C. J. (In Press). Review of Explorations in Communication and History (Barbie Zelizer, Routledge, 2008). Journal of Communication.

Westgate, C. J. (In Press). Review of Latina/o Communication Studies Today (Angharad Validivia, Peter Lang, 2008). Communication, Culture and Critique.

Westgate, C. J. (In Press). Postmodern Theory. In S. W. Littlejohn and K. A. Foss (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Communication Theory. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Westgate, C. J. (In Press). Playing Music. In R. P. Carlisle, J. G. Golson, and S. Moskowitz (Eds), Encyclopedia of Play in Today’s Society. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Yamasaki, J. (In Press). Though much is taken, much abides: The storied world of aging in a fictionalized retirement home. Health Communication.

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