Dr. Kristen Lucas
Assistant Professor of Communication Studies
Organizational Communication
436 Oldfather Hall
(402) 472-6924
klucas3@unl.edu
Education
Ph.D. @ Purdue University (2006)
M.A. @ Purdue University (2002)
B.S. @ Northern Michigan University (1995)
Research Specialties
- Organizational Communication
- Career- and Work-Related Discourses
- Blue-Collar Organizations
Representative
Publications
- Lucas, K. & Steimel, S. (in press). Creating and responding to the gen(d)eralized other: Women miners' community constructed identities. Women's Studies in Communication.
- Lucas, K. (2007). Problematized providing and protecting: The occupational narrative of the working class. In W. DeGenaro (Ed.), Who says? Working-class rhetoric, class consciousness, and community. (pp.180-199) Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press.
- Lucas, K., Liu, M., & Buzzanell, P. M. (2006). No limits careers: A critical examination of career discourse in the U.S. and China. In M. Orbe, B. J. Allen, & L. A. Flores (Eds.), International and intercultural communication annual 28 (pp. 217-242). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Select Classes Taught at UNL
- COMM 311: Business & Professional Communication
- COMM 380: Gender & Communication
- COMM 386: Organizational Communication
- COMM 398: Communication & Workplace Dignity
- COMM 487: Global Organizational Communication
- COMM 850: Seminar in Gender & Communication
