Dr. KRISTEN LUCAS, ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, researches the communicative construction of workplace (in)dignity. She examines how the ways we communicate with one another, the organizational practices we employ, and the discourses that circulate within the broader culture impact the extent to which people experience dignity--or lack thereof--within their workplaces and job roles. She is an affiliate faculty member of the Women and Gender Studies program and the Institute for Innovative Leadership. During the summer months, you will most likely find her leading (or planning!) a study abroad experience.
REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS
Lucas, K. (2011). The working class promise: A communicative account of mobility-based ambivalences. Communication Monographs, 78(3), 347-369. doi: 10.1080/03637751.2011.589461
Lucas, K. (2011). Blue-collar discourses of workplace dignity: Using outgroup comparisons to construct positive identities. Management Communication Quarterly, 25(2), 353-374. doi: 10.1177/0893318910386445
Lucas, K., & Steimel, S. J. (2009). Creating and responding to the gen(d)eralized other: Women miners' community-constructed identities. Women's Studies in Communication, 32(3), 320-347.
Lucas, K., & Buzzanell, P. M. (2004). Blue-collar work, career, and success: Occupational narratives of sisu. Journal of Applied Communication Research, 32(4), 273-292. doi: 10.1080/0090988042000240167
Teaching
Graduate
- COMM 850: Gender & Communication in Organizations
- COMM 886: Organizational Communication
- COMM 986: Communication & Workplace Dignity
Undergraduate
- COMM 398: Communication & Workplace Dignity
- COMM 386: Organizational Communication
- COMM 487: Global Organizational Communication
