Stacey Connaughton

Research

Dr. Connaughton examines identification and leadership in geographically distributed organizational contexts. Utilizing qualitative and quantitative methods, her work seeks to understand the communicative processes which inspire connection and disconnection to various targets in our social world. She often investigates these issues in distributed organizations such as political parties and global corporations, and she is particularly interested in one often under-represented population, Latinos. Dr. Connaughton is a Senior Consortium Research Fellow at the U.S. Army Research Institute, and she has facilitated workshops and written guidebooks for corporate, governmental, educational administrative, and student groups in the areas of leadership, team-building, and strategic planning in the United States and Canada.

Grants

2008 National Science Foundation. Neville, J. L., Tyler, J. M., & Connaughton, S. L. Machine learning techniques to model the impact of relational communication on distributed team effectiveness. $498,539.00.  

2008 Carnegie Corporation, New York. McCann, J.A., Connaughton, S. L., & Nishikawa, K. Election campaigns and the civic integration of Mexican immigrants. $49,539 .00.

2008 Russell Sage Foundation, New York, Presidential Award. Election campaigns and the political incorporation of Mexican immigrants. McCann, J.A., Connaughton, S. L., & Nishikawa, K. $35,000.00.

Representative Publications

• Doerfel, M., & Connaughton, S. L. (2009). The semantic structure of competition: Election year winners and losers in U.S. televised Presidential debates, 1960-2004. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 60, 201-218.
• Connaughton, S. L., Nekrassova, D., & Lever, K. (2008). Talk about issues: Policy considerations in Campaign 2004 Latino-oriented presidential spots. In F. A. Subervi-Vélez (Ed), The mass media and Latino politics: Studies of media content, campaign strategies and survey research (pp. 309-322) . Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
• Connaughton, S. L., (2005). Inviting Latino voters: Party messages and Latino party identification.  New York, NY: Routledge.
• Connaughton, S. L., & Shuffler, M. (2007). Multinational multicultural distributed teams: A review and future agenda. Small Group Research, 38, 387-412. Initially invited and then reviewed for selection in this issue (two revisions).
• Connaughton, S. L., & Daly, J. A. (2005). Leadership in the new millennium: Communication beyond temporal, spatial, and geographical boundaries. In P. Kalbfleisch (Ed.), Communication Yearbook, 29 (pp. 187-213). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
• Connaughton, S. L., & Jarvis, S. E. (2004). Invitations for partisan identification: Attempts to court Latino voters through televised Latino-oriented political advertisements, 1984-2000. Journal of Communication, 54, 38-54.