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Patrice Buzzanell

Research

Dr. Buzzanell's primary area is organizational communication with specific interests in career, leadership, and work-life processes. Recent publications delve into gendered career processes in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math), communicative constructions of human resilience, and workplace communication locally and globally.

Representative Publications

• Buzzanell, P. M. (forthcoming). Feminist discursive processes: Communicative contributions to ethical dilemma adjudications. In G. Cheney, S. May, & D. Munshi (Eds.), Handbook of communication ethics. New York: Routledge. (anticipated publication, 2010).
• Carbaugh, D., & Buzzanell, P. M. (Eds.). (in press). Distinctive qualities in communication research. New York: Routledge.
• Buzzanell, P. M., & Liu, M. (2005). Struggling with maternity leave policies and practices: A poststructuralist feminist analysis of gendered organizing. Journal of Applied Communication Research, 33, 1-25.
• Buzzanell, P. M., Sterk, H., & Turner, L. H. (Eds.). (2004). Gender in applied communication contexts. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
• Kirby, E., Golden, A., Medved, C., Jorgenson, J., & Buzzanell, P. M. (2003). An organizational communication challenge to the discourse of work and family research: From problematics to empowerment. In P. Kalbfleisch (Ed.), Communication yearbook 27 (pp. 1-44). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.
  
• Buzzanell, P. M. (Ed.). (2000). Rethinking organizational and managerial communication from feminist perspectives. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
• Buzzanell, P. M., Ellingson, L., Silvio, C., Pasch, V., Dale, B., Mauro, G., Smith, E., Weir, N., & Martin, C. (1997). Leadership processes in alternative organizations: Invitational and dramaturgical leadership. Communication Studies, 48, 285-310. Simultaneously published in 1998 in the Electronic Journal of Communication, 8 (1).
• Buzzanell, P. M., & Burrell, N. A. (1997). Family and workplace conflict: Examining metaphorical conflict schemas and expressions across context and sex. Human Communication Research, 24, 109-146.
• Buzzanell, P. M. (1995). Reframing the glass ceiling as a socially constructed process: Implications for understanding and change. Communication Monographs, 62, 327-354.
• Buzzanell, P. M. (1994). Gaining a voice: Feminist organizational communication theorizing. Management Communication Quarterly, 7, 339-383. . Reprinted in: Putnam, L. L., & Krone, K. J. (Eds.). (2006). Organizational communication, Five-volume set. London: Sage.
• Buzzanell, P. M., & Goldzwig, S. (1991). Linear and nonlinear career models: Metaphors, paradigms, and ideologies. Management Communication Quarterly, 4, 466-505.
  

Appointments

Patrice M. Buzzanell in Professor and W. Charles and Ann Redding Faculty Fellow in the Department of Communication. She is President of the International Communication Association and of the Council of Communication Association. She is Past President of the Organization for the Study of Communication, Language and Gender; and former editor of Management Communication Quarterly and special issues of other communication journals. She has published about 90 books, articles, and chapters and serves on over a dozen editorial boards. She has taught workshops and seminars in Europe, Asia, and the US at different institutions and organizations. She has advised an engineering team in the Engineering Projects in Community Service (EPICS) program since 2000 and has funded projects in gendered career paths, discourse, and STEM.