CONFERENCE ORGANIZERS
Conference e-mail: qrmconf@gmail.com
SHAWNA MALVINI REDDEN
Shawna Malvini Redden (PhD, Arizona State University) is an Associate Professor in the Communication Studies Department at California State University, Sacramento, USA, where she serves as Graduate Coordinator and Vice Chair.
Shawna specializes in organizational communication research using qualitative and critical methods, focusing on identity, emotion, and sensemaking in organizational and online contexts. Her book, 101 Pat-Downs: An Undercover Look at Airport Security and the TSA was actually conceived of during a QRM conference in 2014. Her recent projects examine how social media organizes communication online; how online sexual harassment among coworkers influences reporting decisions; and how people make sense of sexual harassment through metaphor.
Her award-winning work has appeared in peer-reviewed journals, including: Management Communication Quarterly, Communication Monographs, Qualitative Health Research, Departures in Critical Qualitative Research, and Journal of Applied Communication Research.
Jamie McDonald
Jamie McDonald (PhD, University of Colorado Boulder) is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Texas at San Antonio, USA and an Associate Member of the Centre for Cross-Cultural Research at the University of Wollongong, Australia.
Jamie is an organizational communication scholar who specializes in issues related to identity, difference, intersectionality, and organizing. His research examines topics such as queer approaches to organizing, the closeting of invisible and stigmatized identities in organizations, researcher reflexivity in qualitative research, the experiences of immigrant scholars and students in higher education, and occupational segregation. He was the recipient of the PhD Most Thought-Provoking Paper Award at the 2012 QRM conference for his paper “Coming Out in the Field: A Queer Reflexive Account of Shifting Researcher Identity,” which was later voted the Best Paper of 2013 in Management Learning.
Jamie’s work has appeared in peer-reviewed journals such as Communication Theory; Management Communication Quarterly; Management Learning; the Journal of Applied Communication Research; Gender, Work, and Organization; and the Journal of Management Inquiry. He is co-editor of Movements in Organizational Communication Research (Routledge, 2019).