Selected Publications

Griffin, D. J., Bolkan, S., & Dahlbach, B. J. (2018). Scholarly productivity in Communication Studies: Five-year review 2012-2016. Communication Education. Advance online publication. doi:10.1080/03634523.2017.1385820

Boylorn, R. M. (2017). From boys to men: Hip hop, hood films, and the performance of contemporary black masculinity, Black Camera, 8(2), 146-164. doi:10.2979/blackcamera.8.2.09

Boylorn, R. M. (2017). Sweetwater: Black women and narratives of resilience, Revised Edition.  New York, NY: Peter Lang. (First edition published in 2013).

Carmack, H. J., Bouchelle, Z., Rawlins, Y., Bennet, J., Hill, C., & Oriol, N. E. (2017). Mobilizing a narrative of generosity: Patient experiences on an urban mobile health clinic. Communication Quarterly, 65, 419-435.

Cooper, B. C., Morris, S. M., & Boylorn, R. M. (2017). The Crunk Feminist Collection. New York, NY: The Feminist Press.

LeFebvre, L. E. (2017). Swipe me off my feet: Explicating relationship initiation on Tinder. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships. doi:10.1177/0265407517706419

Parsons, C. S. (2017, accepted for publication). Reforming the environment: The influence of the roundtable classroom design on interactive learning. Journal of Learning Spaces.

Parsons, C. S. (2017). Socializing intellectual talk: A case study of instructor follow-up statements in classroom discourse. Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 17, 63-77.

Totenhagen, C. J., Randall, A. K., Cooper, A., Tao, C., & Walsh, K. J. (2017). Stress spillover and crossover in same-sex couples: Concurrent and lagged daily effects. Journal of GLBT Family Studies, 31, 236-256. doi:10.1080/1550428X.2016.1203273

Pederson, J. R., & McLaren, R. M. (2017). Indirect effects of supportive communication during conversations about coping with relational transgressions. Personal Relationships (online first publication). doi:10.1111/pere.12214

Carmack, H. J., & DeGroot, J. M. (2016). Development and validation of the Communication Apprehension about Death scale. Omega: Journal of Death and Dying, 74, 239-259.

Donovan, E. E., Thompson, C., LeFebvre, L., & Tollison, A. C. (2016). Emerging adult confidants’ judgments of parental openness: Developing a model of disclosure quality and post-disclosure relational closeness. Communication Monographs. doi:10.1080/03637751.2015.1119867

Mills, C. B. (2016). Child’s play or risky business? The development of teasing functions and relational implications in school-aged children. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 0265407516683557.

Parsons, C. S. (2016). “Space and consequences”: The influence of the roundtable classroom design on student dialogue. Journal of Learning Spaces, 5, 15-25.

Pederson, J. R., & McLaren, R. M. (2016). Managing information following hurtful experiences: How social network members negotiate private information. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 33, 961-983. doi:10.1177/0265407515612242

Totenhagen, C. J., Butler, E. A., Curran, M. A., & Serido, J. (2016). The calm after the storm: Relationship length as associated with couples’ daily variability. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 33, 768-791. doi: 10.1177/0265407515597562

Griffin, D. J., Bolkan, S., & Goodboy, A. K. (2015). Academic dishonesty beyond cheating and plagiarism: Students’ interpersonal deception in the college classroom. Qualitative Research Reports in Communication, 16, 9-19. doi:10.1080/17459435.2015.1086416

LeFebvre, L., Blackburn, K., & Brody, N. (2015). Navigating romantic relationships on Facebook: Extending the relational dissolution model to account for social networking environments. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 32, 78-98. doi:10.1177/0265407514524848.

Noland, C., & Carmack, H. J. (2015). “You never forget your first mistake”: Nursing socialization, memorable messages, and communication about medical errors. Health Communication, 30, 1234-1244. doi:10.1080/10410236.2014.930397

Pederson, J. R. (2014). Competing discourses of forgiveness: A dialogic perspective. Communication Studies, 65, 353-369. doi:10.1080/10510974.2013.833526

Boylorn, R. M. (2014). “My daddy is slick, brown, and cool as ice water,” In J. Wyatt & T. Adams’(Eds.), On (writing) families: Autoethnographies of absence and presence, love and loss (pp. 85-93). Rotterdam, The Netherlands: Sense Publishing.

Erzikova, E., Mills, C. B., & Sparks Jr, J. V. (2014). Identity management in HIV-positive prisoners in Russia: A case study. Russian Journal of Communication, 1-12. 

Totenhagen, C. J., Curran, M. A., Serido, J., & Butler, E. A. (2013). Good days, bad days: Do sacrifices improve relationship quality? Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 30, 881-900. doi:10.1177/0265407512472475

Mills, C. B.  & Carwile, A. M. (2009). The good, the bad, and the borderline: Separating teasing from bullying. Communication Education, 58, 276-301.

Becker, J. A. H., Johnson, A. J., Craig, E. A., Gilchrist, E. S., Haigh, M. M., & Lane, L. T.(2009). Friendships are flexible, not fragile: Turning points in geographically close and long-distance friendships. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 26, 347-369. doi:10.1177/0265407509344310

Becker, J. A. H., Ellevold, B., & Stamp, G. H. (2008). The creation of defensiveness in social interaction II: A model of defensive communication among romantic couples. Communication Monographs, 75, 86-110. doi:10.1080/03637750701885415