Dennis Mumby

Professor and Chair
Organizational Communication

Current Research: My current research focuses on the relationships among discourse, power, and organizing. I am particularly interested in processes of control and resistance, and the ways in which this dialectic is discursively produced, maintained, and reproduced.  Relatedly, I am interested in exploring the relationship between gender and identity, and examining how processes of organizational control and resistance are tied to gendered organizational identities. For example, researchers have recently begun to focus on workplace masculinities in an effort to understand how different control and resistance practices are connected in complex ways to different forms of masculinity. In this context, I am interested in examining manifestations of white-collar masculinity in post-Fordist organizations.  I am also working on a textbook in Organizational Communication; it will be the first of its kind in the field to be written using Critical Theory as the organizing perspective.

Recent Publications:
May, S., & Mumby, D.K. (Eds.) (2005). Engaging Organizational Communication Theory and Research: Multiple Perspectives.  Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. 

Ashcraft, K. L., & Mumby, D. K. (2004).  Reworking Gender: A Feminist Communicology of Organization.  Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Mumby, D.K., & Ashcraft, K.L. (2006). Organizational Communication Studies and Gendered Organization: A Response to Martin and Collinson.  Gender, Work, and Organization, 13, 68-90.

Mumby, D. K. (2005).  Theorizing Resistance in Organization Studies: A Dialectical Approach.  Management Communication Quarterly, 19, 1-26.

Mumby, D. K. (In Press).  Organizational Communication.  In G. Ritzer (Ed.), The Encyclopedia of Sociology.  London: Blackwell, 2006.

Mumby, D. K. (2005).  Constructing Working Class Masculinity in the Workplace.  In J. Wood & S. Duck (Eds.), Composing Relationships: Communication in Everyday Life.  Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.


Courses Regularly Taught:
Undergraduate:
Introduction to Organizational Communication
Critical-Cultural Approaches to Organizational Commmunication

Graduate:
Critical Perspectives on Organizational Communication
Gender and Organization
Current Trends in Organizational Communication

Future/Projected Courses:
Organizational Communication and Cultural Studies
Organizing and Humor

Areas of Specialization: Organizational Communication; Critical Theory; Feminist Theory

Honors:
Fredric M. Jablin Memorial Award for Outstanding Member, Organizational Communication Division of the International Communication Association, 2005.

National Communication Association, Organizational Communication Division Research Award for Outstanding Scholarly Book, 2005.

National Communication Association, Organizational Communication Division Research Award for Outstanding Scholarly Book, 2004.

Professional Service:
Editorial Board Member for the following journals:
Communication Monographs
Communication Theory
Management Communication Quarterly
Human Relations
Discourse & Society

Vice-Chair, Organizational Communication Division, International Communication Association