Patricia Parker

Associate Professor
Organizational Communication

Current Research: Broadly, my research examines the social construction of race, gender, and class in organization processes, with a central focus on work socialization, leadership, and empowerment for women and girls. My current work explores leadership development and career socialization among African American teen girls in low-income neighborhoods.

Recent Publications:
Parker, P. S. (2005).Race, Gender, and Leadership: Re-envisioning Organizational Leadership from the Perspectives of African American Women Executives. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. (Series in Communication Studies: Jennings Bryant, Series Editor; Linda L. Putnam, Advisory Editor).

Parker, P. S. (2006). Keeping It Real: Race, Difference, and Corporate Ethics at Coca-Cola.  In S. K. May (Ed.), Case Studies in Organizational Communication:  Ethical Perspectives and Practices.  Thousand Oaks, CA:  Sage.

Parker, P. S. (in press). Always at Risk?: African American Women Faculty and Graduate Students Navigating Raced and Gendered Communicative Contexts in Predominantly White Colleges and Universities. In D. Cleveland, (Ed.), When Minorities are Especially Encouraged to Apply: Addressing Diversity and Affirmative Action in PWI’s. Peter Lang.

Parker, P. S. (2003). Learning Leadership:  Communication, Resistance, and African American Women's Executive Leadership Development. Electronic Journal of Communication, 13 (2,3).

Parker, P. S. (2003). Control, Power, and Resistance within Raced, Gendered, and Classed Work Contexts: The Case of African American Women. Communication Yearbook 27, 257-291.

Courses Regularly Taught: Communication and Leadership; Group Communication; Interpretive Studies in Organizational Communication; Seminar in Race, Ethnicity, and Organization  

Areas of Specialization: Race, Gender, Class and Work Socialization; Women's Leadership and Empowerment; Executive Women's Leadership

Honors:
Kauffman Faculty Fellow, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2006-2007

Scholar in Residence, Center for Urban and Regional Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 2005

Affiliate Fellow, Institute of African American Research, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 2003 to Present

Burress Fellow, Institute for the Arts and Humanities, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2002 to Present

Professional Service: Division Vice Chair, National Communication Association, 

Current/Recent Work with Graduate Students: Manuscript under preparation with Jennifer Mease, PhD candidate: "Disrupting the Production of White Racial Privilege through Organizational Practices."