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Angela Gist-Mackey, Ph.D. (name pronunciation) (B.S., Journalism and Advertising, Ohio University, 2003; M.M.C., Mass Communication and Advertising, University of Georgia, 2004; Ph.D. University of Missouri, 2014) is an organizational communication scholar and tenured Associate Professor at the University of Kansas in the Department of Communication Studies. After her career in the advertising industry where she served as a Senior Account Executive managing campaigns for regional, national, and global consumer and business-to-business brands, she decided to pursue a doctorate in communication. She is an interpretive critical scholar who largely researches issues of social mobility and power in organized contexts. Her program of research frequently explores topics related to social class, stigmatized social identities, and organizational culture. Dr. Gist-Mackey has conducted critical, comparative ethnographic research that analyzed the experiences of the unemployed across social class (i.e. white-collar and blue-collar) lines while they managed joblessness through organizational support groups. She has also examined the identity work and negotiation of individuals’ experiences as they cope with social mobility and/or stigma. Much of Dr. Gist-Mackey’s research is engaged scholarship partnering with local, regional, and campus organizations to provide insightful recommendations for improving their programming. Her scholarship has been published in outlets such as Organization Studies, Communication Monographs, Journal of Applied Communication Research, Management Communication Quarterly, Departures in Critical Qualitative Research, and Communication Education among other outlets. She teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in organizational communication, interviewing, organizational culture, identity, toxic organizational communication and behavior, and qualitative methods. She has presented numerous first-authored, competitively reviewed conference papers for the International Communication Association, National Communication Association, and Central States Communication Association. Dr. Gist-Mackey's scholarship has been grant funded by the American Association of University Women and the National Communication Association. She has taught a variety of courses at the collegiate level including: public speaking, public speaking for business, organizational communication, the dark side of organizational communication, business and professional communication, interviewing, qualitative methodology, relational communication at work, and organizational culture.
Dr. Gist-Mackey served as the faculty advisor of the Alpha Mu chapter of Lambda Pi Eta, a nationally recognized communication honor society from 2014-2020. In 2017, 2018, and 2021 Dr. Gist-Mackey won Donn W. Parson Mentor of the Year award at the University of Kansas. In 2019, she won the best article of the year award from the Ethnography Division of the National Communication Association for her research titled, (Dis)embodied Job Search Communication Training: Comparative critical ethnographic analysis of materiality and discourse during the unequal search for work, published in Organization Studies. In 2020, she won the best article of the year award from the Ethnography Division of the National Communication Association for a collaboratively authored forum titled, Pushing Beyond Positionalities and Through “Failures” in Qualitative Organizational Communication: Experiences and Lessons on Identities in Ethnographic Praxis, published in Management Communication Quarterly. In 2021, she was the recipient of the Community Engaged Scholarship Award from the University of Kansas College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
Dr. Gist-Mackey resides in metropolitan Kansas City with her spouse Dr. Charlie Mackey Jr. and enjoys spending time with her family including her stepdaughter Kendra Mackey and their Yorkshire Terriers Kujo and Gizmo. Together they love to travel, laugh, and have fun.
To learn more about Dr. Angela Gist-Mackey's institutional affiliation please visit: https://coms.ku.edu/people/angela-gist-mackey.
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Dr. Gist-Mackey served as the faculty advisor of the Alpha Mu chapter of Lambda Pi Eta, a nationally recognized communication honor society from 2014-2020. In 2017, 2018, and 2021 Dr. Gist-Mackey won Donn W. Parson Mentor of the Year award at the University of Kansas. In 2019, she won the best article of the year award from the Ethnography Division of the National Communication Association for her research titled, (Dis)embodied Job Search Communication Training: Comparative critical ethnographic analysis of materiality and discourse during the unequal search for work, published in Organization Studies. In 2020, she won the best article of the year award from the Ethnography Division of the National Communication Association for a collaboratively authored forum titled, Pushing Beyond Positionalities and Through “Failures” in Qualitative Organizational Communication: Experiences and Lessons on Identities in Ethnographic Praxis, published in Management Communication Quarterly. In 2021, she was the recipient of the Community Engaged Scholarship Award from the University of Kansas College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
Dr. Gist-Mackey resides in metropolitan Kansas City with her spouse Dr. Charlie Mackey Jr. and enjoys spending time with her family including her stepdaughter Kendra Mackey and their Yorkshire Terriers Kujo and Gizmo. Together they love to travel, laugh, and have fun.
To learn more about Dr. Angela Gist-Mackey's institutional affiliation please visit: https://coms.ku.edu/people/angela-gist-mackey.
© 2023 All Rights Reserved - Dr. Angela Gist-Mackey