# overview
Dr. Wolfe's research is centrally concerned with understanding how we can disagree with each other without being violently disagreeable. In pursuit of this goal, she has investigated how individuals use language to form collective identities with and against others, how leaders use narratives to mobilize those collectivities for action, and how processes of dialogue and deliberation can build bridges between oppositional stakeholders to facilitate the achievement of deeper shared understandings and more democratic public decisions. Her work has been published in journals such as Journal of Communication, Management Communication Quarterly, and Journal of Applied Communication Research. Her co-authored book, Sex and Stigma: Stories of Everyday Life in Nevada's Legal Brothels received the 2019 Book of the Year Award from the Critical Cultural Studies Division of the National Communication Association; Outstanding Book Award from the Organization for the Study of Communication, Language, and Gender; and Honorable Mention for the Sarah A. Whaley Book Prize from the National Women's Studies Association. She is also a member of the planning team for the Aspen Conference, a community of engaged organizational communication scholars focused on developing practical theory and collaborative research that bridge academic-practitioner interests. Consistent with the commitments of engaged organizational communication research, much of Dr. Wolfe's current work is conducted in collaboration with community partners, especially local governments, to use communication theory in the service of addressing everyday problems of living in a pluralistic society.

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Ohio University - (Athens, Ohio, United States)

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Georgetown College - (Georgetown, Kentucky, United States)

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Ohio University - (Athens, Ohio, United States)

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Sex and Stigma Stories of Everyday Life in Nevada's Legal Brothels Brothels as Hidden Organizations

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Dialogue and deliberation as agonistic resistance: Designing interactional processes to reconstitute collective identities

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Local Art, Local Action: A Proposal for Deliberating on and about Main Street

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The promise and perils of interracial dialogue

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Managing Image in a Core-Stigmatized Organization: Concealment and Revelation in Nevada's Legal Brothels

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Sex and Stigma Stories of Everyday Life in Nevada's Legal Brothels Exploring Inequalities and Moral Judgments in Legal Prostitution Introduction

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Embodying imperfect unity: womanhood and synchronicity in anti-war protest

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16 Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions

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HEARING ALL SIDES? SOLICITING AND MANAGING DIFFERENT VIEWPOINTS IN DELIBERATION

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(Dis)Engagement and Everyday Democracy in Stigmatized Places: Addressing Brain Drain in the Rural United States

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Storytelling and Deliberative Play in the Oregon Citizens' Assembly Online Pilot on COVID-19 Recovery

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Discursive Strategies of Civil Disagreement in Public Dialogue Groups

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Cases in Organizational and Managerial Communication, Stretching Boundaries

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Sex and Stigma Stories of Everyday Life in Nevada's Legal Brothels New Directions for Ethnographic Methods Creative Data Collection, Analysis, and Presentation

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Special Issue Forum: Navigating Privilege and Risk: Mothering and Professing During COVID-19

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Sense of Community and Migration Intentions among Rural Young Professionals

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Sex and Stigma Stories of Everyday Life in Nevadas Legal Brothels

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Sex and Stigma Stories of Everyday Life in Nevada's Legal Brothels Photographing Legal Prostitution The Art and Work of Priscilla Varner

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Sex and Stigma Stories of Everyday Life in Nevada's Legal Brothels Managing Work-Life Commitments in Legal Prostitution

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Sex and Stigma Stories of Everyday Life in Nevada's Legal Brothels The History and Laws of Nevada's Legal Brothels

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Developing a grounded practical theory of engaged communication scholarship: theorizing communities of practice in NCA journals

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Authorial Incongruity and Organizational Presence(s): A Ventriloquial Analysis of Shadowed Organization

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Sex and Stigma Stories of Everyday Life in Nevada's Legal Brothels When Transferable Skills Can't Transfer

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Organizing collective action amid the ripple effects of change: narratives of crisis, disaster, and opportunity

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Conducting fieldwork at and away from home: shifting researcher positionality with mobile interviewing methods

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Work-life management in legal prostitution: Stigma and lockdown in Nevada's brothels

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Narrative spaces between intractability outside the clinic.

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Dirty Workers' Management of Hidden Emotions: Selling Intimacy and Seeking Social Support through the Shroud of Secrecy

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Sex and Stigma Stories of Everyday Life in Nevada's Legal Brothels Theories of Organizing, Secrecy, and Stigma

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Sex and Stigma Stories of Everyday Life in Nevada's Legal Brothels Life after the Brothel

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Sex and Stigma Stories of Everyday Life in Nevada's Legal Brothels The Story of Our Collaboration Preface

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Sex and Stigma Stories of Everyday Life in Nevada's Legal Brothels Selling Intimacy Emotional Experiences of Sex Work

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Texas A&M University; Communication; 4234 TAMU