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Debbie Dougherty
Associate Professor, and Director of Graduate Studies

education: PhD, University of Nebraska-Lincoln (2000)
email: DoughertyD@missouri.edu
office: 305 Switzler Hall
phone: 573-882-0300

Dr. Debbie Dougherty's scholarship focuses on emotion and power in the workplace. Her research on emotion has examined emotional intelligence, and sense-making and emotions in organizations. Her research on power has looked at power in acquisitions, but more often this line of inquiry has focused on sexual harassment. She has studied sexual harassment in a large health care organization, in a large government agency, and in the academy. Debbie is known for her expertise in feminist standpoint theory, and is a specialist in qualitative research methods. Her research has been published in Human Communication Research, Communication Yearbook, Management Communication Quarterly, Journal of Applied Communication Research, and more.

Debbie has distinguished herself as an outstanding researcher in the field of communication studies. She has been awarded 3 grants at MU, including a summer research fellowship. Her work as been recognized in the discipline through 8 top-four paper awards at both regional and national conferences.

Frequently Taught Courses
Com 4476 Organizational Communication
Com 4974 Senior Capstone
Com 8130 Seminar on Qualitative Methods

Research Interests
Organizational power, especially as it relates to sexual harassment
Emotion in organizations
Feminist standpoint theory

Selected Recent Publications
Dougherty, D. S., & Smythe, M. J. (in press). Sensemaking, organizational culture, and Sexual harassment. Journal of Applied Communication Research, 32.

Dougherty, D. S., & Krone, K. J. (2002). Emotional intelligence as organizational communication: An examination of the construct. Communication Yearbook, 26, 202-229.

Dougherty, D. S. (2001). Sexual harassment as [dys]functional process: A feminist standpoint analysis. Journal of Applied Communication Research, 29, 372-402.

Dougherty, D. S. (2001). Women's discursive construction of a sexual harassment paradox. Qualitative Research Reports in Communication, 2, 6-13.

Dougherty, D. S., & Krone, K. J. (2000). Overcoming the dichotomy: Cultivating standpoints in organizations through research. Women's Studies in Communication, 23, 16-41.