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Andrew Herrmann

Dr. Andrew Herrmann’s communication research focuses on power, gender, and the narrative sensemaking processes of various organizational stakeholders, including employees during entry and exit, stockholders in online financial discussion boards, and volunteers at a start-up non-profit group. He uses qualitative methods including participant observation, in-depth interviewing, ethnography, and discourse analysis. Depending on the problem investigated, his research uses interpretive, critical, and postmodernist epistemological approaches. On the side, he researches the philosophy of Soren Kierkegaard and its application to the communication discipline.

His research can be found in Communication Theory, Journal of Business Communication, Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, and Qualitative Inquiry.

Frequently Taught Courses
Comm 1200 - Public Speaking
Comm 3571 - Group Decision Making Processes
Comm 4412 - Gender, Language, and Communication

Research interests
Organizational Sensemaking
Narrative Ethnography
Masculinities
Philosophy of Communication

Selected recent publications
Herrmann, A. F. (2008). Kierkegaard and dialogue: The communication of capability. Communication Theory, 18, 71-92.

Herrmann, A. F. (2007). “People get emotional about their money”: Performing masculinity in a financial discussion board. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 12(2), article 12. Available online: http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol12/issue2/herrmann.html

Herrmann, A. F. (2007). Stockholders in cyberspace: Weick’s sensemaking online. Journal of Business Communication, 44, 13-35.

Herrmann, A. F. (2007). How did we get this far apart? Disengagement, relational dialectics, and narrative control. Qualitative Inquiry, 13, 989-1007.

Andrew Herrmann

Visiting Assistant Professor

education: PhD, University of South Florida (2008)
email: herrmannaf@missouri.edu
office: 126 Switzler Hall
phone: 573-884-4128