Angela Gist-Mackey

Angela N. Gist-Mackey (Ph.D., University of Missouri) is Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at the University of Kansas with an expertise in organizational communication. 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. Dr. Gist-Mackey is an interpretive critical scholar who largely researches issues of social mobility and power related to organizational contexts. Her program of research frequently combines three areas of interest: social class, social identity, and organizational culture. She has published ethnographic research that analyzed the experiences of the unemployed across social class groups while they managed joblessness through organizational memberships. She has also examined the identity work and negotiation of individuals’ experiences as they cope with social mobility and/or stigma. Her most recent scholarship developed a grounded theory about the process of materially-bounded decision making for those living in financial instability. Her scholarship has been published in outlets such as Organization Studies, Communication Monographs, Communication Education, Qualitative Research Reports in Communication, and the International Encyclopedia of Organizational Communication among other outlets. Dr. Gist-Mackey teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in organizational communication about topics including social identity and stigma, dark side of organizational communication, organizational culture, relational dynamics in the workplace, and qualitative methodology. Feel free to visit her professional website to learn more: https://angelagistmackey.weebly.com/