Erika L . Dakin Kirby, PhD

Department

Communication Studies

Position

Professor

Books

• Organizational Communication Theory and Research
  Krone Kathleen J, Dakin Kirby Erika L, Organizing Social Change [Book Chapter] 2024
• Handbook of International and Cross-Cultural Leadership Research Processes
  Malik Surbhi, Kirby Erika L. Dakin, Walker Sarah Singletary, Race, Whiteness, Intersectionality, and Teaching International Leadership Research [Book Chapter] 2021
• Communication and Learning
  McBride M. Chad, Kirby Erika L., Bergen Karla Mason, Wahl Shawn T., Norander Stephanie, Robinson Tucker, Social Identities in the Classroom [Book Chapter] 2016
• The SAGE Handbook of Conflict Communication: Integrating Theory, Research, and Practice
  Kirby Erika L., Wieland S. M. B., McBride Chad, Work-Life Conflict [Book Chapter] 2013
• Reframing Difference in Organizational Communication Studies : Research, Pedagogy, Practice
  Kirby Erika, “But society is beyond ___ism” (?) [Book Chapter] 2011
• Reframing difference in organizational communication studies: Research, pedagogy, and practice
  Kirby Erika L., But society is beyond____ism: Teaching how differences are organized via institutional privilege-oppression [Book Chapter] 2010
• Contemplating maternity in the era of choice: Explorations into discourses of reproduction
  Bute J. J., Harter L. M., Kirby Erika L., Thompson M., Politicizing the personal? The storying of age-related infertility in public discourses [Book Chapter] 2010
• Participatory partnerships for social action and research
  Kirby Erika L., Commentary: The philosophy of 'Co-”: Acting with to maximize potential in participatory partnerships [Book Chapter] 2010
• Communicating for social impact : engaging communication theory, research, and pedagogy
  Kirby Erika L., Leighter James L., Bonewits Feldner S., Turner L. H., McBride M. Chad, Tye-Williams Stacy, Ortega Murphy B., Exploring the basement of social justice issues- A graduate upon graduation [Book Chapter] 2009
• Gender actualized: Cases in communicatively constructing realities
  McBride Chad, Kirby Erika L., Undercover moms, Family CEOs and 'opted out' moms: Work-life possibilities for women [Book Chapter] 2009
• Gender actualized: Cases in communicatively constructing realities
  McBride Chad, Kirby Erika L., 'You're totally her work husband:' Managing misperceptions of the 'work-spouse' relationship [Book Chapter] 2009
• Kirby Erika L, McBride M. Chad, Gender actualized 2009
• Building Multicultural Competency: development, training, and practice
  Fleming Patricia A., Kirby Erika L., Grandbois Gerald H., Chiwengo Ngwarsungu, Pierce John E., Welch Ashton W., Creighton University: Beyond the conceptual: diversity education for faculty [Book Chapter] 2008
• International and Intercultural Communication Annual
  Kirby Erika L., Organizing to 'meet like real Americans' The case of a Hmong nonprofit organization [Book Chapter] 2007
• Sage Handbook of conflict communication
  Kirby Erika L., McBride M. Chad, Work-life communication [Book Chapter] 2006
• Reading "Desperate Housewives": Beyond the white picket fence
  Shuler Sherianne, McBride M. Chad, Kirby Erika L., Desperation loves company: Female friendships and the facade of female intimacy [Book Chapter] 2006
• The SAGE Handbook of Conflict Communication : Integrating Theory, Research, and Practice
  Kirby Erika L., Wieland Stacey M., McBride M. Chad, Work/life conflict [Book Chapter] 2006
• Engaging Theories in Family Communication : Multiple Perspectives
  Krone Kathleen J., Kirby Erika L., Schrodt Paul, Structuration theory [Book Chapter] 2006
• Organizational communication: Understanding communication processes
  Kirby Erika L., Your attitude determines your altitude: Reflecting on a company-sponsored mountain climb [Book Chapter] 2006
• Organizational Communication Volume 4: Participation, Power and Gender
  Kirby Erika L., Krone K. J., The policy exists but you can't really use it: Communication and the structuration of work-family policies [Book Chapter] 2006
• Narratives, Health, and Healing : Communication Theory, Research, and Practice
  Harter Lynn M., Kirby Erika L., Edwards Autumn, McClanahan Andrea, Time, technology, and meritocracy [Book Chapter] 2005
• Narratives of health and healing
  Kirby Erika L., Harter L. M., McClanahan A., Edwards A., Time, technology and meritocracy: Narratively constructing age-related infertility [Book Chapter] 2005
• Basic Course Communication Annual 16
  Kirby Erika L., Harter L. M., Hatfield K. L., Kuhlman K., From spectators of public affairs to agents of social change: Engaging students in the basic course through service-learning [Book Chapter] 2004

General

• Kirby Erika L., McBride M. Chad, Gender Acutalized: Cases in the Communicative Construction of Realities 2009

Publications

• Women and language
  Kirby Erika, Measure in Love: In Honor of M. Chad McBride
  44:1, p. 165 - 169 2021
• Journal of communication pedagogy (Print)
  Riforgiate Sarah, Gattoni Ali, Kirby Erika, Organizing the Organizational Communication Course: Content and Pedagogical Recommendations
  2, p. 7 - 11 2019
• Communication Teacher
  Kirby Erika L., Encountering My Privilege (and Others' Oppression)
  30:3, p. 172 - 178 2016
• Journal of Family Communication
  Kirby Erika L., Riforgiate S. E., Anderson I. K., Lahman M. P., Lietzenmayer A. M., Good Working Mothers as Jugglers: A Critical Look at Two Work–Family Balance Films
  16:1, p. 76 - 93 2016
• Management Communication Quarterly
  Kirby Erika L., Koschmann M. A., Forum Introduction: Communication-Centered Contributions to Advancing Scholarship in/of Nonprofit and Voluntary Organizations
  26:1, p. 133 - 138 2012
• Women and Language
  Kirby Erika L., When Women 'Opt' Into and Out of Paid Work
  33:1, p. 133 - 134 2010
• Women and Language
  Harter Lynn, Kirby Erika L., Gerbensky-Kerber Anne, Enacting and Disrupting the Single-Sex Mandate of the YWCA: A Poststructural Feminist Analysis of Separatism as an Organizing Strategy
  33:1, p. 9 - 28 2010
• Journal of Research Practice
  Geist-Martin Patricia, Gates Lisa, Wiering Liesbeth, Kirby Erika, Houston Renee, Lilly Anne, Moreno Juan, Exemplifying collaborative autoethnographic practice via shared stories of mothering
  6:1 2010
• McBride Chad, Kirby Erika, Communicating Gender Diversity: A Critical Approach 2008
• Management communication quarterly
  Kirby Erika, Reworking Gender: A Feminist Communicology of Organization , by Karen L. Ashcraft and Dennis K. Mumby
  21:2, p. 284 - 294 2007
• Journal of Family Communication
  Bergen Karla M., McBride M. Chad, Kirby Erika L., 'How Do You Get Two Houses Cleaned?': Accomplishing Family Caregiving in Commuter Marriages
  7:4, p. 287 - 307 2007
• Communication Monographs
  Kirby Erika L., 'Helping you make room in your life for your needs'
  73:4, p. 474 - 480 2006
• Communication Studies
  Kirby Erika L., McBride M. Chad, Shuler Sherianne, Birkholt Marty J., Danielson Mary Ann, Pawlowski Donna R., The jesuit difference (?)
  57:1, p. 87 - 105 2006
• Annals of the International Communication Association
  Golden Annis G., Kirby Erika L., Jorgenson Jane, Work-life research from both sides now: An integrative perspective for organizational and family communication. In C. Beck (Ed.), Communication Yearbook 30 Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum
  30:1, p. 143 - 195 2006
• Electronic Journal of Commncation/Le Review de electronique de Communication
  Kirby Erika L., Communication and the accomplishment of personal and professional life: An introduction
  16:3-4 2006
• Electronic Journal of Communication/Le Review de electronique de Communication
  Kirby Erika L., Simpson J. L., 'Choices' for whom?: A communicative response to the 'opt-out revolution' through a white privilege/social class lens.
  16:3-4 2006
• Communication Currents
  Kirby Erika L., Making theory practical: policy development as an illustration of structuration 2006
• Management Communication Quarterly
  Medved Caryn E., Kirby Erika L., Family CEOs: a feminist analysis of corporate mothering discourses
  18:4, p. 435 - 478 2005
• Communication Studies
  Harter Lynn M., Kirby Erika L., Socializing medical students in an era of managed care
  55:1, p. 48 - 67 2004
• Communication Teacher
  Kirby Erika L., Communication research methods
  18, p. 124 - 127 2004
• Communication Teacher
  Kirby Erika L., Morgan J. M., Performing and resisting scripts of servitude to illustrate critical theory concepts in organizational communication
  18, p. 82 - 86 2004
• Journal of Business Communication
  Kirby Erika L., Harter Lynn M., Speaking the language of the bottom-line
  40:1, p. 28 - 49 2003
• Annals of the International Communication Association
  Kirby Erika L., Golden Annis G., Medved Caryn E., Jorgenson Jane, Buzzanell Patrice M., An organizational communication challenge to the discourse of work and family research: From problematics to empowerment
  27:1, p. 1 - 43 2003
• Journal of Applied Communication Research
  Kirby E., Krone K., 'The policy exists but you can't really use it'
  30:1, p. 50 - 77 2002
• Management Communication Quarterly
  Kirby Erika L., Discourses of diversity and the quality of work life
  15:1, p. 121 - 127 2001

Grants

• Presences and Absences: Food (In)Securities, Untold Stories, and Restrictive Policies/Sponsor: CURAS Summer Faculty Research Fellowship

Awards

• 2015 Charles Woolbert Award
  The award is given to a journal article or book chapter that has stood the test of time and has become a stimulus for new conceptualizations of communication phenomena. Thus, the award will be reserved for an article or book chapter that at the time of the award is in its 10th through 15th year in print and has not previously received an NCA-sponsored award.
  National Communication Association
• Book of the Year Award
  Special Mention for the Organization for the Study of Communication, Language, and Gender (OSCLG) Book of the Year award for Gender Actualized: Cases in the Communicative Construction of Gender(ed) Identities (2010; with Dr. Chad McBride).
  Organization for the Study of Communication, Language, and Gender (OSCLG)

Consulting

• Facilitated Strategic Planning Retreat
  Facilitated Strategic Planning Retreat for the Mildred D. Brown Memorial Study Center (2012).
  Mildred D. Brown Memorial Study Center
  2012
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  Provided assessment to HDR and the Greater Omaha Chamber of Commerce on perceptions of the South Omaha Development Project with students in COM 463 (2011).
  HDR and the Greater Omaha Chamber of Commerce
  2011
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  Provided assessment to the Committee on the Status of Women on perceptions of the committee (collected through surveys) with students in COM 463 (2010).
  Committee on the Status of Women
  2010
• Provided assessment
  Provided assessment to well-e bands on perceptions of the product (collected through focus groups and interviews) with students in COM 463 (2010).
  well-e bands
  2010