Jennifer Mize Smith, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Phone: 270-745-5147
eMail: Jennifer.Mize.Smith@wku.edu
Ph.D., Purdue University, 2006
M.P.A., University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
B.A., Western Kentucky University
Address:
165 Fine Arts Center
Western Kentucky University
Bowling Green, KY 42101
Teaching Interests:
Organizational Communication, Nonprofit Communication and Management, Qualitative Methods, Issues Management, Business and Professional Speaking, and special topics including Career Discourse, Identity Construction, and Special Event Planning
Research Interests:
Organizational identification
Work identity
Fundraising discourse
Communication processes in non-profit organizational contexts
Quick Biography:
Jennifer completed her doctoral degree in organizational communication at Purdue University. Her dissertation research focuses on corporate philanthropy, workplace fundraising, and identity construction. More specifically, she is exploring how charitable giving is talked about at work and how a company's espoused philanthropic values might influence employees' philanthropic identity and charitable giving behavior.