Dr. Pauly utilizes qualitative methods (i.e., interviews, focus groups, and ethnographic fieldwork) to explore organizations, gender, and religion. Her research and academic interests coupled with skillful networking have taken her across the world to Ghana, Denmark, Slovenia, Kenya, and Perú.
Publications
Pauly, J.A., Munz, S. M., Hernández, L. (forthcoming) Feminist Mentoring in Academia. Edited book in progress with Lexington Books.
Hernández, L., Munz, S. M., Pauly, J.A. (proposal accepted) Queer, Critical, and Women of Color Interventions in Feminist Mentorship Spaces. Edited book with The University of Illinois Press.
Pauly, J.A. (2022) In the name of Sister Spirit: How Catholic sisters frame and manage organizational tensions with the Church. Western Journal of Communication. doi: 10.1080/10570314.2022.2146465
King, M., Chernichky-Karcher, S., & Pauly, J. A. (2022). Hiccups and highlights of academic motherhood: Three accounts of cultivating community and friendship as an academic and a mom. In N. I. Pena Rivera, J. MacLennan, & D. Smith Silva, Mothering, Community, and Friendship. Ontario, Canada: Demeter.
Pauly, J. A., & Buzzanell, P. M. (2019). Gender and sexuality. In J. McDonald & R. Mitra (Eds.), Organizational communication theory and practice: Current trends and future directions. New York, NY: Routledge.
Eddington, S. M., & Pauly, J.A. (2019). Big shoes to fill: Organizational culture, mentorship, and networks during career change. In M. W. Kramer & R. S. Bisel (Eds.), Case studies in organizational communication: A lifespan approach.
Štumberger, N., & Pauly, J. A. (2018). Active, reactive, and proactive approaches to corporate volunteering in three countries. International Journal of Business Communication. doi: https://doi.org/10.1177/2329488418777038
Pauly, J.A. (2018). “It’s not Catholicism that is broken, it’s the structure”: Exploring how women discursively navigate the identities of Catholic and feminist. The Journal of Communication and Religion, 41(3), 32-45.
Pauly, J.A., & Buzzanell, P. M. (2017). Managerial communication. In M. Allen (Ed.), The SAGE Encyclopedia of Communication Research Methods. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781483381411.n312
Pauly, J.A., & Buzzanell, P. M. (2016). Considering difference in diversity management: A critical take on practices and policies around the world. Scandinavian Journal of Management. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1016/j.scaman.2016.03.001
Pauly, J.A. (2014) Complicating practice with success: Service-learning perspectives at a research-intensive university. Kaleidoscope: A Graduate Journal of Qualitative Communication Research, 13, 1-16.
Conference Papers and Presentations
Linabary, J., Long. Z., Eddington, S. M., Wilhoit Larson, E., Corple, D. J., Pauly, J. A. (2022, November). Feminist pedagogy collective: Reflections on feminist co-mentoring. Panel presentation at the annual conference of the National Communication Association, New Orleans, LA.
Buzzanell, P. M., Allen, J.A., Blevins, M.D., Munz, S., Hernández, L. H., Pauly, J. A. (2021, November). Excuses, exclusion, and erasure: Working to close a pay-gender gap. Panel presentation at the annual conference of the National Communication Association, Seattle, WA.
Hoke, H. G., Pauly, J. A., Schnabel, E. S., Bourne, J., McLemore, D. (2021, November). Faith practices and their effects: Religion in the midst of COVID-19. Panel presentation at the annual conference of the National Communication Association, Seattle, WA.
Buzzanell, P. M., Allen, J.A., Blevins, M.D., Munz, S., Hernández, L. H., Pauly, J. A. (2020, November). The crossroads of the gender pay gap: How one group of female faculty banded together to fight the pay gap and what they learned. Panel presentation at the annual conference of the National Communication Association, Virtual Event.
Eddington, S. M., Pauly, J. A., Tracy, S. J., Bennett, L. K., Brenneise, A. D., Prium, D. E., Kamrath, J. K., & Feister, M. K. (2019, November). Survival in the classroom: Pedagogical approaches to failure in the classroom. Panel presentation at the annual conference of the National Communication Association, Baltimore, MD.
Mitra, R., McDonald, J., Kuhn, T. R., Kopczynski, J., Kramer, M. W., Dailey, S., Tracy, S. J., Redden, S. M., Jian, G., Fairhurst, G. T., Buzzanell, P. M, Pauly, J. A., Cheney, G., Sullivan, K., May, S., Fyke, J. P., & Miller, K. (2018, November). Using LEGO playgroups to address current issues and future directions in organizational communication: Meta-theoretical, conceptual, and intergenerational play. Panel presentation at the annual conference of the National Communication Association, Salt Lake City, UT.
King, M., Chernichky-Karcher, S., & Pauly, J. A. (2018, October). Hiccups and highlights of academic motherhood: Three accounts of cultivating community and friendship as an academic and a mom. Paper presented at the Organization for the Study of Communication, Language, and Gender, South Lake Tahoe, NV.
Pauly, J.A., Štumberger, N., & Lundo, A. (2017, November). “I had a janteloven experience …”: A constitutive approach to organizing among Danish business students. Paper presented at the annual conference of the National Communication Association, Dallas, TX.
Pauly, J.A. (2017, October). Authoring Organizational Tensions within the Roman Catholic Church: Women Religious Organize for Themselves. Paper presented at the Organizational Communication Mini-Conference, Athens, OH.
Pauly, J. A., Long, Z., Eddington, S., Hughes-Kirchubel, L., Buzzanell, P. M., Kokini, K. (2017, May). The communicative constitution of Faculty Learning Communities: A four flows approach to new faculty organizing. Paper presented at the annual conference of the International Association of Communication, San Diego, CA.
Štumberger, N., & Pauly, J. A. (2017, May). Active, reactive, and proactive CSR: Discursive constructions of employee volunteering across three countries. Poster presented at the annual conference of the International Association of Communication, San Diego, CA.
Ashee, K., Belack, L., Eddington, S., Pauly, J. A., D’Enbeau, S., Roman, N., Socha, D. (2016, October). Theorizing transgressive social change among intersectional identities, spaces, and places. Panel presentation at the Organization for the Study of Communication, Language, and Gender, Oak Park, IL.
Connaughton, S. L., Pauly, J. A., Linabary, J., Yakova, L., Krishna, A., Štumberger, N., & Ptacek, J. (2016, November). Organizing to identify and identifying to organize: The unanticipated endurance of identifications in a voluntary social collective. Paper presented at the annual conference of the National Communication Association, Philadelphia, PA.
Linabary, J.R., Connaughton, S.L., Ptacek, J., Krishna, A., Pauly, J. A., Vibber, K., & Anaele, A. (2016, November). ‘Soldier on’: Navigating gender, vulnerability, and emotions in the field. Paper presented at the annual conference of the National Communication Association, Philadelphia, PA.
Pauly, J.A., Štumberger, N., & Connaughton, S. L. (2016, September). Serving peace: The role of religious leaders in the peacebuilding process in northern Ghana. Paper presented at the International Conference on Communication and Media, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Štumberger, N., Pauly, J.A., & Connaughton, S. L. (2016, September). A communicative approach to CSR and business-conflict linkages: Constituting and sustaining corporate engagement in peacebuilding through local voices. Paper presented at the International Conference on Communication and Media, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Long, Z., Eddington, S. M., Pauly, J. A., Hughes-Kirchubel, L., Kokini, K., & Buzzanell, P. M. (2016, June). Understanding the participation, perceptions, and impacts of Engineering Faculty Learning Communities: A mixed methods approach. Paper presented at the Proceedings of the 2016 American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE) Annual Conference, New Orleans, LA.
Connaughton, S.L., Linabary, J.R., Yakova, L., Krishna, A., Kuang, K., Štumberger, N., Pauly, J. A., & Anaele, A. (2016, May). “Did we get it right?”: Navigating emergent tensions in assessing the impact of an engaged organizational communication initiative. Paper presented at the annual conference of the International Communication Association, Fukuoka, Japan.
Pauly, J. A. (2015, November). “It’s not Catholicism that is broken, it’s the structure”: Exploring how women discursively navigate the identities of Catholic and feminist. Paper presented at the annual conference of the National Communication Association, Las Vegas, NV.
Pauly, J. A. (2015, November). The precarious nature of religious research: At the intersection of feminism and Catholicism. Paper presented at the annual conference of the National Women’s Studies Association, Milwaukee, WI.
Buzzanell, P., D’Enbeau, S., McDonald, D., Glenn, C., Eddington, S., & Pauly, J. A. (2015, October). (Un)contested feminist ideological terrains. Panel presentation at the Organization for the Study of Communication, Language and Gender, Bowling Green, KY.
Pauly, J. A. (2015, February). “I don’t generally go there”: Exploring how women discursively navigate the Catholic-feminist identity. Paper presented at the Communication Graduate Student Association Conference, Lafayette, IN.
Pauly, J. A. (2013, November). Complicating practice with success: Service-learning perspectives at a research-intensive university. Paper presented at the National Communication Association, Washington, D.C.
Pauly, J. A. (2012, October). Game of the sexes: An analysis of power struggle and gender roles in Game of Thrones. Paper presented at the Organization for the Study of Communication, Language and Gender, Tacoma, WA.