Cristin Compton
Biography
Cristin A. Compton, Ph.D., is an assistant professor in the School of Communication Studies. She teaches courses in organizational communication, gender and communication and qualitative methods.
Compton’s scholarship centers on power, identity work and organizing processes. Specifically, she focuses on exploring how sexuality, gender and power intersect to organize people and their lived experiences. Her work critically examines how identity work processes and identity constructs are constructed, maintained and organized around. Her research has been published in journals such as Management Communication Quarterly and Journal of Communication.
She earned a bachelor's degree in speech communication, music and global studies from Drury University; a master's degree in communication studies from Missouri State University; and a doctorate in organizational communication from the University of Missouri - Columbia. While at the University of Missouri, Compton served as a graduate research and teaching assistant, an interim basic course director and a postdoctoral fellow.
SCHOLARLY, CREATIVE & PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
- Gist-Mackey, A. N., & Compton, C. A. (2024). Ethnographic approaches to qualitative organizational communication research. In B. H. J. M. Brummans, A. Sivunen, & B. C. Taylor (Eds.), The Sage handbook of qualitative research in organizational communication (pp. 23-44). Sage Publications.
- Brandhorst, J. K., Compton C. A., Solon, K. N., Huyler, D., McGill, C. M., & Barnhart, L. (2023). What can grounded theory do for Human Resources Development? An approach for post-pandemic research and beyond. Human Resources Development, 22(1). https://doi.org/10.1177/15344843221149309
- Wilcox, C. D., & Compton, C. A. (2023). Beyond the screen: Exploring vaporwave musicians’ communicative identity work. Communication Studies, 74(1), https://doi.org/10.1080/10510974.2023.2166553
- Brandhorst, J. K. & Compton, C. A. (2022) Constructing barriers to Employee Assistance Program use by federal correctional officers. Journal of Applied Communication Research. https:/doi.org/10.1080/00909882.2022.2032269
- Compton, C. A. & Brandhorst, J. K. (2021). Prison is power: Federal correctional officers, gender, and professional identity work. Gender, Work, & Organization, 28(4). https://doi.org/10.1111/gwao.12683.
- Branton, S., & Compton, C. A. (2021). There’s no such thing as a gay bar: Co- sexuality and the neoliberal branding of queer spaces. Management Communication Quarterly, 35(1), doi: 10.1177/0893318920972113
- Compton, C. A. (2019). Communicatively navigating identities, silence, and social protest. Communication Studies. doi:10.1080/00918369.2019.1582220
- Compton, C. A. (2019). Co-sexuality and organizing: The master narrative of “normal” sexuality in the Midwestern workplace. Journal of Homosexuality. doi: 10.1080/00918369.2019.1582220
- Child, J. T. & Compton, C. A. (2019). Deathbed disclosure: Managing privacy boundaries at the end of life. In C. Liberman, T. Avtgis, A. Rancer, and E. MacGeorge (Eds.) Casing communication theory.
- Keyton, J., Clair, R., Compton, C. A., Dougherty, D. S., Berthoud, D. F., Manning, J., & Scarduzio, J. (2018). Addressing sexual harassment in a sexually charged national culture: A Journal of Applied Communication Research forum. Journal of Applied Communication Research, 46(6), 665–683. doi: 10.1080/00909882.2018.1546472
- Compton, C. A. & Dougherty, D. S. (2017). Organizing sexuality: Silencing and the push-pull process of co-sexuality in the workplace. Journal of Communication, 67(6), 874-896. doi: 10.1111/jcom.12336
- Compton, C. A. (2016). Managing mixed messages: Sexual identity management in a changing United States workplace. Management Communication Quarterly, 30(4), 415-440. doi: 10.1177/0893318916641215
- Koch, M. A. & Compton, C. A. (2015). Corporate colonization in the market: Discursive closures and the greenwashing of food discourse. In S. Boerboom (Ed.) The political language of food. (239-262). London: Lexington Books, U.K.
Education
MA in Communication Studies- Missouri State University, Springfield, MO
BA in Speech Communication- Drury University, Springfield, MO
Expertise
Organizational Communication
Gender and Communication
Qualitative methods
