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Senior Lecturer

Communication Studies

Email Address: jmsimon@uncg.edu

Phone: 336.334.3836

Education

Ph.D. Communication Studies, University of Denver
M.A. Communication Studies, Wichita State University
B.A. Political Science, Wichita State University

Courses Taught

  • CST 208: Organizational Communication
  • CST 298: Communication Inquiry
  • CST 460: Event Planning

Research

Social Movement Research, Health Communication, Communication and Collaboration, Gender and Feminist Studies

Selected Publications

Schwartzman, R., & Simon, J. S. (2023). Weaponizing resilience: Women in the trenches and fringes of pandemic pedagogy. Proceedings of the sixth international conference on gender research. Reading, UK: Academic Conferences and Publishing International. [International]

Schwartzman, R., & Simon, J. M. (2021). COVIDiots and cogency: Heuristic dynamics of defying pandemic health measures. In Rationalist bias in communication theory (pp. 62 – 85). Information and Science Reference.

Olson, L. & Simon, J. (2019). An Ideological Analysis of Breastfeeding in Contemporary
America: Disciplining the Maternal Body. Lexington Books. [ISBN: 9781498531290]

Simon, J. and Brooks, A. (2018). The “first” coverage of the First Lady: E-racing the ‘Mom-in Chief.’” Women & Language, 40, p. 15 – 35. [National]

Natalle, E.J., and Simon, J. (2015). Michelle Obama: First lady, American rhetor. Lexington
Books. [ISBN: 9781498512220]

Foust, C.R., and Simon, J. (2015). Memories of movement in a postfeminist context: Conservative Fusion in the Rhetoric of Tammy Bruce and “Dr. Laura” Schlessinger. Western Journal of Communication, 79, 1– 21. [National]

Simon, J. (2014). Disciplining drunken mothers: Media representations of women’s use of alcohol. Communication Review, 17, 45 – 64. [National]