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Christine Davis

Communication Studies
aging
children's health and disability
communication and disability
communication studies
end of life communication
health
health communication
Health Humanities
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mental health
vulnerable populations
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Cris_Davis_Fall_WebChristine S. Davis Vita

And here I am chatting about my book Communicating Hope:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0a46CSZk27Q

Education

  • B.A., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1979
  • M.A., University of North Carolina, Greensboro, 1999
  • Ph.D., University of South Florida, 2005

Areas of Interest

  • Health Communication, with an emphasis on mental health, disability, aging, end-of-life communication, family communication, patient-provider communication, and group communication.
  • Research Methods, with a an emphasis on narratives, ethnography, and autoethnography.

Research
Dr. Davis has recently published:

Davis, C S., & Crane, J. L., (Eds.). (2020). The Personal is Political: Body politics in a Trump world. Boston, MA: Brill/Sense.

Davis, C. S., & Crane, J. L. (2019). End of life communication: Stories from the Dead Zone. New York, NY: Routledge.

Davis, C. S., Arnold, A., Jovanovic, S., & Mackie, C. T. (2020). Narrative inheritance: Reflections on Montgomery, Alabama’s National Memorial for Peace and Justice. Journal of Autoethnography.

 Davis, C. S., Snider, M. J., King, L., Shukraft, A., Sonda, J. D., Hicks, L., & Irvin, L. (2019). A Time to Live and a Time to Die: Heterotopian Spatialities and Temporalities in a Pediatric Palliative Care Team. Health Communication,24(9), 931-941. doi: 10.1080/10410236.2018.1443262 

Crane, J. L., & Davis, C. S. (2019). Walking and talking with the Lord: Teleological Curation, Salvation, and the Billy Graham Library. Cultural Studies <=> Critical Methodologies, 19(1), 15-26.

Crane, J. L., & Davis, C. S. (2018). Child’s play: The role of play in mitigating the fear of death among Pediatric Palliative Care Team patients, families, and caregivers. Journal of Loss and Trauma, 4, 317-334.

Davis, C. S., & Breede, D.C. (2018). Talking through Death: Communicating about Death in Interpersonal, Mediated, and Cultural Contexts. New York, NY: Routledge.

Davis, C.S., & Lachlan, K. (2017). Straight talk about communication research methods (3rd Ed.). Dubuque, IA: Kendall-Hunt.

Davis, C. S., Stamper, B. J., & Brais, S. J. (2017). A Student-Centered workbook to Accompany Straight Talk about Communication Research Methods. Dubuque, IA: Kendall-Hunt.

Davis, C. S. (2016). Focus Groups: Applying Communication Theory through Design, Facilitation and Analysis. New York, NY: Routledge.

Davis, C. S. (2013). Conversations about qualitative communication scholarship: Behind the scenes with leading scholars. Walnut Creek, CA: Left Coast Press.

Davis, C. S. (2013). Communicating hope: An ethnography of a children’s mental health care team. Walnut Creek, CA:  Left Coast Press.

Davis, C.S. (2010). Death: The Beginning of a Relationship. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press.

Amazon.com Author Page 

She is also currently working on projects related to:

  • Body politics and necropolitics, the way in which death or the threat of death is used as a tool for power, coercion, and control (Mbembe)
    • Body politics in Magdalen Laundries in Ireland
    • Body politics in the current U.S. political climate
  • Social construction at end-of-life in eulogies, cemeteries, horror films, ghost hunting

Teaching Courses

  • Communication Research Methods, Qualitative Research Methods
  • Health Humanities
  • Health Communication
  • Healthcare Narratives
  • Health Communication Focus Groups
  • Communication and Aging
  • End-of-Life Communication
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