Laurie Lewis, Ph.D
Professor, Communication
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- laurie.lewis@utsa.edu
- Curriculum Vitae
Bio
Dr. Lewis completed her Ph.D. at the University of California at Santa Barbara. She has served on faculty at the Pennsylvania State University, the University of Texas at Austin, and Rutgers University. Her scholarly work investigates organizational change processes, volunteering and nonprofits, effective organizational collaboration, stakeholder engagement, input solicitation, and participative processes. She is author of award-winning books Organizational Change: Creating Change Through Strategic Communication and The Power of Strategic Listening in Contemporary Organizations. She served as co-editor for International Encyclopedia of Organizational Communication, and two volumes of Volunteering and Communication. She is also author of numerous academic publications in Management Communication Quarterly, Journal of Business Communication, Communication Monographs, and the Journal of Applied Communication among others. She has authored numerous book chapters including in The Handbook of Organizational Communication, Handbook of Nonprofit Communication, Handbook of Strategic Communication, Handbook of Organizational Change and Innovation, Handbook of Applied Communication Research, and the New Handbook of Organizational Communication. She has provided consulting and training for dozens of organizations from a wide range of sectors including nonprofits, civil society organizations, businesses, and higher education institutions.
Dr. Lewis served as the Associate Vice Provost for Faculty Success at UTSA, as Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs at Rutgers University, as Chair of the Department of Communication at Rutgers University, and as fellow at the Center for Organizational Leadership at Rutgers. She is the former Chair of the Organizational Communication Division of the National Communication Association.
Research Interests
- Organizational Communication
Degrees
- Ph.D. in Communication, University of California, Santa Barbara (1994)
- M.A. in Speech Communication, University of Illinois (1990)
- B.A. in Speech Communication and Sociology, University of Washington (1986)
Honors and Awards
Presentations
Grants, Patents and Clinical Trials
Publications
- Lewis, L. (2020). The Power of Strategic Listening in Contemporary Organizations. Lanham, MA: Roman & Littlefield.
- Lewis, L. (2019). Organizational Change: Creating change through strategic Communication 2nd Ed. Chichester, UK: Wiley-Blackwell.
- Kramer, M., & Lewis, L. (2019). Communication Challenges of Volunteers. In O’Hair, D. (Ed.), Handbook of Applied Communication, Wiley.
- Lewis, L. (2019). Organizational change. In Nicotera, A., (Ed.), Origins and Traditions of Organizational Communication: A Comprehensive Introduction to the Field. Abingdon, UK, Routledge.
- Lewis, L., & Sahay, S. (2019). Change and Change Management. In Mitra, R., & MacDonald, J. (Eds.), Movements in Organizational Communication Research: Current Issues and Future Directions. Abingdon, UK, Routledge.
- Lewis, L., & Sahay, S. (2019). Strategic organizational change. Encyclopedia entry in W. Johanssen & B. Heath (Eds.) International Encyclopedia of Strategic Communication. Chichester, UK: Wiley-Blackwell.
- Craig R. Scott, & Lewis, L (Eds.) (2017). The International Encyclopedia of Organizational Communication. Chichester, UK: Wiley-Blackwell.
