Associate Professor, Communication
Dr. McDonald received his bachelor’s degree in communication and political science from the Université de Montréal, his master’s degree in communication from the Université de Montréal, and his doctoral degree communication from the University of Colorado Boulder. He also earned a Graduate Certificate in Women and Gender Studies and a Graduate Teaching Certificate from the University of Colorado Boulder. He joined the faculty at UTSA in August 2013.
Dr. McDonald is an organizational communication scholar who specializes in issues related to identity, difference, work, and occupations. His research examines topics such as the gender identity negotiation of nursing students, the underrepresentation of women in computing and information technology work, the experiences of international faculty in U.S. academia, researcher reflexivity in qualitative research, feminist and queer approaches to organizing, and the communicative constitution of organizations.
His work has been published in peer-reviewed journals such as Communication Theory; the Journal of Applied Communication Research; Management Learning; Management Communication Quarterly; and Gender, Work and Organization. He also serves as an associate editor for the journal, Management Learning and a co-editor for the information blog and teaching resource Organizational Communication in the News. Dr. McDonald has also presented his research at numerous national and international academic conferences.