Danielle C. Biss

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About Danielle C. Biss

Danielle C. Biss (M.A, San Diego State University) is a doctoral candidate in communication studies at the Scripps College of Communication at Ohio University. As an organizational communication scholar, Danielle is dedicated to community-engaged research and values partnering with health-based organizations to offer applied interventions to inequalities and social problems. She embodies an intellectual curiosity to understand how health-based organizations communicatively respond to oppression and trauma—whether through their careers or personal lives—by caring for, tending to, and responsibly guiding others who are struggling. As an organizational health communication scholar, Danielle values partnering with organizations to offer applied interventions to health inequalities and social problems. Broadly, her research, teaching, and community involvement all focus on yielding pragmatic interventions to organizations in their efforts to continue supporting local communities in sustainable, healthy, and intentional ways. Her scholarship focuses on three overarching questions: 1) In what ways do organizational structures constrain and enable healthcare providers’ efforts to serve their underserved communities? 2) How do organizational members describe their experiences of emotion work? and 3) What is the relationship between communication, corporeal, and the material nature of experience? Currently, Danielle's recent work has focused on the context of rural emergency services. During her coursework at OU, she has completed qualitative projects in partnership with local emergency services organizations. Projects have explored topics such as structuration theory and positive deviance, professional facework and emotional labor, emotional vulnerability and mental health, wellness and critical incidents, and tension-centered organizing in rural emergency services. Danielle’s work can be found in the Journal of Applied Communication Research, Women’s Studies and Communication, Southern Communication Journal, and Kaleidoscope: A Graduate Journal of Qualitative Communication Research.