Positions

Research Areas research areas

Selected Publications

Academic Article

Year Title
2023 Rethinking polarization: Discursive opening and the possibility for sustaining dialogue.  Communication Monographs.  90:181-204. 2023
2021 Theorizing Principled Collaboration.  Communication Theory.  31:654-674. 2021
2021 Stories and voices: Engaging community differences by designing a deliberative public dialogue.  Communication Teacher.  35:329-335. 2021
2021 Reclaiming Civility: Towards Discursive Opening in Dialogue and Deliberation.  AAUP Journal of Academic Freedom.  17:9-18. 2021
2018 Facilitating vulnerability: New Hampshire Listens convenes Blue and You.  Journal of Public Deliberation.  2018
2017 Beyond Aggregation: the "Wisdom of Crowds" meets dialogue in the case study of Shaping America's Youth.  Journal of Public Deliberation.  2017
2015 Broadening Organizational Communication Curricula: Collaboration as Key to 21st-Century Organizing.  Management Communication Quarterly.  29:309-314. 2015
2014 Participative Democracy and Voice: Rethinking Community Collaboration Beyond Neutral Structures.  Journal of Applied Communication Research.  42:366-386. 2014
2014 Navigating Organizational Ideology Through Bridge Discourse.  Journal of Business Communication.  51:386-408. 2014
2012 Generational Perspectives in the Workplace: Interpreting the Discourses That Constitute Women's Struggle to Balance Work and Life.  Journal of Business Communication.  49:332-356. 2012
2010 The Community Collaboration Stakeholder Project.  Communication Teacher.  24:215-220. 2010
2007 Rethinking Community Collaboration Through a Dialogic Lens.  Management Communication Quarterly.  21:145-171. 2007
2004 Narratives of Workplace Friendship Deterioration.  Journal of Social and Personal Relationships.  21:321-340. 2004
2004 Ideal Collaboration: A Conceptual Framework of Community Collaboration.  Annals of the International Communication Association.  28:189-231. 2004
1999 Communicating spirit in a collaborative alliance.  Journal of Applied Communication Research.  27:356-376. 1999
Giving Voice to Nature: Inviting Gluskabe and the Water Monster into the Room.  AI Practitioner.  25:31-38.

Article

Year Title
Constructing Activism: Dialogue and Activism.  Information Processing and Management. 

Book

Year Title
2017 Interorganizational Collaboration Complexity, Ethics, and Communication 2017
2013 Understanding Occupy from Wall Street to Portland Applied Studies in Communication Theory 2013

Chapter

Year Title
2015 Women Like You Keep Women Like Me Down”: Understanding Intergenerational Conflict and Work-Life Balance from a Discourse Perspective 2015
2013 Confessional tales from the field: Researcher methods and positionally.  53-77. 2013
2013 Engaging Occupy: An introduction to romantic, practical, and critical perspectives.  xv-xxiv. 2013
2013 Finding the space between: Participative democracy, consensus decision making and a leaderful/less movement.  75-98. 2013
2012 Fitting in: Do I really have to talk about baby showers?.  177-190. 2012
2007 On talking to not make decisions: Models of bridge and fish markets 2007

Conference Paper

Year Title
Beyond the myths: A review of studies on the intersections of work-life balance, communication, and generational differences.
Civility and connection in the classroom
Re-envisioning organizational communication pedagogy
Tapping into our civic "calling" as professor not the future

Teaching Activities

  • Collaborative Leadership Taught course
  • Intro Lang & Soc Interaction Taught course
  • Organizational Communication Taught course
  • Public Dialogue Taught course
  • Collaborative Leadership Taught course 2024
  • Organizational Communication Taught course 2024
  • Intro Lang & Soc Interaction Taught course 2023
  • Public Dialogue Taught course 2023
  • Collaborative Leadership Taught course 2022
  • Organizational Communication Taught course 2022
  • Collaborative Leadership Taught course 2022
  • Public Dialogue Taught course 2022
  • Collaborative Leadership Taught course 2021
  • Intro Lang & Soc Interaction Taught course 2021
  • Organizational Communication Taught course 2021
  • Collaborative Leadership Taught course 2021
  • Collaborative Leadership Taught course 2021
  • Intro Lang & Soc Interaction Taught course 2021
  • Public Dialogue Taught course 2021
  • Collaborative Leadership Taught course 2020
  • Intro Lang & Soc Interaction Taught course 2020
  • Public Dialogue Taught course 2020
  • Collaborative Leadership Taught course 2019
  • Intro Lang & Soc Interaction Taught course 2019
  • Seminar Interpersonal Studies Taught course 2019
  • Collaborative Leadership Taught course 2019
  • Intro Lang & Soc Interaction Taught course 2019
  • Sem/Interpersonal Comm Theory Taught course 2019
  • Collaborative Leadership Taught course 2018
  • Intro Lang & Soc Interaction Taught course 2018
  • Seminar Interpersonal Studies Taught course 2018
  • Collaborative Leadership Taught course 2018
  • Intro Lang & Soc Interaction Taught course 2018
  • Sem/Interpersonal Comm Theory Taught course 2018
  • Intro Lang & Soc Interaction Taught course 2017
  • Seminar Interpersonal Studies Taught course 2017
  • Spc Top/Interpersonal Studies Taught course 2017
  • Intro Lang & Soc Interaction Taught course 2017
  • Sem/Intergenerational Comm Taught course 2017
  • Spc Top/Collaborative Leadersh Taught course 2017
  • Intro Lang & Soc Interaction Taught course 2016
  • Sem/Org Communication Taught course 2016
  • Spc Top/Collaborative Ldrshp Taught course 2016
  • Intro Lang & Soc Interaction Taught course 2016
  • Spc Top/Collaborative Leadersh Taught course 2016
  • Spc Top/Collaborative Leadersh Taught course 2016
  • Intro Lang & Soc Interaction Taught course 2015
  • Sem/Org Communication Taught course 2015
  • Seminar Interpersonal Studies Taught course 2015
  • Intro Lang & Soc Interaction Taught course 2014
  • Intro Lang & Soc Interaction Taught course 2014
  • Spc Top/Collab Leadership Taught course 2014
  • Intro Lang & Soc Interaction Taught course 2014
  • Sem/Organizational Comm. Taught course 2014
  • Spc Top/Collaborative Leadersp Taught course 2014

    • Education And Training

  • B.S. Communications, Oregon State University
  • M.A. Communications, Washington State University
  • Ph.D. Communications, University of Colorado at Boulder

    • Full Name

  • Renee Heath