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Carolyn Day

Liberal arts professor

Education

  • Ph.D., communication, University of South Florida
  • M.A., communication studies, California State University, Northridge
  • B.S., marketing and business administration, California State University, Northridge

Credentials

  • Professor, communication, 2014–present, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA
  • Graduate Teaching Assistant, communication, 2011–2014, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL
  • Teaching Assistant, communication studies, 2009–2010, California State University, Northridge, CA

Awards, recognitions, and honors

  • Graduate Student Research Prize in Public Interest Communications Research, University of Florida, Inaugural Frank 2014 Conference, Gainesville, FL, Feb. 2014
  • Top paper, “Creating Shared Value: Rhetorical Identification Consummated.” USF Identities and Inequalities in a Globalizing World conference, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, Oct. 2013
  • Participant, Critical Management Studies Doctoral Consortium (awarded to 20 students of division only), Academy of Management conference, Orlando, FL Aug. 2013
  • Top paper of division (co-authored), “Every Drop (Word) Counts: A Postcolonial Critique of Water Sustainability Practices by Transnational Corporations.” Environmental Communication Division, National Communication Association (NCA) Conference, Orlando, FL 2012
  • Outstanding Talk Award, Research One: Fourth Annual Graduate Student Research Symposium, University of South Florida Office of Research and Innovation, Tampa, FL, 2012
  • Honorarium for presentation of “National Voice Through Text,” California State University, Northridge, Department of Communication Studies, Oct. 2010
  • Richard B. Aronstam Scholarship, California State University, Northridge, CA, 2010
  • Outstanding Graduating Senior Award (academic excellence, service, overcoming hardships), California State University, Northridge, CA, 2008
  • Graduate, Business Honors Program, California State University, Northridge, CA, 2008
  • Grant recipient, China trip, California State University, Northridge, CA, 2008
  • Scholarship, California State University, Marketing Department, 2007
  • Golden Key Honor Society (international honor society, top 15%), 2008
  • Beta Gamma Sigma (business academic excellence), inductee, 2008
  • Phi Kappa Phi (interdisciplinary academic excellence), inductee, 2007
  • Outstanding Leadership Award, Business Honors Association, California State University, Northridge, CA, 2007

Organizations

  • National Communication Association, 2010–2015
  • Academy of Management, 2013–2016
  • Organization for the Society of Communication, Language and Gender, 2010
  • Toastmasters International, 2005–2010
  • Shared Value Initiative, 2013–present

Publications and presentations

Publications

  • Pettegrew, L., Day, C. “Smart Phones and Mediated Relationships: The Changing Face of Interpersonal Communication.” Review of Communication, 15(2), 122-139, 2015.
  • “Reflections on an Ongoing but Critical Journey.” Critical Management Studies at the Academy of Management, Oct. 2013.

Presentations

  • “Strategically Saving the World: The Rhetoric of CSV as a Precursor to Global Governance.” Competitive paper, Academy of Management (AOM) conference, Vancouver, Aug. 2015.
  • “The Important Role of Good Old-fashioned Email in the Blended Public Speaking Class.” Panel presentation, “Matching the Medium to the Communicative Task in Flipped, Blended, and Online Classrooms,” Southern States Communication Association Convention, April 2015.
  • “God and Devil Terms in Corporate Discourse: Shared Value and the Transformation of Corporate Social Responsibility.” Competitive paper with co-author Dr. David Payne, Academy of Management conference, Philadelphia, Aug. 2014.
  • “Building Blocks of Success: A Rhetorical Toolkit for Relanguaging Corporate Community Relations.” Competitive paper, Academy of Management (AOM) conference, Philadelphia, Aug. 2014.
  • “Banking on the Poor?: Universalizing Discourses of Social Initiatives Under the Guise of ‘Value’” Competitive paper, Qualitative Research in Management and Organization Conference, New Mexico, April 2014.
  • Graduate Student Research award, 2014 prize in Public Interest Communications Research, University of Florida, Inaugural Frank 2014 Conference, Gainesville, FL, Feb. 2014.
  • “Creating Shared Value as a Strategic Form of Branded Philanthropy.” Panel presentation, “Constituting Knowledge Within Brands of Philanthropy: Critical Examinations of the Framing and Selling of Aids Projects” panel, National Communication Association convention, Critical and Cultural Studies Division, Nov. 2013.
  • “Creating Shared Value: Rhetorical Identification Consummated.” Competitive paper (awarded top paper), USF Identities and Inequalities in a Globalizing World, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, Oct. 2013.
  • “Dancing the Fine Line Between the Shadows and the Spotlight.” Showcase Symposium panelist, “Shadows to the Marquee Lights: Questioning Capitalism and the Mission of the Academy of Management” panel, sponsored by Critical Management Studies, Organizations and the Natural Environment, and Gender & Diversity in Organizations divisions, Academy of Management conference, Orlando, FL, Aug. 2013.
  • “Every Drop (Word) Counts: A Postcolonial Critique of Water Sustainability Practices by Transnational Corporations.” Competitive paper (co-author Dr. Mahuya Pal) presented during “top four papers” panel (awarded top paper of division), National Communication Association convention, Environmental Communication Division, Nov. 2012.
  • “Like Water for Chocolate: Nestle and the Modern Day Idiom.” Competitive paper presented during “Global and Local Reconsidered: Corporations, Social Movements, and Civil Society” panel, National Communication Association (NCA) convention, Organizational Communication Division, Nov. 2012.
  • “Value for Whom?: Shared Value Creation as a Westernized and Rhetorical Form of Global Cultural Domination.” Competitive paper presented during “Mapping Rhetorical and Digital Spaces” panel, EGSA Graduate Conference on Reconceptualizing Cartography: Space-time Compression, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, April 2012.
  • “Like Water for Chocolate: Nestle and the Modern Day Idiom.” Competitive paper presented during “Corporations and Sustainability” panel, Eastern and Indigenous Perspectives on Sustainability and Conflict Resolution conference, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL,  Nov. 2011.
  • “Verbal Space-as-text: A Performative Examination of Discourse at the Crossroads of the Family Law Court System.” Competitive paper, National Communication Association, Communication and Law Division, Nov. 2010.