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Stephen Cox
Chair,
Department of Organizational Communication
312 Wilson Hall
Murray State University
Murray, KY 42071
Ph.: (270) 809-4483
Fax: (270) 809-4484
Email: Dept. of Org. Comm.

Tina Coffelt

Assistant Professor
Office Telephone: 270-809-5345

Education:

B.B.A., Florida International University, 1997
M.B.A. Northwest Missouri State University, 2002
Ph.D., University of Missouri, 2008

Academic Teaching and Research Interests:

Interpersonal communication, Intercultural communication. Research interests include sexual communication, age and communication, and feminist identity.

Recent Publications or Professional Presentations:

Gill-Rossier, J. (2009, April). Let’s talk about sex, baby: A roundtable discussion about the past, present, & future of sexual communication research. Panel presentation to the Central States Communication Association, St. Louis, MO. Panelists include: Tina Coffelt, William Cupach, and Sandra Metts.
* Top panel award in Interpersonal Communication Division
Coffelt, T. A. (2009, April). Family sexual communication from the perspectives of mothers and daughters. Paper presented at the Central States Communication Association, St. Louis, MO
Coffelt, T. A. (2008, November). Parent-adolescent sexual communication: Will it always be unconventional? Paper presented at the National Communication Association, San Diego, CA.
Hess, J. A., & Coffelt, T. A. (2008, July). Sexual communication of married people: A qualitative study of sexual communication in marital maintenance. Paper presented at the International Association of Relationship Research, Providence, RI.
Olson, L. N., Coffelt, T. A., Botta, R., Berlin Ray, E., Kopfman, J., Rudd, J., & Ray, G. (2008). “I’m all for equal rights, but don’t call me a feminist”: Identity dilemmas in young adults’ discursive representations of being a feminist. Women’s Studies in Communication, 31, 104-132.
Fine, M. A., Coffelt, T. A., & Olson, L. N. (2008). Romantic relationship initiation following relationship dissolution. In S. Sprecher, A. Wenzel, & J. Harvey (Eds.), Handbook of Relationship Initiation. New York: Taylor & Francis.
Olson, L. N., Coffelt, T. A., Dougherty, D. S, & Gynn, A. (2007). Doing difference: An intergenerational analysis of the performance of age in the workplace. International and Intercultural Communication Annual, 30, 175-200.