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David Dooling

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BIOGRAPHY

David Dooling is a PhD candidate specializing in critical organizational communication. He examines how dominant systems shape communicative practices in social justice organizations. Guided by queer, sociomaterial, and (auto)ethnographic sensibilities, David investigates how people experience inequity and transformative moments of social change. 

David has published in outlets such as Communication Monographs and the Journal of Autoethnography, exploring issues of power and agency in gendered organizations and food assistance programs. His dissertation project—an organizational (auto)ethnography of a pride parade organization—grapples with the communication required to represent marginalized identity and respond to hegemonic structures simultaneously. 

recent Publications

Ivancic, S. R., & Dooling, D. J. (2023). Navigating entangled shame: Examining the sociomaterial realities of food assistance programs. Communication Monographs. https://doi.org/10.1080/03637751.2023.2202710  

Dooling, D. J. (2021). The scoutmaster’s son: Queering the personal and professional. The Journal of Autoethnography 2(2), 194-214. https://doi.org/10.1525/joae.2021.2.2.194 

RESEARCH AREAS

Sociomaterial theorizing, queer studies, applied communication, and critical-qualitative methods

ADVISOR

Sonia Ivancic & Keith Berry