Graduate Students

MAGGIE VAIL

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Office: CIS 3065

BIOGRAPHY

Maggie is a Ph.D. Student (Communication Studies) at the University of South Florida (USF) and holds an M.A. (Mass Communication) and B.A. (General Studies/English) from Brigham Young University (BYU). 

Maggie is also a Graduate Teaching Associate at the USF and an Adjunct Professor at the University of Tampa (UT) and has taught Communication Research Methods, Public Speaking, Group Communication, Principles of Public Relations, Principles of Advertising, and Mass Media and Society

Maggie’s research explores a variety of topics at the intersection of faith, narrative, and community. She has published in the Journal of Public Relations Research, the Journal of Religion, Media, and Digital Culture, and Pastoral Psychology, and presented in national and international academic conference settings, such as the National Communication Association (NCA), Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC), and Q Conference for the Scientific Study of Subjectivity. She has won top paper and scholarship awards for her research.

Professionally (non-academic), Maggie has held founding, directing, managing, and consulting roles in corporate, start-up, and agency talent acquisition settings. She has built and/or restructured recruiting departments, a recruiting process outsourcing (RPO) firm, and talent acquisition agencies handling up to 100-1,000 hires annually. She has personally recruited 1,000+ professional, managerial, and C-Suite positions for organizations nationwide throughout her career.

RESEARCH AREAS

Community, Community Organizing, Faith, Hope, Resilience, Identity, Sensemaking, Narrative, Narrative Inquiry, Ethnography, Engaged Research, Career

ADVISOR

Patrice Buzzanell