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April Chatham‐Carpenter's research focuses on communication within higher education, particularly examining how institutions navigate concurrent crises and political divides. Her work investigates strategies for fostering conversational receptiveness across differing viewpoints and analyzes the role of communication in leadership during times of social upheaval, such as the Black Lives Matter movement.
Chatham‐Carpenter also studies the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on educational settings, specifically exploring changes in teacher immediacy and student learning experiences in college communication classes. Her research extends to transformational learning in online learning environments and the intersection of storytelling and listening within civic communities.
Her scholarly contributions include 23 publications with 224 citations, and she holds an h-index of 9. She has collaborated with researchers at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, including Derek R. Slagle and Bailey M. Oliver‐Blackburn, as well as J. J. McIntyre from the University of Central Arkansas.
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- h-index: 9
- Publications: 24
- Citations: 226
Selected Publications
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Crisis Communication and Building Resilience: Examining Strategies for Chairs and Directors in Higher Education Institutions (2026)
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Chapter 7. Civic Community Listening: The Nexus of Storytelling and Listening within Civic Communities (2025)
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“Wait, I can’t do that anymore!”: pandemic teacher immediacy in college communication classes (2023)
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Stepping outside of comfort zones: Transformational learning in online asynchronous communication courses (2023)
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‘But I don’t know if I want to talk to you’: strategies to foster conversational receptiveness across the United States’ political divide (2022)
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A Discourse of Renewal: Higher Education Leadership and Crisis Communication during Black Lives Matter (2022)
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The perfect storm in the midst of a pandemic: the use of information within an institution's concurrent crises (2021)
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- The perfect storm in the midst of a pandemic: the use of information within an institution's concurrent crises
- A Discourse of Renewal: Higher Education Leadership and Crisis Communication during Black Lives Matter
- Author response for "The perfect storm in the midst of a pandemic: the use of information within an institution's concurrent crises"
- Author response for "The perfect storm in the midst of a pandemic: the use of information within an institution's concurrent crises"
- The perfect storm in the midst of a pandemic: the use of information within an institution's concurrent crises
- Author response for "The perfect storm in the midst of a pandemic: the use of information within an institution's concurrent crises"
- Author response for "The perfect storm in the midst of a pandemic: the use of information within an institution's concurrent crises"
- Author response for "The perfect storm in the midst of a pandemic: the use of information within an institution's concurrent crises"
- Author response for "The perfect storm in the midst of a pandemic: the use of information within an institution's concurrent crises"
- ‘But I don’t know if I want to talk to you’: strategies to foster conversational receptiveness across the United States’ political divide
- Chapter 7. Civic Community Listening: The Nexus of Storytelling and Listening within Civic Communities
- The perfect storm in the midst of a pandemic: the use of information within an institution's concurrent crises
- A Discourse of Renewal: Higher Education Leadership and Crisis Communication during Black Lives Matter
- Stepping outside of comfort zones: Transformational learning in online asynchronous communication courses
- Stepping outside of comfort zones: Transformational learning in online asynchronous communication courses
- “Wait, I can’t do that anymore!”: pandemic teacher immediacy in college communication classes
- Chapter 7. Civic Community Listening: The Nexus of Storytelling and Listening within Civic Communities
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