April Chatham‐Carpenter
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Professor and Department Chair
Also affiliated: Marquette University (2025); University of Northern Iowa (1995–2012); Utah State University (2025); University of Wyoming (2025); University of Denver (2025); Western Colorado University (2025); Fort Lewis College (2025); The University of Texas at El Paso (2025); Colorado School of Mines (2025); University of Utah (2025); University of Arkansas System (2021–2022); Winnipeg Arts Council (2025); Adams State University (2025); University of Northern Colorado (2025); Metropolitan State University of Denver (2025); University of Colorado Denver (2025); Colorado State University (2025)
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April Chatham‐Carpenter's research focuses on communication strategies within higher education, particularly during times of crisis. Her work examines how institutions and their leaders navigate complex situations, such as pandemics and social movements, by analyzing information dissemination and leadership approaches.
Her publications explore topics including the use of information during concurrent institutional crises, strategies to foster receptiveness across political divides, and crisis communication within higher education leadership during the Black Lives Matter movement. Chatham‐Carpenter also investigates teacher immediacy in college communication classes during the pandemic and the role of civic community listening and storytelling. Her research network includes collaborators such as Derek R. Slagle and Bailey M. Oliver‐Blackburn from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock.
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- h-index: 9
- Publications: 24
- Citations: 229
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Professor and Department Chair publications 2017–2026University of Arkansas at Little Rock Department of Applied Communication ORCID
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 Power of a Mission: Transformations of a Department Culture through Social Constructionist Principles (2018)
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The future online: instructional communication scholars taking the lead (2017)
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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
- ‘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 Power of a Mission: Transformations of a Department Culture through Social Constructionist Principles
- The Power of a Mission: Transformations of a Department Culture through Social Constructionist Principles
- 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
- 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
- Crisis Communication and Building Resilience: Examining Strategies for Chairs and Directors in Higher Education Institutions
- Crisis Communication and Building Resilience: Examining Strategies for Chairs and Directors in Higher Education Institutions
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