Publications

Drumheller, K., & Benoit, W. L. (2004). USS Greenville collides with Japan’s Ehime Maru: Cultural issues in image repair discourse. Public Relations Review, 30, 177-185.

Drumheller, K. (2005). Millennial dogma: A fantasy theme analysis of the Millennial generation’s uses and gratifications of religious media. Journal of Communication & Religion, 28, 47-70. (pdf)

Dougherty, D. S., & Drumheller, K. (2006). Sensemaking and emotions in organizations: Accounting for emotions in a rational(ized) context. Communication Studies, 57, 215-238. (pdf)

Drumheller, K., & Drumheller, M. (in press). The price of freedom: Ideological issues in Pope John Paul II’s messages on World Communications Day. In J. R. Blaney & J. P. Zompetti, The rhetoric of Pope John Paul II. Lanham, MD: Lexingon Books.

Conference Presentation Selections

Drumheller, K. (2008, July). Removing the blinders: The church as a context for organizational communication research. A position paper presented at Alta Revisited for Organizational Communication scholars, Snowbird, UT.

Drumheller, K., & Lawler, G. (2008, May). Using technology to generate interest in the classroom. Workshop presented at the conference of The Teaching Professor, Kissimmee, FL.

Drumheller, K. (2008, April). Brainstorming to influence: Creating faculty “think tanks” to affect change. Paper presented at the conference of the Southern States Communication Association, Savannah, GA.

Drumheller, K. (2006, April). Broken levees, broken bureaucracy: Questioning state government legitimacy after hurricane Katrina. Paper presented at the conference of the Southern States Communication Association, Dallas, TX.

Drumheller, K. (2005, November). Organizational legitimacy reparation and organizational image restoration: One and the same. Paper presented at the conference of the National Communication Association, Boston, MA

Drumheller, K., & Drumheller, M. (2005, February). Predestined ascendancy: Hidden power in overt debate over the ordination of gays and lesbians in the Presbyterian Church (USA). Paper submitted for presentation at the conference of the Western States Communication Association.

Atkinson, J., & Drumheller K. (2003, May). Taking the American dream to a theater near you: The mythology of Star Wars as a product of the culture industry. Paper presented at the conference of the International Communication Association, San Diego, CA