Sarah E. Jones, Ph.D.

Specialization: Organizational Communication; Gender; Difference Studies; Critical-Qualitative Methods

Sarah E. Jones (Ph.D., Arizona State University) is an Assistant Professor at Ohio University where she studies the power and politics of gender in organizations. Her latest projects involve issues of organizing, membership, and commodification in the milk banking industry (i.e., the donation and exchange of breastmilk) for which she was a featured guest on WOUB's Defining Moments Podcast (opens in a new window). Her work has been published in academic journals such as Management Communication Quarterly, Health Communication, and Feminist Pedagogy ; volumes such as Queer Communication Pedagogy: Intersectionality and Activism (2019) and the Routledge Handbook of Communication and Bullying (2019); and public outlets such as Utah Tech University's Red Rock Relationships (opens in a new window) podcast. Dr. Jones has been a certified facilitator with StoryScope: A Story Circles Project (opens in a new window) (an affiliate of the U.S. Department of Arts & Culture) and the Institute for Civil Dialogue (opens in a new window) for over five years, and regularly utilizes both in undergraduate curricula. She is a recent alum of OHIO's Bruning Teaching Academy (opens in a new window) and a member of the 2022-23 cohort of Leadership Athens County (opens in a new window) through the Athens County Foundation. Outside the office, Dr. Jones enjoys gourmet cooking and hiking; watching tennis, WNBA, and F1; and caring for her expansive garden and flock of chickens.