Samuel Taylor, Ph.D.

Samuel J. Taylor he/him (Ph.D., Ohio University) is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the School of Communication Studies at Ohio University

Dr. Taylor is an organizational communication scholar who specializes in the exploration of identity formation in concert with various institutions including faith-based organizations, community organizations, and families. His doctoral dissertation explored the lived experiences of white U.S millennials as they deconstructed, disidentified, and wholistically exited from organized evangelical Christianity. His work to date has focused on the exit processes from faith-based organizations, the management of academic and faith identities in higher education, and social support in blended families amidst chronic illness. He grounds his work on faith-based voluntary exit in organizational socialization, identification, disidentification, and social identity theories. Dr. Taylor’s work has been published in Health Communication and in Peterson & Harter’s (2022) edited book - Brave Space-Making: The Poetics and Politics of Storytelling.

He has taught undergraduate courses such as Public Speaking, Communication and New Technology, Interviewing, Persuasion, Small Group Communication, Communication Among Cultures, and Interpersonal Communication.

In his free time, you can find Dr. Taylor at CrossFit SEO where he coaches group classes, on the tennis courts at OU, playing soccer in the Athens Community Soccer League, or out walking and hiking with his wife Emily and black labrador, Koda.