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Dr. Stephanie M. Pangborn joined 换妻社区 in 2020 after teaching for six years at Clemson University. Her research is guided by narrative, aesthetic, feminist and pragmatist sensibilities, focusing on the communicative experience of well-being and humanizing response to social markers of difference. As a teacher-scholar and engaged citizen, she aims to contribute to the cultivation of inclusive communities of care rooted in appreciation of the rich varieties of our human condition. 

Her work to date includes topics such as hospice care, Alzheimer's disease and related dementias, aging, socially silenced health experiences, family communication about loss and grief, social media storytelling for public health, advocacy and activism, integration of creative arts in health contexts, intergenerational relationships, and service learning in higher education. 

Dr. Pangborn enjoys contributing to students鈥� holistic college experience by approaching learning as a relational journey, inviting students to join collaborative research projects, pursuing opportunities for community service and supporting the value of extracurricular activities on campus. Currently, she teaches courses in leadership, health communication, family communication, and qualitative research methods.

Areas of Research

• Health communication
• Relating and organizing (interpersonal, organizational, leadership, and family communication)
• Qualitative research methods

Professional Experience

• Healthcare marketing
• Community relations

Education

• Ph.D., Communication, Ohio University, 2014
• M.A., Communication, Western Michigan University, 2010
• B.A., Visual Communication, Spring Arbor University, 2006

Honors

• Best Aural/Visual Project, awarded by the Ethnography Division of the National Communication Association for documentary project, 鈥淎 Beautiful Remedy,鈥� 2017
• Outstanding Professor of the Year, awarded by the Clemson Department of Communication for excellence in teaching, 2015
• Emmy Award, awarded to 鈥淭he Courage of Creativity鈥� documentary series in the Arts and Entertainment category of the Ohio Valley Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences

Grants

• Clemson University Faculty Research Development Grant for a community-based research initiative integrating creative arts in holistic care of individuals living with dementia

Publications

• 鈥淎lzheimer鈥檚 and artful rebellion: Coloring outside the lines, playing with scissors, and seeing you,鈥� in B. L. Peterson & L. M. Harter鈥檚 (eds.) Brave space-making: The poetics and politics of storytelling, Kendall Hunt, forthcoming
• 鈥�,鈥� with L.M. Harter, M.M. Quinlan, T. Walker and C. Hook, in D. O鈥橦air & M.J. O鈥橦air (eds.), Handbook of applied communication research, Wiley, 2020
• 鈥�,鈥� with L.M. Harter, Qualitative Research in Medicine and Healthcare 4(1), 2020  
• 鈥�,鈥� Journal of Family Communication, 19, 95鈥�109, 2019
• 鈥�,鈥� Journal of Applied Communication Research, 45, 455鈥�473, 2017
• Pangborn, S. M. (2016). 鈥�,鈥� Health Communication, 32, 1180鈥�1182, 2016

Outside the College

Outside of work and service, you'll find Dr. Pangborn embracing her role as wife and mother, enjoying the arts and/or nature, or reading a good book.