Projects in Process

Blair, S. (2010). Woman as helpless child: Investigating the construction of gender in pro-life pamphlets distributed at an abortion clinic.

Manuscript submitted to Western States Communication Association Annual conference.

Blair, S. (2010). “Bodyguard, shields, and peacekeepers armed with facts”: Strategies and Tactics for Mapping Safety at a Planned Parenthood clinic.

Manuscript in preparation for submission to Text and Performance Quarterly

Blair, S. & Lindemann, K. L. (2010). “I feel like there is a change that’s happening, and it’s big”: Understanding Human Service Workers’ Communication in the Anti-Human Trafficking Organization.

Manuscript in preparation for submission

Dissertation Project: "Give a child a voice": Investigating voice and advocacy in a Court Appointed Special Advocate Program.

For my dissertation project, I am conducting a critical ethnographic study of a local Court Appointed Special Advocate Training Program. This study takes a feminist dialogic approach to examining an organization that trains and monitors volunteers appointed to speak on behalf of foster children in court. The project is aimed at the goal of crystallization, as developed by Ellingson (2009), and thus will include multiple strategies for data representation.