Profile
Dr. Katheryn Maguire
313-577-8069
kmaguire@wayne.edu
525 Manoogian Hall
Katheryn Maguire (Ph.D., the University of Texas at Austin) is rejoining the faculty at Wayne State as an assistant professor in August of 2008 after a three-year absence. During that time (2005-2008) she was an assistant professor at Cleveland State University where she taught family and relational communication classes. She is delighted to be back in Michigan.
Dr. Maguire's research focuses on how individuals communicate under difficult circumstances. In particular, her research examines the role of communication as individuals cope with the challenges involved in maintaining long-distance relationships (LDRs) in two contexts: (a) college student, pre-marital romantic relationships, and (b) military marriages.
The first area of inquiry was inspired by the many students who asked if it was possible to maintain a relationship with a partner who lived in a different city, particularly when faced with uncertainty about the future and when under stress. The research also extends into the lives of military couples as they cope with separation due to wartime deployment, including research on how couples maintained their relationship during the Korean and/or Vietnam Wars, and a more recent investigation of how couples have coped with separation due to Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom. Other topics of interest include hurtful family environments, sexual violence, and chronic illness prevention.
Relational and Family Communication, Stress and Coping, Long Distance Relating, Dark Side Issues in Interpersonal Communication, Relationship Maintenance, Mediated Interaction (Computer and otherwise)
Top paper (lead authored), Applied Communication Division, to be presented at the annual meeting of the National Communication Association, Chicago (November 2009). Paper: Formative research regarding kidney disease health information in a Latino American sample: Associations among threat, efficacy, frame, and behavioral intent.
Top Paper Award (co-authored with Anita Vangelisti, Alicia Alexander, and Gretchen Clark), Family Communication Division, annual meeting of the National Communication Association, Chicago, 2007. Paper title: Hurtful family environments: Links with individual and relationship variables.
Top Applied Paper Award (co-authored with George Ray and Sue Poulsen), Interpersonal Division, annual meeting of the International Communication Association, San Francisco, 2007. Paper title: Constructing and performing family identity: An analysis of American holiday letters.
Top Paper Award (co-authored with Stacy Young), Language and Social Interaction Division, annual meeting of the Western States Communication Association, Coeur d'Alene, ID, 2001. Paper title: To label or not to label: The role of language use and self-blame in recovery from sexual violence.
interpersonal communication, family communication, nonverbal communication, communication theory, interviewing principles and practices, communication and long-distance relationships, hurtful family environments, sexual violence, chronic illness prevention
Maguire, K., & Kinney, T. (in press). When distance is problematic: Communication, coping, and relational maintenance in female college students’ long distance dating relationships. Journal of Applied Communication Research. Maguire, K., Gardner, J., Sopory, P., Roach, M., Jian, G., Moreno, M., Pettey, G., & Piccone, G. (in press). Formative research regarding kidney disease health information in a Latino American sample: Associations among threat, efficacy, frame, message perceptions, and behavioral intent. Communication Education.
Maguire, K. (in press). Is it a boy or a girl? Anonymity and gender in computer-mediated interactions. Chapter competitively selected for inclusion in the book, Interpersonal Relations and Social Patterns in Communication Technologies: Discourse Norms, Language Structures and Cultural Variables (J. Park, Ed.). Hershey, PA: IGI Global.
Maguire, K., & Sahlstein, E. (forthcoming, 2010). In the line of fire: Family management of acute stress during wartime deployment. Chapter competitively selected to be included in the book, Families in Crisis: Effective Communication for Managing Unexpected, Negative Events (F. Dickson & L. Webb, Eds.). Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press.
Maguire, K. (2007). Will it ever end? A (re)examination of uncertainty in college student premarital long-distance romantic relationships.
Communication Quarterly, 55, 415-432.
Maguire, K. (2007). Bridging the great divide: An examination of the relationship maintenance of couples separated during war. Ohio
Communication Journal, 45, 131-158.
Vangelisti, A. L., Maguire, K., Alexander, A. L., & Clark, G. (2007). Hurtful family environments: Links with individual and relationship
variables. Communication Monographs, 74, 357-385.
Maguire, K. & Fretz, E. (2007). Public dialogue series as service learning. Academic Exchange Quarterly, 11(1), p. 103-108.
Maguire, K. C. (2006). Making sense of the seven communication traditions. Communication Teacher, 20, 89-92.
Young, S. L., & Maguire, K. (2003). Talking about sexual violence. Women & Language, 26 (2), 40-52.
Dr. Maguire enjoys teaching and discussing communication concepts with graduate and undergraduate students. She describes her teaching style as an "organized conversation," frequently inviting student input on the day's topic. She has taught a number of different classes, including Interpersonal Communication, Family Communication, Nonverbal Communication, Communication Theory, and Interviewing Principles and Practices.