Author: Rahul

New Publication: “Black Frontline Workers Navigating Everyday Workplace Tensions through Professionalism”

My new paper, coauthored with Christine Nyawaga, is finally out in print at the Journal of Professions and Organization, part of a Special Issue on “Opening up the meanings of ‘the professional,’ professional organizations, and professionalism in communication studies.” Our paper is titled, Black frontline workers navigating everyday workplace tensions through professionalism, and you can see it here.

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Attended Bystander Leadership Workshop by WSU-GEARS

Last week, I was thrilled to participate in an excellent day-long Bystander Leadership workshop, organized by the Gender Equity Advances Retention in STEM (WSU-GEARS) team at Wayne State University, funded by the National Science Foundation! It was great to connect with so many other wonderful folk, across the university, committed to equity, inclusion and belongingness!

COM 5900 Students Featured by Today@Wayne

My Winter 2024 class was featured in a news story by Wayne State University College of Fine, Performing and Communication Arts, ahead of Commencement this week! Read the story here.

Facilitated Leadership Communication Workshop for Engineering Tech Students

I closed out a busy week by facilitating a leadership communication workshop for the folks at WSU’s Department of Engineering Technology, targeting students in their National Science Foundation-funded Assuring Student Success in Engineering Technology (ASSET) project.

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Panel on Intergenerational Engagement at NIH PEPH 2024 Meeting

I recently participated in an interesting panel on engaging intergenerational audiences at the National Institute for Environmental Health’s Partnerships for Environmental Public Health (PEPH) annual meeting. I spoke of our work collaborating with community members, interdisciplinary graduate students and undergraduate students to design communication material on environmental health risks.

New Publication: Entrepreneurial Support Organization (ESO) Narratives and Transitional Entrepreneurship in Detroit

It’s a special kind of thrill when you coauthor a journal article with your PhD student, and I’m so glad to have worked on this manuscript with Allison Lucas! Our OPEN-ACCESS article examines the narratives used by entrepreneurial support organizations (ESOs) in the Detroit entrepreneurial ecosystem, to better understand how they discursively shape the opportunities and challenges for so-called transitional entrepreneurs. It was published in a Special Issue of the interdisciplinary New England Journal of Entrepreneurship on “Transitional entrepreneurship: unleashing entrepreneurial potential across numerous challenging contexts.”

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