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Maggie Vail
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Office: CIS 3065
BIOGRAPHY
Maggie is a Ph.D. Candidate (Communication Studies) at the University of South Florida and holds an M.A. (Mass Communication) and B.A. (General Studies/English) from Brigham Young University.
Maggie has held adjunct professor and graduate teaching positions at the University of South Florida, the University of Tampa, and Florida Southern College. She will have taught 28+ communication courses in four years, including: Organizational Communication, Principles of Public Relations, Communication Research Methods, Mass Media & Society, Principles of Advertising, Group Communication, Public Speaking, and Speak for Success. She has created, developed, and taught courses in synchronous (face-to-face and hybrid) and asynchronous formats.
Maggie鈥檚 research examines a variety of topics at the intersection of faith, narrative, and community. Maggie also has a love for projects relating to career and resilience, as inspired by a decade of talent acquisition leadership experience. She has published in the Journal of Public Relations Research, the Routledge Handbook of Employee Communication and Organizational Process, the Journal of Religion Media and Digital Culture, the Journal of Media and Religion, and Pastoral Psychology. She has presented in national and international academic conference settings, such as the National Communication Association (NCA), Religious Communication Association (RCA), Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC), and Q Conference for the Scientific Study of Subjectivity.
Outside of academia, Maggie has held founding, directing, managing, and consulting roles in corporate, start-up, and agency talent acquisition settings. Maggie has built and/or restructured recruiting departments, a recruiting process outsourcing (RPO) firm, and talent acquisition agencies handling up to 100 to 1,000+ annual hires across professional, managerial, and C-Suite roles.
RESEARCH AREAS
Community, Narrative, Sensemaking, Faith, Hope, Resilience, Career, Organizational Communication
ADVISOR
Patrice Buzzanell