Teaching and research interests: organizational communication; business rhetoric; corporate reputation management;
leadership.
Sandra French earned her B.S. at Radford University, M.A. at Wake Forest University
and Ph.D. at Pennsylvania State University. She served as an Associate Editor for
the Journal of Business Communication, and currently serves as a reviewer for several
Communication journals. Her research has been published in the Journal of Applied
Communication, the Southern Communication Journal, the Journal of Business Communication,
and Business Communication Quarterly.
Sandra French has served as an Honors Faculty Fellow, and was awarded the College
of Humanities and Behavioral Sciences Distinguished Teaching award in 2019.
Publications and Research
French, S. L., Baker, L. E. (2013). Tales from the Tenure-Track: The Necessity of Social Support in Balancing the Challenges
of Tenure and Motherhood. Mothers in Academia. Columbia University Press.
Brown, G., Franck, M., French, S. L. (2012). Framing the Stem Cell Debate: George W. Bush and Bioethics. The George W. Bush Presidency: A Rhetorical Perspective. Lexington Books.
French, S. L. (2012). Positive Communication and Organizational Crisis: Can CEOs Look on the Bright Side? Positive Communication in Health and Wellness. Peter Lang Publishing.
French, S. L., Holden, T. Q. (2011). Women and Politics: Leadership and Communication on the Campaign Trail. In Elesha
L. Ruminski and Annette M. Holba (Ed.), Communicative Understandings of Women's Leadership Development: From Ceilings of Glass
to Labyrinth Paths. Lexington Books.
French, S. L., Holden, T. Q. (2012). Positive organizational behavior: A buffer for bad news. Business Communication Quarterly, 75(2), 1080569912441823.
Holden, T. Q., French, S. L. (2012). Food fight! Gigante grocery versus the city of Anaheim The Battle for Legitimacy. Journal of Business Communication, 49(1), 74–94.
French, S. L., Brown, S. C. (2011). It’s all your fault: Kenneth Burke, symbolic action, and the assigning of guilt and
blame to women. Southern Communication Journal, 76(1), 1–16.
French, S. L. (2003). Reflections on healing: Framing strategies utilized by acquaintance rape survivors. Journal of applied Communication research, 31(4), 209–319.
