Research Philosophy

I consider myself well versed in both qualitative and quantitative research methods. Since I started my graduate work, I have placed enormous value on research skill-building and flexibility. I thrive on participating in collaborative projects and seek out the grounding process of independent research. It is my belief that research should contribute to the understanding of communication phenomena for the purpose of bettering the human experience.

  • Title: Corporate Conscience: Applying Ethics of Care Informed Crisis Responses to Corporate Social Advocacy Backlash

    Committee: Dr. Denise Bortree (Chair), Dr. Holly Overton, Dr. Colleen Connolly-Ahern, & Dr. Patrick Plaisance

    • Strategic Nonprofit Communication

    • Relationship Management & OPR

    • Corporate Social Advocacy

    • Corporate Social Responsibility

    • Community Advocacy & Resilience

    • Message Features and Modalities

    • Crisis Communication

    • Privacy & Big Data

    • Consumer Decision-Making Processes

    • Recipient of a 2021 Page/Johnson Legacy Scholar Grant from the Arthur W. Page Center. Co-author: Dr. Anli Xaio, South Carolina University. Grant amount: $2,500.

    • Recipient of a research grant from the Don Davis Program in Ethical Leadership, 2021. Grant amount: $1,500.

    • UF Global Fellow, 2023

    • Kopenhaver Center Fellow, Lillian Lodge Kopenhaver Center for the Advancement of Women in Communication at Florida International University and AEJMC

      • Accepted as one of the cohorts of the pre-convention workshop, Women Faculty Moving Forward: The Future is Female, at the 105th Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication annual conference, August 2, 2022

    • Distinguished Alumna Speaker, Paterno Fellows Recognition Ceremony, 2022

    • Recipient of the Literati Award for Outstanding Paper, 2021

      • Vafeiadis, M., Bortree, D. S., Buckley, C., Diddi, P., & Xiao, A. (2019). Refuting fake news on social media: nonprofits, crisis response strategies and issue involvement. Journal of Product & Brand Management.

    • Sidney and Helen Friedman Endowed Scholarship, 2017–2018

    • Sidney and Helen Friedman Endowed Scholarship, 2020–2021

    • Schreyer Honors College Graduate, Penn State, 2012

    • Paterno Fellows Program Graduate, College of the Liberal Arts, Penn State, 2012

    • Geah Pressgrove, Ph.D., West Virginia University

    • Julia Fraustino, Ph.D., West Virginia University

    • Virginia Harrison, Ph.D., Clemson University

    • Michail Vafeaidis, Ph.D., Auburn University

    • Pratiti Diddi, Ph.D., Lamar University

    • Denise Bortree, Ph.D., Penn State

    • Frank, Dardis, Ph.D., Penn State

    • Anli Xiao, Ph.D., South Carolina University

    • Jason Freeman, Ph.D., Brigham Young University

    • Carlina, DiRusso, Ph.D., Ketchum Inc.

    • Nicholas Eng, ABD, Penn State

    • Rachel Peng, ABD, Penn State

    • Nitzan Navick, Ph.D Student, UC Santa Barbara

    • Katie Haejung Kim, Ph.D. Student, University of Minnesota

    • Bennet Schwoon, Ph.D. Candidate, University of Zurich

In the works….

Five submission under review…

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

  • Voges, T. S., Jin, Y., Buckley, C., Eaddy, L. L., & Lu, X. (2024). A new framework for managing “crisis spillover” as a type of sticky crisis: Initial insights from a crisis communication expert panel. Public Relations Review, 50(1), 102424.Description goes here

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  • Harrison, V., Bober, J., Buckley, C., & Vallos, V., (2023). “Save Our Spikes”: Social Media Advocacy and Fan Reaction to the End of Minor League Baseball (MiLB). Communication & Sport. https://doi.org/10.1177/21674795231151916

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  • Harrison, V., Vafeaidis, M., Diddi, P., Buckley, C., & Dardis, F., (2022). Understanding how corporate social responsibility partnership factors influence nonprofit supportive intentions. Public Relations Review. 48(5), 102184. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pubrev.2022.102184

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  • DiRusso, C., Buckley, C., Diddi, P., Dardis, F. E., Vafeiadis, M., & Eng, N. (2022). Designing effective corporate social advocacy campaigns using valence, arousal, and issue salience. Public Relations Review, 48(3), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pubrev.2022.102207

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  • Eng N., Buckley C., Peng RX. (2022). Tracking the Path of the Green Consumer: Surveying the Decision-Making Process from Self-Transcendent Values to Supportive CSR Intentions*. Sustainability, 14(3), 1106. https://doi.org/10.3390/su14031106

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  • Freeman, J., Buckley, C., Triptow, C., & Chai, Y., (2021). For the love of lists: identifying the effects of listicle type and length. New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia, 1-23, https://doi.org/10.1080/13614568.2021.2001581

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  • Vafeiadis, M., Harrison, V. S., Diddi, P., Dardis, F., & Buckley, C. (2021). Strategic Nonprofit Communication: Effects of Cross-Sector Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Alliances on Nonprofits and the Mediating Role of Social-Objectives Achievement and Consumer Brand Identification. International Journal of Strategic Communication, 15(4), 275-292. https://doi.org/10.1080/1553118X.2021.1945610

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  • Harrison, V., Buckley, C., & Xiao, A. (2020). The roles of donation experience and advocacy: extending the organization–donor relationship model. Journal of Communication Management, 25(1), 85-103. https://doi.org/10.1108/JCOM-06-2020-0057

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  • Vafeiadis, M., Bortree, D. S., Buckley, C., Diddi, P., & Xiao, A. (2019). Refuting fake news on social media: nonprofits, crisis response strategies and issue involvement. Journal of Product & Brand Management, 29(2), 209- 222. https://doi.org/10.1108/JPBM-12-2018-2146

    Winner of the 2021 Literati Award for Outstanding Paper in the Journal of Product and Brand Management.

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  • Kankane, S., DiRusso, C., & Buckley, C. (2018). Can we nudge users toward better password management? An initial study. Extended Abstracts of the 2018 CHI Conferences on Human Factors in Computing Systems, https://doi.org/10.1145/3170427.3188689

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Invited Book Chapters

Buckley, C. Haejung, K. K., Navick, N., & Schwoon, B.* (2022). CSR Conversation: What is the future of CSR communication research?. In A. O’Connor (Editor). The Routledge Handbook of Corporate Social Responsibility Communication (pp. 357-366). New York, NY. Taylor & Francis Group. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003184911-34

* Authors are listed alphabetically, and all contributed equally.

Media Hits

Cited by Chau, L. (2021, August 5). Forward motion: The fourth industrial revolution is happening now. Forbes.https://www.forbes.com/sites/zengernews/2021/07/31/forward-motion-the-fourth-industrial-revolution-is-happening-now/?sh=50dfa6d63a68.

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