Summary
Jimmie Manning (Ph.D., University of Kansas) is a professor in the Department of Communication Studies at the 推荐杏吧原创. He is known for his scholarship on interpersonal and family relationships, his innovative approaches to service learning and his extensive professional service to the field of communication studies.
Manning’s research examines how individuals, families and communities make meaning in the aftermath of relational, institutional and symbolic harm, with particular attention to organizing processes, ethical and emotional endurance, and relational meaning-making. Using interpretive methodologies—especially interview-based and ethnographic approaches—his work spans interpersonal, health, organizational and community contexts. Ongoing and recent projects explore failed teenage adoption, sexual harassment, relational turning points, aging and disability, family addiction narratives and experiences of ideological marginalization.
Theoretically, Manning develops and extends frameworks in interpersonal and family communication, affect theory and constitutive models of communication to account for power, stigma and zero-sum conflict, as well as emerging relational infrastructures such as AI-mediated interaction. Across projects, his scholarship aims to serve people in passage—those navigating rupture without vindication—by offering empirically grounded theory, ethical clarity and methodological tools that make harm and recovery communicatively legible.
His research has been supported by funding agencies, including the National Science Foundation and Learn & Serve America. He has authored or co-authored over 100 publications in journals such as Communication Monographs, Journal of Social and Personal Relationships and Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication.
Manning is a member of the graduate faculty and is currently accepting graduate students.
Education
- Ph.D., Communication Studies (Interpersonal Communication and Cultural Studies), University of Kansas, 2006
- Graduate Certificate, Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies (Sexuality and Social Control), University of Kansas, 2005
- M.A., Communication Studies (Organizational Communication, Political Communication, and Rhetoric/Media Studies), University of Kansas, 2004
- B.F.A., Dramatic Arts; B.A. English and Ethnic/Gender Studies; and B.S.E. Speech/Communication and Social Sciences, Emporia State University, 2001