Projects explore how the primacy of work in contemporary culture impacts how we understand and construct our gendered/raced/aged identities as community members, women, employees, children and men.
Tracy, S. J., & Trethewey, A. (2005). Fracturing the real-self↔fake-self dichotomy: Moving toward crystallized organizational identities. Communication Theory, 15, 168-195. (Nominee, Article of the Year Award, Organizational Communication Division, National Communication Association).
Trethewey, A. (2001). Reproducing and resisting the master narrative of decline: Midlife professional women’s experiences of aging. Management Communication Quarterly, 15, 183-226.