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Sarah Riforgiate

Director of Graduate Research; 2008-2009
Sarah.Riforgiate@asu.edu


Doctoral Student and Graduate Teaching Associate
Hugh Downs School of Human Communication

Sarah currently studies at Arizona State University as a second year doctoral student in Communication and was recently named a Jeanne Lind Herberger Fellow and a Hutloff-Koehler Fellow. She completed her undergraduate degree in Speech Communications at the University of Illinois and her Masters degree in Communication at Arizona State University. Focusing on both interpersonal and organizational communication, Sarah’s recent research considers work/life issues including the how same sex roommates experience and discuss the division of domestic labor and how independent home party consultants’ blend paid labor and private life. Other research interests and projects explore positive organizational experiences, the impact of affectionate behavior on health, qualitative methodology, and organizational assimilation.

In addition to teaching and research, for the past three years Sarah has actively volunteered in the college community as a student mentor and GPSA grant reviewer and the local community participating as a Girl Scout leader and elementary school volunteer. In her free time she enjoys traveling to art museums, reading popular fiction, vacationing in Wisconsin at Lake Beulah and watching sailboat races.