Department of Communication

Contact and Overview

Email Address

packkn@appstate.edu

Office Hours

Wednesday: 5:00-5:30 p.m.
And by Appointment via Zoom

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Education

Graduate Teaching Assistant/Instructor of Record in the Department of Communication, Interpersonal and Organizational Communication, North Carolina State University,
B.S., Communication Studies, Appalachian State University

Teaching

Currently Teaching (Spring 2024)

COM 2121 Interpersonal Communication

Courses Taught

COM 1200 Thinking Through Communication
COM 2101 Public Speaking
COM 2181 Introduction to Rhetorical Theory
COM 3928 Communication Research Methods

Research Interests

Identity
Sensemaking
Ethnography
Critical Cultural Studies
Narrative
Organizational Communication
Integrated Pest Management
Agriculture
Appalachian Studies
Family and Relational Communication

Professional Affiliations or Organizations

National Communication Association
Southern States Communication Association
Cultural Studies Association
Lambda Pi Eta
North Carolina Association of Broadcasters

Conference Presentations

• Watson, K. P. (2016) “Exit, Voice, and Millennial Loyalty: An Autoethnography Examining Psychological Contract Breach and Generational Values.” Paper presented at the Southern States Communication Association, Nashville, Tennessee, April 4-8, 2018. Finalist for Top Ethnography Paper
• Deitrich M., Watson, K. P., & Schneider, A. (2017). “Swiping ‘Right’: How Tinder Users Use Metaphors to Up Their Game.” Paper presented at the Southern States Communication Association Conference, Nashville, Tennessee, April 4-8, 2018.
• Watson, K. P. and Foulke, M. (2017). “2017 Women’s March: A Case Study of Feminist Resistance of the 2016 Presidential Election.” Paper presented at the Eastern Communication Association Conference, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, April 25-28. Top Panel Award (Building and Burning Symbolic Bridges: Diverse Perspectives on the Women’s March as a Communicative Act)
• Waston, K. P. (2017). “Hillbilly Hegemony: A Crisis of Homogenized Culture.” Paper presented at Cultural Studies Association Conference, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, May 31-June 2, 2018.
• Watson, K. P. and King, J. (2018). “Communicating and Collaborating Effectively in a Child and Family Team Meeting as a Guardian ad Litem, Social Worker, or Facilitator.” Training content presented at NC GAL Volunteer Regional Conference, Winston Salem, NC, July 26-27, 2018.
• Craig, E. A., & Watson, K. P. (2018). “How ambiguous loss impacts foster families: Building communicatively cooperative homes for foster youth during life transitions.” Paper presented at the Applied Communication Division for the meeting of the National Communication Association, Salt Lake City, Utah, November 8-11, 2018.
• Watson, K. P. (2018). “Constructing a blue-collar narrative: Working-class woes of white-collar supervisors.” Paper accepted to the Research in Progress Roundtables Division for the meeting of the National Communication Association, Salt Lake City, Utah, November 8-11, 2018.
• Watson, K. P., LaForest, J., Magerey, R.D., & Walker, T.J. (2022). Our shared mission infographic [Conference Poster]. 10th International IPM Symposium, Denver, Colorado. https://bugwoodcloud.org/CMS/mura/ripmc/assets/Image/Publications/Mission%20Infographic%20Poster%20(46x36).png

Academic Presentations

North Carolina State University

• Communication Department Research Symposium, October 2017 “Swiping ‘Right’: How Tinder Users Use Metaphors to Up Their Game" • Chosen by faculty to present my research to the communication department
• 13th Annual NC State Graduate Research Symposium, March 2018 (Future) “Exit, Voice, and Millennial Loyalty: An Autoethnography Examining Psychological Contract Breach and Generational Values” • Nominated by faculty to represent the graduate communication program to the university