Kimber McKay
kimber.mckay@mso.umt.edu
Faculty & Staff

Joel Iverson
Professor
Office: LA 359 and ZoomEmail: Joel.Iverson@umontana.edu
Office Hours:
Office hours are interesting for Fall 2020. I have a wide array of availability by appointment for zoom or an outdoor walking meeting.
Curriculum Vitae
Current Position
Professor
Courses
COMX 421 Communication in Nonprofit Organizations
COMX 424 Risk and Crisis Communication
COMX 425 Communication in Health Organizations
COMX 591 Communicating Community
COMX 561 Qualitative Research Methods
Education
Ph.D 2003 Arizona State University
MA 1992 North Dakota State University
BS 1988 Concordia College
Field of Study
Organizational Communication, Nonprofit Studies, Knowledge Management, Risk and Crisis Communication, Health Communication
Selected Publications
Sellnow, D., Iverson, J.O. & Sellnow, T. (2017). The Evolution of the Operational Earthquake Forecasting (OEF) Community of Practice (CoP): The L’Aquila Communication Crisis as a Triggering Event for Organizational Renewal. Journal of Applied Communication Research. Also won the Top Paper Award in the Applied Division at NCA, 2016
Iverson, J.O. (2010). Knowledge, belonging and communities of practice. In H.E. Canary & R.D. McPhee (Eds.) (2010). Communication and organizational knowledge: Contemporary issues for theory and practice (pp. 35-52). New York: Routledge.
McPhee, R.D. & Iverson, J.O. (2009). Agents of constitution in Communicad: Constitutive processes of communication in organizations. In L. Putnam & A. Nicotera (Eds.) Communicative Constitution of Organization (pp. 49-88). Laurence Earlbaum.
Iverson, J.O. & McPhee, R.D. (2008). Communicating knowing through communities of practice: Exploring internal communicative processes and differences among CoPs. Journal of Applied Communication Research.
Brown, W.A. & Iverson, J.O. (2004). Exploring strategy and board structure in nonprofit organizations. Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, 33, 377-400.
Publications
Refereed/Competitive Publications
Iverson, J., Robinson, T. & Venette, S. (in press, 2017) Constituting Ebola and Healthcare Organizations: Exploring Risk Communication from a Structuration Theory Approach. The Oxford Encyclopedia of Health and Risk Message Design and Processing.
Sellnow, D., Iverson, J.O. & Sellnow, T. (2017). The Evolution of the Operational Earthquake Forecasting (OEF) Community of Practice (CoP): The L’Aquila Communication Crisis as a Triggering Event for Organizational Renewal. Journal of Applied Communication Research. Also won the Top Paper Award in the Applied Division at NCA, 2016
Iverson, J.O. (2013). Communicating Belonging: Building Communities of Expert Volunteers. In M. Kramer, L. Gossett, & L. Lewis (Eds.) Communication and the Volunteer Experience: Exploring the Organizational Dynamics of Volunteering in Multiple Contexts. Peter Lang Publishers. Selected as one of 18 from over 60 proposals. 2014 winner of the Edited Book Award for the Applied Communication Division of the National Communication Association.
McPhee, R. D., & Iverson, J.O. (2013). Activity coordination and the Montreal School. In F. Cooren (Ed.) Organization and organizing: Materiality, Agency, Discourse. New York: Routledge.
Iverson, J.O. & McPhee, R.D. (2008). Communicating knowing through communities of practice: Exploring internal communicative processes and differences among CoPs. Journal of Applied Communication Research.
Iverson, J.O. & Burkart, P. (2007). Managing electronic documents and work flows: Enterprise Content Management at work in nonprofit organizations. Nonprofit Management and Leadership, 17(4) 403-419.
Kim, E., Walkosz, B.J. & Iverson, J.O. (2006). USA Today’s Coverage of the top women golfers, 1998-2001: Se Ri Pak, Annika Sorenstam, and Karrie Webb. Howard Journal of Communication, 17, 307-321.
Brown, W.A. & Iverson, J.O. (2004). Exploring strategy and board structure in nonprofit organizations. Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, 33, 377-400.
Iverson, J.O. & McPhee, R.D. (2002). Knowledge management in communities of practice: Being true to the communicative character of knowledge. Management Communication Quarterly, 16, 259-266.
Littlefield, R.S. & Iverson, J.O. (1995). Limited Current Issue Debate: A new generation of policy debate for rural America. The Forensic Educator, 10, 5-10.
Invited Publications
Venette, S.J. & Iverson, J.O. (In Press, 2017) Communicative Enactment of Virtue: A Structurational Approach to Understanding Ethical Financial Communication. In Handbook of Investor Relations and Financial Communications. Laskin, A.V. (Ed.) Wiley.
Iverson, J.O., McPhee, R.D. & Spaulding, C. (In Press, 2017) Communicative Constitution in 2-1-1. In B. Brummans (Ed.) The Agentive Dynamics of Organizations. Routledge.
Iverson, J.O. (2017). Knowledge Management. In The International Encyclopedia of Organizational Communication. C. Scott & L. Lewis (Eds.) John Wiley and Sons.
McPhee, R.D., Poole, M.S. & Iverson, J.O. (2014). Structuration theory. In L. Putnam & D. Mumby (Eds.) The SAGE Handbook of Organizational Communication, 3rd ed. (pp. 75-95).
McPhee, R. D. & Iverson, J.O. (2011). Materiality, structuration, and communication. In T. Kuhn (Ed.) Matters of Communication: Political, Cultural, and Technological Challenges to Communication Theorizing (pp. 65-80). New York: Hampton.
Iverson, J.O. (2010). Knowledge, belonging and communities of practice. In H.E. Canary & R.D. McPhee (Eds.) (2010). Communication and organizational knowledge: Contemporary issues for theory and practice (pp. 35-52). New York: Routledge.
Canary H.E., McPhee, R.D. & Iverson, J.O. (2010). Conclusion: Moving forward with communicative perspectives on organizational knowledge. In H.E. Canary & R.D. McPhee (Eds.) (2010). Communication and organizational knowledge: Contemporary issues for theory and practice (pp. 304-313). New York: Routledge.
McPhee, R.D. & Iverson, J.O. (2009). Agents of constitution in Communicad: Constitutive processes of communication in organizations. In L. Putnam & A. Nicotera (Eds.) Communicative Constitution of Organization (pp. 49-88). Laurence Earlbaum.
Iverson, J.O. (2008). Organizational Learning. In W. Donsbach (Ed.) The International Encyclopedia of Communication. Blackwell.
McPhee, R.D., Corman, S.R. & Iverson, J.O. (2006). We ought to have gumption: An analysis of an excerpt from the videotape After Mr. Sam. In F. Cooren (Ed.) Interacting and Organizing: Analyses of a Board Meeting (pp. 133-162). Laurence Erlbaum.
Iverson, J.O. & Hoerer, J. (2001). Debate as a whole language tool for migrant students. Rostrum, 75, 25, 28.
Iverson, J.O. (1995). Limited Current Issue Debate Instructor’s Guide. Fargo, ND: North Dakota Department of Public Instruction. (Ninety-four page teaching guide/textbook with nine-week course plan and daily activities).
Honors
Top Paper, National Communication Association, Applied Division, 2016
Top Three Competitive Paper Award, International Communication Association, 2006
Outstanding Panhellenic Professor, Texas A&M University, 2005
Top Three Finalist, Charles Redding Dissertation Award, International Communication Association, 2004
Ph.D. Superior Researcher Award, Hugh Downs School of Human Communication,
2001-2002
Pedagogy Department Field
Communication Studies