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Vincent R. Waldron, Ph.D.
Coordinator
Dr. Vince Waldron conducts research on the communication practices that sustain healthy, vibrant, and just relationships. In his most recent books (co-authored with colleague Douglas Kelley), Communicating Forgiveness and Marriage at Midlife, Dr. Waldron reports on the experiences of romantic couples who remain resilient in the face of significant relational challenges and life transitions. Other recent research examines the effects of retirement on friendships and family support systems. Dr. Waldron also studies forms of communication that span the boundaries of work and family life. His current book project (Communicating Emotion at Work) synthesizes two decades of research on how the regulation of emotion at work affects employees and their families. Dr. Waldron teaches courses in organizational and interpersonal communication as well aging studies. He played a key leadership role in ASU’s lifelong learning programs for retirement-aged students and provides faculty guidance for a scholarship program for nontraditional students (the Osher Reentry Scholars program). A professor in ASU’s Communication Studies program, Dr. Waldron currently directs the Family Communication Consortium.
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Jeffrey Kassing, Ph.D.
Coordinator of Community Engagement
Dr. Jeff Kassing conducts research on communication and sport with a particular focus on youth sports. Within this body of work he has examined coach-athlete relationships in high school sports, parent/fan communication at youth sporting events, aggression in sports, and factors that contribute to the continuation or termination of sport participation by young girls. He planned, developed, and hosted the Communication and Sport Summit and the Keeping Girls in Sport Symposium at Arizona State University. He also has presented on communication and youth sports at local high schools, universities, and national scholarly association meetings. In another line of research, Dr. Kassing and colleagues explored parents’ use of corporal punishment as a compliance gaining tactic. His publications on these topics appear in Communication Yearbook, the International Journal of Sport Communication, the Western Journal of Communication, Communication Research Reports, and Human Communication.
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Douglas Kelley, Ph.D.
Coordinator of Educational Initiatives
Dr. Douglas Kelley studies communication within families. Specifically, his research focuses on how couples negotiate relational expectations and transgressions within marriage. His two books, Communicating Forgiveness and Marriage at Midlife (both coauthored with Vince Waldron), focus on relational and lifespan challenges and transitions for couples. His current project, Marital Communication, examines how the long-term, committed, romantic nature of marriage creates a unique context for the development and management of intimacy, love, and conflict. Dr. Kelley is on the editorial board for The Journal of Family Communication and has published in such outlets as the Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, Journal of Applied Gerontology, and Human Communication Research. He teaches relationship-based courses such as Family Communication, Conflict and Negotiation, Relational Communication, Forgiveness and Reconciliation, and Inner-City Families. Dr. Kelley is a frequent speaker at local churches and other community organizations regarding marriage and family communication.
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Carla L. Fisher, Ph.D.
Coordinator of Research
Dr. Carla L. Fisher’s conducts research on the centrality of family communication to wellness across the life span. She specializes in the intersection of family, health, and developmental issues particularly how families communicatively adapt to aging and health transitions, therapeutic implications of intergenerational interaction, and associations between family communication and longitudinal health outcomes. She has explored such issues in the contexts of cancer, genetic testing, geriatric caregiving, and eating disorders. Her recent research, funded by the NIA and to be published with Hampton Press, examined how women diagnosed with breast cancer in young, middle, and later adulthood adapt through mother-daughter communication. She has spoken at community events and collaborates with cancer centers like Mayo Clinic and Memorial Sloan Kettering to conduct and implement research into psychosocial services. She teaches family, health, and life-span communication courses; serves on the editorial board of Journal of Family Communication; and as Vice-Chair of NCA’s Communication and Aging Division.
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Dayna N. Kloeber, B.A.
Graduate Fellow
Dayna Kloeber is a graduate student in the department of communication studies at Arizona State University. Her research addresses the communication of conditional forgiveness in romantic and intergenerational relationships. Other research projects include parent-child forgiveness in youth sport settings and the examination of humor as a coping mechanism in families who face health and disability challenges. Dayna also has a passion for public speaking. She competed on the collegiate forensics team as an undergraduate and was Arizona’s top persuasive speaker at the Interstate Oratorical Association for two consecutive years. Equally important to Dayna is community service, and she has held a variety of leadership positions over the past 15 years. Currently, she chairs the parent information committee at Brophy College Preparatory – a committee that promotes healthy family communication on myriad topics to help thwart teenage alcohol and substance use. Dayna plans to pursue her Ph.D. in communication studies upon completion of her master’s degree.
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