Megan Schraedley

Megan Schraedley
  • Assistant Professor
  • Department: Communication and Media
  • Institution: West Chester University of Pennsylvania
  • Email: MSchraedley@wcupa.edu

Education

  • M.A. and Ph.D. in Organizational Communication from the University of Missouri
  • BA in Communication from Boston College

Research Interests

food securitycollaborative policy makingcommunity organizingqualitative researchphotovoicecrisis communicationresilience

Opportunities

Work Study Positions Available: No

Grant Funded Positions Available: No

Course-Credit Research Opportunities Available: Yes

I am always interested in involving students in my research. Feel free to email me with any interest in independent study work or research projects you may have interest in. Contact Dr. Schraedley at mschraedley@wcupa.edu.

Volunteer Research Positions Available: No

Biography

Megan Schraedley is an assistant professor in the Department of Communication and Media. Dr. Schraedley teaches Organizational Communication, Organizing & Sustainability (COM 398), Teams & Networking (COM 333), and the Principles & Practices of Public Speaking (COM 209). She previously served as faculty at California State University Channel Islands in Camarillo, CA. She earned her M.A. and Ph.D. in Organizational Communication from the University of Missouri and a BA in Communication from Boston College. Her research and teaching address the discursive causes of food (in)security, which can be transformed through collaborative policy making and community organizing practices. She also brings qualitative research expertise in community resilience after working at the Disaster and Community Crisis Center (University of Missouri) and professional experience in nonprofit communication and grantwriting based on her work at Penn Medicine (University of Pennsylvania) and The Rock School for Dance Education in Philadelphia. Her research has been published in peer-reviewed journals such as the Journal of Communication, Communication Monographs, the Journal of Applied Communication Research, and Disasters, as well as an edited book, The Political Language of Food (Boerboom, 2015).

Contact Information

Phone: 610-436-1544

List of Publications

  • Schraedley, M. K. (2024). Organizing tensions in community supported agriculture. In Dempsey, S. E. (Ed.) Organizing eating: Communicating for equity across food systems (pp. 190-213). Routledge.
  • Schraedley, M. K., & Dougherty, D. S. (2022). Creating and Disrupting othering during policymaking in a polarized context. Journal of Communication, 72(1), 111-140.
  • Schraedley, M. K., Jenkins, J. J., Irelan, M., & Umana, M. (2021). The neoliberalization of higher education: Paradoxing students' basic needs at a Hispanic-serving institution. Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 418.
  • Schraedley, M. K., Bean, H., Dempsey, S. E., Dutta, M. J., Hunt, K. P., Ivancic, S. R., ... & Sellnow, T. (2020). Food (in) security communication: a Journal of Applied Communication Research forum addressing current challenges and future possibilities. Journal of Applied Communication Research, 48(2), 166-185.
  • Houston, J. B., Schraedley, M. K., Worley, M. E., Reed, K., & Saidi, J. (2019). Disaster journalism: fostering citizen and community disaster mitigation, preparedness, response, recovery, and resilience across the disaster cycle. Disasters, 43(3), 591-611.

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