Communicating in Small Groups

Brenda J. Allen (Ph.D. & M.A., Howard University; B.A., Case Western Reserve University) focuses her scholarship activities on organizational communication processes, with an emphasis on two areas of study that will impact organizations in the 21st century: (a) social identity and workplace diversity and (b) computer-mediated communication (CMC). Allen teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in organizational communication, small group communication, computer mediated communication, diversity, and research methods. She is the author of Difference Matters: Communicating Social Identity (Waveland), has held positions in NCA's Black Caucus (chair) and Organizational Communiation Division, and sits or has sat on the following journal boards: Quarterly Journal of Speech, Management Communication Quarterly, Howard Jounral of Communications, The Review of Communication, International and Intercultural Communication Annual, Women's Studies in Communication, and Qualitative Research in Communication.