Marya L. Doerfel

Marya Doerfel's research focuses on community resilience with a particular interest in disruptions that impact inter-organizational relationships and their broader community networks. She considers the way social network relationships among organizations in their local communities impact and are impacted by changes in their environment, other organizations, their constituents, and their relational contexts. She has conducted research funded by the National Science Foundation and has been recognized with numerous awards from the International Communication Association and the National Communication Association.

Publications include the book “Organizing Inclusion: Moving Diversity from Demographics to Communication Processes” along with journal articles published in outlets such as Journal of Communication, Public Relations Review, and Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly. Her most recent book, "The Routledge Handbook of Communication and Resilience" (with co-editors Jennifer Theiss, Maria Venetis, and Kristina Scharp) draws on expertise from communication scholars who examine resilience within and across individual, relational, group/team, organizational, inter-organizational, and community levels. This handbook provides a wide-ranging resource for theory building, empirical investigations, and practical applications.

Ph.D., Communication, University at Buffalo, the State University of New York

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