Faculty
Linda Hughes-Kirchubel
Visiting Assistant Professor of Instruction
Contact Information
Email
Office: 3011
Biography
Linda Hughes-Kirchubel (PhD, Purdue University) is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Communication in the Department of Communication. Engaging with concepts of connection and support, identity and stigma, and help-seeking methods, her research focuses on the intersections of communication, resilience, and disenfranchised grief in online organizations.
Before becoming a university professor, Linda worked as director of external relations at the Military Family Research Institute at Purdue University. There she led a team of communicators to advance MFRI’s mission of research and support of military and veteran family members. At MFRI Linda participated in research and writing that appeared in scholarly publications such as Communication Monographs and the Journal of Family Communication. She co-edited A Battle Plan for Supporting Military Families (Hughes-Kirchubel, MacDermid Wadsworth & Riggs, 2018), a research text designed for those working with military-connected families. She also worked as a journalist covering local, state, and national politics and legal affairs in California and Indiana and won numerous awards at the state and national levels.
Research Areas
Organizational Communication, disenfranchised grief, resilience, online organizing, journalism