About Me

Dr. Carrie Ann Johnson is a Postdoctoral Scholar with the ADVANCE Midwest Project and the interim Coordinator of Research and Outreach for the Catt Center for Women and Politics. Her research examines the protective communication channels, whisper networks, that women and other minoritized people use to share information about sexual harassment and hostile sexism. Her dissertation about the formation and use of whisper networks in organizations received the Sigma Xi Karas Award for Distinguished Dissertations. She also received the Iowa State Postdoctoral Excellence in Teaching and Mentoring Award for the work she does with undergraduate researchers.

Education

Ph.D. in Rhetoric and Professional Communication from Iowa State University. Dissertation: Whisper networks: Informal protection from sexual harassment in organizations. Major Professor: Stacy Tye-Williams

M.S. in American Studies from Utah State University

Thesis: Rhetoric in 19th-Century Female Mormon Healing Rituals

Thesis Supervisor: Philip Barlow

B.S. in Journalism and Mass Communication from Utah State University, Minor: Business Marketing

Publications

Johnson, C.A. (2023) The purpose of whisper networks: A new lens for studying informal communication channels in organizations. Frontiers in Communication, 8. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fcomm.2023.1089335/full

Johnson, C.A. (2023) ‘Whisper networks’ thrive when women lose faith in formal systems of reporting sexual harassment. The Conversation. https://theconversation.com/whisper-networks-thrive-when-women-lose-faith-in-formal-systems-of-reporting-sexual-harassment-196630

Tye-Williams, S., Johnson, C. A., Odenweller, K., Cosgrove, S., Henke, D., & Evers, C. (2023). Social support, fathers, and work:

At home and outside of the home. In V. R. Waldron & T. J. Socha (Eds.), Communicating fatherhood: new directions in theory, research, and education (Vol. 13, pp. 293–310). Peter Lang.

Cervato, C., Bilen-Green, C., Cockrell, M., Johnson, C.A., Koretsky, C., Minerick, A. (2023). External promotion and tenure review letters at research-intensive institutions: A critical communication analysis of external review practices. Accepted: ADVANCE Journal