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Joanne Cattafesta is a recent transplant from the Northeast. Currently, she is teaching organizational communication classes at SIUE and is also completing her doctoral dissertation from Rutgers University, where she received her Master's degree in Organizational Communication in 2000. Her primary interests involve how individuals conceptualize community and work and the consequences of that conceptualization in the way they make sense of their career choices. Her dissertation examines career decisions from the perspective of people making mid-career choices and those who provide professional help in making those choices.
In addition to working on her dissertation, Joanne is actively engaged in teaching, research and service within university life. She is passionate about teaching and in 2003, was one of three recipients of the Rutgers University Teaching Excellence Award, which recognizes excellence in graduate student teaching. She teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in organizational communication, interpersonal communication, organizational culture, gender, public speaking, and communication and community, a course which was created from a Civic and Service Education (CASE) Curriculum grant awarded to her in 2001.
In the area of research, she has been actively involved with a variety of federally funded projects, which have focused on topics such as gender, work and technology; interpersonal violence; and health communication, all of which have developed her skills as a qualitative researcher. Also, she has facilitated workshops on public speaking, speech writing, public relations, advertising, media buying, and conference planning for organizations.
