Patty Sotirin

• Patty Sotirin (2020). “Feminist Vigilance Against Gun Violence.” In Sotirin, P., Bergvall, V. L., & Shoos, D. L. (Eds.), Feminist Vigilance (pp. 1-22). Palgrave Macmillan.
• Patty Sotirin (2020). “Introduction to Feminist Vigilance.” In Sotirin, P., Bergvall, V. L., & Shoos, D. L. (Eds.), Feminist Vigilance (pp. 193-218). Palgrave Macmillan.
• Patty Sotirin (2020). “Copper Country Mothers on the WWI Home Front.” In Sotirin, P., Walton, S.A., & Collins, S. (Eds.), Homefront in the American Heartland: Local Experiences and Legacies of WWI (pp. 242-275). Cambridge Scholars Press.
• Goltz, S. M., Sotirin, P., Minnerick, A., Mayer, A,, & Storer, A. (2019). “Continuous Improvement to Achieve Faculty Career Equity.” Academic Labor beyond the College Classroom: Working for our values. Routledge.
• Laura L. Ellingson and Patty Sotirin (2019). “Data Engagement: A Critical Materialist Framework for Making Data in Qualitative Research,” Qualitative Inquiry, 26(7), 817-826. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1177/1077800419846639
• Patty Sotirin (2018). “Breastfeeding in the Military: A Feminist Communicology Analysis.” In Ann Marie A. Short, Abigail L. Palko, and Dionne Irving, Eds., Breastfeeding and Culture: Discourses and Representation (pp. 184-201). Demeter Press.
• Patty Sotirin (2018). “Tropes of the U.S. Military Mother: A Feminist Analysis.” In Sarah Cote Hampson, Udi Lebel, & Nancy Taber, Eds., Mothers, Military, and Society (pp. 23-56). Demeter Press, 2018.

        Awards

• Sotirin, P. & Ellingson, L.L. “Critical Feminist Family Communication: Gender, Power, and Praxis.” In Dawn Braithewaite, Elizabeth Suter, and Kory Floyd, Eds., Engaging Theories in Family Communication pp. 110-121. Routledge, 2017.
  • Engaging Theories in Family Communication received the 2017 Gerald R. Miller Book Award, Interpersonal Communication Division, NCA
• Patty Sotirin (2010). Autoethnographic mother-writing: Advocating radical specificity. Journal of Research Practice, 6(1), online.
  • 2012 Norman K. Denzin Qualitative Research Award. Reprinted in Autoethnography (4 volume set). Editor Pat Sikes. Volume One: What It Is and Critiques and What It Can Do. Sage Benchmarks in Social Research Methods, 2013.]

• Patty Sotirin, Victoria L. Bergvall, & Diane L. Shoos, Feminist Vigilance. Palgrave Macmillan, 2020.
• Patty Sotirin, Steven Walton, & Sue Collins, Eds., Homefront in the American Heartland: Local Experiences and Legacies of WWI. Cambridge Scholars Press, 2020.
• Laura L. Ellingson & Patty Sotirin, Making Data in Qualitative Research: Issues, Ethics and Practices. Routledge, 2019.
• Patricia J. Sotirin & Laura L. Ellingson (2013). Where the aunts are: Family, feminism, and kinship in popular culture. Waco TX: Baylor University Press.
• Elizabeth Flynn, Patty Sotirin, & Ann Brady, Eds. (2011). Feminist Rhetorical Resilience. Logan, UT: Utah State UP.
• Laura Ellingson & Patricia J. Sotirin (2010). Aunting: Cultural practices that sustain family and community life. Waco TX: Baylor University Press.

• NSF ADVANCE Partnership: Joining Forces--A Midwestern Partnership of Research Intensive Institutions for Women STEM Faculty Success.” PI: Cinzia Cervato, Iowa State University; MTU PI: Adrienne Minnerick; Co-PIs S. Goltz, P. Sotirin (Awarded 2019).
• NSF ADVANCE Adaptation Grant, “Continuous Improvement Process to Transform Institutional Practices and Culture”; PI: Adrienne Minnerick; Co-PIs: P. Sotirin, S. Goltz, A. Storer, A. Mayer. (Awarded 2018).
• MTU ADVANCE Training Grant (with Sonia Goltz, Business) Development of Diversity Literacy Workshop (2011)

• Interpersonal Communication
• Organizational Communication
• Communication Theories
• Gender and Communication
• Qualitative Research Methods