Daena Goldsmith
Teacher and scholar of interpersonal communication and health narratives.
- Role
- Board Secretary at Northwest Narrative Medicine Collaborative
- Location
- Portland, OR, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Daena Goldsmith
My teaching and research focus on how our patterns of communication create identities, relationships, and communities. My award-winning book, Communicating Social Support, set the agenda for studying how we communicate support to one another through everyday stresses and life crises. In the book, I articulated Normative Rhetorical Theory, a framework I used to study couples coping with heart disease and cancer. My work has appeared in scholarly journals, including Journal of Communication, Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, Social Science & Medicine, Communication Monographs, Human Communication Research, and Journal of Applied Communication. My scholarship has been recognized with the National Communication Association’s Gerald R. Miller Book Award, Bill Eadie Distinguished Scholarly Article Award, and Franklin H. Knower Article Award. My current book project, Polyphonic Resistance: Blogging Motherhood and Autism (under contract with Lexington Books), examines counter-narratives of mothering autistic children that emerged in a network of bloggers in the early This \"book in 60 posts\" alternates my own post-length analytic segments written in an accessible style with posts from the bloggers themselves. The work is based on over a decade of study using narrative and ethnographic analysis. I am equally passionate about teaching and mentoring. I offer courses on health communication, narrative medicine, and research methods and lead writing workshops for various audiences. In 2017, I received the Lorry Lokey Faculty Excellence Award from Lewis & Clark College. With colleagues in the Northwest Narrative Medicine Collaborative, we offer Narrative Medicine Skills Training, an introduction to the practice of narrative medicine that draws together undergraduate students, medical students, and health care professionals. With my collaborator, Kristine Munoz (University of Iowa), we have created the Health Story Hub, a collection of resources for those who teach with and about health narratives in undergraduate courses, medical professional training, and community settings. I put my expertise to work in community service, as Associate Dean for Faculty Development at Lewis & Clark College and Board Secretary of the Northwest Narrative Medicine Collaborative. I enjoy collaborating with others to develop programs, mentor junior colleagues, find creative solutions, and strengthen communities.You can read more about my work at daenagoldsmith.com, healthstoryhub.lib.uiowa.edu, and nwnmcollaborative.org
Experience
Board Secretary
Northwest Narrative Medicine Collaborative
Jan 2018 — Present · Portland, OR, US
Education
University of Washington
M.A, Ph.D., Speech Communication
1986 — 1990
Lewis & Clark College
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Communication
1982 — 1986
Skills
- Https://College.lclark.edu/Faculty/Members/Daena_Goldsmith/
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