Graduate Teaching Assistant, Ph.D. Candidate

About

  • Role:

    Graduate Student

  • Position:

    • Graduate Teaching Assistant, Ph.D. Candidate

  • Concentration:

    • Organizational Communication
    • Health Communication
    • Civic Engagement

  • Department:

    • Center for Public Deliberation and Communication Studies

  • Education:

    • A.A. Front Range Community College
    • B.A. Colorado State University, Communication Studies
    • M.A. University of Colorado Denver, Communication

Biography

Meghan Cosgrove is a Ph.D. Candidate in the department of Communication Studies at Colorado State University. Her areas of focus are organizational and health communication with an emphasis on incarceration and community reentry. She was the research assistant to Dr. Elizabeth Williams' NIOSH funded citizen science project in collaboration with the Communication Studies, Journalism and Media Communication, and Engineering departments. She has taught for the University of Colorado's College-in-Prison Program since its inception in the Fall of 2021 and currently serves as the program's Student Success Liaison. Meghan has served as a co-editor of the annual prison arts magazine Captured Words/Free Thoughts under the direction of Dr. Stephen J. Hartnett and Dr. Benjamin Boyce since 2020.

A Colorado native, she enjoys yoga, paddle boarding, and going on adventures with her bullmastiff, OJ.

Publications

Williams, E. A., Linvill, J., Ojeda-Hecht, E., Cosgrove, M. R., Buzzetta, A., & Konkel, A. (2024). Staying through the Great Resignation: The structuration of positive communication experiences. International Journal of Business Communication, 61(4), 805-830. https://doi.org/10.1177/23294884241263553

Keränen, L. B., Ingersoll, B., Krishnamoorthy, A., & Cosgrove, M. (2024). Preparing for Pandemic: Securitizing Rhetoric in U.S. National Influenza Response Plans, 1978-2017. Rhetoric of Health and Medicine, 6(4), 372-409. https://doi.org/10.5744/rhm.2023.4002

Cosgrove, M. R., Williams, E. A., Linvill, J., Buzzetta, A., Ojeda-Hecht, E., & Konkel, A. (2023). “It gave everybody a voice”: Dissent expression through COVID-19 and the Great Resignation. The Review of Communication. https://doi.org/10.1080/15358593.2023.2248226

Co-Editor

Beverly, J., Boyce, B., Cosgrove, M., & Hartnett, S. J. (2024). Captured Words/Free Thoughts: Writings and Art from America’s Prisons (20). University of Colorado Denver.

Beverly, J., Boyce, B., Cosgrove, M., Dicksteen, L., & Hartnett, S. J. (2023). Captured Words/Free Thoughts: Writings and Art from America’s Prisons (19). University of Colorado Denver.

Beverly, J., Boyce, B., Cosgrove, M., & Hartnett, S. J. (2022). Captured Words/Free Thoughts: Writings and Art from America’s Prisons (18). University of Colorado Denver.

Boyce, B., Cosgrove, M., Hartnett, S. J., Russell, V., & Howell, A. (2021). Captured Words/Free Thoughts: Writings and Art from America’s Prisons (17). University of Colorado Denver.