Associate Professor

About

  • Role:

    Faculty

  • Position:

    • Associate Professor

  • Concentration:

    • Organizational Communication
    • Critical, Feminist, Decolonial Perpectives
    • Career, Entrepreneurship, &
    • Technology

  • Department:

    • Communication Studies

  • Education:

    • Ph.D., Purdue University
    • M.A., Purdue University
    • B.A., Communication University of China

  • Curriculum Vitae:

Biography

Dr. Ziyu Long (PhD, Purdue University) is an Associate Professor of Organizational Communication in the Department of Communication Studies at Colorado State University. Guided by feminist and decolonial perspectives, Dr. Long’s research centers on career and entrepreneurial organizing in today’s technologically advanced workplace. Her work has generated critical insights regarding the gendered nature of technology in women’s digital labor and entrepreneurial organizing in the United States, China, and Denmark. Dr. Long’s work has been published in outlets such as Management Communication Quarterly, Journal of Applied Communication Research, Gender, Work & Organization, and Women’s Studies in Communication, among others.

Dr. Long is an award-winning teacher. She frequently teaches undergraduate and graduate classes in organizational communication, critical and intersectional perspectives to career, gender, technology, and entrepreneurship, as well as mixed research methods.

Dr. Long currently serves as the Associate Editor for Management Communication Quarterly and the Vice Chair-Elect for the NCA Organizational Communication Division.

Publications

Recent publications:

  1. Long, Z. (2024). Current trends and developments in organizational communication research 组织传播学研究概况和发展趋势 (Published in Mandarin Chinese). Global Journal of Media Studies, 11(4), 82-99. https://doi.org/ 26599/GJMS.2024.9330041
  2. Kang, D. & Long, Z. (2024) Equal authorship. Organizing as Tong (通): Decolonizing organizational communication from the roots. Management Communication Quarterly, 38 (3), 595-622. https://doi.org/10.1177/08933189231223424.
  3. Long, Z., Buzzanell, P. M., & King, A. S. (2024). International graduate student parenthood: Engaging in closeting labor to constitute productive work-family negotiation during transitions to parenthood. Communication Studies, 75 (3), 224-242. https://doi.org/10.1080/10510974.2024.2320752
  4. Long, Z., Marshall-McKelvey, K., & Matter, M. (2024). Material precarity, performative imperative, and burnout from resilience: Surfacing the dark side of resilience laboring in women’s entrepreneurial stories. Journal of Applied Communication Research, 52(2), 179–198. https://doi.org/10.1080/00909882.2024.2313126
  5. Long, Z., & Buzzanell, P. M. (2022). Constituting intersectional politics of reinscription: Women entrepreneurs’ resistance practices in China, Denmark, and the United States. Management Communication Quarterly, 36 (2), 207–234. Lead article https://doi.org/10.1177/08933189211030246

Please find Dr. Long's full list of publications here

Courses

  • SPCM 433: Organizational Communication

  • SPCM232: Collaborating for Change

  • SPCM 792: Career and Intersectionality

  • SPCM 701: Academic Writing

  • SPCM 792: The Dark Side of Organizational Communication