Erin Parcell

Professor, Communication

Education

PhD, Communication Studies, University of Iowa
MA, Communication, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
BA, Speech Communication, Iowa State University

Teaching Schedule

Course Num	Title	Meets
COMMUN 401-001	Communication in Marital and Family Relationships	TR 11:30am-12:45pm
COMMUN 805-001	Seminar on Issues in Interpersonal Communication: Dark Side of Close Relationships	W 2:30pm-5:10pm

Courses Taught

COMMUN 101 - Introduction to Interpersonal Communication
COMMUN 363 - Communication in Human Conflict
COMMUN 372 - Qualitative Research in Communication
COMMUN 401 - Communication in Marital & Family Relationships
COMMUN 702 - Qualitative Research in Communication
COMMUN 801 - Seminar in Interpersonal Communication
COMMUN 802 - Marital & Family Communication
COMMUN 902 - Advanced Qualitative Methods in Communication: Interviewing

Research Interests

Professor Parcell's research currently centers on communication within and about interpersonal and family relationships. A primary area of her work focuses on long-distance relationships, including college dating couples and deployed military marriages/families. She most often employs qualitative methods for her research (e.g., in-depth interviews) but has participated in several meta-analyses and survey design studies.

A secondary area for Professor Parcell's work focuses on gun violence in southeastern Wisconsin, in particular the stories community members share about their experiences. She is on an interdisciplinary team seeking to address this issue by, in part, helping to elevate the voices of gun violence survivors via our living archive. She encourages students, both graduate and undergraduate, as well as community members to contact me if they are interested in participating in my existing projects or to start new ones.

Biographical Sketch

Selected Publications

Suter, E. A., Sahlstein Parcell, E., Adebayo, C. T., Romo, D. C., & Weadlock, C. R. (2024). Charting a research agenda for relational dialectics theory: Critical theorizing in interpersonal and family communication research. Journal of Family Communication, 24(3–4), 177–195. https://doi.org/10.1080/15267431.2024.2394027

Harris, L., & Sahlstein Parcell, E. (2024). Gun violence rhetoric in Milwaukee: Racialized violence and the creation of urban space. Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies. http://doi.org/10.1080/14791420.2024.2376361

Sparrow, D. M., Sahlstein Parcell, E., Gerlikovski, E. & Simpson, D. N. (2023). Microaggressions toward people with disabilities. In M. S. Jeffress, J. Ferris, J. M. Cypher, & J. Scott-Pollock (Eds.), The Palgrave handbook of disability and communication (pp. 67–80). Palgrave.

Peck, B., & Sahlstein Parcell, E. (2021). Talking about mental health: Dilemmas U.S. military service members and spouses experience post deployment. Journal of Family Communication, 21(2), 90–106.
https://doi.org/10.1080/15267431.2021.1887195

Adebayo, C. T., Sahlstein Parcell, E., Mkandawire-Valhmu, L., & Olukotun, O. (2021). African American women’s maternal healthcare experiences: A critical race theory perspective. Health Communication.
https://doi.org/10.1080/10410236.2021.1888453

Cronin-Fisher, V., & Sahlstein Parcell, E. (2019). Making sense of dissatisfaction during the transition to motherhood through relational dialectics theory. Journal of Family Communication, 19(2), 157–170.
https://doi.org/10.1080/15267431.2019.1590364

Sahlstein Parcell, E., & Baker, B. M. A. (2018). Relational dialectics theory: A new approach for military/veteran-connected family research. Journal of Family Theory & Review, 10(3), 672–685. https://doi.org/10.1111/jftr.12279

Sahlstein Parcell, E., & Webb, L. M. (Eds.) (2015). A communication perspective on the military: Interactions, messages, and discourses. Peter Lang.