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Zhenyu Tian

Zhenu Tian, assistant professor of communication studies at The College of Wooster

Zhenyu Tian

Assistant Professor of Communication Studies; Women's, Gender, & Sexuality Studies

ztian@wooster.edu

Phone: 330-287-1975

Office: Wishart 115

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Degrees

  • B.A., Central South University 2014
  • M.A., San Diego State University 2016
  • Ph.D., University of South Florida 2021
Areas of Interest

Gender and organizing; gendered career/professional experiences; resilience; relational dialectics; women entrepreneurs; sociomateriality/new materialisms; identity construction

Courses Taught

COMM 452 Senior Independent Study Thesis
COMM 451 Senior Independent Study Thesis
COMM 311 Theories of Human Communication
COMM 299 Communication and Resilience
COMM 262 Communication and Conflict
COMM 226 Organizational Communication
COMM 225 Small Group Communication
COMM 223 Communication, Gender, and Sexuality
COMM 152 Public Speaking
COMM 111 Introduction to Communication Studies

Publications
Tian, Z. (forthcoming). “Saying something would be useless”: Reconsidering relational
dialectics theory by examining how Chinese women entrepreneurs negotiate gendered
entrepreneurship and family harmony. Journal of Family Communication.

Tian, Z. (2024). “The balance is a forever moving one”: Chinese women entrepreneurs’ politics of reinscription when encountering nonhuman agents of control. Journal of Applied Communication Research. Advance online publication.
https://doi.org/10.1080/00909882.2024.2348537

Tian, Z., Kuang, K., Wilson, S. R., Buzzanell, P. M., Ye, J., Mao, X., & Hou, W. (2024).
Measuring resilience for Chinese-speaking populations: a systematic review of Chinese
resilience scales. Frontiers in Psychology, 15. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1293857

Tian, Z. (2023). Suzhi, guanxi, abject body: Nonhuman agents of paradox that perform identity work together with Chinese women political leaders. Management Communication Quarterly, 37(1), 99-126. https://doi.org/10.1177/08933189221095615

Kuang, K., Wilson, S., Tian, Z., & Buzzanell, P. M. (2022). Development and validation of a culturally adapted measure of communication resilience processes for Chinese contexts. International Journal of International Relations, 91, 70-87.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijintrel.2022.09.003

Kuang, K., Tian, Z., Wilson, S., & Buzzanell, P. M. (2021). Memorable messages as anticipatory resilience: Examining associations among memorable messages, communication resilience processes, and mental health. Health Communication. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/10410236.2021.1993585

Tian, Z., & Bush, H. (2020). Half the sky: Interwoven resilience processes of women political leaders in China. Journal of Applied Communication Research, 48(1), 70-90. https://doi.org/10.1080/00909882.2019.1704829
Professional Affiliations

International Communication Association
National Communication Association
Association for Chinese Communication Studies
Central State Communication Association
Western Communication Association