Dr. Natalie Nelson-Marsh

Associate Professor

Graduate Studies Coordinator

Contact Information

Office: C-103

Phone: 426-2258

Office Hours:
Tuesday 3:00 – 5:30
Wednesday 2:00 – 3:00
And by Appointment

Email: natalienelsonmarsh@boisestate.edu

Courses – Spring 2012

COMM 421 – Theory & Philosophy of Comm
COMM 505 – Theory & Philosophy of Comm
COMM 593 – Thesis
COMM 595 – Readings and Conference
COMM 598 – Graduate Seminar

Teaching Specialties:

Organization Communication, Organizational Culture, Theory and Philosophy of Communication, Communication and Technology, Qualitative Research Methods

Research Interests/Activities:

See Biography

Biography:

Dr. Natalie Nelson-Marsh specializes in organizational communication and communication technologies. These broad interests translate into a focus upon 1) the communicative constitution of virtual or distributed organizations, including how distributed organizations “hang together” across vast spans of time and space 2) the social construction of virtual organizational culture, 3) the reconceptualization of the social and cultural aspects of communication technologies in the constitution of organizations. Dr. Nelson-Marsh’s work appears in the Management Communication Quarterly Journal and in the book Virtual and Collaborative Teams: Process, Technologies, and Practice. In 2007, Natalie won the Charles Redding Dissertation of the Year Award from the International Communication Association. Also in 2007, Natalie received Phi Kappa Phi’s Outstanding Faculty Award. Current projects include a qualitative study of the Internet Engineering Task Force, the virtual organization responsible for the continued development of the Internet infrastructure. Natalie earned a B.A. (2000) in English and a B.A. (2000) in Communication from the University of Utah, her M.A. (2002) from the University of Colorado at Boulder, and her Ph.D. (2006) from the University of Colorado at Boulder.