Research

I have won multiple awards, including the 2022 NCA Rhetorical and Communication Theory Early Career Award and 2022 NCA Critical and Cultural Studies Division New Investigator Award.

CV – March 2023

Jenna N. Hanchey, Ph.D.

Books

Jenna N. Hanchey, Africanfuturism: Beyond Development. In draft. Supported by an NEH Summer Stipend & ASU Institute for Humanities Research Seed Grant.

Jenna N. Hanchey, The Center Cannot Hold: Decolonial Possibility in the Collapse of a Tanzanian NGO (Durham: Duke University Press, Forthcoming in August 2023). Preorder with the code E23HNCHY for a 30% discount!

Themed Issue Co-Editor

Jenna N. Hanchey and Godfried A. Asante, “(Re)Theorizing Communication Studies from African Perspectives: Part II,” The Review of Communication 22, no. 1 (2022).

Godfried A. Asante and Jenna N. Hanchey, “(Re)Theorizing Communication Studies from African Perspectives: Part I,” The Review of Communication 21, no. 4 (2021).

Journal Articles

Jenna N. Hanchey, “Catastrophe Colonialism: Global Disaster Films and the White Right to Migrate,” Journal of International and Intercultural Communication (OnlineFirst).

Jenna N. Hanchey & Peter R. Jensen, “Organizational Rhetoric as Subjectification,” Management Communication Quarterly 36, no. 2 (2022): 261-287.

Jenna N. Hanchey and Godfried A. Asante, “African Communication Studies: Applications and Interventions,” The Review of Communication 22, no. 1 (2022): 1-6.

Godfried A. Asante and Jenna N. Hanchey, “African Communication Studies: A Provocation and Invitation,” The Review of Communication 21, no. 4 (2021): 271-292.

Jenna N. Hanchey & Godfried A. Asante, “‘How to Save the World From Aliens, Yet Keep Their Infrastructure’: Repurposing the ‘Master’s House’ in The Wormwood Trilogy,” Feminist Africa 2, no. 2 (2021): 11-28. Lead Article.

Jenna N. Hanchey, “The Dream Trainers,” Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies 18, no. 3 (2021): 305-314.

Jenna N. Hanchey, “‘The Self is Embodied’: Reading Queer and Trans Africanfuturism in The Wormwood Trilogy,” Journal of International and Intercultural Communication 14, no. 4 (2021): 320-334.

Godfried A. Asante & Jenna N. Hanchey, “Decolonizing Queer Modernities: The Case for Queer (Post)colonial Studies in Critical/Cultural Communication,” Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies 18, no. 2 (2021): 212-220.

Jenna N. Hanchey, “Decolonizing Aid in Black Panther,” The Review of Communication 20, no. 3 (2020): 260-268.

Jenna N. Hanchey, “Introduction: Beyond Race Scholarship as Groundbreaking/Irrelevant,” Departures in Critical Qualitative Research 9, no. 2 (2020): 122-125.

#ToneUpOrgComm Collective, “#ToneUpOrgComm: A Manifestx,” Departures in Critical Qualitative Research 9, no. 2 (2020): 152-154.

Jenna N. Hanchey, “Desire and the Politics of Africanfuturism,” Women’s Studies in Communication 43, no. 2 (2020): 119-124.

Peter R. Jensen, Joëlle M. Cruz, Elizabeth K. Eger, Jenna N. Hanchey, Angela Gist-Mackey, Kristina-Ruiz Mesa, and Astrid Villamil, “Pushing Past Positionalities and Through “Failures” in Qualitative Organizational Communication: Collective Lessons on Identities in Ethnographic Praxis,” Management Communication Quarterly 34, no. 1 (2020): 121-151.

Jenna N. Hanchey, “Reframing the Present: Mock Aid Videos and the Foreclosure of African Epistemologies,” Women & Language 42, no. 2 (2019): 317-346.

Jenna N. Hanchey, “Doctors Without Burdens: The Neocolonial Ambivalence of White Masculinity In International Medical Aid,” Women’s Studies in Communication 42, no. 1 (2019): 39-59.

Jenna N. Hanchey, “Toward a Relational Politics of Representation,” The Review of Communication 18, no. 4 (2018): 265-283.

Jenna N. Hanchey, “All of us Phantasmic Saviors,” Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies 15, no. 2 (2018): 144-160.

Jenna N. Hanchey, “Agency Beyond Agents: Aid Campaigns in Sub-Saharan Africa and Collective Representations of Agency,” Communication, Culture & Critique 9, no. 1 (2016): 11-29.

Robert W. Carroll, Madeleine Redlick, and Jenna N. Hanchey, “Is Rupaul Enough? Difference, Identity, and Presence in the Communication Classroom,” Communication Education 65, no. 2 (2016): 226-229.

Sarah Jane Blithe and Jenna N. Hanchey, “The Discursive Emergence of Gendered Physiological Discrimination in Sex Verification Testing,” Women’s Studies in Communication 38, no. 4 (2015): 486-506.

Jenna N. Hanchey and Brenda L. Berkelaar, “Context Matters: Examining Discourses of Career Success in Tanzania,” Management Communication Quarterly 29, no. 3 (2015): 411-439.

Kate Lockwood Harris and Jenna N. Hanchey, “(De)stabilizing Sexual Violence Discourse: Masculinization of Victimhood, Organizational Blame, and Labile Imperialism,” Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies 11, no. 4 (2014): 322-341.

Makiko Nagashima, Ken Kiers, Alejandro Szynkman, David London, Jenna Hanchey, and Kevin Little, “CP Violation in Three-body Chargino Decays,” Phys. Rev. D 80, no. 9 (2009): 095012-1-095012-10.

Book Chapters

Jenna N. Hanchey, “Critiquing Colonialism in African Communication Studies,” Handbook of Communication in Africa: Theory, Research and Praxis, eds. Peter F. Musibo Lumala, Joëlle M. Cruz, and Stacey L. Connaughton (New York: Taylor & Francis, In Press).

Jenna N. Hanchey, “Africanfuturism as Decolonial Dreamwork and Developmental Rebellion.” The Routledge Handbook to CoFuturisms, eds. Grace Dillon, Isiah Lavender III, Taryne Jade Taylor, and Bodhisattva Chattopadhyay (New York: Routledge, In Press).

Jenna N. Hanchey, “Afrofuturist Lessons in Persistence,” in Badass Feminist Politics: Exploring the Radical Edges of Theory, Communication, and Activism, eds. Sarah Jane Blithe and Janell Bauer (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2022), 276-291.

Jenna N. Hanchey, Ana-Luisa Ortiz, and Samantha Gillespie, “‘Graduate School is a Human Experience of Struggling, Celebrating, and Striving Together’: Graduate Life as A Collective Endeavor,” in By Degrees: Resilience, Relationships, and Success in Communication Graduate Studies, eds. Betsy W. Bach, Dawn O. Braithwaite, and Shiv Ganesh (San Diego: Cognella, 2021).

Jenna N. Hanchey, “Reworking Resistance: A Postcolonial Perspective on International NGOs,” in Transformative Practices and Research in Organizational Communication, eds. Philip Salem and Erik Timmerman (Hershey: IGI Global, 2018), 274-291.

Jenna N. Hanchey, “Constructing ‘American Exceptionalism’: Peace Corps Volunteer Discourses of Race, Gender, and Empowerment,” in Volunteering and Communication Volume II: Studies in International and Intercultural Contexts, eds. Michael W. Kramer, Laurie K. Lewis, and Loril M. Gossett (New York: Peter Lang, 2015), 233-250.

Jenna N. Hanchey, “Exceptional Opportunities: Hierarchies of Race and Nation in the U.S. Peace Corps Recruitment Materials,” in The Routledge Companion to Critical Management Studies, eds. Anshuman Prasad, Pushkala Prasad, Albert J. Mills, and Jean Helms-Mills (New York: Routledge, 2015), 384-397.