Elizabeth Eger

Elizabeth Eger, Ph.D.
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
Department of Communication Studies
College of Fine Arts and Communication
512.245.7823
eger@txstate.edu

Dr. Elizabeth K. Eger is an Assistant Professor in the Communication Studies Department at Texas State University. She obtained her PhD at the University of Colorado Boulder where she also received graduate certificates in Critical Theory and in Women and Gender Studies. Dr. Eger teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in Organizational Communication, Qualitative methods, Gender and Communication, and Work, Identity, and Difference. Her research examines how we understand ourselves in relationship to work, how communication of difference impacts our organizational, health, and life experiences, and how collectives create organizational identities. Her ongoing research explores difference-based organizing, including long-term ethnographies of a transgender outreach center and a computing camp for girls of color. For five years before joining Texas State, Dr. Eger worked as a researcher for the National Center of Women and Information Technology to advance the meaningful participation of women and underrepresented people in IT careers and education. Her research appears in Management Communication Quarterly, Journal of Applied Communication Research, Anthropology & Education Quarterly, and the third edition of The SAGE Handbook of Organizational Communication.