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Jaclyn Reed
Teaching Assistant Professor
Communication Studies
University of Wisconsin-La Crosse
Jaclyn Reed
Teaching Assistant Professor
Communication Studies
Specialty area(s)
Interpersonal communication, marital communication, family communication, relational uncertainty, and uncertainty management.
Brief biography
Dr. Jaclyn Reed (Jackie) grew up in Sauk Rapids, Minnesota and attended undergraduate at the College of Saint Benedict/Saint John's University. She found her love for communication through her first-year roommate after a particularly brutal poetry class forced her to reexamine her desire to become an English major. Her undergraduate education sparked a passion for teaching and loves giving students the tools to sharpen their interpersonal communication skills.
Dr. Reed successfully defended her dissertation titled "An Exploration of Newlyweds’ Experiences in the Transition Into Marriage Using Relational Uncertainty and Uncertainty Management Theory" in April 2023. Her dissertation grew from a curiosity and asking why "the first year of marriage is the hardest". Dr. Reed's current research interests include the transition into marriage and if parental marital status impacts newlyweds' types of uncertainty or uncertainty management.
If students attend virtual office hours they may meet her two feline teaching assistants: Charlie and Abby.
Current courses at UWL
CST: 110 Communicating Effectively
CST: 230 Interpersonal Communication
Education
PhD University of Iowa, 2023
MA University of Iowa, 2021
BA College of Saint Benedict, 2016
Career
Teaching history
Iowa:
Interpersonal Communication
Nonverbal Communication
Social Scientific Methods
Business Communication
Communication in Leadership
Professional history
RESEARCH AWARDS
Graduate College Summer Fellowship, University of Iowa, 2022 ($5,000)
Graduate College Post-Comprehensive Research Fellowship, University of Iowa, 2022 ($10,500)
Dissertation Research Award, Department of Communication Studies, University of Iowa, 2021 ($1,000)
Research Grant, Graduate and Professional Student Government (GPSG) & the Department of Communication Studies, University of Iowa, 2020 ($1,500)
Research and publishing
Reed, J. M. (2023). An exploration of newlyweds’ experiences in the transition into marriage using relational uncertainty and uncertainty management theory [Doctoral Dissertation, University of Iowa]. ProQuest. https://www.proquest.com/openview/1e7bb1c9434ac227b4a9b02efb2ab8a8/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=18750&diss=y
Mikucki-Enyart, S. L., & Reed, J. M. (2020). Understanding parents-in-law’s uncertainty management through a relational turbulence lens. Communication Studies, 71(5), 857-878. https://doi.org/10.1080/10510974.2020.1776745