Dr. Eisenberg joined the Communication faculty in 1994. His primary areas of expertise are organizational and health communication, with a focus on the strategic uses of communication to promote positive organizational change. His current research investigates the role of communication in preventing medical error in in hospital emergency departments.

curriculum vitae
(February 2007)

Undergraduate course offerings

• Interpersonal Communication
• Introduction to Communication Theory in Organizations
• Communicating Leadership

Graduate course offerings

• Communicating Leadership
• Constructions of Identity
• Health Communication
• Organizational Communication

• Strategic ambiguities: Essays on communication, organization, and identity. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 2007.

• Organizational Communication: Balancing Creativity and Constraint (fifth edition) with H.L. Goodall and Angela Tretheway. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2007.

• Eisenberg, E. (2006). "Karl Weick and the aesthetics of contingency." Organization Studies, 27, 1-15.

• Goodier, B., & Eisenberg, E. (2006). "Seeking the Spirit: Communication and the (Re)Development of a 'Spiritual' Organization." Communication Studies, 57 (1), 47-65.

• Eisenberg, E., Baglia, J., & Pynes, J. (2006). "Transforming emergency medicine through narrative: Qualitative action research at a community hospital." Health Communication, 19, 3, 197-208.

• Bean, C. J., & Eisenberg, E. (2006). "Employee sensemaking in the transition to nomadic work." Journal of Organizational Change Management, 19 (2), 210-222.

• Eisenberg, E., Murphy, A., Sutcliffe, K., Wears, R., Schenkel, S., Perry, S., & Vanderhoef, M.(2005). "Communication in emergency medicine: Implications for patient safety." Communication Monographs, 72 (4), 390-413.

• "Building a Mystery: Communication and the Development of Identity." Journal of Communication 51(3), 2001, pp. 534-552.

• "Transforming Organizations Through Communication." with Linda Andrews, Alexandra Murphy, & Linda Timmerman. Organizational Communication and Change (ed. P. Salem) New York: Hampton Press, 1999, pp. 125-147.

• Eisenberg, E.M. (1990). "Jamming: Transcendence through organizing." Communication Research, 17, 139 164.

• Eisenberg, E.M. (1984). "Ambiguity as strategy in organizational communication." Communication Monographs, 51, 227 242.

Awards

• Phi Beta Kappa, New Jersey Chapter, Inducted 1977.

• USF Presidential Faculty Excellence Award, January 2003.

• Ohio University Elizabeth Andersch Award for Career Excellence in Communication Scholarship, 2000-2001.

• Burlington Resources Foundation Faculty Achievement Teaching Award, University of Southern California, 1993

• Speech Communication Association Award, Outstanding Publication in Organizational Communication, 1984-1985, 1989-1990

Education

Ph.D., Speech Communication, Michigan State University, 1982.

M. A., Educational Measurement and Psychometrics, Michigan State University, 1981.

M. A., Speech Communication, Michigan State University, 1980.

B. A., Communication, Rutgers University, 1977.