Dr. Jorgenson joined the Communication faculty in 1996. Her research focuses on work-life relationships, the social construction of gendered work identities, and the uses and implications of communication technologies for family life. She is an Executive Board member of the Organization for the Study of Communication, Language and Gender. Her current project is a study of the spatial dimensions of home and children’s understandings of at-homeness.

Undergraduate course offerings

• Communication, Gender and Identity
• Family Communication
• Women and Communication
• Interpersonal Communication

Graduate course offerings

• Communication and Working Life
• Family Communication
• Framing and Sense-Making in Social Life
• Gender in the Workplace
• Introduction to Graduate Studies in Communication

Representative publications

• Jorgenson, J. (2006). Seeing work-life from children’s standpoints. Electronic Journal of Communication/ La Revue Electronique de Communication 16, 3-4.


• Golden, A., Kirby, E. & Jane Jorgenson. (2006). Work-life research from both sides now: An integrative perspective for organizational and family communication. In C. Beck (Ed.), Communication Yearbook 30. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, pp. 143-195.


• Jorgenson, J. & Bochner, A. (2004). Imagining families through stories and rituals. Handbook of family communication A. Vangelisti (Ed.), Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, pp. 513-538.


• Steier, F. & Jorgenson, J. (2003). Ethics and aesthetics of observing frames. Cybernetics and Human Knowing, 10, 3-4, 124-136.


• Jorgenson, J. (2002). Engineering selves: negotiating gender and identity in technical work Management Communication Quarterly, 15, 3, pp. 350-380.


• Bird, S.E. & Jorgenson, J.(2002). Extending the school day: gender, class and the incorporation of technology in everyday life. Women and everyday uses of the Internet: Agency and identity M. Consalvo & S. Paasonen (Eds.), New York: Peter Lang, pp. 255-274.

Education

Ph.D., Speech Communication, University of Pennsylvania, 1986.