Dr. Manda V. Hicks returned to Boise State University as faculty in the Department of Communication and Director of Forensics in 2011. She earned her M.A. in Communication in 2006 at Boise State, and served as the Interim Director of Forensics, before leaving to pursue a Ph.D. at Bowling Green State University. Her research interests include communication theories, feminist theories, qualitative methods, rhetoric, gender, culture, identity, and war.
Articles
An Examination of Conflict Style Preferences in India (with Stephen M. Croucher, Kyle J. Holody, Deepa Oommen, and Alfred DeMaris), International Journal of Conflict Management (2011)
Purpose – This study sets out to examine conflict style preferences in India and the...
Making My Narrative Mine: Unconventional Articulations of a Female Soldier, Qualitative Inquiry (2011)
I use fragments from my own military service to build a narrative of the self...
The Effects of Self-Construal and Religiousness on Argumentativeness: A Cross-Cultural Analysis (with Stephen M. Croucher, Deepa Oommen, Kyle J. Holody, Samara Anarbaeva, Kisung Yoon, Anthony T. Spencer, Chrishawn Marsh, and Abdulrahman I. Aljahli), Communication Studies (2010)
Christians and Muslims were recruited from France (n = 600), Britain (n = 568), and...
Prime-Time Players and Powerful Prose: The Role of Women in the 1997-1998 Television Season (with Martha M. Lauzen and David M. Dozier), Mass Communication and Society (2001)
Within a theoretical framework that integrates the influence of market forces and perceived power of...
Presentations
There’s No Debate: The Importance of Forensics in Everyday Life, Beyond the Blue Faculty Podcasts (2012)
There is more to debate than just talking fast and loud, or bashing your opponents–à...