Jordan Atkinson

Dr. Jordan Atkinson is a Professor of the Practice at the University of Kansas, where he serves as Program Director for the Organizational Communication graduate programs and Professional Studies undergraduate programs. As a communication scholar investigating instructional and organizational contexts, Dr. Atkinson's research has been published in the journals Communication Education, Communication Teacher, Journal of Communication Pedagogy, Basic Communication Course Annual, Ohio Communication Journal, and Iowa Journal of Communication. Dr. Atkinson has also published book chapters in The Routledge Handbook of Public Speaking Research and Theory, Teaching Communication: Foundations, Casing Conflict Communication, Communication and Learning, Casing the Family, Communicating Advice, and Casing Sport Communication. Dr. Atkinson regularly presents his research at the National Communication Association (NCA) and the Eastern Communication Association (ECA).

Dr. Atkinson is currently the President of the Eastern Communication Association and recently planned the 2025 ECA Conference in Buffalo. He currently serves ECA as Chair of the Site Selection Committee, the Finance Committee, the Membership Committee, and the Publications Committee. In previous years, he has served in multiple leadership positions at ECA, including Second Vice President, Chair and Program Planner of several interest groups, the Planner of the McCroskey and Richmond Undergraduate Scholars Conference, the Planner of the Graduate Student Poster Session, the Short Course Director, as an Executive Council member, and a member of the Nominating Committee. Dr. Atkinson also serves as an Editorial Board Member for the Journal of Communication Pedagogy, Communication Research Reports, Ohio Communication Journal, and Communication Quarterly. Dr. Atkinson is the Immediate Past Chair of the Instructional Development Division at NCA. Dr. Atkinson also recently served a three-year term on the Convention Committee at NCA. For his service to the discipline, Dr. Atkinson was awarded the 2021 Presidential Citation Award for Service from NCA.

At KU, Dr. Atkinson primarily teaches in the Organizational Communication graduate program. He also serves on the Faculty Evaluation Committee, the University Senate Academic Policies and Procedures Committee, the University Core Curriculum Committee, the School of Professional Studies Academic Council, and the Scholarship Committee. Before coming to KU, Dr. Atkinson was a tenured Associate Professor of Communication at Missouri Western State University where he served as Chair of the Graduate Council, on the Faculty Senate, the Honors Committee, and the Three-Minute Thesis Committee. Dr. Atkinson is originally from Pikeville, Kentucky. He completed his Ph.D. in Communication Studies at West Virginia University where he was awarded the Doctoral Student Teaching Award and the Doctoral Student Peer Collegiality Award. Dr. Atkinson completed his M.A. in Communication and two B.A. degrees in Secondary Education and Communication from Morehead State University in Kentucky.