Caryn Medved

Caryn E Medved

Professor

Weissman School of Arts and Sciences

Department: Communication Studies

Areas of expertise:

Email Address: caryn.medved@baruch.cuny.edu

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SemesterCourse PrefixCourse NumberCourse Name
Spring 2013PAF9199Selected Topics In PAF
Spring 2012PAF9199Selected Topics In PAF
Spring 2011PAF9699Topics Public Policy

Journal Articles

Larson, R. S., & Medved, C. (2021). Project ECHO: Adopting, Implementing and Sustaining a Telementoring Program in Academic Medical Centers. Metropolitan Universities ,

Golden, A., Medved, C., & Andaya, E. (2021). I Never Even Tried to Get Out of Work: Low Wage Service Work , Work-life Interrelationships, and Women’s Health. Journal of Applied Communication,

Bishop, S., & Medved, C. E. (2020). Competing Discourses, Relational Tensions, and Discursive Materiality: Parent-Child Communication in Mixed-Status Immigrant Families. Journal of Applied Communication , 48(2). 227-247.

Medved, C. E. (2019). Reading with My Mother: Books as Objects. Departures in Critical Qualiative Research/University of California Press, 8(1). 13.

Medved, C. (2016). The New Female Breadwinner: Discursively Doing and Undoing Gender Relations. Journal of Applied Communication Research, 44(3). 236-255.

Medved, C. (2016). Stay-at-Home Fathering as a Feminist Opportunity: Perpetuating, Resisting, and Transforming Gender Relations of Caring and Earning. Journal of Family Communication, 16(1). 16-31.

Medved, C., & Chatot, M. (2016). Investir un rôle féminin tout en restant un homme – enquête sur les pères au foyer en France et aux Etats-Unis (Investing in a feminine role while staying masculine: Studying at-home fathers in France and the U.S. ) . Négociations , 25(1). 155-166.

Medved, C. (2015). Work-Family Communication Research: Contemplating the Possibilities of Undoing Gender. The Electronic Journal of Communication/La Revue Electronique de Communication, 25(1/2).

Medved, C., & Rawlins, W. (2011). At-home fathers and Breadwinning Mothers Articulations of Work and Family. Women & Language, 32. 9-40.

Medved, C., & Turner, L. (2011). Qualitative research: Practices and practicing reflexivity. Women & Language, 32. 109-114.

Medved, C. (2009). Constructing Breadwining-Mother Identities: Moral, Personal and Political Positioning. Women's Studies Quarterly , 37(3/4). 16.

Beck, C. (Ed.). Medved, C. (2009). Crossing and Transforming Occupational and Household Gendered Divisions of Labor. Communication Yearbook, 33. 457-482.

Broadfoot, K., Carlone, D., Medved, C., Aakaus, C. E., Gabor, E., & Taylor, K. (2008). Meaningful Work and Organizational Communication: Troubling Boundaries, Questioning Positionality and Empirical Engagements. Management Communication Quarterly, 22(1). 152-161.

Medved, C. (2007). Investigating Family Labor: Contesting the Public-Private Split in Communication Studies. Journal of Family Communication , 7. 1-19.

Medved, C., Brogan, S., McClanahan, A. M., Morris, J. F., & Shepherd, G. J. (2006). Work and Family Socializing Communication: Messages, Gender and Power. Journal of Family , 6. 161-180.

Medved, C., Hubbell, A. P., & Chorry-Assad, R. (2005). A New Approach to Organizational Deception. The North American Journal of Psychology , 7. 171-180.

Medved, C., & Kirby, E. L. (2005). Family CEO's: A feminist analysis of corporate mothering discourses . Management Communication Quarterly, 18. 435-478.

Medved, C. (2004). The everyday accomplishment of work and family: Accounting for practical actions and commonsense rules in everyday routines . Communication Studies , 55. 128-154.

Medved, C., & Heisler, J. (2002). Critical Student-Faculty Interactions: Non-Traditional Students Manage Multiple Roles . Communication Education , 51. 105-120.

Modaff, D. P., & Medved, C. (2002). Illustrating the Complexities of Supervisor-Subordinate Communication . Communication Teacher , 17. 8-10.

Medved, C., Morrison, K., Dearing , J. W., Larson, R. S., Cline , G., & Brummans, B. H. (2001). Tensions in Community Health Initiatives: Communication and Collaboration in a Managed Care Environment . Journal of Applied Communication , 29. 137-152.

Medved, C., & Miller, V. D. (2000). Dialogue: Managing after the merge: The challenges of employee feedback and performance appraisals. Management Communication Quarterly , 13. 659-667.

Book Chapters

Medved, C. (2021). Intergenerational Health Communication in Immigrant Families. In Kim, D., & Kreps, G. (Eds.), Global Health Communication for Immigrants and Refugees: Cases, Theories, and Strategies

Buzzanell, P., & Medved, C. (2021). Work-Life Communication. Handbook of Organizational Communication Theory & Research

Medved, C. (2020). Family As Organization. Family Communication As… Metaphors for Family Communication

Medved, C. (2014). Work-Life Issues for Human Resource Practitionners. In Gordon, M., & Miller, V. (Eds.), Meeting the Challenge of Human Resource Management: A Communication Perspective (pp. 204-214). Philadelphia, PA,usa. Taylor & Francis.

Medved, C. (2014). Men Narrating Home. In Chawla, D., & Holman-Jones, S. (Eds.), Storying Home: Place, Identity and Exile Washington D. C. ,USA. Lexington Books.

Medved, C. (2014). Fathering, Caregiving, and Masculinity: Stay-at-Home Fathers and Family Communication. In Morman, M. T., & Floyd, K. (Eds.), Widening the Family Circle: New Research in Family Communication (p. 30). Thousand Oaks: CA,USA. Sage Publication.

Medved, C. (2014). Infertility, Professional Identity and Consciousness-Raising. Pregnancy and Loss Narratives (pp. 103-116). New York, NY,USA. Peter Lange Publishers.

Medved, C., & N/A, R. W. (2013). At-home fathers and breadwinning mothers: Variations in Constructing Work and Family Lives [chapter adopted from previous publication]. In Kimmel, M., & Aronson, A. (Eds.), Gendered Society Reader (pp. 200-221). Oxford University Press.

Medved, C. (2011). The ethics of work and family. Case Studies in Organizations: Ethical Perspectives and Practices. In May, S. K. (Ed.), (pp. 49-58). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Medved, C. (2008). "When Do I Get a Break?’: Unexpected Emotions of a Stay-at-Home Dad." Gender Actualized: Cases in Communicatively Constructing Realities. In Kirby, E. L., & McBride, M. C. (Eds.), Roxbury Press.

Medved, C., & Graham, E. E. (2006). Communication Contradictions: (Re) Producing dialectical tensions through work, family and balance memorable messages. In Turner, L. H., & West, R. (Eds.), (pp. 353-372). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. The Sourcebook for Family Communications.

Medved, C., & Novak, D. (2006). The Ethics of Work and Family. In May, S. K. (Ed.), (pp. 49-58). Case Studies in Organizations: Ethical Perspectives and Practices.

Kirby , E., Golden, A., Medved, C., Jorgenson , C. E., & Buzzanell , P. M. (2003). An organizational communication challenge to the discourse of work and family research: From problematics to empowerment. In Kalbfleisch, P. J. (Ed.), (pp. 1-44). Mahwah, NJ,Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. Communication Yearbook.

Medved, C., & Apker, J. (2003). Stress, burnout and work-family conflict: Managing multiple roles during an organizational merger. In Keyton, J., & Shockley-Zalabak, P. (Eds.), (pp. 330-344). Roxbury Press, Los Angeles, CA. Case Studies for Organizational Communication: Understanding Communication Processes.

Medved, C. (1997). Negotiation: Business interactions and Career Development. In Russo, T., Patterson, J., & Ford, D. (Eds.), New York. Handbook of Effective Business Communication, McGraw-Hill.

(Re)Defining Work in the Gig Economy: An Organizational Discourse Case Study of California's Prop 22. 2026

Media Contributions

(2012). Regina Brett Show .

(2011). Bloomberg News.

(2010). Marie Claire Magazine.

(2007). 92.3 WCOL-FM .

(2007). 610 WTVN-AM.

Presentations

Medved, C. (2018, November 30). My Mother's Books as Objects: A Daughter's Reading. Annual Convention. Salt Lake City, UT: National Communication Association.

Medved, C. (2018, November 30). Critical Pedagogy in Family and Interpersonal Communication. Annual Convention. Salt Lake City, UT: National Communication Association.

Medved, C. (2018, November 30). Work-Life Boundary Crossing: A Critical Narrative Analysis of One Mixed Status Immigrant Family's Story. Annual Convention. Salt Lake City, UT: International Communication Association.

Bishop, S., & Medved, C. (2017, May 31). Intergenerational Communication, Success Narratives, and Immigrant Integration in New York City. Immigrant Integration in U.S. Cities: Past Lessons, Current Practices, and Future Directions. New York

Golden, A., Medved, C., & Andaya, E. (2016, November 30). 'I never even tried to get out work': Low wage service work, work-life interrelationships, and health, and well-being. Annual Convention. Philadelphia, PA: National Communication Association.

Medved, C. (2016, November 30). Bottom-Up Change: State-Level Family Leave Advocacy. Annual Convention. Philadelphia, PA: National Communication Association.

Medved, C. (2015, November 30). Stay-at-Home Fathers as a Feminist Opportunity: Resisting, perpetuating and transforming gender relations. Annual Convention. Las Vegas, NV: National Communication Association.

Medved, C. (2015, July 31). Les Impass et les Opportunities du genre dans les vies des meres chef de famille et des peres au foyer (The gendered constrains and opportunities in the lives of breadwinning mothers and at-home fathers). Annual Congress. Universite Versailles, St. Quentin, France: L'Association Francaise de Sociologie.

Medved, C. (2015, May 31). Planning, finding or opting to be at Home: Stay-at-home fathers, care and masculinity. Annual Congress. University of Illinois, Champagne-Urbana: International Congress of Qualitative Research.

D'Amelio, A., Medved, C., & Smith, C. (2015, April 17). Hybridization in the Weissman School of Arts & Sciences. Baruch College’s Eighteenth Annual TEACHING AND TECHNOLOGY CONFERENCE. One Bernard Baruch Way: Baruch College.

Golden , A., Medved, C., & Andaya, E. (2014, June 30). "Can you come in two hours earlier?" An exploratory study of interrelationships between low wage work and reproductive health seeking. Annual Convention. New York, NY: Work and Family Researchers Network.

Medved, C. (2014, October 31). La re-articulation vie professionallelle/vie familiale: Les couples qui renversent les roles traditionnels du genre (The articulation of work and family in couples who reverse traditional gender roles). Annual Congress. CNAM, Paris, France: L'Association Francaise de Sociologie.

Medved, C. (2014, May 31). Infertility, professional identity, and consciousness raising. Annual Congress. University of Illinois, Champagne-Urbana: International Congress of Qualitative Research.

Medved, C. (2013, August 31). Les femmes qui soutien de famillie a l'epreuve des referentials sexues traditionnelles (Breadwinning mothers testing traditional gender referents). Annual Congress. Universite de Nantes, Nantes France: L'Association Francaise de Sociologie.

Medved, C. (2012, December 31). From unemployed man to stay-at-home father: Narrative transitions in caring and earning. Annual Congress. Champagne-Urbana, IL: International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry.

Medved, C. (2012, December 31). Women as Primary Breadwinners: Adopting, Adapting and/or Resisting the Masculine Breadwinner Ideology. Annual Convention. New York, NY: Eastern Sociological Association.

Medved, C., Ryan , R., & Okimoto, C. (2012, June 30). The Emergence of Reverse Traditional Work and Family Arrangements: Explanations and Pathways. Inagural Meeting. New York, NY: Work and Family Research Network.

Medved, C., & N/A, L. P. (2012, March 31). Single Employees: Work and Life Balance. Annual Convention. San Diego, CA: Society of Industrial and Organizational Psychology.

Medved, C. (2011, December 31). Qualitative Analysis of Reverse Traditional Couples. Annual Meeting. Champaign-Urbana, IL: International Congress of Qualitative Researchers.

Medved, C. (2011, December 31). Women as Primary Breadwinners: Career and Policy Implications. Annual Meeting. New York, NY: Corporate Communication International.

Medved, C. (2010, December 31). "I Knew the Minute I Met Him!" Breadwinning Mothers and Stay-at-Home Fathers. Annual Meeting. Champaign-Urbana, IL: International Congress of Qualitative Reseach.

Medved, C. (2010, December 31). Constructions of the Good Life in Research. Annual Meeting. Tampa, FL: Organization for the Study of Culture, Language and Gender.

Medved, C. (2009, December 31). Breadwinning Mothers' Identities: Varieties of Postioning. Annual Meeting. Baltimore, MD: Eastern Sociological Association.

Medved, C. (2008, December 31). Doing Work and Family Research: But Do you have a Family?. Annual Conference. Albuguerque, NM: Qualitative Management and Organizational Research Conference.

Medved, C., & Rawlins, W. K. (2007, December 31). At-Home Fathers and Breadwinning Mothers: Variations in Couples' Approaches to Homemaking and Moneymaking. Annual Convention. Chicago, IL: National Communication Association.

Medved, C. (2007, December 31). Irony as a Bridge between Theorizing and Being Feminist Research. Annual Meeting. Champagn-Urbana, IL: International Congress of Qualitative Research.

Medved, C. (2006, December 31). Communication and Work-Life Balance. Annual Convention. San Diego, CA: National Communication Association.

Medved, C. (2006, December 31). Constructing Connections in Work/Life Borderlands. Annual Convention. San Diego, CA: National Communication Association.

Medved, C. (2006, November 30). Work-Family/Life Communication: Unpaid Family Labor. Annual Convention. San Diego, CA: National Communication Association.

Medved, C., Brogan, S., McClanahan, A. M., Morris , J. F., & Shepherd , G. J. (2005, December 31). Work and Family Socializing Communication: Messages, Gender and Power. International Communication Association. New York, NY

Medved, C. (2005, December 31). Dualisms, dialectics and dialogue: The consequences of civility and tolerance in the undergraduate classroom. National Communication Association. Boston, MA

Medved, C., Golden , A., & Jorgenson, J. (2005, December 31). Revisiting the protestant work ethic: Organizing family, time and career through Franklin Covey. National Communication Association. Boston, MA

Medved, C., & Norander, S. (2005, December 31). The dialectic of disengagement and renewal: The case of stay-at-home fathers.. National Communication Association. Boston, MA

Medved, C., & Graham , E. E. (2005, December 31). Communicating contradictions: (Re) Producing dialectical tensions through work, family, and balance messages. Top Paper, Family Communication Division of the National Communication Association.

Medved, C. (2003, December 31). A routine-based structuration framework for the everyday coordination of work and family. National Communication Association. Miami, Fl

Medved, C. (2002, December 31). The everyday accomplishment of work and family: Accounting for practical actions and commonsense rules in everyday routines. International Communication Association. Seoul, Korea

Medved, C., Kirby , E. L., Golden, A. A., Jorgenson, J., & Buzzanell, P. M. (2002, December 31). Exploring organizational communication problematics for empowerment: Challenging and revisioning the discourse of work and family research. National Communication Association. New Orleans, LA

Medved, C., & Kirby , E. L. (2002, December 31). From having the "most important job in the world" to being a "Family CEO": Contradictions and ambiguities inherent in a corporate identity for stay-at-home parents. National Communication Association. New Orleans, LA

Medved, C., Brogan, S., & Morris , J. (2002, December 31). Young adults' memorable messages about family work, and balance. National Communication Association. New Orleans, LA

Medved, C., & Turner, P. K. (2002, December 31). Motherhood. Post-Modern Identity and Third Wave Feminist Discourses. Organization for the Study of Culture, Language and Gender. Minneapolis, MN

McClanahan, A. M., & Medved, C. (2002, December 31). Working Mothers ' Working Power Organization for the Study of Culture, Language, and Gender. Organization for the Study of Culture, Language, and Gender. Lexington, KY

Medved, C., & Heisler , J. (2001, December 31). A negotiated order exploration of critical student-faculty interactions: Student-parents manage multiple roles. International Communication Association. Washington, DC

Medved, C. (2001, December 31). Measuring trustworthy behaviors: A review of literature & scale validation. Top Poster Presentation, Organizational Communication Division of the International Communication Association. Washington, DC: international Communication Association.

Medved, C. (2001, December 31). A structuration approach to the enactment of gender and flexible work arrangements. National Communication Association. Atlanta, GA

Medved, C., Morrison , K., Dearing, J. W., Larson, R. S., Cline, G., & Brummans , B. (2001, December 31). Tensions in community health initiatives: Communication and collaboration in a managed care environment. International Communication Association. Washington, DC

Medved, C., & Hubbell, A. P. (2001, December 31). Measuring trustworthy behaviors: a review of literature and scale validation. International Communication Association. Washington, DC

Medved, C., & Hubbell, A. P. (2000, December 31). The integration of three perspectives of organizational deception: using grice's maxims to create a typology of organizational deceptive messages. International Communication Association. Acapulco, Mexico

Medved, C. (2000, November 30). A feminist standpoint challenge to women's career development. National Communication Association. Seattle, WA

Medved, C., & Morrison, K. (2000, December 31). Paradoxes in collaborative community change. Health and Communication Conference. Texas A&M University, College Station Texas

Medved, C., Morrison , K., Butler-Ellis, J., Popovich, D., & Heisler, J. (1999, December 31). Describing work and family conflict situations: Sources and strategies. National Communication Association. Chicago, IL

Medved, C. (1999, December 31). Organizational communication and the human resource function: A review and analysis of the literature, directions for future research, and practitioner implications. National Communication Association. Chicago, IL

Medved, C. (1998, December 31). Home and organizational influences of work and family. National Communication Association. New York, NY

Medved, C. (1997, December 31). Sensemaking and the social construction of the work/family debate. Central States Communication Association. St. Louis

Medved, C. (1997, December 31). Values and concertive Control: A transorganizational, pluralistic view. National Communication Association. Chicago, IL

Medved, C. (1996, December 31). Work/family interaction: Women's decision: Women's decision making processes. Organizational Mini-Conference. Champagne-Urbana, IL

Other Scholarly Works

Way, A., Medved, C., Scott, C., & Lewis , L. (2017). Inter-Generational Communication and the Workplace. The International Encyclopedia of Organizational Communication. 412.

Medved, C., Scott, C., & Lewis , L. (2017). Organizational Policy and Communication. The International Encyclopedia of Organizational Communication. 4( 9781118955567), 13.

Medved, C., Berger, C. R., & Roloff, M. E. (2015). Dual-Earner Marriage. The International Encyclopedia of Interpersonal Communication. (1), 1-6.

Medved, C. (2015). Editor, Special Issue, Undoing Gender in Work-Family, Introduction. 25(1 & 2),

Medved, C., Sweet, S., & Casey, J. C. (2010). Work and Family Communication. Work and Family Encyclopedia.

Medved, C., Sweet, S., & Casey, J. C. (2009). Gender Crossing, Work-Family Configurations, and Career Outcomes. Work and Family Encyclopedia. 45.

Medved, C. (2007). Editor, Special Issue, Unpaid Family Labor, Introduction. 7

Dearing , J. W., Larson, R. S., Cline , G., Morrison, K., Phillips , C., Brummans , B. H., Hubell, A., Hullett, C., Jackson-Elmoore , C., Medved, C., & Vigmostad, K. (2001). Cluster Evaluation Final Report and Guide for Strategic Grantmaking with Communities.

Dearing , J. W., Larson, R. S., Cline , G., Hullett, C., Jackson-Elemore , C., Medved, C., Morrison, K., Phillips , C., & Vigmostad, K. (1999). Comprehensive Community Health Models Implementation Phase Cluster Evaluation 1999 Annual Report.

Reviews

Medved, C. (2011,January 1). Unfinished revolution: How a new generation is reshaping work, family and gender in America. Journal of Marriage and Family.

Medved, C. (2010,January 1). Women at the top: Powerful leaders tell us how to combine work and family. Journal of Marriage and Family.

Medved, C. (2008,January 1). Excavating the Rhetorical Roots of Work for Scholars and Teachers of Organizational Communication. Journal of Communication Studies.

Medved, C. (2008,January 1). Opting Out? Why Women Really Quit Careers and Head Home.. Journal of Marriage and Family.

Research Currently in Progess

Medved, C.(n.d.). Work and Career Experiences of Platform-Based Service and Professional Workers. In Progress.

ter Hoeven, C., van Gemert, E., & Medved, C.(n.d.). “If you experience noise, you just haven’t planned your work well”: Individualization and regulation within a flexible work design. . In Progress.

TitleFunding Agency SponsorStart DateEnd DateAwarded DateTotal FundingStatus
Disrupted selves: work, careers and identity in the digital agePSC-CUNY 5107/01/202012/31/202204/17/20203400Completed
Investigating the Emergence of Reverse Traditional Couple Work-Family ArrangementsPSC-CUNY 4107/01/201006/30/20115094Completed
Intersections of Gender, Race & Class: Breadwinning Mothers and At-Home FathersPSC-CUNY 4007/01/200906/30/20105930Completed
Optingout fathers breadwinning mothersPSC-CUNY 3907/01/200812/31/20093021.51Completed
WORKPLACE, WORKFORCE & WORKING FAMILIES Alfred P. Sloan Foundation08/01/200712/31/200938188Completed