Rebecca Meisenbach

Rebecca Meisenbach is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Missouri's College of Arts and Science. Her research focuses on issues of marginalized identity and ethics in organizational life, particularly stigma as an intersectional communication process operating at individual and organizational levels. She developed the theory of Stigma Management Communication and has researched identity negotiations among diverse groups including higher education fund-raisers and female breadwinners.

Her research interests include Identity Negotiation, Organizational Ethics, Stigma Management, and Strategic Communication, with focus areas in Health and Crisis Communication, Identity, Diversity, and Communication, and Organizational Communication. She founded the department's summer study abroad program and teaches courses in organizational communication, communication theory, and qualitative research methods.

Meisenbach's publications demonstrate sustained focus on stigma communication in organizational contexts, with recent work examining racialized silence, healthcare stigma during COVID-19, and feminist identity in pageantry. Her research employs qualitative methodologies including phenomenology and ethnography to explore identity management in workplace settings.

She serves on four editorial boards and is past Editor-in-Chief of Management Communication Quarterly. Her work appears in leading journals including Communication Monographs, Journal of Applied Communication Research, and Health Communication.