Publications

Beyond cross-cultural adaptation: Exploring international students' communicative resilience during educational sojourns in the United States (with Sara Kim). 2025. International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 108: 102229.

Public speaking in the metaverse: Integrating public speaking and extended reality to improve students' presentation skills. 2025. Journal for Research and Practice in College Teaching, 10(1).

Testing the theory of normative social behavior in Italy and the USA during COVID-19 (with Rain Wuyu Liu and Ying Cheng). 2024. International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 103: 102068.

Love better by fighting smarter: How intercultural couples develop dyadic cultural affinity through romantic conflict management (with Rain Wuyu Liu and Daeun Grace Lee). 2024. International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 100: 101987.

Examining the portrayal of U.S. host families and exchange students on study abroad websites: A content analysis. 2024. Journal of International Students, 14(3): 408-426.

Reentry shock and the role of communication in psychological health: A study of abrupt reentry during the COVID-19 pandemic (with Chris Segrin). 2023. Journal of Intercultural Communication Research, 52(5): 493-512.

The grounded model of communication savoring: Theory development and age cohort study (with Margaret J. Pitts, R. Amanda Cooper, Jian Jiao, and Sara Kim). 2023. American Journal of Qualitative Research, 7(3): 139-159.

Negative side effects of music listening during cross-cultural transitions: Exploring how music hinders cross-cultural (re)adaptation among student sojourners (with Heather Gahler, Hyeonchang (Kay) Gim, Tiana Case, and Jake Harwood). 2023. International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 95: 101828.

Disrupted sojourn and forced reentry: A qualitative inquiry of college students’ experiences, stressors, and coping strategies after returning home during the COVID-19 pandemic (with Chris Segrin). 2023. Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad, 35(1): 249-274.

Transferable resilience practices: Communication and resilience of U.S. military spouses during the initial stages of the COVID-19 pandemic (with R. Amanda Cooper, Leah Dajches, Gary Beck, Margaret J. Pitts). 2023. Journal of Family Communication, 23(1): 1-21. (Journal of Family Communication 2023 Article of the Year)

What’s my purpose now? A qualitative inquiry into missionaries’ experience and use of communication after first-time missionary service (with R. Amanda Cooper). 2022. Journal of Communication and Religion, 45(1): 25-42.

Study abroad soundtracks: Exploring the role of music in cross-cultural (re)adaptation among U.S. and international students (with Heather Gahler, Hyeonchang (Kay) Gim, Tiana Case, and Jake Harwood). 2022. Journal of Intercultural Communication Research, 51(5): 510-527.

Longitudinal effects of U.S. students’ reentry shock on psychological health after returning home during the COVID-19 global pandemic (with Chris Segrin). 2021. International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 82: 298-310.

Homesick or sick-of-home? Examining the effects of reverse culture shock on students’ self-disclosure after studying abroad: A mixed-method study (with Rain Wuyu Liu and Taylor Foerster). 2021. Journal of Intercultural Communication Research, 50(3): 273-303.

Works in Progress

Extending communicated sense-making theorizing to social groups: Missionaries' use of metaphor, personification, and in-group vernacular (with R. Amanda Cooper). Revise & Resubmit (2nd round), Human Communication Research.

(Re)conceptualizing global families: Exploring how globalization is changing family communication scholarship (with Kaitlin Phillips). Revisions Submitted, Journal of Family Communication.

Linking risk perceptions and information acquisition to COVID-19 prevention behaviors: An application of the extended integrative model of behavioral prediction in Italy and the United States (with Rain Wuyu Liu and Ying Cheng). Under Review, Science Communication.

Clarifying the role of the home environment in cross-cultural (re)adaptation research: Returning students’ and parents’ experiences after study abroad (with Margaret J. Pitts and Chris Segrin).

The facilitative and hindering role of parent–child communication during study abroad reentry: An application of the integrative theory of communication and cross-cultural (re)adaptation (with Margaret J. Pitts and Jake Harwood).

Bolstering military couple relational resilience through savoring: Applying the theory of resilience and relational load (with Gary Beck, Margaret J. Pitts, and R. Amanda Cooper).