Rate My Professor Jenny Crowley

In recognition of her contributions, Crowley received the National Communication Association’s Early Career Award in the Interpersonal Division at the 2024 conference for her innovative research on stigma in interpersonal communication. She also earned the Outstanding Scholar Award from the Southern States Communication Association’s Communication Theory Division. She developed a new framework for researchers studying information sharing on stigmatized topics. Previously serving as Graduate Program Coordinator for the School of Communication Studies, she organized the 2025 National Communication Association Doctoral Honors Seminar at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and secured hosting rights for 2027. Crowley is vice chair-elect of the National Communication Association’s Interpersonal Communication Division, set to become vice chair in November 2025 and chair in fall 2026. Key publications include “Gaps among desired, sought, and received support: Deficits and surpluses in support when coping with taboo marital stressors” (Communication Research, 2018), “A Framework of Relational Information Control: A Review and Extension of Information Control Research in Interpersonal Contexts” (Communication Theory, 2017), “Who’s gonna love a junkie? But he does: Exploring couples’ identity negotiations and dyadic coping in the context of opioid use disorder” (Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 2020), and “Self-Disclosure” (Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Communication, 2019).