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Staff Profile

Dr. Claudia Janssen Danyi
Introduction Education & Training Conference Presentations Publications Funding & Grants

Dr. Claudia Janssen Danyi

Associate Professor/Director of the B.A. in Public Relations Office: 2544 - Buzzard Hall
Phone: 217-581-6003
Email: cijanssen@eiu.edu

INTRODUCTION

Office Hours for Spring 2023: M 4:15-5:15, W 11:30-1:30, R 10:30-11:30

Education & Training

Ph.D., Brian Lamb School of Communication, Purdue University, 2011

M.A. Technichal University Carolo-Wilhelmina zu Braunschweig, Germany, 2006

Conference Presentations

Janssen Danyi, C.I. (2022). Corporate Historical Responsibility. Invited presentation at the inaugural History Matters!-Conference of the Center for Corporate History and Communication (Universität Leipzig) and the Guenther-Thiele Stiftung. Jewish Museum Frankfurt, Germany.

Janssen Danyi, C. I. (2022). Corporate history and CSR communication. Competitively selected for presentation at the annual meeting of the International Communication Association. Paris, France (presented virtually).

Janssen Danyi, C.I. (2021). #MeToo Moments: Retrospective crises as an organizational crisis type. Competitively selected for presentation at the annual convention of the European Public Relations Education and Research Association (EUPRERA) and the Paper Development Workshop, Pamplona, Spain.

Janssen Danyi, C. I. (2020). #MeToo Moments: Retrospective crises as an organizational crisis type. Top 4 Paper. Competitively selected for presentation at the annual convention of the Central States Communication Association (CSCA), Strategic Communication Division, Chicago (conference canceled/COVID).

Janssen Danyi, C.I. & Gronnvoll, M. (April, 2019). The Heavy Heart of a Soldier: Apology as Resistance. Top 4 Paper presented at the annual convention of the Central States Communication Association (CSCA), Rhetorical Theory and Criticism Division, Omaha.

Janssen Danyi, C.I. (April, 2019). NGOs, #MeToo, and Organizational Crises: Oxfam Responds to Sexual Harassment and Abuse Scandal. Competitively selected paper presented at the annual convention of the Central States Communication Association (CSCA), Public Relations Division, Omaha.

Publications

Janssen Danyi, C. I. (2023). Corporate History and CSR Communication. In: A. O’Connor (Ed.). The Routledge Handbook of CSR Communication. Routledge: New York, NY.

Janssen Danyi, C.I. (2022). Kommunikations-Management (Communication Management). In: R. Stober & N. Orthmann (Eds.). Compliance: Handbuch für die öffentliche Verwaltung. 2nd Edition. Kohlhammer:  Stuttgart, Germany.

Janssen Danyi, C.I. & Gronnvoll, M. (2020). The Heavy Heart of a Soldier: Apology as Resistance. In L. Villadsen & J. Edwards, The Rhetoric of Official Apologies: Critical Essays. Lexington.

Janssen Danyi, C.I. (2019). Case Study of Organizational Crisis Communication: Oxfam responds to Sexual Harassment and Abuse Scandal. In J. Servas, Handbook of Communication for Development and Social Change. Springer.

Janssen Danyi, C.I. & Chaudhri, V. (2019). Strategic social media management for NGOs. In J. Servas, Handbook of communication for development and social change. Springer. 

Fähnrich, B., Janssen Danyi, C.I. & Nothhaft, H. (2015). The German plagiarism crisis: Defending and explaining the workings of scholarship on the front stage. Journal of Communication Management, 19(1), pg. 20-38.

Janssen Danyi, C.I.(2014). Kommunikative Herausforderungen an die Sicherheitswirtschaft: Legitimierung, Reputation und Krisenkommunikation.(Communicative challenges for the security industry: Legitimation, reputation and crisis communication). R. Stober (ed.). Jahrbuch der Sicherheitswirtschaft 2013. Hamburg, Verlag Dr. Kovacs.

Janssen, C. I. (2013). Corporate historical responsibility (CHR): Addressing a past of forced labor at Volkswagen. Journal of Applied Communication Research. 

Fähnrich, B. & Janssen, C. I. (2013). Kommunikative Herausforderungen in der akademischen Weiterbildung (Communicative Challenges in Professional Education). In E.Cendon, R.Grassl, A.Pellert (Eds.):Vom Lehren zum lebenslangen LernenFormate Akademischer Weiterbildung (135--146). Münster, Waxmann Verlag.

Janssen,C.I.(2013).‘Es tut uns leid‘ - Unternehmensentschuldigungen in der Krisenkommunikation (We are sorry: Corporate Apologies in Crisis Communication).Pressesprecher, 7, p.48-­â€49.

Janssen, C.I. (2013). A journey to justice: Confronting a dark corporate past presents ethical and public relations dilemmas to communicators. Communication Director, 2, pg.64-67.

Janssen, C.I. (2012). Addressing corporate ties to slavery: Corporate apologia in a discourse of reconciliation. Communication Studies 63 (1), pg. 18-35.

Jensen, R. E., Doss, E., Janssen, C. I., & Bower, S. (2010). Theorizing the transcendent persona: Amelia Earhart's vision in The Fun of It. Communication Theory, 20(1), pg. 1-20.
 

Funding & Grants

CFR Grant 2015/2016
Redden Grant 2015
Redden Grant 2016
Redden Grant 2017