Publications
Book
Scott, K.D. (2017). The language of Strong Black womanhood: Myths, models, messages and a new mandate for self care. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.
Journal co-editor
Glenn, C.L.; Scott, K.D.; Smith, S.E. (Eds.) (Summer 2018) Michelle Obama: Feminism & the First Lady of the United States. Special Issue of Women and Language.
Scholarly articles, book chapters and sponsored program reports
Scott, K.D. (2019). Gatekeepers, grade and getting tenure: A womanist wa/wonders to sing a Black girl’s song. International Review of Qualitative Research, Vol. 12, No. 3, Fall 2019, pp. 258–262. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1525/irqr.2019.12.3.258.
Scott, K.D. (2018). Check yo’ stuff: A Black feminist rant to ‘allies’ seeking “dialogue” in precarious times. International Review of Qualitative Research 11(2),
Scott, K.D. (2016). Young, shifting and Black: Leaving the language of home and back again—a cautionary tale of crossing race and gender borders. Qualitative Inquiry, 23, 119-129.
Scott, K.D. (2016). “Black feminist reflections on activism: Repurposing strength for self-care, sustainability and survival”. Departures in Critical Qualitative Research, 5, 128-132.
Scott, K. D. (2016). “The invitation of Intergroup Dialogue: Showing up for social justice education”. Camara, S. K., Drummond, D. K., & Hoey, D. M. (Eds.) Communicating Prejudice: An Appreciative Inquiry Approach (pp. 28-38). New York: Nova Publishing, Inc.
Scott, K.D. (2015). “Reflections on Ferguson Fall 2014: Memory, meaning, and the limits of language”. Guest editorial for Women & Language, 37,2,7-9.
Scott K.D. (2015). “The fires of fall 2014: Lessons, leadership and transformation”. Explore: The Journal of the Ignatian Center at Santa Clara University. Spring, 18, 22-25.
Scott, K.D. (2013). “Communication strategies across cultural borders: Dispelling stereotypes, performing competence and redefining Black womanhood”. Women’s Studies in Communication, 36, 312–329.
Prather, C.; King, W.; Sharpe, T.; Fuller, T.; Durant, T.; & Scott, K.D. (2007) Preface and end note summary in “Black Women and HIV/AIDS: Epidemiology, Risk Behaviors and Building Capacity for Prevention” Special Issue of Women and Health, 46, 2/3.
Gilliam, A.; Duncan, T.; Scott, K.; Ayala, G. (2007). Supplement Editors: Journal of Public Health Management and Practice: January 2007 “Capacity Building for HIV Prevention Programs”. Pgs.S5-S6.Houston, M., & Scott, K.D. (2006) Negotiating Boundaries, crossing borders: The language of Black women’s Intercultural encounters. In B. Dow, & J. Wood (Eds.) Handbook of Gender and Communication (pp.397-414). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Scott, K.D., Gilliam, A., & Braxton, K., (2005). “Culturally competent HIV prevention strategies for women of color in the United States”. Health Care for Women International, 26, 17-45.
Kamberelis, G., & Scott, K.D. (2004). “Other people's voices: The co-articulation of texts and subjectivities”. In N.Shuart-Faris & D. Bloome (Eds.), Uses of intertexuality in classroom and educational research (pp. 201-250). Greenwich: Information Age publishing. (Reprinted from 1992, Lingusitics and Education, 4, 359-403).
Scott, K.D. (2004). Crossing cultural borders: “Girl” and “look” as markers of identity in Black women’s language use. In R. L. Jackson II (Ed.), African American Communication and Identities (pp. 165-174). Thousand Oaks, Sage. (Reprinted from 2000, Discourse and Society, 11,237-248).
Scott, K.D. (2000, 2003, 2012, 2016). Broadening the view of Black language use: Toward a better understanding of words and worlds. “ In A. Gonzalez, M. Houston and V. Chen, (Eds.) (3rd, 4th, 5th,6th ed.), Our Voices: Essays in Culture, Ethnicity and communication. New York: Oxford University Press.
Scott, K.D. (2002). Conceiving the language of Black women’s everyday talk. In M. Houston & O. Davis (Eds.), Centering ourselves: African American feminist and womanist studies of discourse (pp. 53-73). New York: Hampton Press.
Scott, K.D. (2000). “Crossing cultural borders: “Girl” and “look” as markers of identity in Black women’s language use”. Discourse and Society, 11, 237-248.
Gilliam, A., Scott, K.D., Carr, P., & Braxton, K. (Eds.) (2000). Cultural competence for providing technical assistance, evaluation and training for HIV prevention programs: A research synthesis. U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Program Evaluation and Research Branch, Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention. In addition to co- editing monograph, I also served as sole author for the following chapters: Introduction, Women of Color, Conclusion
Scott, K.D., & Myhre, S. (2000). Approaches to cultural competence: NRMO National Evaluation Project: Year Two Final Report. U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Atlanta.
Gentry, D., Scott, K.D., Lopez, C., McKay, E., Myhre, S., & Angeles, F. (2000). The NRMO National Evaluation Project: Year One Final Report. U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Atlanta
Scott, K.D. (1995). Identity and ideology in Black women's talk about their talk. Women and Language, 18, 1, 8-9.
Kamberelis, G., & Scott, K.D. (1992). Other people's voices: The co-articulation of texts and subjectivities. ,Linguistics and Education, 4, 359-403.
Paper Presentations
Scott. K.D. (2019) Teaching to transform: Building first year student capacity to talk about and across racial divisions at a Jesuit University. Paper presented at the National Communication Association 105th Annual meeting, Baltimore Maryland, November 14-17, 2019
Scott K.D. (2019). Persistence through resistance: Teaching to transform and capacity build with dialogue about and across race. Paper presented at the 15th International Congress for Qualitative inquiry. University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign. May 2019.
Scott, K.D. (2018) Persisting despite politeness, whiteness, guilt and fear: Building capacity to talk about race. Paper presented at the Annual meeting of the Organization for the study of Communication Language and Gender. Lake Tahoe, NV. October.
Scott,K.D., Chambers, B., Jackson, A, Spurlock, C. (2018) The Ignatian Pedagogy of Intergroup Dialogue: Building capacity to bridge differences. Presented at the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities Communication Conference Saint Louis University. July
Scott, K.D. (2018) So you really want to “do dialogue?” What to bring, what to leave, how to show up. Paper presented at the 14th International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. May.
Smith-Jones, S., Glenn, C.L., & Scott, K.D. (2018, March). Transgressive shades of feminism: A Black Feminist perspective of First Lady Michelle Obama. Presented to the National Council of Black Studies, Atlanta, GA.
Scott K.D. (2017). Check yo’ stuff: A Black feminist rant for those who want to ‘do dialogue’ in precarious times. Paper presented at the 13th International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. May.
Scott, K.D. (2015). The invitation of Intergroup Dialogue: Showing up for social justice education. Paper presented at the 101St Annual Meeting of the National Communication Association, November, Las Vegas.
Scott, K.D. (2015). Black Girls Rock 2015: Searching for connection, compassion and wise speech in online feminist wor(l)ds. Paper presented at the 38th Annual Meeting of the Organization for the Study of Communication, Language, & Gender, Bowling Green, KY. October.
Scott K.D. (2015). Communicating across racial divisions: Identity, intergroup dialogue and social justice education. Paper presented at the 38th Annual Meeting of the Organization for the Study of Communication, Language, & Gender, Bowling Green, KY. October.
Scott, K. D. (2014). “Repurposing” strength: Self care strategies for one Black woman’s new habit of surviving. 100th Annual Meeting of the National Communication Association, Paper, National Communication Association, Chicago, Illinois. November.
Scott, K. D. (2014) Technology - Mediated Constructions of Gender: Gender (Re)Productions Within Television, Texting, Blogs, Image Searches, and Online Social Media, 37th Annual Meeting of the Organization of Communication, Language, & Gender, Paper, Organization of Communication, Language, & Gender, San Francisco, CA. October
Scott, K. D. (2014) The language of Strong Black Womanhood: Myths, models, messages and a new mandate for self care. Annual Meeting of the International Gender and Language Association, Oral Presentation, International Gender and Language Association Conference, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, June.
Scott, K.D. (2013). The invitation of intergroup dialogue: Mindful communication, right speech and transformation. Paper presented at the 36th meeting of the Organization for the Study of Communication, Language and Gender; Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI. October.
Scott, K.D, (2011) “Black folks don’t do that!: Making peace with my feminist,, vegetarian, (bit of a Buddhist) yogi self”. Paper presented at the 34th Annual meeting of the Organization for the Study of Communication Language and Gender, Loyola University of Chicago, October 12-15, 2011
Scott, K.D, (2011) “Strong black womanhood and self care in Essence magazine”. Paper presented at the 35th Annual meeting of the Organization for the Study of Communication Language and Gender, Loyola University of Chicago. October,
Scott, K.D and Wilson, K (2010) Ways, words and the language of home: What we know and (still) don’t know about Black women’s communication. Paper presented at the 96th Annual Convention of the National Communication Association, San Francisco, CA, November.
Scott, K.D (2010) Health implications of Strong Black womanhood: Myths, models and a new mandate for self care. Paper presented at the NCA 96th Annual Convention of the National Communication Association, San Francisco, CA, November.
Scott, K.D. and Kramerae, C, (2010) Anger Revisited: Words from Alice Walker, bell hooks and other feminist Buddhists. Paper presented at the 34th annual meeting of the Organization for the Study of Communication Language and Gender, St. Pete Beach, Fl. October.
Scott, K.D. (2009) Mrs. Robinson goes to Washington: Revisiting the role of other mothering and women centered networks in African American communities. Paper presented at the 32nd annual meeting of the Organization for the Study of Communication Language and Gender, Los Angeles. October.
Scott, K.D. (2008) Health implications of “Strong Black womanhood:” Myths, models and mid life musings. Paper presented for the Wise Women’s Council at the 31st Annual Meeting of the Organization for the Study of Communication, Language and Gender, Nashville, TN.October.
Scott, K.D (2007) Sisters on SISTA: Culturally Adapting an HIV Intervention for Black Women. Paper presented at the 93rd Annual meeting of the National Communication Association. Chicago, IL..
Scott, K.D. (2005). Culturally adapting HIV interventions: Enhancing communication of identity and risk. Paper presented at the HIV pre conference of the National Communication Association 91st Annual Meeting. Boston. November 2005.
Scott, K.D., (2004) Young, shifting and Black: Identity negotiation in the communicative strategies of Black women. Paper presented at the 90th Annual meeting of the National Communication Association, Chicago, November.
Williams, D., Scott, K., Sullivan, J., Wajih, A. Sharif, I., Hughley, D., Betts, K., & O’Kelly, M. (2002). A holistic approach to enhancing health care and support services for formerly incarcerated or recently released minority women living with HIV/AIDS/ STDs. Presented at the 14th Annual National Conference on Social Work and HIV/AIDS. New Orleans, LA. June.
Williams, D., Scott, K., Wajih, A., & Sharif, I., (2002). A holistic approach to enhanced HIV/AIDS healthcare and support services for recently released minority women. The 29th Annual conference and training institute National Association of Blacks in Criminal Justice. Jacksonville, FL. July.
Williams, D. & Scott, K. (2002). Addressing domestic violence in a comprehensive program for formerly incarcerated minority women living with or at risk for HIV/AIDS/STDs. National Conference on Health Care and Domestic Violence. Atlanta, GA. September.
Davis, S., Sullivan, J., Scott, K. Wheeler, A., & Williams, D. (2001). Newly released minority women living with AIDS: A holistic approach to HIV/AIDS health care. Presented at the 3rd National Conference on Women. Orlando FL. Sponsored by the U. S. Department of Health and Human Services Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, June.
Scott, K.D., (2000). Strategies of cultural competence: communication In HIV prevention programs for communities of color. Paper presented at the 85th Annual meeting of the National Communication Association, Seattle, November.
Scott, K.D. (2000). Implementing and evaluating cultural competence. Presentation for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, REACH 2010 Demonstration Project Grantee Evaluation Workshop, Atlanta, March 8, 2000.
Scott, K.D., Gilliam, A., Ma’at, I., Pegram, C., Carr, P. & Braxton, K. (1999). Strategies for providing culturally competent training, technical assistance and evaluation in HIV prevention programs. Paper presented at The 127th Annual meeting of the American Public Health Association, Chicago, IL. November.
Gentry D., Scott, K., Green, M., Lopez, C., McKay, E., Myhre, S. and Angeles, F. (1998) Evaluation of efforts to build HIV prevention capacity in minority communities in the United States. Poster presented at the 12th World AIDS conference, Geneva, July.
Scott, K.D. (1997). Conceiving Black women's everyday talk. Paper presented at the 83rd Annual meeting of the National Communication Association, Chicago, Il. November.
Scott, K.D. (1996) Dialogue across divisions: Addressing the 'isms' in cultural diversity. Paper presented at the 82nd Annual meeting of the Speech Communication Association, San Diego, CA. November.
Scott, K.D. (1996) Language, identity and the complex communicative lives of Black women: Implications for organizational research. Paper presented at the 82nd Annual meeting of the Speech Communication Association, San Diego, CA. November.
Scott, K.D. (1996) Cultural border crossing in the classroom: Strategies for overcoming difficult dialogue. Paper presented with Dr. Deborah Phelps at the Annual Meeting of the National Organization for Human Service Education and the Council for Standards in Human Service Education, St. Louis, MO. October.
Scott, K.D. (1996) Style switching as ideological positioning. Paper presented at The Speech Communication Association Black Caucus summer conference, Frankfort, KY. June.
Scott, K.D. (1995) Bridging cultural borders: The role of "girl" and "look" in Black women's talk about language use. Paper presented at the 18th Annual Conference of the Study of Communication, Language and Gender, Minneapolis, MN. October.
Scott, K.D. (1993). Feminist Scholarship and activism. Paper presented at the 11th Annual Conference on Research in Gender and Communication, Loyola University, Chicago. March..
Scott, K.D. (1991). Value expression in a medical clinic: The role of founder in culture creation. Paper presented at the Annual meeting of the Speech Communication Association, Atlanta, GA. November.
Scott K.D. (2019) Panel chair for Surviving the Difficult Dialogues: Student Agency in the Communication Studies Classroom. National Communication Association Conference November 14, 2019 Baltimore MD.
Blewett, L., DeFrancisco, V., Ebben, M., Freitag, J., Kramarae, C. and Scott, K. (2019). Putting on the purple: The political uses of purple in feminist movement. Performance panel at the 42nd Annual Conference of the Organization for the Study of Communication, Language and Gender. Cincinnati, Ohio, October.
Scott, K.D. (2018) Panel chair: Persistence through resistance: Exploring communication strategies for taboo topics. Annual meeting of the Organization for the study of Communication Language and Gender, Lake Tahoe NV. October.
Panel chair: Persistence through resistance: Exploring communication strategies for taboo topics. Annual meeting of the Organization for the study of Communication Language and Gender, Lake Tahoe NV. October, 2018.
Panel convener and chair: OSCLG 2016 Wise Women Council panel. The Kitchen Table Talk: Women of Color share experiences in the academy. 39th Annual meeting of the Organization for the Study of Communication and Gender, Oak Park, Il. October 2016.
Panel Chair for Short course: Dialogic Pedagogy for Civic Engagement: Progressive Learning of Intergroup Dialogue. 102nd Annual Meeting of the National Communication Association, Paper, National Communication Association, Philadelphia, PA. November 2016.
Panel participant: Researcher Positionality, Reflexivity, and Self Care: Exploring the Meaning of “Do No Harm” 102nd Annual Meeting of the National Communication Association, Paper, National Communication Association, Philadelphia, PA. November 2016.
Panel participant: Civic Callings in the Communication Classroom: Dialogues of Race and Social Justice. 102nd Annual Meeting of the National Communication Association, Paper, National Communication Association, Philadelphia PA. November, 2016.
Panel participant: Womentoring: Did They Really Just Say That? How do I Deal with Microagressions? 102nd Annual Meeting of the National Communication Association, Paper, National Communication Association, Philadelphia PA. November, 2016.
Panel participant: Womentoring - Empowerment: Not Just a Concept. How Are We Actually Doing This? 101st Annual Meeting of the National Communication Association, Paper, National Communication Association, Las Vegas, NV. November 2015
Panel participant: St. Louis Faculty and Alumni Respond to Ferguson: Embracing Opportunities to Transform Research, Pedagogy, and Practice. 101st Annual Meeting of the National Communication Association, Paper, National Communication Association, Las Vegas, NV. November 2015.
Panel chair: Motherhood and Fatherhood/performance of family. 38th Annual Meeting of the Organization for the Study of Communication, Language, & Gender, Bowling Green, KY. October 2015.
Panel chair: Media portrayals of race and gender. 38th Annual Meeting of the Organization for the Study of Communication, Language, & Gender, Bowling Green, KY. October 2015.
Panel chair: Feminist Backlash to Michelle Obama and Black Girls Rock! The 38th Annual Meeting of the Organization for the Study of Communication, Language, & Gender, Bowling Green, KY. October 2015.
Panel chair: Radical, revolutionary self-care: Reframing a past of Strong Black womanhood for sustainability and survival in the present. 101st Annual Meeting of the National Communication Association, Chicago, Illinois.(November 2014.
Panel respondent: The Historical Myth of Black-Identified Women’s Strength: A Critical Conversation about the Past and the Present, 101st Annual Meeting of the National Communication Association, November 2014.
Panel Chair: And still we rise: Giving voice to the lived experiences of Black women. National Communication Association 97th Annual Convention, New Orleans, LA. November 2011
Panel participant: The Unruly Performance of Gender in Television Commercials. Roundtable discussion at the 35th Annual meeting of the Organization for the Study of Communication Language and Gender, Loyola University of Chicago, October 2011.
Panel chair: Practicing the good life: Feminist, Buddhist Explorations of Words, Work and Worlds . 34th annual meeting of the Organization for the Study of Communication Language and Gender, St. Pete Beach, Fl. October 2010.
Panel participant: Do You Believe in Magic? The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of Mediated Representations of the Good Life and What We Learn from Television Commercials 34th annual meeting of the Organization for the Study of Communication Language and Gender, St. Pete Beach, Fl. October 2010.
Panel participant: Shoes, Safety and Style, High Heels and Health: Communicating and Resisting Dangerous Fashion. 34th annual meeting of the Organization for the Study of Communication Language and Gender, St. Pete Beach, Fl. October 2010.
Panel Chair: Still building 'This Bridge': Black women's studies in communication. NCA 96th Annual Convention of the National Communication Association, San Francisco, CA, November 2009.
Panel participant: Re-Building Broken Feminist Bridges through Difficult Dialogue at 96th Annual Convention of the National Communication Association, San Francisco, CA, November 2009.
Panel participant: Are the “Colored Girls” being Pushed off the Bridge by Black Men? Exploring the Depictions in Tyler Perry’s For Colored Girls at 96th Annual Convention of the National Communication Association, San Francisco, CA, November 2009.
Panel chair: Nappistemology: The Socio-cultural Ramifications of a Black Woman's Hair.” Chair for paper panel presented at the 32nd annual meeting of the Organization for the Study of Communication Language and Gender, Los Angeles, October 2009.
Panel respondent African-American Women and Health: Identity, Audience, and Empowerment presentation at the 92nd Annual meeting of the National Communication Association: San Antonio, November 2006.
Panel participant for Analyzing Commercials as Sites for Connection and Action: The Workshop on Visual Communication, Race, and Gender at the 92nd Annual meeting of the National Communication Association: San Antonio, November 2006.
Panel participant for The Afrocentric Roots of Call and Response from Sacred to Secular Sites. At the 92nd annual meeting of the National Communication Association: San Antonio, November 2006.