Pam Lutgen-Sandvik, associate professor of communication; NDSU alumna Emily Paskewitz; and NDSU graduate student Kelli Chromey had their paper "Belly Laughs and Crying Your Eyes Out: Themes in the Study of Emotions and Organizations" published in the Electronic Journal of Communication.

Paskewitz earned her doctorate from the NDSU Department of Communication in 2015 and is an assistant professor at the University of Tennessee. Chromey is a doctoral student in the communication department.

Lutgen-Sandvik joined the NDSU faculty in 2013. She earned her bachelor's degree at the University Alaska-Anchorage; Master of Public Administration from City University, Bellevue, Washington; and doctorate in organizational communication at Arizona State University, Tempe.

Lutgen-Sandvik's research focuses on emotion in the workplace, both constructive and destructive. She has studied workplace bullying for the past decade, and her work has branched out to also examine positive emotions at work.

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The Electronic Journal of Communication / La Revue Electronic de Communication was established in 1990 as one of the first five peer-reviewed electronically distributed scholarly journals, and it was the first in the social sciences. The journal can be found here.