Communication professor's article published in prominent research periodical

June 20, 2014

Dr. Marie Thompson, an associate professor in the Department of Communication, most recent paper was published in “Women & Language” an international, interdisciplinary research periodical, titled “Military Sexual Trauma: Bridging the Chasm between Trauma and Support”. Dr. Thompson is passionate about her research of sexual and reproductive health, and healing in the aftermath of war by examining how stories take up space in the body. In interviews, moments of deep listening, with returned warriors, she examines the invisible affects of traumas they have sustained to help them better