Chandler Marr, Ph.D.

Chandler Marr is an assistant professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Kentucky. His research broadly explores how organizational discourses structure the experience and expression of emotions among employees. More recently, he has turned his attention to the ways in which ostensibly positive communication practices (re)produce organizational contradictions and paradoxes. Chandler’s scholarship is often guided by concepts such as compassion, emotion management, resilience, dirty work, and calling/vocation. He is a qualitative methods enthusiast—a majority of his methodological training has involved interview and ethnographic studies. Overall, the goal of Chandler’s research is to provide individuals and organizations with practical communication tools that promote flourishing and facilitate positive transformation in the face of adversity.