Dr. Claudia Janssen Danyi

INTRODUCTION

Fall 2024 COURSE SYLLABI

CMN 3930

CMN 3980

CMN 5015

CMN 5260

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 Lernen: Formate 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

Frequently Taught Courses

CMN 3930 Strategic Messages and Influence

CMN 3960 Public Relations Writing and Production

CMN 3890 Strategic Social Media Communication

CMN 4030 Seminar in Communication Studies

CMN 4920 Public Relations Case Studies

CMN 4921 Seminar in Public Relations

CMN 5015 Communication Ethics

CMN 5260 Communication in Science/Technical Organizations

CMN 5700 Public Relations

CMN 5720 Seminar in Pubilc Relations