Anastacia Kurylo
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Anastacia Kurylo is a Non-Profit Director experienced in raising the profile and increasing the impact of mission-driven organizations and social issues. She has a proven track record of transforming the operations, human resources, and communication dynamics of non-profit entities for more efficiency, resources, and awareness. Unique combination of real-world business smarts and applied academics. Additionally, Anastacia is skilled in the full life-cycle of operations from structuring a new venture to reviving an aging company. She is a former assistant professor in the Department of Communication Studies at St. Joseph’s College and has trained students in communication skills and theory including interpersonal communication, public speaking, organizational communication, and communication theory, at a variety of schools such as New York University, Borough of Manhattan Community College, and Marymount Manhattan College. Her research focuses on stereotypes communicated in interpersonal, intercultural, and organizational contexts.
Anastacia is also interested in intercultural new media research as well as pedagogy and mentorship. She has published over 25 publications, including teaching activities, book reviews, encyclopedia entries, blind-peer reviewed research articles, book chapters, and books. She has authored The Communicated Stereotype: From Celebrity Vilification to Everyday Talk, and edited Inter/Cultural Communication: Representation and Construction of Culture, working with 40 contributors from around the world. Her most recent book, co-edited with Tatyana Dumova of Point Park University, is titled Social Networking: Redefining Communication in the Digital Age.
Anastacia Kurylo is former President of the New York State Communication Association and of the New Jersey Communication Association organizing both conference to record attendance. She was the founding chair of the Board of Trustees of The Quad Preparatory School and former President of the New York Chapter of the Tri-State Diversity Council.
Primary Interests:
- Communication, Language
- Culture and Ethnicity
- Group Processes
- Intergroup Relations
- Internet and Virtual Psychology
- Interpersonal Processes
- Nonverbal Behavior
- Organizational Behavior
- Person Perception
- Prejudice and Stereotyping
- Sexuality, Sexual Orientation
- Social Cognition
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Books:
- Kurylo, A. (Ed.) (2013). Inter/cultural communication: Representation and construction of culture. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE.
- Kurylo, A. (2013). The communicated stereotype: From celebrity vilification to everyday talk. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.
- Kurylo, A., & Dumova, T. (Eds.). (forthcoming). Redefining communication in the era of social networking: cultural, social, and political perspectives. Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press.
- Kurylo, A. (Ed.). (forthcoming). Are you in or are you out? Negotiating group identity in the research process. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.
Journal Articles:
- Kurylo, A. (2012). Linsanity: The construction of (asian) identity in an online knicks basketball forum. China Media Research, 8, 15-28.
- Kurylo, A. (2012). What are they like? Non-expert definitions of stereotypes and their implications for stereotype maintenance. Qualitative Research in Psychology, 9, 337-350.
- Kurylo, A. (2010). Teaching the difference between compromise and collaboration through trial and error. Communication Teacher, 24, 25-29.
- Kurylo, A. (2007). Teaching about assessment professional organizations. Communication Teacher, 21, 93 – 98.
- Kurylo, A. (2004). Understanding the stereotype as a complex communication tool. Communication Teacher, 18, 74-77 (Lead article).
- Kurylo, A., & Robles, J. S. (2015). How should I respond to them? An emergent categorization of responses to interpersonally communicated stereotypes. Journal of Intercultural Communication Research, 44(1), 64-91.
- Wu, M. Y., & Kurylo, A. (2010). Proverb activity: Understanding how perception and gender stereotypes are formed. Communication Teacher, 24, 69-73.
Other Publications:
- Kurylo, A. (2015). Breaking down doors: Stonewall riots and LGBT rights. In Baby boomers and popular culture: An inquiry into America’s most powerful generation. Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger Books.
- Kurylo, A. (2013). Health care disparities at hope hospital: Impotent government relations and injured communities. In J. Wrench, D. Flayhan, & Schuman, J. (Eds.), Casing public relations. Dubuque, IA: Kendall Hunt.
- Kurylo, A. (2012). Innocent comments at IF Industries. In J. Wrench (Ed.), Casing organizational communication. Dubuque, IA: Kendall Hunt.
- Kurylo, A., & Kurylo, M. (2012). Getting schooled: The sports blog as classroom using the basketball blog knickerblogger.net as a case study. In T. Dumova & R. Fiordo (Eds.), Blogging in the global society: Cultural, political and geographical aspects. Hershey, PA: IGI Global.
- Nelson, P. E., Pearson, J. C., & Kurylo, A. (2008). Developing an intellectual community. In S. Morreale & P. Anerson (Eds.), Getting the most from your graduate education in communication: A student’s handbook. Washington, DC: National Communication Association.
Courses Taught:
- Gender and Communication
- Intercultural Communication
- Stereotypes and Communication
- Teamwork and Leadership in Organizations
Anastacia Kurylo
New York, New York 10038
United States of America
- Home: (347) 306-3185
- Email: anastacia@kurylo.com
