Dissertation

My dissertation is a qualitative investigation into the history and emergence of Cancer Alley, Louisiana. I give specific focus to the tension between the stories that Black residents who call Cancer Alley their home tell about the region versus the stories that industry tells about the region. My overarching focus is to investigate how local Black residents are empowered to tell their counterstories and how mass communication has been used as a means of coercion. My dissertations builds on my multi-site and multi-study field research in Cancer Alley.

Prospectively titled Breathing In Justice: A History of Cancer Alley Propaganda and its Relationship to Historic Black Communities, my dissertation is informed by insights from media studies, public relations, critical race theory, and cultural and labor history.

Peer-reviewed Publications

1. Joshua Jordan, Winfield, A. S., Birrer-Lundgren, K., Burry, J., Beard, D., Bloom, Z., Carlson, E. B., Gouge, C., Rogers, B. & Sirek, A.* [Title forthcoming.] Journal of Rural Health and Medicine (Special dialogue issue.) *equal authorship.

2. Winfield, A. W., Mushtarin, N., and Joshua Jordan. "Love and Tradition of the Grand Design: Exploring Culturally Responsive Qualitative Methods with Intergenerational and Intercultural Teams & Participants." Qualitative Health Research.

Research Under Revise and Resubmit

1. Winfield, Asha. S., Joshua Jordan, Hope Hickerson, Tiffany R. Smith, and Erin Hardnett. “Look Who’s Coming to Dinner: A Qualitative Exploration of COVID-19 Health Disparities Among Elderly Rural Black Communities in the U.S. South” in the Handbook of Communication and Health Disparities (eds. Rukhsana Ahmed, Yuping Mao, and Parul Jain).

2. Winfield, Asha S., Hope Hickerson, Joshua Jordan, and Kourtney Janeau. “COVID-19 in Queen Sugar: A case for Cultural Health Storytelling in Black Media.” Journal of Health Communication.

3. Kalmoe, Nathan, and Joshua Jordan. “Progressive Messages Invoking Race are No Less Effective than Class Alone in Local Politics: Evidence from Three Large Survey Experiments.” Journal of Race, Ethnicity, & Politics.

Research Under Review

1. Jordan, Joshua and Huu Dat Tran. (Revise and resubmit.) “GOP versus CRT: A Mixed-Method Analysis of Legislators Who Write Anti-CRT Laws and What They Say on Twitter. To be submitted to Howard Journal of Communication.

2. Stamps, David, Joshua Jordan, and Deja Rollins. “Cultivating Copaganda: Black Audiences’ Consumption of Black Law Enforcement TV Characters and Attitudes Toward Law Enforcement.” Victims & Offenders.

3. Holman, Mirya, Lilliana Mason, Nathan Kalmoe, Joshua Jordan, and Ayla Oden. “Abuse in the Home(land): Violence Against Women and Political Violence in Public Opinion.” Journal of Politics.

4. Griffith, Eric, Paul Robbins, Joshua Jordan, Deborah Lendore, Kennedy Ruff, and Keisha Bentley-Edwards. “Mental Health Outreach and Black Faith Leaders: Opportunities for Proactive Community Health Engagement. Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion.

Research In Progress

1. Jordan, Joshua and Nabila Mushtarin. “First to Fourteenth: Squashing or saving the Confederacy in Louisiana’s race for U.S. Senate.”

2. Jordan, Joshua and William A. “Sandy” Darity, Jr. “Rational or Irrational: The Psychological Wages of Whiteness.

3. Jordan, Joshua. “America Never was America to Me: Situating COVID-19 in the Context of Historic Health Inequality in Cancer Alley.

4. Jordan, Joshua and Asha S. Winfield. “I got fifteen folks in the ground: A qualitative Analysis of COVID-19 and Black Baton Rouge.”

5. Jordan, Joshua. “Slowing the Spread of COVID-19: Examining white and Black Americans (non)Support for Limits Placed on Public Activity.”