Graduate Teaching Assistant, Ph.D. Candidate

About

  • Role

    Graduate Student

  • Position

    • Graduate Teaching Assistant, Ph.D. Candidate

  • Concentration

    • Organizational Communication
    • Health Communication
    • Civic Engagement

  • Department

    • Center for Public Deliberation and Communication Studies

  • Education

    • A.A. Front Range Community College
    • B.A. Colorado State University, Communication Studies
    • M.A. University of Colorado Denver, Communication

Biography

Meghan Cosgrove is a Ph.D. Candidate in the department of Communication Studies at Colorado State University. Her areas of focus are organizational and health communication with an emphasis on social justice,  incarceration, and community reentry. Cosgrove has worked on two federally funded projects—a citizen science project working to improve how we measure workplace health and safety funded by the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health and an exploration of hospice care in U.S. prisons funded by the National Institute of Health’s National Institute on Aging.

A Colorado native, she enjoys yoga, paddle boarding, and going on adventures with her bullmastiff, OJ.

Publications

Peer Reviewed Articles

Hartnett, S. J., & Cosgrove, M. R. (2025). Celebrating the arts and education in prison as practices of survival, resistance, healing, and transformation. Liminalities: A Journal of Performance Studies, 21(4), 1-31. http://liminalities.net/21-4/celebrating.pdf.

Cosgrove, M. R., Williams, E. A., Linvill, J., Buzzetta, A., Ojeda-Hecht, E., & Konkel, A. (2025). “It gave everybody a voice”: Dissent expression through COVID-19 and the Great Resignation. The Review of Communication, 25(1), 32-48. https://doi.org/10.1080/15358593.2023.2248226.

Williams, E. A., Linvill, J., Ojeda-Hecht, E., Cosgrove, M. R., Buzzetta, A., & Konkel, A. (2024). Staying through the Great Resignation: The structuration of positive communication experiences. International Journal of Business Communication, 61(4), 805-830.  https://doi.org/10.1177/23294884241263553.

Keränen, L. B., Ingersoll, B., Krishnamoorthy, A., & Cosgrove, M. (2023). Preparing for pandemic: Securitizing rhetoric in U.S. national influenza response plans, 1978-2017. Rhetoric of Health and Medicine, 6(4), 372-409.https://doi.org/10.5744/rhm.2023.4002. *Lead Article

Book Chapters

Williams, E. A., Buzzetta, A., Cosgrove, M. R., & Ishak, A. W. (In press). Resilience in Lifesaving Critical Teams. In Doerfel, M., Theiss, J., Venetis, M., & Scharp, K. (Eds.), Handbook of Communication and Resilience.

Anenkova, C., Boyce, B., Burrell, J., Cosgrove, M. R., Hartnett, S. J., Sisneros, M., Mueller, S., Williams, K., Williams, T., & Wolf, J. (In press). Reconciliation Behind and Beyond the Prison Walls. In Aldridge Sanford, A., Scharp, K., & Spates, S. (Eds.), Reconciliation: The Final Step in Achieving Nonviolent Social Change.

Co-Editor

Beverly, J., Boyce, B., Cosgrove, M., & Hartnett, S. J. (2025). Captured Words/Free Thoughts: Writings and Art from America’s Prisons (20). University of Colorado Denver.

Beverly, J., Boyce, B., Cosgrove, M., & Hartnett, S. J. (2024). Captured Words/Free Thoughts: Writings and Art from America’s Prisons (20). University of Colorado Denver.

Beverly, J., Boyce, B., Cosgrove, M., Dicksteen, L., & Hartnett, S. J. (2023). Captured Words/Free Thoughts: Writings and Art from America’s Prisons (19). University of Colorado Denver.

Beverly, J., Boyce, B., Cosgrove, M., & Hartnett, S. J. (2022). Captured Words/Free Thoughts: Writings and Art from America’s Prisons (18). University of Colorado Denver.

Boyce, B., Cosgrove, M., Hartnett, S. J., Russell, V., & Howell, A. (2021). Captured Words/Free Thoughts: Writings and Art from America’s Prisons (17). University of Colorado Denver.