Dongjing Kang is an Associate Professor in the School of Media and Communication at Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU). She holds a Ph.D. in Communication Studies from Ohio University and an M.A. from University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Before joining SJTU, she taught at Florida Gulf Coast University, University of Colorado-Denver, and the Ohio University. Her research intersects Intercultural and International Communication, Organizational Communication, and Development Communication.

Dr. Kang serves as the president of the Association of Chinese Communication Studies, and several other leadership roles at the National Communication Association and the International Communication Association. She is on the editorial board of important journals in the field of media and communication: Journal of International and Intercultural Communication, Management Communication Quarterly, and Emerging Media. She has published essays in the Journal of International and Intercultural Communication, Chinese Journal of Communication, Language and Intercultural Communication, Management Communication Quarterly, and Qualitative Inquiry.

Select Awards:

2023   Top Faculty Paper Award, Critical and Cultural Studies Division,

           National Communication Association, National Harbor, MA

2023   Top Faculty Paper Award, Organizational Communication Division,

           International Communication Association, Toronto, Canada

2021   Top Faculty Paper Award, International and Intercultural Communication Division,

           National Communication Association, Seattle, WA

2021   Top Faculty Paper Award, Critical and Cultural Studies Division, National

            Communication  Association, Seattle, WA.

2020    Early Career Award, The Association for Chinese Communication Studies, National Communication Association, Indianapolis, IN

2017   Outstanding Dissertation Award, The Association of Chinese Communication Studies, National Communication Association, Dallas, TX

Select Publications:

1. Puba, & *Kang, D. (2024). “The Lung Disease as an Evanescent Rainbow”: Indigenous Languages as Agency in Communicating COVID-19 in Multilingual Kham Tibetan Region in China. Sage Open, 14(4). https://doi.org/10.1177/21582440241289328 (*Corresponding Author, SSCI, Q2)

2. *Kang, D. & Mutua, E. & (2024). Constructing Transcultural Identities from Global Racial Justice Events: A Dialogue Engaging Zulu, Kiswahili, and Chinese Conceptions. Language & Intercultural Communication, 1–16. https://doi.org/10.1080/14708477.2024.2307598 (*Co-first author and Corresponding Author, SSCI, Q1)

3.   *Kang, D., & Long, Z. (2023). Organizing as Tong (通): Decolonizing Organizational Communication from the Roots. Management Communication Quarterly, 38(3), 595-622. https://doi.org/10.1177/08933189231223424  (Co-first author and Corresponding Author, SSCI, Q2)

4.      Kang, D. (2022). Taming the barbarian empress: Post-alteric imaginary of gender egalitarianism and pan-Chinese nationalism in the Legend of Xiao Chuo. Communication, Culture, and Critique, 3(15), 316-335. https://doi.org/10.1093/ccc/tcac004 (SSCI, Q1)

5.      Kang, D., & Krone, K. J. (2022). Organizing dissonance on the Tibetan plateau: Insights from the wisdom of nonduality. Culture & Organization, 28(1), 25-45. https://doi.org/10.1080/14759551.2021.1963963 (SSCI, Q1)

6.    Musiba, M. C., & Kang, D. (2018). Towards a community-based conservation and sustainable use of Tanzania’s Heritage. World Heritage and Sustainable Development in Africa, 225-232, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0026/002612/261283m.pdf