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Dr. Kathryn Anthony is an Associate Professor at the University of Southern Mississippi. Dr. Kathryn Anthony first earned her Bachelor’s degree at the University of Southern Mississippi in speech communication. She then went on to earn a Master’s degree in communications at the University of Kentucky. She then invested in her education even further and she went on to earn her Doctorate’s in communication at the University of Kentucky. With her extent and knowledge in communication her emphasis is in Health Communication. Her Organizational Communication Dissertation was “The Role of the Message Convergence Framework In Obstetricians’ Clinical and Communicative Practices”. Dr. Anthony’s area of research are Health related Organizational Communication, Patient Provider Communication, Ethical organizational and corporate practices through a case study approach, organizational response to crises and natural disasters, and the development of messages for health social marketing and public relations campaign.

In 2006 Dr. Anthony was an undergraduate teaching assistant for the Department of Communication for the University of Southern Mississippi. From 2008-2013 Dr. Anthony was a graduate teaching assistant for the department of communication, at the University of Kentucky. In 2009-2013 she was a graduate research assistant, for the department of communication at the University of Kentucky. From 2013-2014 Dr. Anthony was an assistant for the communication studies program at Columbia College. Dr. Anthony is now currently an assistant professor for the department of communication studies at the University of Southern Mississippi.

In 2008 she earned a Graduate Fellowship Award for the Delta Gamma National Fraternity. Later in 2013 she received the Michael Carozza Fellowship in Health Communication, College of Communication and Information from the University of Kentucky. She also earned a 2014 Savory Fellowship in Undergraduate and Faculty Research at Columbia College SC.

Some of Dr. Anthony’s contributions consists of some key articles that she has wrote over her career. She helped write the Complexities In Communication and Collaboration in the Hurricane System. The purpose of this study was to investigate the Texas hurricane warning system by understanding the communicative experiences of the warning system boundary spanners including National Weather Service’s forecasters, emergency managers, and broadcast meteorologists. The study revealed that communication and collaboration efforts were strained as the actors experienced tensions pursuing seemingly incompatible goals. The prominent tensions that emerged from interviews included the timeliness of information dissemination versus information accuracy and the access to the information versus concerns of information attribution. Dr. Anthony also contributed the article “Information acquisition, perception, preference, and convergence by Gulf Coast residents in the aftermath of the Hurricane Katrina Crisis.” This article identifies the arguments and information sources perceived as most credible by coastal Mississippi residents recovering from Hurricane Katrina. Twenty five interviews were conducted with residents who remained in Mississippi during the most devastating storm in the state’s history. The interviews provided a description of how residents both perceived and responded to the crisis. Results indicate residents were most influenced by information received through local media sources. Local sources provided data that contributed directly to the resident’s potential for self-protection and recovery. In standards, that data did not always reflect the local experience. The larger narrative was perceived as inaccurate and even offensive by many interviewees’. Dr. Anthony also is responsible for publishing the article Characteristics of illegal distributors of prescription ADHD Stimulants to College Peers. This study identifies indicators of college students, with prescriptions to Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) stimulants, who are most likely to distribute their medication to nonprescribed peers. 2,313 undergraduate students at a large Southeastern University were surveyed from 2009 to 2011. 5.2% were currently taking a prescribed ADHD stimulant. Analyses revealed that distributors are more likely to take their medication less frequently; misuse their stimulants for "off label" purposes be a member of a fraternity; overestimate the percentages of users; and belong to at-risk peer groups. The work concludes by discussing the study's implications, limitations and future research. Dr. Anthony is an excellent professor and she is very highly qualified. She is very committed in finding groundbreaking evidence in communication.