Curriculum Vitae

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Ph.D., Communication Studies, University of Memphis, 2022.

Graduate Certificate, Gender Studies, University of Memphis, 2020.

MA, Sociology, University of Memphis, 2017.

BA, Sociology, University of Memphis, 2015. 

Assistant Professor of Teaching and Internship Coordinator, Department of Sociology, University of Memphis (August 2023- Present). 

Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, The University of Memphis (August 2022-August 2023)

Adjunct Professor, Department of Social and Behavioral Science, Southwest Community College (January 2021-August 2021) 

Graduate Thesis and Dissertation Analyst, Graduate Programs, The University of Memphis (May 2020-August 2022)

Graduate Instructor, Department of Communication and Film, The University of Memphis (August 2019-August 2022). 

Graduate Research Assistant, Department of Communication and Film, The University of Memphis (August 2018-August 2019)

Adjunct Instructor, Department of Sociology, The University of Memphis (January 2018- May 2018)

Graduate Research Assistant, Department of Sociology, The University of Memphis (December 2015- December 2017)

Religion and Spirituality; Women issues; Intersectional Identity

Graduate Level Courses: 

Social and Behavioral Determinants of Health 

Public Health Communication 

Undergraduate Level Courses: 

Racial and Ethnic Minorities

Medical Sociology

Sociology of Gender

Sociology of Family

Contemporary Social Theory

Introduction to Sociology

Health Behavior and Theory 

Intercultural Communication 

Communication and Conflict

Research Methods

Communication Inquiry

Oral Communication 

Books

Boudreaux, J. (2024). Islam, Motherhood, and Discourses of Faith. Peter Lang Publishers.

Peer-Reviewed Journals

Boudreaux, J. (2022). “Deadening lives and identities held captive: An autoethnographic reflection on my father’s death.” Journal of Autoethnography.3(3), 304-312.

Boudreaux, J. (2020). “The radical spiritual motherhood of Amina Wadud: Black woman scholar speaking truth to patriarchy.” Listening Journal of Communication Ethics, Religion, and Culture, 55 (3), 207-219.

Nordstrom, S. N., Amos, A., Barnes, K., Bilbeisi, T., Boudreaux, J. ., El-Oqlah, E., Ghazal Aswad, N., Gott, D., Hamilton, R., Hernandez, T., Koehn, C., Shivers, A., Snowden, T., & Tabrizi , H. (2020). She Embodied: A Materialized Collective. Reconceptualizing Educational Research Methodology, 11(2). https://doi.org/10.7577/rerm.4116

Boudreaux, J. (September 2019). “Naming obstetric violence; coercion, bullying, and intimidation in non-evidence Based Childbirth Interventions.” Journal of Mother Studies, 4.

Book Chapters

Boudreaux, J. (March 2021). “The case of Dina Tokio: Using Symbolic Convergence Theory to understand the backlash.” In Watkins, B. (Ed.) Research perspectives on social media influencers and their followers. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books: 167-180.

Boudreaux, J. (2020). “Drawing the complexity of Muslim identity: a review of Sophia Rose Arjan’s ‘Veiled Superheroes: Islam, Feminism and Popular Culture.” Departures in Critical Research (8) 4:118-121.

 "'Under Her Feet': A Critical Discourse Analysis of Motherhood Rhetoric in an American Muslim Community." Colloquium Presentation, Department of Sociology, University of Memphis (September 2024).  

 "AI Technology and ChatGPT as a Strategy for Critical Thinking." Roundtable Discussion. Teaching Symposium at the American Sociological Association. Montreal, Canada (August 2024). 

“My Father died this Summer: Toward a Radical Theory of Relationality and a Politic of Love.”

Top Papers in Ethnography Panel. Southern States Communication Association Conference. Virtual (April 2021).

“On the Border: Between Whiteness and Otherness in the Ms. Marvel Origin Story.” Harboring Hope and Rebuilding Identity: A Critical Approach to Institutions. Southern States Communication Association Conference. Virtual (April 2021).

“What am I? The Social Construction of an Ambiguous Self.” Doing Autoethnography Conference. St. Petersburg, Florida (January 2020).

“The Radical Spiritual Motherhood of Amina Wadud: Black Woman scholar speaking Truth to Patriarchy.” Religious Association Conference. Baltimore, Maryland (November 2019).

“Social bonds and the Islamic Prayer Ritual.” Top papers in Spirituality panel. National  

Communication Association. Baltimore, Maryland (November 2019).

“Renaming Unnecessary Childbirth Interventions as Obstetric Violence.” National Communication Association Conference. Baltimore, Maryland (November 2019).

“Unveiling the Veil: Muslim Women and Identity.” Top papers in Gender Studies. Southern States Communication Association Conference. Montgomery, Alabama (April 2019).

Fear factor: Developing a Theory of Emotion-Cognition to understand Muslim American Voting Behavior during the 2016 Presidential election.” University of Chicago Ethnography Conference. Chicago, Illinois (March 2019).

“Muslim Women and Identity Performance.” Presented at the Southern Sociology Society Conference. Greenville, South Carolina (March 2017).

“Ibn Khaldun, Forgotten Father of Sociology.” Association for Black Sociologists Conference, Memphis, Tennessee (October 2016).

"Social Groups and Social Order." Introduction to Sociology, University of Memphis (September 2024). 

"Processes of Socialization." Introduction to Sociology, University of Memphis (September 2024). 

"Research Ethics." Behavioral Intervention Design, University of Memphis (September 2022). 

"Autoethnography as Research Method."  Methods in Anthropology, University of Memphis (September 2022). 

"Islam 101." World Religions. Midland Texas (October 2020). 

"Theory of Emotional Cognition to Understand Muslim-American Political Behavior during the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election." Religion and Politics, University of Memphis, 2019. 

Service to Peer-Reviewed Journals

• Editorial Board member for Journal of Religious Communication (2024-present)
• Ad Hoc Reviewer for Journal of Autoethnography (2024).
• Ad Hoc Reviewer for Feminist Media Studies (2024). 
• Ad Hoc Reviewer for Journal HIV/AIDS and Social Services (2022).
• Ad Hoc Reviewer for the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (2022).
• Ad Hoc Reviewer for the Journal   of Autoethnography (2022). 
• Editorial Board for Journal of Mother Studies (2021). 
• Ad Hoc Reviewer for the Journal of Gender, Place, and Culture (2022). 
• Ad Hoc Reviewer for the Journal of Autoethnography (2020). 
• Ad Hoc Reviewer for Feminist Media Studies (2018). 

Service to Discipline

• Textbook Reviewer for Rowman and Littlefield Publishers (2022). 
• Textbook Reviewer for MacMillan Publishers (2022). 
• Textbook Reviewer for Cognella Publishing Company (2022). 

Service to Conferences

• Reviewer for Spiritual Communication Division, National Communication Association (2021). 
• Reviewer for Critical Division, National Cultural Division, National Communication Association (2021). 
• Reviewer for Feminist and Gender Studies Division, National Communication Association (2020). 
• Chair and Respondent for Gender Studies Division, Southern   States Communication Association (2020).
• Reviewer for Gender Studies Division, Southern States Communication Association (2019).
• Event Co-Organizer and Chair. “Colloquium of   Collaboration” Communication Graduate Student Association, University of Memphis (2019). 
• Co-Organizer, Chair, and Respondent. “Balancing the Mix: Popular Music and Social Justice,” The University of Memphis (2019). 
• Co-organizer and Volunteer. “Sickle Cell Day,” Sickle Cell Foundation, and The University of Memphis (2018). 

Service to Academic   Departments

• Internship Coordinator, Sociology Department, University of Memphis, (2024- ) 
• Alpha Kappa Delta Chapter Representative, Sociology Department, University of Memphis (2024-)
• Jerry Michael Award Committee (2024-) 
• Undergraduate Committee, Sociology Department, University of Memphis, (2024-) 
• Curriculum Redesign Committee, Department of Communication and Film, The University of Memphis (2020). 

Service to Community

• Online Workshop Presentation: “Media Literacy and Covid.”   Benjamin Hooks Library (October 2020).
• Workshop Presentation: “Media Literacy Education for Tween/Teens.”   Benjamin Hooks Library (March 2020).
• Research Assistant in Bone Marrow Transplant and Cellular Therapy Department, St. Jude’s Research Hospital (August- December 2018). 

Successfully completed the Spring '24 Institute on Teaching Social Action at Rhodes College in Memphis, an intensive three-day national faculty course development training on social action pedagogy and curriculum, with the goal of creating a transformative college course.

American Sociological Association, Southern Sociological Association, Association for Sociologists of Religion, Diversity Scholars Network. Alpha Kappa Delta.