Shardé Davis

Assistant Professor, Communication

Faculty Affiliate, Africana Studies Institute and Institute for Collaboration on Health, Intervention, and Policy

Primary Research Theme

People and the City

Selected Urban-Related Publications

Davis, S. M., & Afifi, T. (2019). The strong Black woman collective theory: Determining the prosocial functions of strength regulation in groups of Black women friends. Journal of Communication, 69(1), 1-25. doi: 10.1093/joc/jqy065. Lead article.

Davis, S. M., & High, A. (2019). Widening the gap: Support gaps in same race vs. different race female friendship dyads. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 36(1), 187-213. doi: 10.1177/0265407517722245

Afifi, T., Merrill, A., Davis, S. M., Denes, A., & Coveleski, S. (2019). The impact of a need for closure and support quality on verbal and cognitive brooding. Communication Research, 46(6), 757-784. doi: 10.1177/0093650216644018

Davis, S. M. (2019). When sistahs support sistahs: A process of supportive communication about microaggressions among Black women. Communication Monographs, 89(2), 133-157. doi: 10.1080/03637751.2018.1548769

Afifi, T., Granger, D., Ersig, A., Tsalikian, E., Shahnazi, A., Davis, S. M., Harrison, K., Callejas, M., & Scranton, A. (2019). Testing the theory of resilience and relational load (TRRL) in families with type I diabetes. Health Communication, 34(10), 1107-1119. doi: 10.1080/10410236.2018.1461585

Davis, S. M. (2018). Taking back the power: An analysis of Black women’s communicative resistance. Review of Communication, 18(4), 301-318. doi: 10.1080/15358593.2018.1461234

Davis, S. M. (2018). The aftermath of #BlackGirlsRock vs. #WhiteGirlsRock: Considering the disrespectability of a Black woman counterpublic. Women’s Studies in Communication, 41(3), 269- 290. doi: 10.1080/07491409.2018.1505678. Lead article.

Afifi, T., Davis, S. M., Merrill, A., Coveleski, S., Denes, A., & Shahnazi, A. (2018). Couples’ communication about financial uncertainty following the Great Recession and its impact on stress, mental health and divorce proneness. Journal of Families and Economic Issues, 39(2), 205–219. doi: 10.1007/s10834-017-9560-5

Afifi, T., Shahnazi, A., Coveleski, S., Davis, S. M., & Merrill, A. (2017). Testing the ideology of openness: The comparative effects of talking, writing, and avoiding a stressor on rumination and health. Human Communication Research, 43(1), 76-101. doi: 10.1111/hcre.12096

Afifi, T., Merrill, A., & Davis, S. M. (2016). The theory of resilience and relational load (TRRL). Personal Relationships, 23(4), 663-683. doi: 10.1111/pere.12159.

Jayachandiran, C., Afifi, T., Harrison, K., & Davis, S. M. (2016). The United States of wealth: The Updated 10/2019 Davis 3 communicative construction of master and counter narratives of prosperity in the aftermath of the great recession. Narrative Inquiry, 26(1), 39-63. doi: 10.1075/ni.26.1.03jay

Davis, S. M. (2015). The “strong Black woman collective”: A developing theoretical framework for understanding collective communication practices of Black women. Women’s Studies in Communication, 38(1), 20-35. doi:10.1080/07491409.2014.953714.

Afifi, T., Davis, S. M., Merrill, A., Coveleski, S., Denes, A., & Afifi, W. (2015). In the wake of the great recession: Economic uncertainty, communication, and physiological stress responses in families. Human Communication Research, 41(2), 268-302. doi: 10.1111/hcre.12048.