Dr. Deloris McGee Wanguri

Deloris McGee Wanguri is Professor of Communication Studies at the University of Houston-Downtown in Houston, Texas. Deloris received her B.A. and M.A. from the University of Houston, and she received her Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin in Organizational/Interpersonal Communication. She has taught organizational communication at the University of Houston-Downtown since the mid 1990’s and she taught it at the University of Missouri St. Louis in the early 1990’s. Her research interests include organizational confidentiality, organizational socialization, communicative openness, ethical issues, and performance appraisals in the workplace and over the years she has conducted research in television stations, telecommunications companies, state agencies, hospital districts, churches, and museums. Deloris is a longtime member of the Academy of Management, the International Communication Association, and the National Communication Association. She has presented extensively at various regional, national, and international meetings, and she has published in a variety of venues, including Communication Teacher, Corporate Communications: An International Journal, Intrapersonal Communication Processes, and the Journal of Business Communication.

Exhibited Publications

Roubicek, H., Collins, M., and Wanguri, D. Communicating: A Contemporary Approach. Dubuque, Iowa: Kendall/Hunt Pub. Co, 1986.

Wanguri, Deloris McGee.  Cases in Organizational Communication.  Spokane, Washington: Marquette Books LLC. 2010.