Joye Gordon
Associate professor of mass communications and journalism
Joye Gordon, associate professor of mass communications and journalism at the A.Q. Miller School of Journalism and Mass Communications at Kansas State University, studies risk communication -- communication about physical hazards.
In October 2005, she and others traveled to her home state of Louisiana to gather information regarding how residents responded to evacuation orders issued with Hurricane Katrina.
Gordon, Lisa Harrington, a K-State professor of geography, and three K-State graduate students spent more than a week in southeast Louisiana gathering accounts from survivors to identify factors associated with compliance or rejection of evacuation orders with the hope that the information collected will, in the future, help in developing more accurate models of decision making and personal hazard mitigating behavior.
Throughout her career, Gordon also has been very active in researching and communicating about food-related hazards. She has been an active member of the Food Science Institute since 2001.
In 2004, Gordon joined other noted food safety experts at University College in Cork, Ireland, and addressed the conference on the challenges of communicating about food. She also was one of two U.S. invitees to attend a special workshop funded by the European Union Food Information Council in Cork in June 2004.
In 2003, Gordon, along with three other researchers from K-State, came together with the goal of educating the elderly on the prevention of food-borne illness. The group was awarded a $434,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Gordon served as the principal investigator of the project, which consisted of three phases: research, extension education and formal teaching.
Gordon received her bachelor's degree in finance from Nicholls State University in 1987. She received her master's degree in communication/public relations from Louisiana-Lafayette University in 1990 and her doctorate from Purdue University in 1999.
Prior to coming to K-State, Gordon served as an instructor in the department of mass communications at Nicholls State.
Gordon can be contacted at 785-532-3954 or gordon@k-state.edu.