Dani R. Soibelman, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor
danisoibelman@ksu.edu
Campus office: 324 C Nichols Hall

Education

Ph.D., University of Colorado Boulder
M.A., University of Texas at Austin
B.S., University of Texas at Austin

Dani R. Soibelman is an Assistant Professor of Organizing in the A. Q. Miller School of Media & Communication. Dani's work revolves around critical organizational communication, trans of color critique, and embodiment. Their dissertation explored how histories of settler colonialism animate contemporary United States governance and legislative practices that specifically impact on gender nonconforming communities and/or higher education personnel.

Dani has published in the journals Argumentation and Advocacy, QED: A Journal for GLBTQ Worldmaking, and Management Communication Quarterly, with accepted work to come in Feminist Pedagogy. Dani also has two forthcoming book chapters, one in Teaching Research Methods in Communication (Edgar Elward, Nov. 2026) and another in an edited volume on bodily oppressions and resistance (Bloomsbury, 2027). Professionally and personally, Dani is invested in cultivating caring relationships across communities, situating the Communication discipline as a toolkit for building better futures.

In addition to their academic work, Dani is a professional performance artist with union status in AEA and SAG-AFTRA. They also consult as an intimacy practitioner (choreographing physically intimate performances and advocating for consent-forward artistry) with training from the international Intimacy Directors & Coordinators (IDC) organization.