Virginia Sánchez Sánchez is an Assistant Professor of Communication at Auburn University. She studies experiences tied to immigration, the processes of resilience, and how people experience callings.
Academic Pursuits
Virginia has collaborated on several research projects including an analysis of nurses’ experiences of incivility, a content analysis of resilience processes in refugee narratives, and a collaborative autoethnography about the COVID-19 pandemic. Her work has been funded by a Purdue Doctoral Fellowship, a Redding Fellowship, two PROMISE grant from Purdue’s College of Liberal Arts, and the Charles J. Stewart Fellowship. She has presented her work at annual meetings of the National Communication Association, International Communication Association, and Southern States Communication Association. She was one of three recipients for the 2020 Gerald R. Miller Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award.
Virginia has been an instructor of record for Fundamentals of Speech Communication, Intercultural Communication, Small Group Communication, Introduction to Communication Theory, and Organizational Communication. At Auburn, she also developed a course titled Communication & Immigration that connects language use, immigrant representations, and policy. She currently teaches Foundations of Human Communication.
Before joining the the School of Communication & Journalism at Auburn, Virginia completed all her graduate work at the Brian Lamb School of Communication. Her undergraduate degree was completed at Marquette University’s Diederich College of Communication. During this period, she received support from the Educational Opportunity Program, the Ronald E. McNair Scholars program, and the Urban Scholars Program. She also completed Service Learning projects with Notre Dame Middle School and Voces de la Frontera.
Virginia Sánchez Sánchez, PhD 