Kim White-Mills, PhD is in the Department of Communication in the School of Liberal Arts at IU Indianapolis. Dr. White-Mills has a PhD in Organizational Communication from Ohio University. She is involved in the study of organizational communication, women and communication in various settings, and the concept of incivility.

  • PH.D., Ohio University, 1987
  • M.A., Indiana State University, 1984

C201, C282, C380, C382, C383, G310, G480, C580

Book Chapters

DeWine, S., Eicholtz, M., & White-Mills, K. D. (2017). Training and development (IE0C27 ed.).

Refereed Journal Articles

Cash, R. & White-Mills, K. (co-first authors), Crowe, R., Rivard, M., & Panchal, A. (2018). Workplace incivility among nationally certified EMS professionals and associations with workforce-reducing factors and organizational culture. Prehospital Emergency Care. https://doi.org/10.1080/10903127.2018.1502383

Davidson, R., Dobris, C. A., White-Mills, K. D. (2018). What makes a “bad” mom “bad”?: A critical review of Lewis and Moore’s, Bad Moms. Women and Language, 41(2), 171-173.

Dobris, C. A., White-Mills, K., Davidson, R., & Wellbrook, T. (2017). The Spockian mother: Images of the “good” mother in Dr. Spock’s The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care, 1946–1992. Communication Quarterly, 65(1), 39-59. http://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/TBRR4eCW8YRmbJQIAYww/full

DeWine, S., Eicholtz, M., & White-Mills, K. (2016). Training and development. International Encyclopedia of Organizational Communication. Wiley-Blackwell & ICA.

  • Identified by SLA Graduating Seniors as “Faculty Who Had a Significant Impact”, 2003-2016
  • Identified by IUPUI Athletic Department as “Favorite Faculty”, 2016

  • Graduate Director, M.A. in Applied Communication, Department of Communication Studies, 2020-2025
  • Graduate Director, PhD in Health Communication and MA in Applied Communication, Department of Communication Studies, (2020-2021).
  • President, SLA Faculty Assembly, 2018-2019
  • IFC, August 2020 – present.
  • OFW Advisory Board Member, August 2020 – present

My academic interests include, but are not limited to women’s leadership, intergroup dialogue, research methods, and organizational communication. Some of my research can be located in publications such as:

  • Communication Quarterly
  • The Multimedia Encyclopedia of Women in Today’s World
  • Women and Language
  • The Journal of Business Communication and
  • Management Communication Quarterly.