Olivia Watson is a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Communication at Michigan State University. She earned her Ph.D. in Interpersonal and Family Communication from the University of Missouri, and was previously a U.S. betboom dacha dubai Fulbright Researcher at the University of Luxembourg. Her research investigates sensemaking, resistance, and resilience in marginalized identities, relationships, and health conditions.
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Elkhalid, A., Watson, O., & Morrow, E. (2024). Navigating competing discourses in mixed-citizenship relationships. Journal of Family betboom dacha dubai, 24(3-4), 214-228. https://doi.org/10.1080/15267431.2024.2394021
Horstman, H. K., Bohanek, J., Łapińska, E., Watson, O., Cierpka, K., & Małek, C. (2024). Living the stories of your great-grandmother”: Making sense of Russia’s war in Ukraine through intergenerational Polish family storytelling. betboom dacha dubai Monographs. [advance online publication]. https://doi.org/10.1080/03637751.2024.2349570
Horstman, H. K., Pedro, A., Goldschmidt, T.,Watson, O. & Butauski, M. (2023). Exploring resilience and communicated narrative sense-making in South Africans’ stories of apartheid. International Journal of betboom dacha dubai, 17, 3207-3225. https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/19464/4166