Dempsey, S. E. (Ed.). (forthcoming, 2023). Organizing Food Justice: Critical Organizational Communication Theory Meets the Food Movement. Routledge.

Dempsey, S. E., Zoller, H., Hunt, K. (2022). The Meatpacking’s Industry’s Corporate Exceptionalism: Racialized Logics of Food Chain Workers Disposability During the COVID-19 Crisis. Food, Culture & Society DOI:10.1080/15528014.2021.2022916

Dempsey, S. E. (2021). Racialized and Gendered Constructions of the “Ideal Server”: Contesting Historical Occupational Discourses of Restaurant Service. Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 5, 402. https://doi.org/10.3389/fsufs.2021.727473

Südkamp, C. M. & Dempsey, S.E. (2021). Resistant Transparency and Nonprofit Labor: Challenging Precarity in the Art + Museum Wage Transparency Campaign. Management Communication Quarterly, 35, (3), 341-367. doi:10.1177/0893318921993833

Atouba, Y, Dempsey, S. E., Koschmann M. A., Kramer, M. W., McAllum, K., McNamee, L. G., Peterson, B. L. (2021). Forum: The Foundations and Future of NPVO Communication Scholarship. Management Communication Quarterly, 35(3):445-460. doi:10.1177/08933189211012023.

Linabary J.R., Cruz J. M., Allen B.J., Chalupa, J. A., Dempsey, S. E., Glenn, C. L., Harris, K. L., Long, Z., McDonald, J., Musleh, S., Oktaviani, F. H., Parker, P. S., Sobande, F. (2020). Envisioning More Equitable and Just Futures: Feminist Organizational Communication in Theory and Praxis. Management Communication Quarterly. doi:10.1177/0893318920973598.

Schraedley, M. K., Bean, H., Dempsey, S. E., Dutta, M. J., Hunt, K. P., Ivancic, S. R., LeGreco, M., Okamoto, K., Sellnow, T. (2020). Food (In)Security Communication: A Forum Addressing Current Challenges and Future Possibilities. Journal of Applied Communication Research, 48, 1-20. https://doi.org/10.1080/00909882.2020.1735648.

Bryson, A. & Dempsey, S. E. (2017) Entrepreneurial Reproductive Labor, Economic Alternatives, and the Ambivalent Gendered Discourses of Seasonal Consignment Sales. Organization, 24, 589-608.

Dempsey, S. E. & Gibson, K. E. (2017) “Food, Biopower, and the Child’s Body as a Scale of Intervention.” In P. Marcell and F. Bosco, Food and Place: A Critical Introduction. (pp. 253- 269), Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham, MD.

Dempsey, S. E. (2017) “Voice.” In C. R. Scott and L. K. Lewis (Eds.), The International Encyclopedia of Organizational Communication, (pp. 2479-2486), Wiley-Blackwell.

Putnam, L. L. & Dempsey, S. E. (2015). The Five Faces of Engaged Scholarship: Implications for Feminist Research. Women and Language, 38, 11-21.

Gibson, K. & Dempsey, S. E. (2014). Make Good Choices, Kid: Scalar Discourses and Ideologies of Choice on Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution. Children’s Geographies. DOI:10.1080/14733285.2013.827875

Dempsey, S.E. & Barge, J. K. (2013). Engaged Scholarship and Democracy. In. D. K. Mumby & L. Putnam (Eds.), Handbook of Organizational Communication: Advances in Theory, Research, and Methods. (pp. 665-688). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Dempsey, S. E. & Carlone, D. (2013). Autonomist Marxism and the Contributions of Generative Dialogue. In J. S. Hanan & M. Hayward (Eds.) Communication and the Economy: History, value and agency. (pp. 45-66). New York: Peter Lang.

Dempsey, S. E. (2012). Nonprofits as Political Actors. Management Communication Quarterly, 26, 147-151.

Dempsey, S. E., Parker, P. S. & Krone, K. (2011). Navigating Socio-Spatial Difference, Constructing Counter-Space: Insights from Transnational Feminist Praxis. Journal of International and Intercultural Communication Research, 4, 201-220.

Dempsey, S. E. (2011). NGOs as Communicative Actors Within Corporate Social Responsibility Efforts. In O. Ihlen, S. K. May, & J. Bartlett (Eds.), Handbook of Communication and Corporate Social Responsibility. (pp. 445-466). Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing.

Dempsey, S. E. (2011) Organizing Difference from Transnational Feminisms. In D. K. Mumby (Ed.), Reframing Difference in Organizational Communication Studies: Research, Pedagogy, and Practice, (pp. 55-76). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Dempsey, S. E., Dutta, M., Frey, L. M., Goodall, H. L., Madison, D. S., Mercieca, J., Nakayama, T., Miller, K. (2011). What is the Role of the Communication Discipline in Social Justice, Community Engagement, and Public Scholarship? A Visit to the CM Café. Communication Monographs, 78, 256-271.

Dempsey, S. E. (2010). Critiquing Community Engagement. Management Communication Quarterly, 24, 359-390. (**Lead Article)

Dempsey, S.E. & Sanders, M. L. (2010). Meaningful Work? Nonprofit Marketization and Work/Life Imbalance in Popular Autobiographies of Social Entrepreneurship, Organization, 17, 437-459.

Dempsey, S. E. (2009). NGOs, Communicative Labor, and the Work of Grassroots Representation. Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies, 6, 328-345. (**Lead Article)

Dempsey, S.E. (2009) Stakeholder Theory. In S. W. Littlejohn & K. Foss (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Communication Theory. (pp. 929-931). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Dempsey, S. E. (2009). The Increasing Technology Divide: Persistent Portrayals of Maverick Masculinity in Advertising. Feminist Media Studies, 9, 37-55.

Dempsey, S. E. (2009, December). NGOs and Grassroots Representation. Communication Currents, The National Communication Association, Washington, D.C.: http://www.communicationcurrents.com/index.asp?bid=15&issuepage=204&issue=50.

Dempsey, S. E. (2007). Towards a Critical Organizational Approach to Civil Society Contexts: A Case Study of the Difficulties of Transnational Advocacy. In B. J. Allen, L. A. Flores & M. P. Orbe (Eds.), The International and Intercultural Communication Annual, 30, (pp. 317-339), Washington, D. C.: National Communication Association.

Dempsey, S. E. (2007). Negotiating Accountability within International Contexts: The Role of Bounded Voice. Communication Monographs, 34(3), 311-322.