Publications
Below are titles of selected publications in print and in progress. (Please email me at jennifer . ziegler @ valpo . edu to request copies of publications that are not hyperlinked below.)
- The story behind an organizational list: A genealogy of wildland firefighters’ Ten Standard Fire Orders. (2007). Communication Monographs, 17 (4), 415-442.
- Standard firefighting orders: Shifts in meaning and authority, 1950s-today. (2009, Mar 21). In 2009 Fireline Safety Refresher Training: The Art and Science of Fighting Wildfire (DVD Video and Student Workbook) (pp. SW 11-SW15). Boise ID: National Wildfire Coordinating Group.
- Also available in the Wildland Fire Safety Training Annual Refresher “Fire Orders Library.” Boise ID: National Wildfire Coordinating Group.
- How the “13 Situations that Shout ‘Watch Out’” Became the “18 Watchout Situations.” (2008, Aug 4). Available at http://blogs.valpo.edu/jziegler.
- Managing the meaning of leadership: Leadership as “communicating intent” in wildland firefighting (with M. T. DeGrosky). (2008).Leadership 4 (3), 271-297.
This is a preprint of an article published in LEADERSHIP, (c) Sage Publications, 2008. The definitive version was published in Leadership, Volume 4 Issue 3, August 2008. http://lea.sagepub.com: DOI: 10.1177/1742715008092362.
- Blaming the dead: The ethics of accident investigation in wildland firefighting. (2006). In S. K. May (Ed.), Case studies in organizational communication: Ethical perspectives and practices (pp. 265-286). Thousand Oaks: Sage.
- Wisdom in the lessons learned library: Work ethics and firefighter identities in the Fire Orders. (2005). In Butler, B.W. and Alexander, M.E. (Eds.), Proceedings of the Eighth International Wildland Fire Safety Summit (April 26-28, Missoula, MT). Hot Springs, South Dakota: The International Association of Wildland Fire.
- Discursive opening and closing in organizational self-study: Culture as trap and tool in wildland firefighting safety. (2004). Management Communication Quarterly, 17, 319-359.
- Mutual metaphors of Survivor and office politics. (2003). In M. J. Smith & A. F. Wood (Eds.) Survivor lessons: Essays on communication and reality television (pp. 153-181). New York: McFarland.
Other Publications
- An evaluation of Managing the Unexpected 3: A workshop on High Reliability Organizing (Missoula, MT, May 22-25, 2006) (with B. Fay). (2006.) Tucson, AZ: National Advanced Resources Institute.