Amanda McKendree
Teaching Professor; Academic Director of the Undergraduate Program; Arthur F. and Mary J. O'Neil Director of the Fanning Center for Business Communication
- Office
- 233 Mendoza College of Business
- Phone
- (574) 631-9153
- amckendr@nd.edu
Dr. Amanda G. McKendree serves as a Teaching Professor of Management & Organization in the Department of Management & Organization at the University of Notre Dame where she teaches courses in business communication, strategic communication, and crisis communication. She also holds the position of Academic Director for Undergraduate Studies and the Arthur F. and Mary J. O’Neil Directorship at the Eugene D. Fanning Center for Business Communication in the Mendoza College of Business. Professor McKendree's research investigates crisis communication, conflict communication, and the influence of rhetoric on organizational identity. Her work appears in several academic journals and she is a co-author of the book, Conflict Between Persons: The Origins of Leadership and lead editor of Business Ethics: A Case Approach.
McKendree serves as a Past President of the Eastern Communication Association and the Pennsylvania Communication Association. She is also a member of the Management Communication Association, National Communication Association, and the Arthur W. Page Society. She serves on the editorial board of the Pennsylvania Communication Annual. Recent awards include the Carroll Arnold Distinguished Service Award from the Pennsylvania Communication Association, the Faculty Service Award for the Department of Management & Organization, Mendoza College of Business, the 2021 Cornerstone Award for Business, given by her alma mater, Chatham University, and the 2022 Distinguished Alumni Award from Forest Hills High School. She was recently recognized as a Distinguished Teaching Fellow and appointed to the Committee of Scholars by the Eastern Communication Association.
She received her BA in Global Policy Studies from Chatham University and MPA in Nonprofit/Public Management from the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public and International Affairs. She was awarded a one-year fellowship in public affairs at the Coro Center for Civic Leadership and Carnegie Mellon University, and earned her Ph.D. in Rhetoric at Duquesne University.
When not serving her students and the discipline, she dedicates her time to Strikeout PSP, an awareness and fundraising initiative for progressive supranuclear palsy, a degenerative brain disease. Based in southwestern Pennsylvania, Strikeout PSP was founded by Amanda in 2017.