Elena Gabor

Biography

Dr. Elena Gabor is a Professor of Organizational Communication at Bradley University. She teaches about the “human side of business,” offering classes in organizational communication, conflict management, org’l accidents and high reliability practices, researching organizational culture, meaning of work, and intercultural communication. Since coming to Bradley in 2008, she has received four teaching awards: the Outstanding Tenured Teaching Award from the Organizational Communication Division of the National Communication Association (NCA) in 2024, the Paul B. Snider Award for Teaching Excellence from the Slane College of Communications and Fine Arts in 2023, the Caterpillar Inc. Faculty Achievement Award for Teaching from Bradley University in 2013, and the Outstanding Educator Award in 2020 from Sigma Delta Tau at Bradley University. Her research has spanned work contexts such as cancer prevention, wildland firefighting, classical musicians, immigrant women engineers, and qualitative methodology. Her work has appeared in Qualitative Research in Organizations and Management, Journal of Ethnographic and Qualitative Research, Intercultural Communication Studies, and International Journal of Wildland Fire. She co-edited Immigrants and Meanings of Work: Communicating Life and Career Transitions published in 2016 by Peter Lang. She is also an active translator of Romanian works for English speakers. Dr. Gabor founded and advises The Org Com Club, a student club dedicated to connecting students to business communication professionals in the Peoria community and mentoring them for career development.

Dr. Gabor received her BA and MA in Journalism from the University of Bucharest (Romania), a second MA from Virginia Tech, VA, and her PhD in Organizational Communication from Purdue University, IN. She is passionate about helping her students grow and achieve their goals and potential.