Leslie R. Nelson

Leslie R. Nelson

California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

H-index: 10

North America-United States

About Leslie R. Nelson

Leslie R. Nelson, With an exceptional h-index of 10 and a recent h-index of 10 (since 2020), a distinguished researcher at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, specializes in the field of family communication, foster families, identity, parent-child relationships, diverse families.

His recent articles reflect a diverse array of research interests and contributions to the field:

“Damage control”: exploring communication sense-making within foster exit conversations from the US foster parent perspective

“Look at them… wasting that good, white skin”: Exploring messages of white privilege in Black Americans’ family discourse

Introduction to the Special Issue on Communication in Black Families

The relationship between Black racial identity, military identity, and postdeployment reintegration of Black male veterans

Communication privacy management in open adoption relationships: Negotiating co-ownership across in-person and mediated communication

“I Am My Home”: Aged Out Foster Youth’s Discursive Constructions of Home

Setting the agenda: Black families matter

Communicatively constructing godparenthood: Relational maintenance and relational closeness

Leslie R. Nelson Information

University

Position

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Citations(all)

366

Citations(since 2020)

304

Cited By

162

hIndex(all)

10

hIndex(since 2020)

10

i10Index(all)

11

i10Index(since 2020)

11

Email

University Profile Page

California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

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Leslie R. Nelson Skills & Research Interests

family communication

foster families

identity

parent-child relationships

diverse families

Top articles of Leslie R. Nelson

Title

Journal

Author(s)

Publication Date

“Damage control”: exploring communication sense-making within foster exit conversations from the US foster parent perspective

Journal of Applied Communication Research

Leslie R Nelson

Maria Butauski

Summer Atwood

2023/5/17

“Look at them… wasting that good, white skin”: Exploring messages of white privilege in Black Americans’ family discourse

Journal of Social and Personal Relationships

Leslie R Nelson

Samantha Fitzgerald

Darvelle Hutchins

2023/12

Introduction to the Special Issue on Communication in Black Families

Journal of Social and Personal Relationships

Daniel Perlman

Susan Sprecher

Michelle Drouin

2021/12

The relationship between Black racial identity, military identity, and postdeployment reintegration of Black male veterans

Journal of Multicultural Counseling and Development

Keiana Winters

Darvelle Hutchins

Leslie R Nelson

2023/10

Communication privacy management in open adoption relationships: Negotiating co-ownership across in-person and mediated communication

Communication Research

Colleen Warner Colaner

Alyssa L Bish

Maria Butauski

Alexie Hays

Haley Kranstuber Horstman

...

2022/8

“I Am My Home”: Aged Out Foster Youth’s Discursive Constructions of Home

Western Journal of Communication

Leslie R Nelson

Lindsey J Thomas

2022/3/15

Setting the agenda: Black families matter

Journal of Family Communication

Darvelle Hutchins

Leslie R Nelson

2021/10/2

Communicatively constructing godparenthood: Relational maintenance and relational closeness

Journal of Family Communication

Colleen Colaner

Amnee Elkhalid

Maria Butauski

Alyssa Bish

Leslie Nelson

...

2021/4/3

Fostering “Family”: Communication Orientations in the foster parent-child relationship

Western Journal of Communication

Leslie R Nelson

Colleen W Colaner

2020/8/7

Discourses and themes in adoption and child welfare policies and practices in the US throughout the 19th and 20th centuries

Adoption Quarterly

Leslie Rose Nelson

2020/8/3

College of Liberal Arts Diversity and Inclusion Resource Module (White) Privilege, Racial Consciousness, and Anti-Racism

Leslie R Nelson

2020

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Co-Authors

H-index: 23
Haley Kranstuber Horstman

Haley Kranstuber Horstman

University of Missouri

H-index: 22
Colleen Colaner

Colleen Colaner

University of Missouri

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