Dr. JoAnna Boudreaux is an Assistant Professor of Teaching and Internship Coordinator at the University of Memphis. She earned both a PhD in Communication Studies and a master's degree in Sociology at the University of Memphis. She is a transdisciplinary scholar with research interests spanning maternal health, motherhood, reproductive justice, immigration, and religious identity.  Her work has been published in the Journal of Mother Studies, Journal of Autoethnography, and the Listening Journal of Communication Ethics, Religion, and Culture. 

Dr. Boudreaux currently serves on the editorial review board for the Journal of Communication and Religion. She has also published a book on her dissertation titled Islam and Motherhood: Discourses of Faith and Identity through Peter Lang Publishers in 2024. 

Dr. Boudreaux teaches classes on Race & Ethnicity, Sociology of Gender, Medical Sociology, and Social Theory.  She is also the Internship Coordinator for the Sociology Department. 

Publications

Boudreaux, J. (2024). Islam, Motherhood, and Discourses of Faith. Peter Lang Publishers.

Boudreaux, J. (2022). My father died this summer: An authethnographic reflection on our deadening lives and identites held captive. Journal of Autoethnography 3(3): 304-312.

Boudreaux, J. (2021). The case of Dina Tokio: Using symbolic convergence theory to understand the backlash.” Pp. 167-180 in Research perspectives on social media influencers and their followers (B. Watkins, Ed.). Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.

Nordstrom, S.N., A. Amos, K. Barnes, T. Bilbeisi, J.A. Boudreaux, E. El-Oqlah, N.G. Aswad, R. Hamilton, T. Hernandez, C. Koehn, A. Sivers, T. Snowden, and H. Tabrizi. (2021). She embodied: A materialized collective. Reconceptualizing Educational Research Methodology 11(2). 

Boudreaux, J. (2020). The radical spiritual motherhood of Amina Wadud: The call of a black woman Muslim scholar. Listening 55(3): 207-219.

Boudreaux, J. (2019). Drawing the complexity of Muslimah identity: A review of Sophia Rose Arjana's Veiled Superheroes: Islam, Feminism, and Popular Culture. Departures in Critical Qualitative Research 8(4): 118-121.

Boudreaux, J. (2019). Naming 'obstetric violence:' Coercion, bully, and intimidation in non-evidence based childbirth interventions. Journal of Motherhood Studies 15(1): 1-4.