Sara Docan-Morgan (she/her) is Professor of Communication Studies at the University of Wisconsin, La  Crosse. She is the author of the monograph, In Reunion: Transnational Korean Adoptees and the Communication of Family (2024, Temple University Press). Dr. Docan-Morgan’s scholarship on Korean adoptees and family communication has been published in Adoption Quarterly, the Journal of Family Communication, the Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, Communication Quarterly, Family Relations, and the Journal of Korean Adoption Studies, as well as in edited volumes. Her research focuses on how personal identity and family identity are formed, maintained, and negotiated through discourse in both adoptive and birth families. She teaches courses in interpersonal communication, family communication, race, and gender. Dr. Docan-Morgan was a Fulbright Senior Scholar in Seoul, South Korea from 2016 to 2017 and has received  various teaching awards throughout her career. She serves on the editorial board for the Journal of Family  Communication and has presented her research to adoptees, adoptive parents, and Korean birth families. Her  career-long goal has been to create opportunity for conversation and curiosity surrounding difference and  relationships.

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