Sandra K. Barnidge

Selected Nonfiction

• How to Trust a Robot
• Writing Roughshod: Emily Hahn, a “spirited” engineer
• Beethoven’s Detective
  
• How to Blend in at an Alpine Krampus Parade
  
• The 1920s Women Who Fought for the Right to Travel Under Their Own Names
  
• Around the World in Eight Badgers
  
• Queen of Kilts
  
• The Warlord’s Biographer
  
• Fateful Fight: The Fall of a Boxing Dynasty
  
• Lifting from the Center: Tribal Partnership Rethinks Community Health
  
• Recruiting a New Class of EMTs: Rural Wisconsin Girls
  
• Artful Hacking: A Poet Laureate Considers the Role of Computation in the Humanities
  
• Printing Without Boundaries: New Uses for 3D Printers
  
• Keeping Global Women “In the Know”
• Regular freelancer for On Wisconsin and former science writer at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
• Selected tear sheets

Fiction

• “The Last Grand Tour of Albertine’s Watch,” finalist in the the Arizona State University’s Everything Change Climate Fiction Contest; forthcoming 2018
• “Mullenville, Population 82,” Allegory Ridge, July 2018
• “Orbit,” Heron Tree, February 2018
• “The Waubeen Annual Kanaranzi Kimball Day,” finalist in the 2017 Francine Ringold Awards for New Writers; summer 2018 in Nimrod International Journal
• “Fusion: A Love Story,” top-three selection for the Arizona State University’s 2016 Frankenstein Bicentennial Fiction Competition
• “Clay Pots,” finalist for the Psychopomp Magazine 2014 Short Fiction Award
• “Saxy Jane and the Condom,” Dogzplot Flash Fiction, May 2009
• “Nopales,” Six Sentences, October 2009

Copy Editing

• The Communication Crisis in America, And How to Fix It
  Assistant editor on a volume of research and policy recommendations inspired by a report we compiled for the Federal Communications Commission in 2012
• Women in Contemporary Latin American Novels: Psychoanalysis and Gendered Violence

Academic

• Barnidge, M., Gunther, A., Kim, J., Hong, Y., Perryman, M., Tay, S. K., Knisely, S. (forthcoming). “Politically motivated selective exposure and perceived media bias.” Communication Research. Advance online publication.
• McLaughlin, B.; Davis, C.; Coppini, D.; Kim, Y.M.; Knisely, S.; McLeod, D. (2015) “When Women Attack.” Politics and Life Sciences, 34(1). pp. 44-56.
• Robinson, S.; Knisely, S.; Schwartz, M. (2014) “A news negotiation of a state’s history: Collective memory of the 2011 Wisconsin protests.” Journalism Studies, 1-18.c.
• Knisely, S. “Division in Dairyland: Community structure, social identity and news frames during the Wisconsin gubernatorial recall election.” Unpublished master’s thesis, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin. 2013. Read it here.
• Presentation: “Darth Vader in Dairyland: Constructing political out-groups via digital cartoons.” Paper presented at Communication Crossroads: A Multidisciplinary Graduate Student Conference. Madison, Wisconsin. March 2013.
• Presentation: “A news negotiation of a state’s history: Collective memory of the 2011 Wisconsin protests.” Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Conference. Chicago, Illinois. August 2012.