Dr. Stevie Munz is an assistant professor in the Department of Communication at Utah Valley University. Her research program focuses on exploring the cultural experiences of identity, power, politics, and gender. In particular, she is concerned with how human beings understand and communicate these relational, political, and social experiences. She pursues her scholarly interests along two different, but related, lines of research that examine identity in the contexts of classrooms and small-town communities. To accomplish her research endeavors, she draws on intercultural, identity, and instructional communication literature as well as, utilizes narrative, ethnographic, and oral history interviewing practices.

Her current projects include essays examining women's educational experiences, farm women's labor on family farms, and she's beginning to think about gender and industrialization on family farms.