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Leggette, Holli

Directory Profile for Holli Leggette

Professor
Office: 
AGLS 262
Email: 
Phone: 
979-321-5757
Holli Leggette's Website

Education

Undergraduate Education
B.S. Agribusiness, Oklahoma Panhandle State University
Graduate Education
M.S. Agricultural Communications, Oklahoma State University
Ph.D. Agricultural Leadership, Education, and Communications, Texas A&M University

Areas of Expertise

  • Audience Segmentation and Analyses
  • Content Analyses
  • Interviews
  • Q Methodology
  • Science Communications
  • Surveys

Professional Summary

Dr. Holli Leggette joined the Department in 2014. Leggette teaches courses in writing, research, and public engagement. Leggette’s research focuses on investigating methods for preparing scientists to be science communicators and conducting information needs assessments, audience analyses, and social acceptance studies to identify action-based research outcomes for developing research projects, educational programs, and production tools. Serving as PI or Co-PI, her research program has been funded with >$3 million in direct expenditures (part of >$70 million in total funding). She has authored or co-authored >70 peer-reviewed journal articles and >300 conference proceedings and professional publications and serves as American Association for Agricultural Education Research Paper Review and Submission Manager. From 2024 to 2026, she served on the editorial team for the Journal of Applied Communications. Dr. Leggette received AAAE’s Distinguished Agricultural Communications Educator Award in 2025; AAAE’s Western Region’s Outstanding Research and Distinguished Agricultural Communications Educator Awards both in 2024; NACTA’s Bob Gough Teaching Tip Award in 2021 and Educator Award in 2018; and Texas A&M AgriLife’s Vice Chancellor’s Award in Excellence Early Career Research Award in 2019.

Publications