Hoda Al-Mutawah (PhD, Bowling Green State University) is an assistant professor in the Department of Mass Communication, Tourism, and Arts at the University of Bahrain. A former journalist and TV producer, she has initiated the Almuhud Project, an effort to integrate creative arts activities with professional growth for people of all ages, religions, and cultures. Her chapter on "Muruwa as an Arab Islamic Approach for Creating Possibilities and New Understandings of Gender Relations," appears in the book Transforming Communication Studies (Troubador), edited by Omar Swartz.
Brenda J. Allen (PhD, Howard University) is Associate Vice Chancellor for Diversity and Inclusion and a professor of communication at the University of Colorado Denver. Her research and teaching areas are organizational communication, diversity, and critical pedagogy. Among her numerous publications is a groundbreaking book entitled Difference Matters: Communicating Social Identity (Waveland).
Sheryl Perlmutter Bowen (PhD, University of Massachusetts) teaches communication and women's studies at Villanova University. She has coedited Transforming Visions: Feminist Critiques in Communication Studies (Hampton), and has written and worked extensively in the area of HIV/AIDS education and prevention among college students and urban African Americans. She is currently involved in research on the narratives of Holocaust survivors.
Yea-Wen Chen (PhD, University of New Mexico) is assistant professor in the School of Communication Studies at Ohio University. Her research addresses issues of cultural identities, ideologies, and social justice within intercultural relationships and identity-based nonprofit organizations. Her work appears in such journals as Journal of International and Intercultural Communication, Howard Journal of Communications, and Journal of Intercultural Communication Research, and she also contributes invited chapters and online publications.
Hsin-I Cheng (PhD, Bowling Green State University) is an associate professor of Communication at Santa Clara University. Her research explores how multiple identities are intersected and negotiated in relation to border-crossing, immigration, and neoliberal practices. She teaches courses on qualitative research methods and intercultural communication and is the author of Culturing Interface: Identity, Communication, and Chinese Transnationalism (Peter Lang).
Robin R. Means Coleman (PhD, Bowling Green State University) is an associate professor in the Department of Communication and the Department for AfroAmerican and African Studies at the University of Michigan. She has also held appointments at the University of Pittsburgh and New York University. She has published numerous scholarly articles on media and identity. Dr. Coleman is the author of African American Viewers and the Black Situation Comedy: Situating Racial Humor (Garland), Horror Noire: Blacks in American Horror Films from the 1890s to Present (Routledge). She is a co-author of Intercultural Communication for Everyday Life (Wiley-Blackwell). She is writing a book on the history of the NAACP.
David Engen (PhD, Bowling Green State University) teaches in the Department of Communication Studies at Minnesota State University, Mankato. His research interests include social class and audio documentary. His work has been published in Communication Quarterly and the Southern Journal of Communication.
Marlene Fine (PhD, University of Massachusetts) is Professor Emerita, Simmons College (Boston, Massachusetts). She is the author of Building Successful Multicultural Organizations: Challenges and Opportunities (Quorum Books) and co-author of The Interracial Adoption Option: Creating a Family Across Race (Jessica Kingsley). Her articles have appeared in a number of journals, including Journal of Business Communication, Women's Studies in Communication, Journal of Communication, Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, Public Personnel Management, and Quarterly Journal of Speech, and in various edited books. Her research has focused on women and leadership, diversity in organizations, and interracial adoption.
Anita Foeman (PhD, Temple University) focused her graduate studies on organizational communication. She has been a professor in the Department of Communication Studies at West Chester University since that time. Her work has examined issues of African American communication in organizational, public speaking, and intercultural contexts and identity issues for multiracial people and families. Her most recent work considers the relationship between DNA ancestral data and the social construction of racial identity. She is also continuing her interview research with interracial couples, currently examining how couples address goals and values associated with educating their children.
Mary Fong (PhD, University of Washington) teaches and conducts research in intercultural, instructional, and spiritual communication at California State University, San Bernardino. She has published a textbook, Communicating Ethnic and Cultural Identity; and her articles have appeared in Intercultural Communication: A Reader, Journal of Pragmatics, Howard Journal of Communications, China Media Journal, New Directions for Teaching and Learning, and elsewhere.
Margarita Gangotena (PhD, University of Minnesota) teaches at Blinn College in Bryan, Texas. She also is founder and president of Gangotena Consultants and Trainers and of ELADEV, a corporation to promote entrepreneurship among the less privileged. She is a presenter in the areas of health communication, international and intercultural communication, child education, teacher training, current political and social issues, and conflict management and negotiation. Dr. Gangotena has taught at the University of Minnesota, Texas A&M University, and the University of Houston-Downtown.
Gwendolyn Gong (PhD, Purdue University) is professor of English at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, where she is the undergraduate linguistics coordinator and editor of the Asian Journal of the Teaching of English. She teaches courses in sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, gender, psycholinguistics, and literature. She has authored (with Sam Dragga) Editing: The Design of Rhetoric (1989), which received the 1990 NCTE Achievement Award for the category of Best Book of the Year, A Writer's Repertoire (1995), A Reader's Repertoire (1996), and the three-book series A Writer's Repertoire 1-2-3 (2009). She is currently collaborating on a book (with John H. Powers and Devereux G. Powers) focusing on Mississippi Delta Chinese World War II veterans.
Alberto González (PhD, Ohio State University) is professor and chair in the Department of Communication at Bowling Green State University. He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on intercultural communication, rhetorical communication, and interpretive research methods. His research has been published in the Quarterly Journal of Speech, Review of Communication, Western Journal of Communication, Southern Communication Journal, Communication Quarterly, and elsewhere. He is co-editor of Mediating Cultures: Parenting in Intercultural Contexts (with Tina Harris) and co-author of Intercultural Communication For Everyday Life (with John Baldwin, Robin Means Coleman, and Suchitra Shenoy-Packer).
Dexter B. Gordon (PhD, Indiana University) teaches at the University of Puget Sound. He has been published in the Journal of Black Studies. His interests include rhetoric, social theory, and cultural studies. He seeks to theorize connections between Caribbean and African American communicative cultures.
Janice D. Hamlet (PhD, Ohio State University) is Director of Diversity and Inclusion in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, and associate professor of communication at Northern Illinois University. Her current research interests focus on womanist epistemology and theology, African American culture and communication, autoethnography, and cultivating personal resilience to champion diversity in higher education.
Tina M. Harris (PhD, University of Kentucky) is a professor in the Department of Communication Studies at the University of Georgia, where she has been on faculty since 1998. She teaches undergraduate courses in interracial communication, interpersonal communication, African American relational communication, and communication theory, and graduate courses in interracial communication and media, communication, and race. Harris's research expertise is on interracial communication, interracial dating, race relations, racial representations and the media, pedagogy and race, race and ethnic disparities in health, genetics and religious frameworks, and Christian identity and communication. She is coauthor (with Mark P. Orbe) of the premier textbook Interracial Communication: Theory to Practice (Sage), currently in its third edition.
Mahboub Hashem (PhD, Florida State University) is professor of communication at the American University of Sharjah (AUS) and is the Executive Editor of the refereed Global Media Journal-Arabic Edition. He founded the Department of Mass Communication at AUS and chaired/headed it for six years. Prior to that, he chaired the Department of English, Mass Communication, and Translation at the same university. He has been teaching a variety of communication courses, doing consulting work for over 25 years in several countries, including the United States. He has presented at NATO (four times), the Instituto Affari Internazionali, in Rome, Italy, Kuwait University in Kuwait, Kaslik University in Lebanon, and Digital Media Forum in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Dr Hashem has published widely in academic and popular journals. His research interests lie in studying the effects of culture on international relations and the effects of mass media on society, most notably the effects of social media on youth.
Radha S. Hegde (PhD, Ohio State University) is an associate professor in the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University. Her research examines globalization, transnational migration, issues of gender, and the global workplace. Her earlier published work focused on the subject of reproductive politics, violence, and postcolonial feminism. She edited Circuits of Visibility: Gender and Transnational Media Cultures (2011, NYU Press). She has published in journals such as Communication Theory, Critical Studies in Media Communication, Feminist Media Studies, and Violence Against Women. Radha is also the cofounder of Manavi, the first South Asian American antidomestic violence organization.
Katherine G. Hendrix (PhD, University of Washington) is professor in the Communication Department at the University of Memphis. She is an instructional communication scholar with an interest in the pedagogical contributions of and credibility challenges faced by professors and graduate teaching assistants of color-including international graduate teaching assistants with English as a second language. Employing critical and feminist standpoint theories, she also examines the epistemological and axiological assumptions of research communities that function to sanction scholarship reflecting particular ideologies while excluding other work. Her research has been published in journals and edited books including Communication Education, Howard Journal of Communications, Journal of Black Studies, New Directions for Teaching and Learning, and Qualitative Inquiry.
Marsha Houston (PhD, University of Massachusetts) retired as professor of Communication Studies at the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa in 2009. She also served on the faculties of the University of Southern Mississippi, Spelman College, Georgia State University (where she was Chair from 1987-1990), and Tulane University, where she held the Dreux Chair in Women's Studies. A pioneering Black feminist communication scholar, she won the Francine Merritt Award from NCA's Women's Caucus in 1994 and is included in Black Pioneers in Communication (Jackson & Givens, 2006).
Nekita D. Huling (MA, University of Alabama) is an Instructor at the University of South Alabama. Currently, she teaches the freshman seminar and public speaking. Her research interests focus on intercultural communication and public relations campaigns. Currently she is working on a study that examines how public relations efforts have been affected by social media.
Navita Cummings James (PhD, Ohio State University) teaches communication at the University of South Florida in Tampa and currently serves as director of African Studies. She is a former president of the Southern States Communication Association and is active with the Florida Commission on the Status of Women. Her teaching and research interests include cultural diversity, gender, media, technology, and communication
Fern Johnson (PhD, University of Minnesota) is professor emerita and research professor at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts. Specializing in discourse and culture, she focuses her teaching and scholarship on language and culture in the United States, language policy in the United States and European Union, the discourses of advertising, and the encoding of gender, race, and class in language. She is the co-author (with Marlene Fine) of The Interracial Adoption Option: Creating a Family Across Race (2013), and her scholarship appears in a number of journals and various edited books. Professor Johnson is the recipient of the National Communication Association's Robert J. Kibler Award and the Francine Merritt Award given by the Women's Caucus.
Souhad Kahil (PhD, Bowling Green State University) is an associate professor at the Lebanese University in Beirut where she teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in communication, journalism and public relations. She is a prolific presenter at conferences on international media and intercultural communication.
Jenny Ungbha Korn (PhD, University of Illinois at Chicago) is a scholar of race, gender, and online identity with academic training in communication, sociology, theatre, public policy, and gender studies from Princeton, Harvard, Northwestern, and the University of Illinois at Chicago. The winner of multiple research awards and the author of more than twenty journal articles, book chapters, and online publications, she has given numerous presentations on race, gender, and online identity. She explores how the Internet environment belies user presumptions about race and gender and how online producers/consumers have constructed inventive digital representations and computer-mediated communications of identity.
Brandi Lawless (Ph.D., University of New Mexico) is an assistant professor in the Department of Communication Studies at the University of San Francisco. Her research and teaching interests centers around critical intercultural communication and critical communication pedagogy. Specifically, she is interested in the intersections of race and class, nonprofit organizations as cultural and hegemonic spaces, and everyday performances of identities and subjectivities.
Mona Freeman Leonard (MA, Howard University) has continued her graduate studies at the University of Kentucky. She is professor and chair of communication and journalism at Jefferson Community College. She has served as an adjunct professor at the University of Louisville. Her research interests include interpersonal, intercultural, and organizational communication. She has been published in the Kentucky Journal of Communication and received a grant from the University of Kentucky to promote cultural diversity.
Elizabeth Lozano (PhD, Ohio University) teaches in the School of Communication at Loyola University in Chicago where she directed the Latin American Studies Program from 2005-2013. Her research interests include communication and Pan-American cultures, television and media studies and more recently, violence and nonviolent resistance, particularly in her native country, Colombia. Her book, Tele-Visions in the United States was published in 2014 and her articles have been published in Communication Theory, Dialogos de la Comunicación, and Media Development.
Casey Man Kong Lum (PhD, New York University) is professor and Founding Director of the M. A. in Professional Communication Program in the Department of Communication at William Paterson University. He is the author of In Search of a Voice: Karaoke and the Construction of Identity in Chinese America and author and editor of Perspectives on Culture, Technology, and Communication: The Media Ecology Tradition. He has also published numerous journal articles and book chapters in matters relating to Asian American media and cultures, media ecology, urban food cultures and communication, intercultural education, and global media studies. Lum is one of the five founders of the Media Ecology Association and currently on the Board of Directors of the Urban Communication Foundation.
Rozilyn Miller (PhD, University of Oklahoma) is associate professor, Director of the Leadership Minor, and Chair of the Department of Mass Communication at the University of Central Oklahoma. Her research interests focus on gender, critical studies, and social justice issues.
Creshema R. Murray (PhD, University of Alabama) is an assistant professor of corporate organizational communication at the University of Houston-Downtown. She teaches courses in leadership, race and gender in the workplace, organizational training & development and destructive organizational communication. She is engaged in two areas of communication research. Her first area of research focuses on the lived experiences of Women of Color in workplace organizations. The second area focuses on the manner in which organizations foster destructive workplace practices with employees. In addition to her teaching and research interest, Dr. Murray is a faculty fellow for the Center for Critical Race Studies.
Eddah M. Mutua (PhD, University of Wales) is an associate professor in the Department of Communication Studies at St. Cloud State University, MN. Her research and teaching interests focus on intercultural and interracial conflicts, post-conflict peace communication and critical service-learning pedagogy.
Thomas K. Nakayama (Ph.D., University of Iowa) is professor of Communication Studies at Northeastern University. He is a fellow of the International Association of Intercultural Research, a former Libra Professor at the University of Maine, and a former Fulbrighter at the Université de Mons in Belgium. His research interests lie at the intersection of rhetoric, intercultural communication and critical theory.
Teresa Nance (PhD, Temple University) is an associate professor of communication at Villanova University in Villanova, Pennsylvania. Her research and publication interests include education, culture, race, and relationships. Professor Nance served as Chair of her department from 1998-2004. In 2004 she was appointed the Assistant Vice President for Multicultural Affairs and serves as the Chief Diversity Officer of Villanova University.
Charles I. Nero (PhD, Indiana University) is an associate professor in the Department of Theater and Rhetoric and in the Programs in African American and American Cultural Studies at Bates College. His essays on sexuality and gender in film and literature have appeared in Camera Obscura, Public Culture, Callaloo, the Forum for European Contributions to African American Studies (FORECAST), the Journal for the History of Sexuality, Black Queer Studies: A Critical Anthology, Out in the South, Brother to Brother: A Black Gay Anthology, and others. His current projects include editing a collection of the diaries of the black gay writer Melvin W. Dixon, who died of AIDS-related complications, and a book-length work, Reading Will Make You Queer: The Pursuit of Culture and the Creation of a Black Queer Literary Tradition.
John Parrish-Sprowl (PhD, Bowling Green State University) is Professor of Communication Studies and Director of the Global Health Communication Center at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis. He is the author of a number of articles and book chapters, focused on various aspects of transformation and change in health, organizations, and education. His work includes projects in a number of countries around the world. Most recently he has been working on community engagement in Sierra Leone related to Ebola and Polio vaccines in China.
Merry C. Pratt (PhD, University of Oklahoma) received her Ph.D. in Communication from the University of Oklahoma. Prior to coming to the University of Central Oklahoma, she taught at Texas Christian University, the University of Oklahoma, and Oklahoma City University. She is currently a Professor of Interpersonal Communication at UCO. Merry's research program investigates the ethnography of communication through fieldwork. In particular, she explores the intersections among identity, language, and culture. Currently, she is investigating the complexities involved in conducting researching on Indian reservations. She also continues to pursue her interest in the area of innovative methods for teaching and researching communication. She is the author or co-author of several journal articles and book chapters. Her research has appeared in journals such as Health Communication and Communication Research Reports.
Steven B. Pratt (PhD, University of Oklahoma) is professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Central Oklahoma. His research interests focus on cultural identification, as well as language and social interaction, with an emphasis on identifying American Indian communicative behaviors. Dr. Pratt's research has appeared in the following journals and edited books: Research on Language and Social Interaction, Intercultural Communication Studies, Cultural Communication and Intercultural Contact, International Intercultural Communication Annual and Communicating Ethnic and Cultural Identity. Dr. Pratt was born and raised on the Osage Indian reservation, serves as a traditional and ceremonial leader of the Osage people, and works extensively with the revitalization of the Osage language. Diana I. Ríos (PhD, University of Texas) is an associate professor in the Department of Communication Sciences and the Institute of Puerto Rican and Latino Studies (IPRLS). She is interim director of IPRLS. Her research and teaching address the mass media, intercultural processes, and the dynamics of race, ethnicity, and gender.
Pravin Rodrigues (PhD, Bowling Green State University) is an associate professor in the Communication Studies Department at Ashland University, Ohio. He has degrees in mass communication and interpersonal communication. His papers and research interests focus on intercultural communication, rhetoric, popular culture, and Asian Indian identity. His rhetorical study (cowritten with Daniel O'Rourke) of humor and irony in the post-9/11 United States published in the journal Society was selected for review and comment in The Chronicle of Higher Education.
Aimee Carrillo Rowe (PhD, University of Washington) is an associate professor of Communication Studies at California State University, Northridge. Her teaching and writing focus on issues of power and social change, especially as they get played out in community and subject formation. Her books include Power Lines: On the Subject of Feminist Alliances (Duke University Press, 2008) and Answer the Call: Virtual Migration in Indian Call Centers (University of Minnesota Press, 2013). Carrillo Rowe is currently working on a book entitled Queer Xicana: Performance, Affect, and the Sacred, which examines the decolonial potential in queer Xicana performance.
Karla D. Scott (PhD, University of Illinois) is associate professor of communication at Saint Louis University, where she also serves as Assistant Dean for Diversity and Inclusion in the College of Arts & Sciences. She teaches undergraduate and graduate communication courses that focus on language, culture, race and intergroup dialogue. Her research on the communicative contexts of Black women's lived experiences has been published in Women and Language, Discourse and Society, Women's Studies in Communication and Centering Ourselves: African American Feminist and Womanist Studies of Discourse.
Suchitra Shenoy-Packer (PhD, Purdue University) is an independent researcher and scholar in the areas of organizational and multicultural communication. Her research focuses on intercultural organizational communication, the socialization and assimilation experiences of traditionally underrepresented/marginalized groups, and career discourses and meanings of work. She has published in peer-reviewed journals such as Journal of International and Intercultural Communication, Management Communication Quarterly, and the Journal of Communication and Religion, among others. She is the author of, India's Working Women and Career Discourses: Self, Socialization, and Agency and co-author of Intercultural Communication in Everyday Life.
Charmaine Shutiva (PhD, Texas A&M University) is a consultant in the education of gifted and talented Native American children. She has published journal articles and book chapters on the topic of Native American gifted and talented education and multicultural education and was principal writer for Project Northstar, a 1992 national study investigating the status of Native American education for the gifted and talented.
Qi Tang (PhD, Bowling Green State University) is assistant professor of Communication Studies in the Department of Communications at Tennessee State University. She teaches intercultural communication, interpersonal communication, and media & culture studies. Her research has explored the mediated representation of cultural others in expatriate discourse and travel narratives. She is currently involved in research on the online expressions of Chinese racial attitudes. Her work has appeared in Journal of Asian Pacific Communication and Chinese Journal of Communication.
Dolores V. Tanno (PhD, University of Southern California), until she retired in 2007, taught communication ethics, intercultural communication, and rhetorical theory at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. She coauthored three books and has published in the International Journal of Intercultural Relations and Howard Journal of Communications, as well as in various edited anthologies of refereed essays. She was also a visiting professor at Roskilde University in Denmark, and received grants to do research in Turin, Italy.
Eric King Watts (PhD, Northwestern University) is an associate professor in the Department of Communication Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Watts's scholarship explores the conditions in which rhetorical voice can be invented, performed, consumed, mutated, and suppressed. In particular, he examines how the endowment of African American voices intervenes in the manner in which the public deliberates on a vision of the civic good and social justice. In 2012 he published Hearing the Hurt: Rhetoric, Aesthetics, & Politics of the New Negro Movement. His work has appeared in such venues as Quarterly Journal of Speech, Rhetoric & Public Affairs, Critical Studies in Media Communication, and New Media and Society.
Jennifer Willis-Rivera (PhD, Bowling Green State University) teaches in the Communication Studies Program at the University of Wisconsin-River Falls. Her primary area of study is race and ethnicity, specifically focusing on issues of prejudice and racism in higher education. She has published in Women and Language, Communication Quarterly, and Communication Education.
David E. Weber (PhD, University of Denver) lived in Asia and the Middle East for many years as an organizational development professional, and is now an associate professor in the Department of Communication Studies at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington. His primary scholarly interests are organizational culture and organizational rhetoric, the communicative construction of organization and profession or occupation, intercultural communication in international organizational settings, and applied communication in consulting environments.
Kathleen Wong (Lau) (PhD, Arizona State University) is Director of the Southwest Center for Human Relations Studies at the University of Oklahoma. Her areas of interest are in intercultural communication and gender and communication with specific focus on empathy in intergroup dialogues, and emotional labor in interracial communication. Dr. Wong is a second-generation Chinese American and a descendent of working-class Cantonese immigrants from Hong Kong.
