Manulani Aluli-Meyer (Ed.D., Harvard University, 1998) is the fifth daughter of Emma Aluli and Harry Meyer. Her family hails from Mokapu, Kailua, Wailuku, Hilo and Kohala on the islands of Oahu, Maui and Hawai‘i. The Aluli ohana is a large and diverse group of scholar-activists who have spent their lives in Hawaiian education, justice, land reclamation, health, cultural revitalization, arts education, prison reform, transformational economics, food sovereignty, and most of all, music. Manu works in the field of indigenous philosophy and writes and researches its role in world-wide awakening. She obtained her doctorate from Harvard by studying Hawaiian epistemology. Her book, Ho’oulu: Our Time of Becoming—Hawaiian Epistemology and Early Writings, is in its third printing. She instructed for Outward Bound and other wilderness and alternative learning systems. Manu championed the Hawaiian charter school movement, worked with women inmates, and helped develop Hoea Ea—the Hawai‘i Island food sovereignty movement. She evaluates indigenous Ph.D.s and lectures on enduring knowledge systems throughout the world. She was an Associate Professor of Education at the University of Hawai‘i in Hilo and is currently in New Zealand working for Te Wānanga o Aotearoa, a Maori higher education movement dedicated to whanau (family) transformation.
Molefi Kete Asante (Ph.D., University of California at Los Angeles, 1968) is Professor in the Department of African American Studies at Temple University. Recognized as one of the ten most widely cited African Americans, he has published over 75 books and 500 articles. Among the most recent books are The African American People: A Global History, The History of Africa: The Quest for Eternal Harmony, As I Run toward Africa, and Erasing Racism: The Survival of the American Nation. The second edition of his high-school text, African American History: Journey of Liberation, is used in more than 400 schools throughout North America. At UCLA, he served as the first Director of the Center for Afro-American Studies and created the Center’s M.A. program. At Temple, he established the first Ph.D. program in African American Studies in the nation and directed more than 140 Ph.D. dissertations. He is also the founding editor of the Journal of Black Studies. He has won over 100 awards, honorary doctorates, and distinguished professorship including Professor Extraordinarius at the University of South Africa, Guest Professor at Zhejiang University, and the 2002 Douglas W. Ehninger Distinguished Rhetorical Scholar Award from the National Communication Association. In 2010, along with his wife, Ana Yenenga, he founded the Molefi Kete Asante Institute for Afrocentric Studies in Philadelphia as a high-level African American Think-Tank.
Rebecca Blum Martinez (Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley, 1993) is Professor in the Department of Language, Literacy and Sociocultural Studies in the College of Education at the University of New Mexico. She holds a Ph.D. in Education, with a specialization in bilingualism and second language acquisition, from the University of California at Berkeley. Her scholarship focuses on Spanish/English bilingualism and in language revitalization in indigenous communities. She has worked with southwest indigenous communities for over 15 years. She also directs the Latin American Projects in Education for the College of Education, an office that facilitates mutually beneficial projects between Latin American institutions and the College of Education. She was recently selected to direct the Multicultural Education Center for the College of Education.
Hui-Ching Chang (Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1994) is Associate Dean of Academic Affairs for the Honors College at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) and Chair Professor of the College of Journalism at Xiamen University in China (2009–2012). Chang is a Fulbright Scholar in Ukraine (2010–2012) and Visiting Scholar at Hong Kong Baptist University (2007) and National Taiwan University (2003–2004). Chang earned her LL.B. from National Taiwan University and her M.A. and Ph.D. in Speech Communication from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She has been a faculty member in the Department of Communication at UIC since 1994 and an Honors College Faculty Fellow since 2002. In the Department, she has served as Director of Undergraduate Studies since 2007 and as Director of Graduate Studies from 1996 to 2001. She is also a trained mediator for UIC’s Dispute Resolution Service. Her publications have appeared in Journal of Language and Politics, Discourse Studies, Journal of Language and Social Psychology, and Nationalism and Ethnic Studies, among others. Her book, Clever, Creative, Modest: The Chinese Language Practice (2010), is published by Shanghai Foreign Language Education Press. She is currently working on her second book analyzing names used by Taiwan for China, with the support of a Scholar’s Grant from Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange (2011).
Guo-Ming Chen (Ph.D., Kent State University, 1987) is Professor of Communication Studies at the University of Rhode Island. He was the recipient of the 1987 NCA IICD Outstanding Dissertation Award and the founding president of the Association for Chinese Communication Studies. He served as Chair of the ECA Intercultural Communication Interest Group and the co-editor of Intercultural Communication Studies and International and Intercultural Communication Annual. In addition to serving as an editorial board member of several professional journals, Chen is presently the Executive Director of the International Association for Intercultural Communication Studies and the co-editor of China Media Research. His primary research interests are in intercultural/organizational/global communication. Chen has published over 150 papers, book chapters, and essays, and (co)authored/(co)edited more than 30 books and journal special issues. Those books include Foundations of Intercultural Communication, Introduction to Human Communication, Communication and Global Society, A Study of Intercultural Communication Competence, Chinese Conflict Management and Resolution, and Theories and Principles of Chinese Communication. Chen continues to be active in teaching, scholarship and in professional, university, and community services.
James W. Chesebro (Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 1972) is currently Retired Distinguished Professor of Telecommunications in the Department of Telecommunications at Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana. He was President of the National Communication Association (NCA) in 1996 and President of the Eastern Communication Association (ECA) in 1983. He edited the NCA’s journals Critical Studies in Media Communication and Review of Communication as well as the ECA’s journal Communication Quarterly. He has authored several books, including Communicating Power and Gender, Analyzing Media, Computer-Mediated Communication, Public Policy Decision-Making, Orientations to Public Communication, and co-edited the third edition of Methods of Rhetorical Criticism. He has also published over 100 articles in national communication journals such as Quarterly Journal of Speech, Critical Studies in Mass Communication, Communication Monographs, Communication Education, Text and Performance Quarterly, and Journal of Applied Communication Research. He received three awards from the NCA, including its monograph of the year award, distinguished service award, and Kibler award for contributions to diversity. The ECA has presented him with its Everett Lee Hunt Scholarship Award twice, identified him as one of its “Distinguished Research Fellows” as well as one of its “Distinguished Teaching Fellows.” The Kenneth Burke Society awarded him its Distinguished Service Award and its Life-Time Achievement Award.
Wimal Dissanayake (Ph.D., University of Cambridge, 1970) teaches in the Academy for Creative Media at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. He had been Senior Fellow and Head of the Film Program at the East-West Center (EWC) in Hawai‘i for many years. He was Founding Editor of the East-West Film Journal. He is the author and editor of over 40 books including Communication Theory: The Asian Perspective, Continuity and Change in Communication Systems: An Asian Perspective, Colonialism and Nationalism in Asian Cinema, Melodrama and Asian Cinema, and Narratives of Agency: Self-Making in China, Japan, and India. He has been the recipient of Fulbright and Rockefeller Fellowships and has served as an advisor to UNESCO. He taught at the Chinese University of Hong Kong as the Wei Lun Distinguished Professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and holds the rank of Honorary Professor at the University of Hong Kong. He is the winner of the 2008 Lifetime Achievement Award presented by the Sri Lankan Foundation in Los Angeles and was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by Kelaniya University in Sri Lanka. Recently, he served as Director of the EWC’s International Cultural Studies Program.
Jolanta A. Drzewiecka (Ph.D., Arizona State University, 1999) is Associate Professor of Inter-cultural Communication in the E. R. Murrow College of Communication at Washington State University. Her research interests focus on questions about identity constructions and representations through national, ethnic, and racial terms. She is particularly interested in the claims to belonging individuals advance to, through, and against specific culturally significant Others. Her work has been published in Communication Theory, Communication Quarterly, International and Intercultural Communication Annual, Southern Communication Journal, and other communication journals.
Sarah Amira de la Garza (Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin, 1982) is a Southwest Borderlands Scholar at Arizona State University, in the Hugh Downs School of Human Communication, as well as affiliate faculty in the School of Transborder Studies and Gender Studies. A performance ethnographer and postcolonial methodologist, she has held two Fulbright scholarships to Mexico. She was the founding director of the North American Center for Transborder Studies and currently directs the Innovative Inquiry Initiative at ASU. Her work routinely interrogates culture, spirituality, gender as realms of habituated practice and sites for de/reconstruction. She is the author of Maria Speaks: Journeys into the Mystery of the Mother in My Life as a Chicana.
Bradford ‘J’ Hall (Ph.D., University of Washington, 1989) is Head of the Department of Languages, Philosophy, and Communication Studies at Utah State University. He teaches primarily in the areas of intercultural communication, communication theory and the link between our talk, thoughts and actions. In his own words, his teaching style is best described as “intensely laid-back,” “confusingly clear” and “routinely varied.” He has published a textbook in intercultural communication, entitled Among Cultures: The Challenge of Communication. His research deals with issues of culture, identity, membership, conflict, and everyday conversation. In particular, he has looked at cultural misunderstandings in everyday conversations in which understanding is assumed, to more widespread conflicts over such things as treaty rights and human rights. He has also studied the ways people account for prejudice and socially undesirable attitudes or actions. His work has been published in journals such as Communication Monographs, Research on Language and Social Interaction, Communication Theory, Human Relations, International Journal of Intercultural Relations, Human Communication Research, and International Journal of Listening.
Rona T. Halualani (Ph.D., Arizona State University, 1998) is Professor of Language, Culture, and Intercultural Communication in the Communication Studies Department at San Jose State University. From 2007 to 2009, she served as Assistant to the President and Director of Institutional Planning and Inclusive Excellence at SJSU and was charged with facilitating the university’s strategic planning process and helping the campus develop, design, and implement a Diversity Master Plan. She has published one university press book, one co-edited handbook, 18 refereed academic journal articles (in International Journal of Intercultural Relations, Journal of International and Intercultural Communication, International and Intercultural Communication Annual, Review of Communication, among others), eight academic book chapters, and is currently finalizing two books (one for the University of Hawai‘i Press and the other for Sage Publications). Her research interests include the following: intercultural contact, intercultural communication patterns, cultural competence in applied settings; race/ethnicity; diversity, prejudice, critical intercultural communication studies, and identity and cultural politics, diasporic identity, and Hawaiians/Pacific Islanders. For the last eight years, she has focused on examining intercultural contact and race relations among university students. In 2005, she was named as a Carnegie Teacher-Scholar in the Carnegie Scholars Program by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching at Stanford University. She has served as the Chair of the International and Intercultural Communication Division (IICD) of the National Communication Association.
Wendy Leeds-Hurwitz (Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1983) is Director of the Center for Intercultural Dialogue of the Council for Communication Associations in Washington, D.C., and Professor Emerita of Communication at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside. She has been Chercheur invitée at the Ecole normale supérieure de Lyon, France, Senior Fellow at the Collegium de Lyon Institut d’études avancées, Fulbright Senior Specialist at the Instituto Politécnico de Coimbra, Portugal, and has served UNESCO as an expert on intercultural communication over several years. She is interested in how people construct meanings for themselves and others through interaction, how cultural identity is constructed and maintained, and how conflicting identities or meanings can be conveyed simultaneously. She studies disciplinary history to learn why scholars examine particular topics in specific ways, often stops to consider particular research methods or theories, and always takes an interdisciplinary approach to problems. Among her books are The Social History of Language and Social Interaction (2010), Socially Constructing Communication (2009), From Generation to Generation: Maintaining Cultural Identity over Time (2005), and Wedding as Text: Communicating Cultural Identities through Ritual (2002).
Ronald L. Jackson II (Ph.D., Howard University, 1996) is Dean of the McMicken College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Cincinnati. He is one of the leading communication and identity scholars in the nation. He is Past President of the Eastern Communication Association and currently co-editor (with Kent A. Ono) of Critical Studies in Media Communication. His research explores empirical, conceptual, and critical approaches to the study of masculinity, identity negotiation, Whiteness, and Afrocentricity. He is author of twelve books including Scripting the Black Masculine Body: Identity, Discourse, and Racial Politics in Popular Media, Black Pioneers in Communication Research (with Sonja Brown Givens), and Masculinity in the Black Imagination: Politics of Communicating Race and Manhood (with Mark C. Hopson). His most recent works are Sage Encyclopedia of Identity, Global Masculinities and Manhood (with Murali Balaji), and Communicating Marginalized Masculinities in the Media: Identity Politics in TV, Film, and New Media (with Jamie E. Moshin).
Nemi C. Jain (Ph.D., Michigan State University, 1970) is Professor Emeritus in the Hugh Downs School of Human Communication at Arizona State University. He joined the ASU faculty in 1976 and was instrumental in establishing the ASU graduate programs in intercultural communication. He is considered as one of the pioneers in the field and has taught at five universities for 45 years. He is the co-author of Understanding Intercultural Communication (Wadsworth, 1981) and the editor of the International and Intercultural Communication Annual (1977–1982). His current research focuses on Mahatma Gandhi’s approach to non-violence through communicative silence and Gandhi’s connection to Martin Luther King Jr. regarding the moral responsibility for civil rights and the ethical commitment to social justice. He has received numerous recognitions including the Patricia Gurin Scholar-Activist Award from the ASU Intergroup Relations Center and the Outstanding Young Teacher Award from the Central States Communication Association. He was President of the Greater Phoenix Chapter of the United Nations Association of the USA and served on the Arizona Attorney General Council for Asian Americans, the Council for Senior Citizens, and the Council for Social Justice.
Britta Kalscheuer (Ph.D., University of Frankfurt, 2006) is a lecturer in the Department of Social Sciences at the University of Frankfurt. Her research work includes a comparative study on credit associations in Germany and Taiwan and an analysis of the public understanding of science. She was a member of the interdisciplinary Graduates’ College: “Cultural Hermeneutics in a World of Difference and Transdifference” (2001–2004). Her Ph.D. thesis is a case study on German– Chinese cultural differences and examines selected intercultural approaches that repeat the shortcomings of cultural comparison and hence contribute to the scientific production of cultural differences because of their neglect of postcolonial insights. She is the author of several articles on intercultural communication and cultural comparisons and the co-editor of Differenzen Anders Denken: Bausteine zu Einer Kulturtheorie der Transdifferenz [Thinking Differently about Differences: Elements of a Theory of Cultural Transdifference] (2005), Transdifferente Positional-ität [Transdifference Positionality] (2007), and Kulturelle Differenzen Begreifen: Das Konzept der Transdifferenz aus Interdisziplinärer Sicht [Understanding Cultural Differences: The Concept of Transdifference from an Interdisciplinary Perspective] (2008).
Nkonko M. Kamwangamalu (Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1989) is Professor of Linguistics and former Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of English at Howard University, Washington, DC, USA. He holds an M.A. and a Ph.D. in linguistics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and has also received a Fulbright Award and a Howard University Distinguished Faculty Research Award. He has taught at the National University of Singapore, the University of Swaziland, and the University of Natal in Durban, South Africa, where he was Director of the Linguistics Program. His research interests include language policy and planning, code-switching, New Englishes, language and identity, and African linguistics. He has published numerous articles in refereed journals and books and is the author of the monograph The Language Planning Situation in South Africa (2001), the co-editor of Language and Institution in Africa (2000), Polity Editor for the Series Current Issues in Language Planning (Routledge), and the editor of special issues for the following journals all on language in South Africa: Multilingua 17 (1998), International Journal of the Sociology of Language 144 (2000), World Englishes 21 (2002), and Language Problems and Language Planning 28 (2004).
Maulana Karenga (Ph.D., United States International University, 1976; Ph.D., University of Southern California, 1994) is Professor and Chair of Africana Studies at California State University, Long Beach. He holds Ph.D.s in Human Behavior and Leadership with a focus in political science and African American nationalism (USIU) and in social ethics with a focus in classical African ethics of ancient Egypt (USC). An activist-scholar of national and international recognition, he has played a major role in Black intellectual and political culture since the 1960s, especially in Black Studies, and the Black Power, Black Arts, Million Man March/Day of Absence and other social movements. He is also Executive Director of the African American Cultural Center (Us), the Kawaida Institute of Pan-African Studies and Chair of the National Association of Kawaida Organizations. Moreover, he is the creator of the pan-African cultural holiday Kwanzaa and the Nguzo Saba and the author of Kawaida philosophy out of which both were conceived and developed. He is also author of numerous scholarly articles and books, including: Kwanzaa: A Celebration of Family, Community and Culture; Introduction to Black Studies; Odu Ifa: The Ethical Teachings; Maat, The Moral Ideal in Ancient Egypt: A Study in Classical African Ethics, and Kawaida and Questions of Life and Struggle. He is also subject of a new book by Molefi Kete Asante titled Maulana Karenga: An Intellectual Portrait. Currently he is writing a book on the social and ethical philosophy of Malcolm X titled The Liberation Ethics of Malcolm X: Critical Consciousness, Moral Grounding and Transformative Struggle. (www.MaulanaKarenga.org)
William Kelly (Ph.D., University of New Mexico, 2000) currently teaches in the communication studies departments at the University of California, Los Angeles and California State University, Northridge. He also taught at Sagami Women’s University (1986), Sanno Junior College (1987–1996), Aoyama Gakuin University’s Graduate School (1995–1996), and New Mexico State University (1999–2000). His articles have appeared in Speaking of Japan, Japan Strategic Management Journal, Sanno Junior College Bulletin, Public Relations Review, and China Media Research. He has regularly reviewed books for The Japan Times and played a leading role in the development of the Society for Intercultural Education, Training, and Research (SIETAR) Japan. His research interests include dialogue between different regions of the world, nonviolent communication, communicating for peace, and postcolonialism.
S. Lily Mendoza (Ph.D., Arizona State University, 2000) is Associate Professor of Culture and Communication in the Department of Communication and Journalism at Oakland University. Her research interests include culture and ecology, theories of identity and subjectivity, cultural politics in national, post- and transnational contexts, dynamics of cross-cultural theorizing, discourses of indigenization, race, and ethnicity and Filipino and Filipino American studies. She is the author of Between the Homeland and the Diaspora: The Politics of Theorizing Filipino and Filipino American Identities (Routledge, 2002; Revised Edition by University of Santo Tomas Publishing House, 2006) and has published in various anthologies and cultural and intercultural studies journals.
Judith N. Martin (Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University, 1980) is Professor of Intercultural Communication in the Hugh Downs School of Human Communication at Arizona State University. Her principal research interests focus on the role of culture in online communication, interethnic and interracial communication as well as sojourner adaptation and reentry. She has published numerous research articles in communication journals as well as other disciplinary journals and has co-authored three textbooks in intercultural communication with Thomas K. Nakayama: Intercultural Communication in Contexts, Experiencing Intercultural Communication: An Introduction, and Readings in Intercultural Communication: Experiences and Contexts. She has developed and taught various communication courses (including intercultural communication) online for the past 10 years.
David T. McMahan (Ph.D., University of Iowa, 2001) is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication Studies, Theater and Cinema at Missouri Western State University. He has taught courses that span the discipline of communication, including courses in relationships, media, culture, communication education, theory, and criticism. His research interests also engage multiple areas of the discipline, with much of his research devoted to bridging the study of relationships, technology, and media. He is the author of a number of journal articles and chapters as well as multiple editions of The Basics of Communication: A Relational Perspective and Communication in Everyday Life. He has served numerous roles within the Central States Communication Association, the Eastern Communication Association, and the National Communication Association. He has also received multiple awards for his work in the classroom and has been the recipient of a number of public service and academic distinctions, including being named a Centennial Scholar by the Eastern Communication Association.
Yoshitaka Miike (Ph.D., University of New Mexico, 2004) is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Hawai‘i, Hilo and Fellow at the Molefi Kete Asante Institute for Afrocentric Studies. He is also Vice Chair (2012–2013) and Chair (2013–2014) of the International and Intercultural Communication Division (IICD) of the National Communication Association (NCA). He is known for his original work on the metatheory of Asia-centricity as an alternative paradigm for the study of Asian cultures and communication. He received a 2004 NCA IICD Distinguished Scholarship Award for the 2003 Outstanding Article of the Year. His essays have appeared in such outlets as Communication Monographs, Encyclopedia of Identity, Handbook of Critical Intercultural Communication, Howard Journal of Communications, Intercultural Communication: A Reader, International and Intercultural Communication Annual, Keio Communication Review, and Review of Communication. He is currently Review Editor of Journal of Multicultural Discourses and serves on the editorial boards of Asian Journal of Communication, China Media Research, Intercultural Communication Studies, and Journal of Black Studies. He has reviewed numerous manuscripts for national and international journals including Journal of Intercultural Communication Research, Journal of International and Intercultural Communication, and Language and Intercultural Communication.
Hamid Mowlana (Ph.D., Northwestern University, 1963) is Professor Emeritus in the School of International Service at American University in Washington, D.C., where he served as Founding Director of the International Communication Program from 1968 to 2005. He has been a visiting professor at universities in Europe, the Middle East, Latin America, and Africa and has worked for UNESCO in Paris. Among his many books are The Passing of Modernity: Communication and the Transformation of Society, Global Information and World Communication: New Frontiers in International Relations, Global Communication in Transition: The End of Diversity?, The Global Media Debate: Its Rise, Fall, and Renewal, and Triumph of the Image: The Media’s War in the Persian Gulf. He was President of the International Association for Media and Communication Research from 1994 to 1998. He has won numerous national and international awards for outstanding scholarship, research, and other professional contributions including the International Studies Association’s Distinguished Senior Scholar Award.
Thomas K. Nakayama (Ph.D., University of Iowa, 1988) is Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at Northeastern University. He is Founding Editor of the Journal of International and Intercultural Communication (2008–2010). He has published widely in the areas of critical race and critical intercultural communication. He co-authored Intercultural Communication in Contexts and Experiencing Intercultural Communication: An Introduction and co-edited The Handbook of Critical Intercultural Communication and Whiteness: The Social Communication of Identity. His work has appeared in Communication Theory, Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies, Critical Studies in Media Communication, Howard Journal of Communications, Journal of Communication, Quarterly Journal of Speech, and Text and Performance Quarterly. He is Fellow of the International Academy of Intercultural Research, a former Fulbrighter at the Université de Mons-Hainaut in Belgium, Libra Professor at the University of Maine. He served on the Board of Directors of the Arizona Humanities Council.
Kuruvilla Pandikattu (Ph.D., University of Innsbruck, 1996) is Professor of Physics, Philosophy and Theology at Jnana-Deepa Vidyapeeth in Pune, India. He is also a Jesuit priest belonging to Dumka-Raiganj Province, India. His main topics of research are anthropology, eschatology, and transhumanism. He has been actively involved in science–religion dialogue and has organized more than 20 national and international conferences. He has visited over 15 countries and attended over 100 conferences on philosophy and theology. He is the author of more than 25 books and 90 articles including Dialogue as the Way of Life: Bede Griffiths’ Attempt at Integrating Religions, Cultures and Sciences, Religious Dialogue as Hermeneutics: Bede Griffith’s Advaitic Approach to Religions, Religion, Society, and Economics: Eastern and Western Perspectives in Dialogue, Reasons for Hope: Its Nature, Role, and Future, and Gandhi: The Meaning of Mahatma for the Millennium.
Susana Rinderle (M.A., University of New Mexico, 2004) is a trainer, facilitator, coach, change agent, and interculturalist committed to human evolution, equity, and social justice. She was Co-Founder and Manager of the Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion for the University of New Mexico Hospitals, where she was previously an in-house trainer and organizational development consultant for five years. At UNMH, she started the Health Literacy Task Force and taught all diversity and Spanish classes for seven years. She initiated the LGBT Collaborative in 2010. She also managed the 20-employee Interpreter Language Services department and served as one of the hospital’s dual role medical interpreters. She was a participant and award recipient of the 2009–2010 Disparities Leadership Program through the Disparities Solutions Center at Massachusetts General Hospital. She has published articles on topics related to Mexico and U.S. Latinos in commercial magazines such as Black Diaspora, Latin Style, Interrace, Native Americas, Sacramento, and Sacramento News and Review. Her academic research, mostly on Hispanic/Latino identity labels, has appeared in Journal of Communication Inquiry, International and Inter-cultural Communication Annual, Howard Journal of Communications, The SAGE Handbook of Conflict Communication and Latinos and Latinas in US History and Culture: An Encyclopedia.
Eric J. Schumacher (M.A., Ball State University, 2012) received his M.A. in Digital Storytelling from the Department of Telecommunications at Ball State University in 2012. He received his B.A. from the Department of Communication Studies at Eastern Illinois University in 2007. His research interests include computer-mediated communication and communicating gender. He also spent several years as a journalist at various television stations across Illinois.
Robert Shuter (Ph.D., Northwestern University, 1973) is a pioneer and leader in intercultural communication studies. He is currently Professor of International Communication at Marquette University (USA) and Immediate Past Chair of the International and Intercultural Communication Division of the National Communication Association. He is also Director and Founder of the Center for Intercultural New Media Research (www.interculturalnewmedia.com), a research network of over 180 scholars worldwide interested in the intersection of new media and intercultural communication. A noted researcher on communication across cultures, he has published over 60 articles and books in major scholarly journals including Journal of Social Psychology, Journal of Communication, Communication Monographs, Management Communication Quarterly as well as popular press outlets like The New York Times and Wall Street Journal. His recent articles on intercultural new media studies have appeared in the Journal of International and Intercultural Communication in 2011, and he is currently editing a special issue on this topic for the Journal of Intercultural Communication Research to be published in 2013.
Lise M. Sparrow (Ed.D., University of Massachusetts at Amherst, 2005) has spent her life involved intercultural work. Her interest in identity stems from her cross-cultural experiences with life and language in Europe, Latin America and Africa. She received her Master’s in English as a Second Language and Spanish from the School for International Training and her Doctorate in Culture, Language and Literacy from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. She taught for more than 25 years at the School for Intercultural Training in Vermont, focusing on issues of intercultural communication, identity and diversity. More recently, she has been involved, both overseas and in Vermont, with issues of identity and religious diversity.
Phiona Stanley (Ph.D., Monash University, 2010) is Convener of the M.Ed. TESOL Program in the School of Education at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia. She holds Master’s degrees in Politics and Education, and her award-winning Ph.D. research has recently been published by Routledge as a book entitled A Critical Ethnography of ‘Westerners’ Teaching English in China: Shanghaied in Shanghai. Since 1993, she has worked in English language teaching in various countries including Peru, Poland, Qatar, China, and the UK; this work has included teacher education, textbook publishing, and language school management. She worked in Shanghai in 2003–2004 as a national academic manager for a European multinational operating franchised language schools across China. She has revisited China every year since for research and teaching on M.Ed. TESOL courses. Her research interests include transnational identities and communities, native-speaker teachers of English, the intersections of tourism and education, intercultural competence, and teacher education and development. Outside of academic life, she loves travelling: she has been to 70-odd countries, is passionate about Latin America, her favorite part of China is Yunnan, and she recently drove in a “banger rally” from Europe to West Africa across the Sahara.
William J. Starosta (Ph.D., Indiana University, 1973) is Graduate Professor of Rhetoric and Intercultural Communication at Howard University. He is founding editor of The Howard Journal of Communications. His most recent research concerns Gandhian Satyagraha, coverage of interethnic conflict, double emic criticism, intercultural listening, and third culture building. His work appears in International Philosophical Quarterly, Political Communication and Persuasion, The International and International Communication Annual, World Communication, The International Journal of Intercultural Relations, The Journal of Black Studies, The Educational Communication and Technology Journal, The Quarterly Journal of Speech, and in other Speech Communication journals.
Majid Tehranian (Ph.D., Harvard University, 1969) was formerly Professor of International Communication in the Department of Communication at the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa and Director of the Spark M. Matsunaga Institute for Peace. He was also Visiting Professor or Scholar at Harvard University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford University, the University of Southern California, Oxford University, and Tehran University. He has served as Director of the Iran Communications and Development Institute in Tehran, Trustee of the International Institute of Communications in London, and Director of Communication Research and Planning for UNESCO in Paris. His numerous publications include Rethinking Civilization: Resolving Conflict in the Human Family, Global Communication and World Politics: Domination, Development, and Discourse, Technologies of Power: Information Machines and Democratic Prospects, Dialogue of Civilizations: A New Peace Agenda for a New Millennium, Restructuring for World Peace: On the Threshold of the 21st Century, and Worlds Apart: Human Security and Global Governance. In 1998, he received the Distinguished Service Award from the International Communication Division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication.
Yukio Tsuda (Ph.D., Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, 1985) is Professor in the Doctoral Program in Modern Cultures and Public Policies in the Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Tsukuba in Japan. His major academic interests include global language policy, critique of the hegemony of English, international communication and English language teaching. He has published a number of books including Language Inequality and Distortion in Inter-cultural Communication: A Critical Approach (1986), Eigo Shihai no Kouzou [The Structure of the Hegemony of English] (1990), Eigo Shihai eno Iron [Objections to the Hegemony of English] (1993), Eigo Shihai toha Nanika [What Is the Hegemony of English?] (2003), and Eigo Shihai to Kotoba no Byoudou [The Hegemony of English and Linguistic Equality] (2006).
Gary R. Weaver (Ph.D., American University, 1970) is Professor in the School of International Service at American University in Washington, D.C., where he has been on the faculty in the Division of International Communication for 45 years. He founded the Intercultural Management Institute in 1999 and continues to serve as Executive Director and Publisher of the Inter-cultural Management Quarterly. He teaches at the Inter-American Defense College and the Air Force’s Negotiation Center of Excellence and has designed intercultural relations training programs for the Navy and lectures to all branches of the military on various issues in intercultural relations. He is a Fellow of the International Academy for Intercultural Research. He is also on the board of Directors of the Center for Asian Organized Crime. He edited a 2004 special issue of the Journal of International Communication entitled “Intercultural Relations.” Among his many publications are Culture, Communication and Conflict: Readings in Intercultural Relations (Pearson, 2000) and America’s Midlife Crisis: The Future of a Troubled Superpower (Intercultural Press, 2008).
Tu Weiming (Ph.D., Harvard University, 1968) is Lifetime Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Institute for Advanced Humanistic Studies at Peking University. He is also Research Professor and Senior Fellow of Asia Center at Harvard University, where he taught from 1981 to 2010, and Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He holds honorary professor-ships and honorary degrees from Zhejiang University, the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, King’s College in London, the University of Macau, and other universities around the world. He was invited by the United Nations as a member of the Group of Eminent Persons to facilitate the Dialogue among Civilizations in 2001 and gave a presentation on civilizational dialogue to the Executive Board of UNESCO in 2004. He authored and edited many books including Confucian Ethics Today: The Singapore Challenge, Confucian Thought: Selfhood as Creative Transformation, Confucian Traditions in East Asian Modernity, The Global Significance of Concrete Humanity: Essays on the Confucian Discourse in Cultural China, and The Living Tree: The Changing Meaning of Being Chinese Today. He has been instrumental in developing discourses on cultural China, dialogical civilization, Confucian reflection on the European Enlightenment mentality, and multiple modernities.
Junliang Wu (M.A., Ball State University, 2012) was born and raised in Shanghai, China. He is interested in digital technology and intercultural communications. His thesis explores the similarities of American and Chinese cultures from an axiological perspective and argues the emerging global technologies and media forms are transcending cultural values. In addition, during his graduate study at Ball State University, he won the grand prize at the Cable Marvericks Technology challenge, sponsored by Motorola Mobility in October, 2011. His performances and contributions were recognized as significant academic achievement at Ball State University (Graduate Level). After receiving his M.A. degree, he has embarked on a career in an American Chinese Television Station located in New York City.
Gust A. Yep (Ph.D., University of Southern California, 1990) is Professor of Communication Studies, Core Graduate Faculty of Sexuality Studies, and Faculty of the Ed.D. Program in Educational Leadership at San Francisco State University. He has authored over 60 articles in inter/disciplinary journals and anthologies. In addition, he has co-authored and/or co-edited three books, including Queer Theory and Communication: From Disciplining Queers to Queering the Discipline(s). More recently, he co-edited with John Elia “Sexualities and Genders in an Age of Neoliberalism,” published as a special issue of the Journal of Homosexuality. He served as the Editor of the National Communication Association Non-Serial Publications (NCA Book Series) Program (2006–2008). He has received numerous teaching, mentoring, community service, and research awards, including the National Communication Association Randy Majors Memorial Award for “outstanding scholarship in lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender studies in communication” in 2006 and the San Francisco State University Distinguished Faculty Award for Professional Achievement in Research in 2011.
Jing Yin (Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University, 2003) is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Hawai‘i, Hilo and Fellow at the Molefi Kete Asante Institute for Afrocentric Studies. Her research interests include Chinese media and globalization, media discourse and representation, and non-Western feminist discourse. She won a Top Paper Award from the NCA International and Intercultural Communication Division. She has published in such journals as China Media Research, Critical Discourse Studies, Discourse Processes, Howard Journal of Communications, Javnost—The Public: Journal of the European Institute for Communication and Culture, Journal of Multicultural Discourses, Journal of the Association of University Technology Managers, Review of Communication, and Technovation. Her works also appeared in several scholarly books including Chinese Communication Studies: Contexts and Comparisons, Encyclopedia of Communication Theory, Encyclopedia of Political Communication, and Systems and Policies for the Globalized Learning Economy. Her article on Confucian feminism has been translated into Chinese and published in Asiacentric Theories of Communication. She served as a member of the editorial board of Human Communication: A Journal of the Pacific and Asian Communication Association and Intercultural Communication Studies and reviewed manuscripts for Asian Journal of Communication and Critical Studies in Media Communication.