The School of Communication is pleased to welcome the newest addition to our faculty – Dr. Carmen Lee. Dr. Lee (UCSB, 2007) comes to SDSU from Michigan State University. Her area of expertise is intercultural communication. She has published a number of book chapters as well as refereed articles in such journals as Human Communication Research and the International Journal of Intercultural Relations. She has also presented competitively selected papers at the National Communication Association, International Communication Association, International Association of Relational Research, Western States Communication Association, and the International Society for the Study of Personal Relationships.
William Snavely, Director of the School of Communication, noted that “The faculty and students at SDSU are very happy to bring a scholar like Carmen Lee to our campus. Her dedication to effective teaching and active, meaningful scholarship fits very well with the culture and mission of the school.” Dr. Lee will begin her duties at SDSU in August of 2008. [Back to Top]
Information will soon be posted here and on the Undergraduate and Graduate Communication Blackboard sites about our School of Communication Study Abroad Program for Summer 2009. Our corporate partner is Qualcomm. We will interact with Qualcomm executives in San Diego and in several of our base cities.
We will travel to 5 European cities starting May 25th. There will also be a 4-day opportunity for independent travel. Undergraduate courses are COMM 406: Organizational Communication (Dr. Snavely) and COMM 415: Nonverbal Communication (Dr. Andersen). Graduate courses will be COMM 715: Nonverbal Communication and COMM 750: Corporate Communication.
Tentative base cities include:
Paris, France
Barcelona, Spain
Lauterbrunnen, Switzerland
Munich, Germany
Rome, Italy
Look for announcements of informational meetings in September - sign up early, as participation is limited. [Back to Top]
Dr. Patricia Geist-Martin was elected Vice-Chair-elect of the Ethnography division of NCA (National Communication Association) at the November 2007 conference. Dr. Geist-Martin will progress through the leadership roles of the division over the next few years and will be planning the division's pre-conference next fall in San Diego. [Back to Top]
The faculty and graduate students of the School of Communication were very active in the 2007 National Communication Association conference in Chicago. Highlights included:
. Peter Andersen, respondent: "Theorizing about disruptive experiences in close relationships," Interpersonal Communication Division.
. Wayne Beach, paper: "State of readiness: Figurative expressions as resources for families managing cancer"
. Wayne Beach, respondent: "Conversation analysis data session," Language and Social Interaction Division.
. Wayne Beach, chair and respondent: "Studies of physician-patient and physician-physician communication," Health Communication Division.
. Doug Deiss, paper: "Problematic interactions in romantic relationships"
. Doug Deiss and Brian Spitzberg, paper: "Beyond love and lust: Typology of relationship breaches"
. Patricia Geist-Martin, paper, "Is it worth it?: Reading letters written to someone else"
. Jennifer Malkowski , Top Three paper in the Master's Education Section: "Advice for the advisor: Applying instructional communication theory to graduate advising"
. Jennifer Scarduzio , M.A. candidate, and Patricia Geist-Martin, paper, "Between Victim and Victimizer: The ironic discursive practices of sexual harassment"
. Gino Anthony Giannini, M.A. candidate, and Brian Spitzberg, paper: "Coping with college: Exploring loneliness through coping strategies enacted by incoming college freshmen"
. Steffi Hemling, M.A. candidate, paper: "The dispersed Zeitgeist of a critical period: On the history and significance of the Frankfurt School"
. Randolph Hencken, M.A. candidate, paper: "Why won't teenagers just accept our anti-drug messages? The folly of the National Youth Anti-Drug Media Campaign"
. Kurt Lindemann, session chair, "Papers in disability studies"
. Kurt Lindemann, paper: "Promoting dialogue on dis/ability: Communicating worldviews and exploring practices in the classroom"
. Kurt Lindemann, respondent, "Sporting identities," Ethnography Division.
. Kurt Lindemann, paper: "Pedagogy, play, and pets: Learning with Linda"
. Jeffrey St. Onge, M.A. candidate, paper: "The elements of a good rhetoric course: A literature review"
. Cameron Sublett, M.A. candidate, paper: "Al Gore and An Incovenient Truth: Media contextualization, framing, and political transfiguration"
. Regina Wu Ruey-Jiuan, Top Four Paper in the Language and Social Interaction Division: "Responses to compliments and to compliment responses: The interaction of self-denigration and self-enhancement in Mandarin compliment sequences" [Back to Top]
Dr. Brian Spitzberg's paper, "Irritating Review Boards (IRBs): The Health Implications of Trauma Related and Meta-Research for IRB Practices," has been accepted for presentation at the 2008 Western States Communication Association in the Top Paper Panel of the Health Communication Interest Group [Back to Top]
A book co-authored by Dr. Brian Spitzberg has won the Book Award of the International Association of Relationship Research. The IARR is an interdisciplinary association whose membership comprises the fields of psychology, communication, sociology, and family studies. Dr. Spitzberg's book, co-authored with William Cupach of Illinois State University , is titled, The Dark Side of Relationship Pursuit: From Attraction to Obsession and Stalking , and was published by Lawrence Erlbaum in 2004. The authors received the award at the IARR conference this summer in Crete. [Back to Top]
Dr. Patricia Geist-Martin and former graduate student L.A. Howard have co-authored a book chapter, titled, “Strategic positioning in organizational change: A dialectical analysis of discourse in a merging organization.” The chapter appears in Organizational communication, edited by L. L. Putnam and K. J. Krone, and published by Sage Publications in 2006. Dr. Geist-Martin and former graduate student A.L. Zimmerman co-authored a book chapter, titled, “The hybrid identities of gender queer: Claiming neither/nor, both/and.” The chapter appears in Intercultural communication: A reader, edited by L.A. Samovar, R.E. Porter, and E.R. McDaniel and published by Wadsworth Publishing in 2006. [Back to Top]