Category: Profiles

Gizem Arat Profile

ProfilesGizem Arat is Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Social Policy at Lingnan University, Hong Kong.
Gizem Arat

She earned her PhD degree from the University of Hong Kong in Social Work and Social Administration. She has been a Post-doctoral fellow at the University of Hong Kong, working on the promotion of social inclusion of ethnic minority youth.

Prior to her Ph.D. journey, she obtained her MSW from the University of Pittsburgh, in the School of Social Work. After her MSW degree, she was passionate to expand her knowledge of Eastern settings to gain a dual perspective (East and West) on social work. Her current research areas include the promotion of social justice and social harmony, positive youth development, and resilience in ethnic minority youth in Asian and global contexts. She is interested in hiking, exploring new cultures and meeting new people with diverse backgrounds.

Recent Publications:

Arat, G., & Kerelian, N. (2019). The promotion of socially inclusive East Asian society: The Hong Kong case. Journal of Human Rights and Social Work. doi: 10.1007/s41134-019-00107-y

Arat, G., & Kerelian, N. (2019). Reshaping the social work education system towards cultural competency: The Hong Kong case. International Social Work, 62(1), 316-329. doi: 10.1177/0123456789123456

Arat, G., & Wong, P. W. C. (2019). Commentary on: How schools enhance the development of young people’s resilience, Ungar, Connelly, Liebenberg, and Theron, 2017. Social Indicators Research, 143(1), 319-324. doi: 10.1007/s11205-018-1971-7

Arat, G., & Wong, P. W. C. (2018). Integrating resilience and positive youth development for the promotion of positive health behaviours among ethnic minorities: A conceptual framework. Asia Pacific Journal of Social Work and Development, 28(4), 250-263.  doi:10.1080/02185385.2018.1502679

Arat, G., Hoang, A. P., Jordan, L. P., & Wong, P. W. (2016). A systematic review of studies on ethnic minority youth development in Hong Kong: An application of the ecological framework. China Journal of Social Work, 9(3), 218-237. doi: 10.1080/17525098.2017.1254716

Arat, G., Liu, L. L., & Wong, P. W. C. (2016). Culturally relevant protective and risk factors of youth risk behaviors among Pakistani and Indian students in Hong Kong: A focus group study. Journal of Transcultural Nursing. doi: 10.1177/1043659616668397

Work for CID:
Gizem Arat co-authored KC79: Social Cohesion.

Narine Nora Kerelian Profile

ProfilesDr. Narine Nora Kerelian is a Lecturer with the Department of Asian and Policy Studies (APS) of the Faculty of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences (FLASS) at The Education University of Hong Kong (EdUHK).

Narine Kerelian

In addition to holding a PhD in Social Sciences from The University of Hong Kong, she is certified in intercultural theory and foundations. Dr. Kerelian obtained her MA in International Policy Studies from the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey, and her BA in Global Studies and French (Honors) from the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Dr. Kerelian’s research interests lie at the intersection of migration and social policy, with a focus on global cities in Asia. Her dissertation explores the sense of place of young transmigrant professionals in Hong Kong through transmigrant lived experience accounts, providing insights for talent mobility, migrant incorporation, and global city formation.

Dr. Kerelian has studied, worked and lived in the United States, Europe, and Asia. She has traveled to over 35 countries and enjoys seeing new places and trying new cuisines. She is fluent in Armenian, English and French.

Selected publications:

Arat, G., & Kerelian, N. N. (2019).The promotion of socially inclusive East Asian society: The Hong Kong case. Journal of Human Rights and Social Work. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41134-019-00107-y.

Kerelian, N. N. & Jordan, L.P. (2018). Together separately? Young transmigrant professionals in ‘Asia’s World City’. Applied Mobilities, 1-20. Doi: 10.1080/23800127.2018.1426521.

Arat, G., & Kerelian, N. N. (2017). Reshaping the social work education system towards cultural competency: The Hong Kong case. International Social Work, 1-14. Doi: 10.177/0020872817725133.

Kerelian, N. N. (2016). Placing diversity: Graduate encounters with group work. Social Work with Groups, 1-6. doi:10.1080/01609513.2015.1065385

Kerelian, N. N., & Jordan, L. P. (2016). The highly-skilled in Hong Kong ‘Asia’s world city’ In Q. Xu & L. P. Jordan (Eds.), Migrant workers: Social identity, occupational challenges and health practices (pp. 191-212). New York: Nova.

Work for CID:
Narine Nora Kerelian co-authored KC79: Social Cohesion.

Nilanjana Bardhan Profile

ProfilesDr. Nilanjana R. Bardhan (Ph.D., Ohio University) is professor and director of graduate studies in the Department of Communication Studies at Southern Illinois University Carbondale (SIUC).

Nilanjana BardhanDr. Bardhan’s teaching interests include intercultural/international communication, public relations and critical media and cultural studies. In her research, she particularly focuses on identity/difference/culture, diversity and inclusion, globalization and postcolonial theory. She teaches both graduate and undergraduate courses and has been awarded the Outstanding Faculty Teaching Award in the Department of Communication Studies at SIUC three times. She advised the department’s Public Relations Student Society of America (PRSSA) chapter for 10 years.

In 2019, Dr. Bardhan received the Women of Distinction Award from SIUC. This award recognizes employees for their sustained commitment to women and/or issues of diversity through demonstrated leadership, vision and action. At SIUC, she has been on the advisory board of the Global Media Research Center, serves on the Diversity Curriculum Committee/Diversity Council and on the Diversity Action Council for the SIUC system. She is currently a member of the National Communication Association (NCA) and the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA). She also serves on the board of the Plank Center for Leadership in Public Relations and co-chairs its Diversity and Inclusion Committee.

Dr. Bardhan is the co-editor of Public Relations in Global Cultural Contexts (Routledge) and Identity Research and Communication (Lexington Press), and the co-author of Cultivating Cosmopolitanism for Intercultural Communication (Routledge). The latter two books have won best book awards from the National Communication Association’s International and Intercultural Communication Division. She has published several book chapters, and articles in journals such as the Journal of International and Intercultural Communication, Communication Quarterly, Journal of Public Relations Research, Journal of Communication Management, Mass Communication & Society, Communication Education, Public Relations Review, International Journal of Strategic Communication and the Journal of Health Communication. She serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of International and Intercultural Communication, PR Inquiry, and the International Journal of Strategic Communication.

Select Publications:

Books

Sobré-Denton, M. & Bardhan, N. (2013).  Cultivating cosmopolitanism for intercultural communication: Communicating as global citizens. New York: Routledge.

Bardhan, N., & Orbe, M. (Eds.). (2012). Identity research and communication: Intercultural reflections and future directions. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.

Bardhan, N. & Weaver, C.K. (Eds). (2011). Public relations in global cultural contexts: Multi-paradigmatic perspectives. New York: Routledge.

Journal Articles

Bardhan, N., & Zhang, B. (2017). A post/decolonial view of race and identity through the narratives of U.S. international students from the global South. Communication Quarterly, 65(3), 285-306.

Patwardhan, P., & Bardhan, N. (2014). Worlds apart or a part of the world? Public relations issues and challenges in India.  Public Relations Review, 40(3), 408-419.

Bardhan, N. (2013). Constructing the meaning of globalization: A framing analysis of The PR Strategist. Journal of Public Relations Research, 25(3). 1-20.

Suo, C., & Bardhan, N. (2013). Charting the waters of globalization: An analysis of Haier’s strategic organizational communication. International Journal of Strategic Communication, 7(3). 186-206.

Bardhan, N. (2011). Slumdog Millionaire meets ‘India Shining’: (Trans)national narrations of identity in the South Asian diaspora. Journal of International and Intercultural Communication, 4(1), 42-61.

Book Chapters

Bardhan, N. (2019). Practicing public relations across cultures: The value of intercultural communication competence. In C. Kim (Ed.), Public relations: Competencies and practice (pp. 43-57). New York, NY: Routledge.

Bardhan, N. (2018). Telling the story of the Ebola health crisis: Cosmopolitan communication as a framework for public relations in global contexts. In J. Drzewiecka  & T. Nakayama (Eds.), Global dialectics in intercultural communication: Case studies (pp. 205-224). New York, NY: Peter Lang.

Bardhan, N. (2015). Building bridges along the edges of culture. In K. Sorrells & S. Sekimoto (Eds.), Globalizing Intercultural Communication: A Reader (pp. 55-62). Los Angeles: Sage Publications.

Bardhan, N., & Sobre-Denton, M. (2015). Interculturality, cosmopolitanism, and the role of the imagination: A perspective for communicating as global citizens. In M. Rozbicki (Ed.), Perspectives on interculturality (pp. 131-160). Palgrave Macmillan.

Bardhan, N., & Patwardhan, P. (2014). Public relations in a transforming environment: Perspectives from public relations leaders in India. In B. Berger & J. Meng (Eds.), Public relations leaders as sense makers: A global study of leadership in public relations and communication management (pp. 156-170). New York: Routledge.

Work for CID:

Nilanjana Bardhan wrote Constructing Intercultural Dialogues #4: America the Beautiful.

Patrick Shaou-Whea Dodge Profile

ProfilesPatrick Shaou-Whea Dodge is an Associate Professor Clinical Track and past Associate Program Chair at the University of Colorado Denver’s International College in Beijing.
Patrick Dodge He was a member of the NCA’s Task Force to Foster International Collaborations in the Age of Globalization and worked with the Communication University of China to co-organize the 2016 and 2018 NCA-CUC co-sponsored biennial conferences on, “Communication, Media, and Governance in the Age of Globalization.” In 2019 he worked with Shenzhen University (SZU) to co-organize the NCA-SZU 2019 Shenzhen Forum on “Communication Innovation, New Media, and Digital Journalism.”

His research interests include culture and communication, intercultural communication, and transcultural understanding, driven by a desire for more U.S.-China cross-cultural alliances.  His current research on “China/Chinese Dream” discourse has led to extensive travel throughout China in search of “harmony” and “dreams.” His work has been published in journals such as the Chinese Journal of Communication, the Journal of International & Intercultural Communication, Intercultural Communication Studies, and Women & Language.

Patrick was the 2018 inaugural fellow for the NCA-CUC Visiting Fellows Program for Communication and Media Research. He is also the 2018-2020 Association for Chinese Communication Studies’ (ACCS) Vice-President Elect, and will serve as the ACCS President in 2021-2023.

Patrick has taught Communication courses in Beijing since 2007. His mixed ethnic background (Chinese/Taiwanese-American and European-American) has fueled his passion to learn more about China, Chinese culture and communication, and Sino-U.S. communication in the age of globalization.

Selected Publications:

Dodge, P. S-W. (Forthcoming: 2020). Communication Convergence in Contemporary China: International Perspectives on Politics, Platforms, & Participation. Editor of monograph for publication in English and Chinese (Michigan State University Press & Communication University of China Press). The monograph consists of edited essays first presented at the 2016 CUC-NCA Summer Conference on “Communication, Media, and Governance in the Age of Globalization,” Beijing, China.

Hartnett, S. J., Dodge, P. S-W., & Keränen, L. (2019) “Postcolonial Remembering in Taiwan: 228 and Transitional Justice as “The End of Fear.”” Journal of International & Intercultural Communication. DOI: 10.1080/17513057.2019.1614206

Dodge, P. S-W. & Keränen, L. (2018) “Sixty Years of “Peaceful Liberation” at the Tibet Museum in Lhasa: Triumphant Modernization at the Rooftop of the World.” Chinese Journal of Communication. Volume 11, Issue 3. DOI: 10.1080/17544750.2018.1470543

Dodge, P. S.-W. (2017). Contesting the façade of harmony through art and the Internet in China. In S. Hartnett, L. Keränen, & D. Conley (Eds.), Imagining China: Rhetorics of nationalism in the age of globalization. Ann Arbor: Michigan State University Press.

Bean, H. & Dodge, P. S-W (2017). “Reconfiguring Public Relations with China.” Public Relations Inquiry, 6: 1, 99-114.

Ng, P. L. & Dodge, P. S-W (2015) . “Situating English as a Lingua Franca in Context: Narratives From Japanese and Chinese Classrooms.” Intercultural Communication Studies. 24: 3, 50-64.

Keränen, L., Dodge, P. S.-W., & Conley, D. (2015). Modernizing traditions on the roof of the world: Displaying ‘liberation’ and ‘occupation’ in three Tibet museums. Journal of Curatorial Studies, 4(1), 78-106.

Dodge, P. S.-W. (2014). Finding “the line” in Beijing: Classrooms as liminal space. In P. Ng & E. Boucher (Eds.), Local contextual influences on teaching: Narrative insights from ESL/EFL professionals. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars.

Dodge, P. S.-W., & Suter, E. A. (2008). It’s okay to have a girl: Patronymy and China’s one child policy. Women and Language, 31, 1, 13-22.

Tenzin Dorjee Profile

ProfilesTenzin Dorjee (Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara) is Associate Professor at the Department of Human Communication Studies, California State University, Fullerton (CSUF). His primary teaching and research interests are in intergroup, intercultural, intergenerational communication, identity issues, peace building, and conflict resolution.
Tenzin Dorjee photo

He has authored and co-authored  peer-reviewed articles and chapters on Tibetan culture, identity, and communication, nonviolence and middle way approaches to Sino-Tibetan conflict, intergenerational communication context, and others. He was awarded Faculty Teacher-Scholar Award in 2011, Faculty Scholarly and Creative Activity in 2013, Annual Author Award in 2014, Faculty Recognition Service: Extraordinary and Sustained Service in 2015, and Faculty Scholarly and Creative Activity in 2016  by CSU Fullerton.  He is also a published author of articles and translated works of Tibetan Buddhism and culture into English.  He worked as a translator at the Library of Tibetan Works and Archives, Dharamsala, India, for over 13 years.  He is also a published author of articles and  translated works of Tibetan Buddhism and culture into English. He had the honor to translate for many pre-eminent Tibetan Buddhist Professors including His Holiness the Dalai Lama in India and North America. He is a former  Member-At –Large in the Executive Council of the Western States Communication Association (WSCA), Chair of WSCA’s Distinguished Teaching Award Committee, Basic Course Director of the Department of Human Communication Studies, CSUF, and Vice President and President of the Tibetan  Association of Southern California. He has served on the Dalai Lama Trust Graduate Scholarship Selection Committee and Restorative Schools Vision Project, Sacramento.  In the summer of 2013, he volunteered over two months at the Office of His Holiness the Dalai Lama in Dharamsala and in the summer of 2016, he volunteered teaching intercultural communication, teaching pedagogy, and research methodology at the College for Higher Tibetan Studies, Sarah, India, and the Dalai Lama Institute for Higher Education, Bengaluru, India.. During his summer sojourns in India, he also gave series of invited talks on a wide range of intercultural themes such as such as Tibetan culture and  identity,  and , translation  methodology at many Tibetan institutions including the Tibet Policy Institute, Central Tibetan Administration Staff, Library of Tibetan Works and Archives,  Institute of Buddhist Dialectics,  and Tibetan Astro-Medical College, Dharamsala, India.

Selected publications:

Dorjee, T. (2015)  Communication accommodation theory. In J. Bennett, The Sage encyclopedia of intercultural competence (pp. 103-107). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Dorjee, T. (2015)  Identity and  intergroup communication. In J. Bennett, The Sage encyclopedia of intercultural competence (pp. 410-414). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Dorjee, T. (2005). Transmitting cultural identity from generation to generation in Tibetan diaspora. In W. Leeds-Hurwitz (Ed.), From generation to generation: Maintaining cultural identity over time (pp. 227-253). Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press.

Neslihan Demirkol Profile

ProfilesNeslihan Demirkol is a research associate of the Corpus Musicae Ottomanicae (CMO) project, based within the University of Münster, Germany.

Neslihan Demirkol

She holds an M.A and PhD from Bilkent University. She worked as a lecturer between 2014-2016, and as an assistant professor between 2016-2019 in the Department of Turkish Language and Literature at the Social Sciences University of Ankara, Turkey. She spent one year in the Islamic Studies Department within the Institute for Asian and Oriental Studies at the University of Zurich, for her postdoctoral studies as a Swiss Government Excellence Scholarship holder for the 2018-2019 academic year.

 

Her research and teaching interests are modern Turkish literature, literary theories, literary history, translation studies, adaptations and translations of One Thousand and One Nights in Turkish and their influences in Turkish literature. Her MA thesis focuses on the definition of loyalty in literary translations from a cultural perspective. Her Ph.D dissertation criticizes the mainstream discourse of Turkish literary modernization and provides a new perspective to the literary history with emphasize on the literary translations using Pierre Bourdieu’s sociological approach to the dynamics of cultural production. She has experience in teaching academic writing in Turkish and Ottoman language classes.

Demirkol was a member of the Expert Committee for Intercultural Dialogue of the Turkish National Commission for UNESCO between 2008 and 2013. She has been a member of ÇEVBİR (Professional Association of Translators) since 2006. She has been on the editorial board of Kebikeç, a peer-reviewed academic journal in the field of humanities and social sciences, since 2011; and fe journal, an international peer-reviewed academic journal in the field of feminist critique and gender studies, since 2018.

Selected Publications:

Demirkol, N. (2016). “Lutf ile, ta’bîr eyle “: Kaya Sultan and Melek Ahmed Paşa anlatısında rüyaların işlevi. In  H. Çolak, Z. Kocabıyıkoğlu-Çeçen & N. I. Demirakın (Eds.), Ayşegül Keskin Çolak’a armağan tarih ve edebiyat yazıları (pp. 39-51). Ankara: Kebikeç Yayınları.

Demirkol, N., & M. Kalpaklı. (2014). Eternal narratives of the silk road: The Thousand and One Nights from Samarkand to Istanbul. Bulletin of IICAS, 19, 81-97.

Demirkol, N. (2013). Gathering around a table: Meals and cuisine as a means of interculturality. In E. Ölçer-Özünel & N. Tunsu (Eds.), Sharing the same taste: The Turkish and Romanian Common Traditional Cuisine Workshop Proceedings (pp. 23-30). Ankara: UNESCO.

Demirkol, N. (2011). Çeviride sadakatin yeni tanımları: Shakespeare’in A Midsummer Night’s Dream’i için Can Yücel’in Bahar Noktası bir ihtimal midir? Kebikeç, 32,  187-237.

Demirkol, N. (2011). Hüsn ü Aşk’ta Hüsn’ün âşık rolünün imkânsızlığı üzerine. Journal of Turkish Studies, 35, 193-204.

Demirkol, N. (2010). The role of women in the interaction and transfer between the Turkish and Macedonian cuisine culture. In M. Kalpaklı, N. Demirkol et. al. (Eds.), Sharing the same taste: The Turkish and Macedonian Common Traditional Cuisine Workshop Proceedings (pp. 74-78). Ankara: UNESCO.

Demirkol, N. (2010). The role of gender in the performances of traditional music. In M. Ö. Oğuz, M. Kalpaklı, et al. (Eds.), The Existing Musical Forms and Traditional Cultures of the Peoples of the Border Regions of Turkey and Bulgaria Workshop Proceedings (pp. 43-49). Ankara: UNESCO.

Demirkol, N., & M. Kalpaklı (Eds.). (2010). Binbir Gece’ye bakışlar. İstanbul: Turkuaz Yayınları.

Demirkol, N., & M. Kalpaklı, et. al. (Eds.). (2010). Sharing the same taste: The Turkish and Macedonian Common Traditional Cuisine Workshop Proceedings. Ankara: UNESCO.

Work for CID:

Neslihan Demirkol translated KC3: Intercultural Competence and KC5: Intercultural Communication into Turkish.

Sherri Hope Culver Profile

ProfilesSherri Hope Culver serves as Director of the Center for Media and Information Literacy (CMIL) at Temple University, USA where she is an Associate Professor in the Department of Media Studies and Production in Klein College. 

Sherri Hope Culver

The CMIL is recognized as a global chair of media and information literacy by the United Nations (UNESCO and the UNAOC) and is a member of the Global Alliance for Partnerships on Media and Information Literacy (GAPMIL).  Sherri’s teaching and consulting centers on the business of media, with a focus on media literacy and children’s media. Sherri collaborates internationally with researchers, educators, media companies, schools and nonprofit organizations on projects connected to children & media. She has worked with Nickelodeon, Participant Media, YouTube Kids, and PBS, among others. Prior to her academic appointment, Sherri worked in the media industry for over twenty-five years as a producer and television executive.

Sherri is author, co-author and editor of several books, chapters and articles, including serving as co-executive editor of the International Yearbook on Media and Information Literacy and Intercultural Dialogue for several years. Most recently, she authored a chapter in the latest edition of “20 Questions about Youth and the Media” titled, “How are the needs of children considered in children’s media?” (2018). Sherri served as president of the Board of Directors for the National Association for Media Literacy Education for three terms and currently serves as a trusted advisor.

Sherri writes regularly about issues facing children’s media and media literacy on her blog. and discusses the issues with guests on her television series, Media Inside Out as well as her podcast, Kids Talk Media. Sherri has given talks and presentations on five continents and over 13 countries. She has moderated panels at major universities and conferences, including the Children’s Global Media Summit, World Summit on Media for Children, UNESCO Media and Information Literacy conferences, International Media Literacy Research Symposium, National Association for Media Literacy Education and UK Children’s Media Conference. She has been interviewed by major news outlets, including Variety, Los Angeles Times, Christian Science Monitor, Philadelphia Inquirer, Radio Times (NPR), and KQED Mindshift.

Sherri holds a master’s degree in public culture from the University of Pennsylvania.  Her research explored the impact of children’s television on the social development of girls and their ability to form diverse friendships.

Work for CID:
Sherri Hope Culver served on the CID Advisory Board 2017-20.

Erla S. Kristjánsdóttir Profile

ProfilesErla S. Kristjánsdóttir, Ph.D., is a Professor, Chair of the Doctoral Studies Committee, and Vice Head at the Faculty of Business Administration, University of Iceland. 

Erla KristjánsdóttirHer main research focuses on the status, barriers, and employment opportunities of skilled immigrants and refugees in the Icelandic labor market; diversity and inclusion; gender equality; and age and ageism.

Erla has taught and conducted academic research at universities in the United States, including in Florida, Arizona, New York, and New Zealand, and has published her research in recognized domestic (Icelandic) and international journals and books.

Recent Peer-Reviewed Publications:

Gunnarsdóttir, S., Ragnarsson, S., Kristjánsdóttir, E.S., & van Direndonk, D. (2026). The role of heart-centric vision, inclusion and accountability. In J. Marques (Ed.), Encyclopedia of diversity, equity, inclusion and spirituality (pp. 1212-1222). Cham, Switzerland: Springer Nature.

Christiansen, T.H., Kristjánsdóttir, E.S. and Skaptadóttir, U.D. (2025). “I often experience a lack of trust”: Filipino migrant nurses’ experiences of coping with multiple conflicting workplace demands. Nordic Journal of Migration Research, 15(3): 3, 1–17.

Gunnarsdóttir, S., Christiansen, Þ. H., Óladóttir, Á. D., & Kristjánsdóttir, E. S. (2025). Exploring women’s leadership in CEO appointments: A qualitative study of board member perspectives in Iceland’s listed companies. Sage Open, 15(2).

Kristjánsdóttir, E.S., & Markovic, M. (2025). Age is an invisible hindrance: Older educated immigrant  women´s lived experience in the Icelandic labor market. Research in Applied Business and Economics, 22(2). 19-32.

Kristjánsdóttir, E.S., & Christiansen, Th. H. (2024). “I have to fight inequality with love, with a smile, with hard work”: Migrant women’s entrepreneurship in Iceland. In D. Hyams-Ssekasi & E. Daskalaki (Eds.), Migration and entrepreneurship in the global context (pp. 233-254). Palgrave.

Ragnarsson, S., Kristjánsdóttir, E.S., Gunnarsdóttir, S., & van Dierendonck, D. (2023). “Shared accountability”: Experiences of employees in a servant leadership organization guided by growth. Research in Applied Business and Economics, 20(2), 155-172.

Christiansen, T.H. and Kristjánsdóttir, E.S. (2022), “Whether you like my skin or not, I am  here”: Skilled racial minority migrant women’s experiences of navigating career challenges in the White Icelandic labor market. Journal of Global Mobility, 10(4), 496-514.

Pio, E., Kristjánsdóttir E. S., Christiansen, TH. (2022). Glass hearts?! Successful visible ethnic minority women migrants at work in Iceland and New Zealand. Journal of Management & Organization, 29(6), 1–19.

Christiansen, Th., & Kristjánsdóttir, E. S. (2020). “When you are a professional”: Highly  skilled immigrants’ experiences of the tension between avowed and ascribed identity. In K. Loftsdóttir, U. Skaptadóttir & S. J. Hafsteinsson (Eds.), Mobility and transnational Iceland: Current transformations and entanglements (pp. 53-69). Reykjavik, Iceland: Háskólaútgáfan.

Kristjánsdóttir, E. S., & Skaptadóttir, U. D. (2019). “I’ll always be a refugee”: The lived experience of Palestinian refugee women of moving to a small society in Iceland. Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies, 17(3), 389-404.

Minelgaite, I., Christiansen, Th. H., & Kristjánsdóttir, E. S. (2019). Lithuanian temporary workers in Iceland in another economic boom: expectations and experiences. South East European Journal of Economics and Business, 14(1), 101-114.

Kristjánsdóttir, E.S. (2017). Communication modes, Icelandic. In Y. Y. Kim (Ed.). International encyclopedia of intercultural communication. New York: Wiley & Sons.

Kristjánsdóttir, E.S., & Skaptadóttir, U.D. (2017). Our home is our kingdom: A refuge of Palestinian women to a small society in Iceland. Manuscript submitted for publication.

Kristjánsdóttir, E.S., & Christiansen, T. (2017). “…You have to face the fact that you´re a foreigner”: Immigrants’ lived experience of communication and negotiation position toward their employer in Iceland. Journal of Intercultural Communication, 17(2), 1-14.

Christiansen, T., & Kristjánsdóttir, E.S. (2016). The wall is always there: The lived experience of immigrants with college degree on their communication and negotiation position toward their employers. (Veggurinn er alltaf til staðar”: Upplifun háskólamenntaðra innflytjenda af samskiptum og samningsstöðu gagnvart vinnuveitendum.) The Icelandic society. (Íslenska þjóðfélagið), 7(1).

Work for CID:

Erla Kristjánsdóttir was one of the participants at the National Communication Association‘s Summer Conference on Intercultural Dialogue in Istanbul, Turkey, which led to the creation of CID. She also serves on the Center’s Advisory Board.

Mohan J. Dutta Profile

ProfilesMohan J Dutta is Dean’s Chair Professor of Communication at Massey University (New Zealand), and Director of the Center for Culture-Centered Approach to Research and Evaluation (CARE) directing research on culturally-centered, community-based projects of social change communication.


Mohan DuttaProfessor Dutta teaches and conducts research in international health communication, critical cultural theories of health and social change, poverty and unequal health outcomes in the backdrop of neoliberal policies, health activism in globalization politics, indigenous cosmologies of health, subaltern studies and dialogue, and public policy and participatory social change communication. Currently, he serves as Editor of the “Critical Cultural Studies in Global Health Communication Book Series” with Routledge, Specialty Chief Editor of the Health Communication section of the open access journal, Frontiers in Communication, and sits on the editorial board of seven journals including Communication Theory, Journal of Computer Mediated Communication, and Annals of the International Communication Association. Before arriving to NUS, he served as Associate Dean of Research & Graduate Education in the College of Liberal Arts at Purdue University, a Service Learning Fellow, and a fellow of the Entrepreneurial Leadership Academy. Also at Purdue, he served as the Founding Director of the Center for Poverty and Health Inequities (COPHI), where he continues to hold an Affiliate appointment.

Professor Dutta holds a Bachelor of Technology (Honors) in Agricultural Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur, and a PhD in Mass Communication from the University of Minnesota. He began his career at Purdue University in 2001, was tenured in 2005, and became Full Professor in 2009. In June, 2010, he was appointed as the Lim Chong Yah Professor of Communication and New Media at the National University of Singapore (NUS), and formally joined NUS as Professor of Communication in July, 2012.

Mohan Dutta’s research examines marginalization in contemporary healthcare, health care inequalities, the intersections of poverty and health experiences at the margins, political economy of global health policies, the mobilization of cultural tropes for the justification of neo-colonial health development projects, the meanings of health in the realms of marginalized experiences in highly underserved communities in the global South, and the ways in which participatory culture-centered processes and strategies are organized in marginalized contexts to bring about changes in neo-colonial structures of global oppression and exploitation. Engaging in dialogues with subaltern communities at the global margins in imagining alternative spaces that resist neoliberal formations forms the crux of Professor Dutta’s academic and activist projects. At the Center for Culture-Centered Approach to Research and Evaluation (CARE), Professor Dutta leads 19 culture-centered projects spread across 7 countries exploring the roles of listening, participation, and dialogue in creating infrastructures for alternative rationalities of health and wellbeing. These projects highlight the role of local cultural practices in transforming health, and in strengthening community-state relationships in securing community access to infrastructures of health and wellbeing. Ultimately, Professor Dutta hopes that this work offers an entry point for transformative communicative practices and networks of solidarity that connect the imaginaries of the global South in offering alternative structures of global organizing grounded in the spirits of justice, equality, and dignity.

Soumia Bardhan Profile

ProfilesSoumia Bardhan (Ph.D., University of New Mexico) is associate professor of Communication at the University of Colorado Denver.

Operating at the intersection of intercultural communication and global communication, Bardhan uses qualitative and rhetorical approaches to explore the role of media, AI, and communication in the cultural-political transformation of Middle Eastern and South Asian societies. She investigates the complex ways diverse rhetorical dynamics and discursive practices of Islam shape MENA (Middle East and North Africa) politics and how Western actors—scholars, publics, and policy makers—might respond to such discourses. Through her research, Bardhan aims to a) minimize stereotypes and advance dialogue and understanding between Muslim and non-Muslim communities, b) explore how culture and communication affect democratic institutions globally, and b) identify extremist discourses and imminent threats to then help shape foreign policy and global security strategies. Due to the global emphasis of her work, Bardhan is also invested in contributing to the internationalization of the communication discipline.

Bardhan teaches courses related to intercultural communication; intercultural and transnational rhetoric; religion, culture, and communication; communication theories; history and philosophy of communication studies; AI and human communication; qualitative research methodologies; and directs global study programs in Spain, France, Morocco, and India. As a certified mediator, she also teaches mediation (creative dispute resolution) courses. Bardhan is recipient of several curriculum development awards, including University of Notre Dame’s Global Religion and Research Initiative grant. CU Denver College of Liberal Arts and Sciences recognized her with the 2025 Excellence in Teaching award.

Bardhan was named Henry Luce Foundation’s Sacred Writes Public Scholarship on Religion fellow (2023-2024), CU Denver’s ThinqStudio fellow (2022-2024), Big 12 Faculty fellow (2017-2018), and is Association of College and University Educators (ACUE) fellow. She serves as director on the board of the International Communication Association (ICA) and chair of its Membership and Internationalization Committee; she was chair of ICA’s Intercultural Communication Division (2019-2021). She served on the National Communication Association’s Task Force on Fostering International Collaborations in research, teaching, and service (2015-2019). She served on the editorial board of Journal of International and Intercultural Communication (2018-2021) and is associate editor of Frontiers in Intercultural Communication (2020-present). Bardhan currently serves as interim director of International Studies at CU Denver.

Selected publications:

Book:

Turner, P. K., Bardhan, S., Holden, T. Q., & Mutua, E. M. (Eds.). (2019). Internationalizing the communication curriculum in an age of globalization: Why, what, and how. New York: Routledge.

Articles and chapters:

Bardhan, S., Chen, Y., AlSumait F. Y., Lee, P.,  & Wang, H. L. (2024). Pluriversal possibilities for the Euro/U.S.-centric intercultural communication field? Review of the GCC States and Taiwan. Annals of the International Communication Association. DOI: 10.1080/23808985.2024.2324153

Evans, E., & Bardhan, S. (2023). Adult Third Culture Kids and sojourner intercultural communication: Exploring belonging through a multilevel approach. International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 96.

Bardhan, S. (2022). Rhetoric and intercultural communication. In Moy, P. (Ed.), Oxford Bibliographies in Communication. New York: Oxford University Press.

Bardhan, S. (2022). #egyptian and #tunisiangirl: The (micro)politics of self-presentation on Instagram. International Journal of Communication, 16, 681-99.

Bardhan, S., & Cutter, D. (2021). Recruiting foreign warriors: Function of moral and temporal tropes in the Islamic State’s “Dabiq”. Rhetoric and Public Affairs, 24, 483-520.

Bardhan, S. & Foss, K. (2020). Revolutionary graffiti and Cairene women: Performing agency through gaze aversion. In Charrad, M & Stephan, R. (Eds.), Women rising: Resistance, revolution, and reform in the Arab Spring and beyond. New York: New York University Press.

Bardhan, S. (2019). Internationalizing the communication curriculum: Benefits to stakeholders. In Turner, P. K., Bardhan, S., Holden, T. Q., & Mutua, E. M. (Eds.), Internationalizing the communication curriculum in an age of globalization (pp. 11-20). New York: Routledge.

Bardhan, S., Colvin, J., Croucher, S., O’Keefe, M., & Dong, Q. (2019). Intercultural communication: A 17-year analysis of the state of the discipline. In Turner, P. K., Bardhan, S., Holden, T. Q., & Mutua, E. M. (Eds.), Internationalizing the communication curriculum in an age of globalization (pp. 23-35). New York: Routledge.

Bardhan, S. (2018). Affordances of websites for counterpublicity and international communication: Case of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood. Georgetown Journal of International Affairs, 19, 3-11.

Bardhan, S. (2018). The Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood and ‘Ikhwanweb’: Deliberative ethic/voice in a counterpublic’s rhetoric? Journal of Public Deliberation, 4(1), Article 5.

Bardhan, S. (2017). Rhetorical approaches to communication and culture. In J. Nussbaum (Ed.), Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Communication. Oxford University Press.

Bardhan, S. & Wood, R. (2015). The role of culture in civil society promotion in the Middle East: A case study approach with technology for social networking. Digest of Middle East Studies, 24(1), 111-138.

Bardhan, S. (2014). Egypt, Islamists, and the Internet: The Muslim Brotherhood and its rhetoric of dialectics in ‘Ikhwanweb’. Digest of Middle East Studies, 23(2), 235-261.