Category: Profiles

Shirley Saenz Profile

ProfilesShirley Saenz is a cross-cultural trainer and business partner at ICEBERG Cultural Intelligence, the leading intercultural consulting firm in Latin America, and president of SIETAR Argentina.

Shirley Saenz

She has been actively working in the cross-cultural field training and counseling global teams, international business managers and professionals with international exposure in several industries. During the last years, Shirley has been living and working overseas throughout Colombia, France, China, Brazil, Argentina and the United States, which allowed her to gain a deep understanding of these cultures. Shirley’s primary research interests have been the cultural differences among Latin American countries, the impact of language on culture, and intercultural communication in multicultural and virtual teams.

Work for CID:

Shirley Saenz translated KC3: Intercultural Competence, KC5: Intercultural Communication, KC10: Cross-Cultural Dialogue, and KC55: Stereotypes into Spanish. She has also reviewed translations into Spanish.

Altay A. Manço Profile

ProfilesAltay A. Manço has a doctorate in social psychology at the Université de Liège (Belgium).

 

Altay Manço

He has done a lot of work in the areas of educational psychology and social integration and the psycho-sociology of immigration, especially Turkish. Since 1986, he has worked as a consultant for many institutions and associations on this topics in various European countries and, more recently, in Canada. Manço has also been working with the Université de Paris V since 1998, and with the Université de Sherbrooke in Quebec. Since 1996, he has been the Science Director of the Institut de Recherche, Formation et Action sur les Migrations. IRFAM is a source body set up by stakeholders in the field as well as university researchers for social action, educational professionals, etc. As a continuing education association mandated to develop diversity in our societies, IRFAM manages the collection “Compétences interculturelles” from Éditions Harmattan (Paris) and publishes a quarterly Internet newsletter called “Diversités et Citoyennetés.”

Selected recent books

A. MANÇO et C. BARRAS. 2013. La diversité culturelle dans les PME. Accès au travail et valorisation des ressources, Paris, L’Harmattan.

A. MANÇO et C. ASCHENBROICH. 2013. Migrants solidaires, projets jumelés. Pratiques et coopérations transnationales, Paris, L’Harmattan.

A. MANÇO et P. ALEN. 2012. Appropriation du français par les migrants. Rôles des actions culturelles, Paris, L’Harmattan.

S. AMORANITIS, A. MANÇO. 2011. Migration et développement en Europe. Politiques, pratiques et acteurs, Bruxelles, EUNOMAD.

A. MANÇO et S. AMORANITIS. 2010. Migrants et développement. Politiques, pratiques et acteurs en Belgique, Paris, L’Harmattan.

S. AMORANITIS, D. CRUTZEN, A. MANÇO et al. 2010. Développer le mainstreaming de la diversité. Recueil analytique d’outils d’intervention pour la valorisation de la diversité, Liège, IRFAM.

A. MANÇO et C. BOLZMAN (éds). 2010. Transnationalités et développement. Rôles de l’interculturel, Paris, L’Harmattan.

K. HADDAD, A. MANÇO et M. ECKMANN (éds). 2009. Antagonismes communautaires et dialogues interculturels. Du constat des polarisations à la construction des cohésions, Paris, L’Harmattan.

M. SARLET et A. MANÇO (éds). 2008. Tourismes et diversités : facteurs de développement ?, Paris, L’Harmattan.

J. DEPIREUX et A. MANÇO (éds). 2008. Formations d’adultes et interculturalité. Innovations en pays francophones, Paris, L’Harmattan.

A. MANÇO (éd.). 2008. Valorisation des compétences et co-développement. Africain(e)s qualifié(e)s en immigration, Paris, L’Harmattan.

A. MANÇO. 2006. Processus identitaires et intégration. Approche psychosociale des jeunes issus de l’immigration, Paris, L’Harmattan.

A. MANÇO (Coord.). 2006. Turcs en Europe. L’heure de l’élargissement, Paris, L’Harmattan.

M. VATZ LAAROUSSI et A. MANÇO (éds). 2003.  Jeunesses, citoyennetés, violences. Réfugiés albanais en Belgique et au Québec, Paris, L’Harmattan.

D. CRUTZEN et A. MANÇO (éds). 2003. Compétences linguistiques et sociocognitives des enfants issus de migrants. Turcs et Marocains en Belgique, Paris, L’Harmattan.

A. MANÇO. 2002. Compétences interculturelles des jeunes issus de l’immigration. Perspectives théoriques et pratiques, Paris, L’Harmattan.

Selected recent bibliography in English:

A. MANÇO & P. ALEN. 2012.  Newcomers in Educational System: The Case of French-Speaking Part of Belgium. Sociology Mind, 2(1), 116-126.

A. MANÇO & S. AMORANITIS (Eds.). (2005). Recognition of Islam in European Municipalities: Actions Against Religious Discrimination. Migrations Letters, 2(3).

John Stewart Profile

Profiles

John Stewart serves as Special Assistant to the President at the University of Dubuque in Dubuque, Iowa.

John Stewart

He was Vice President for Academic Affairs at UD from 2001-2010, and on the Communication faculty at the University of Washington in Seattle from 1969-2001. He also taught full-time at the University of Wisconsin-Stout and filled visiting professor/ lecturer positions at a number of institutions, including the University of Hawaii-Manoa, Texas A&M, Gonzaga, California State University-Fresno, Wake Forest, Hebrew University, and the Universities of Tel Aviv and Haifa.

John’s primary research interests have been the philosophy of language, the philosophy and practice of dialogue, and the philosophy and practice of interpretive research. He articulated a relational view of language in Language as Articulate Contact: Toward a Post-Semiotic Philosophy of Communication (1995) and the edited volume, Beyond the Symbol Model: Reflections on the Representational Nature of Language (1996), both published by SUNY Press. His approach to dialogue has been developed in several articles and chapters, including “Foundations of Dialogic Communication,” Quarterly Journal of Speech, 65 (1978), 183-201; “Dialogue as Tensional, Ethical Practice,” with Karen Zediker, Southern Communication Journal, 65 (2000), 224-242; and “Relationships Among Philosophies of dialogue,” with K. E. Zediker and L. L. Black, in Dialogic Approaches to Communication, R. Anderson, L. A. Baxter, & K. N. Cissna (Eds.) (Sage, 2003).

John’s edited textbook, Bridges Not Walls: A Book About Interpersonal Communication is currently in its 11th edition with McGraw Hill, and his co-authored Together: Communicating Interpersonally is in its 6th edition with Oxford.

He is currently focused on revising his communication self-help book, U&ME: Communicating in Moments that Matter (Taos Institute Publications, 2013), which is available in print and e-book versions. Excerpts from, and news about U&ME are available on its Facebook site, and John’s biography, interpersonal communication blog, and information about his other publications are can be found at www.johnstewart.org.

Work for CID:
John Stewart wrote KC14: Dialogue.

Giovanna Dell’Orto Profile

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Giovanna Dell’Orto is an Associate Professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication of the University of Minnesota.

Giovanna Dell'Orto

Her research focuses on international mass communication, particularly the role of the media and mediated discourses in international affairs, historically and currently. Her latest book, “AP Foreign Correspondents in Action: World War II to the Present” (Cambridge University Press, 2015), reveals for the first time the story behind the stories that have brought the world home to America, focusing on changing journalistic practices. In 2013, she published two books: “American Journalism and International Relations” (Cambridge University Press), a monograph on the interplay between US foreign correspondence and foreign policy over 160 years, and “Reporting at the Southern Borders” (Routledge), an edited volume on journalism and immigration at the southern frontiers of the US and the EU.

Dr. Dell’Orto received her Ph.D. in Mass Communication from the University of Minnesota in 2004. She has also worked as reporter and editor for The Associated Press, most recently in the capacity of immigration reporter. She is the author of two monographs (“Giving Meanings to the World”, 2002, and “The Hidden Power of the American Dream”, 2008), which dealt with international journalism and its ability to construct images across national borders. Together with Professor Emerita Hazel Dicken-Garcia, she has also authored a book about journalists’ understanding of First Amendment rights, “Hated Ideas and the American Civil War Press” (2007).

Work for CID:

Giovanna Dell’Orto served on the CID Advisory Board 2014-20, and has reviewed translations into French.

John Corbett Profile

ProfilesJohn Corbett (PhD, Glasgow University 1992) is a Professor in the English Language and Literature Studies program at BNU-HKBU United International College in Zhuhai, China.

John CorbettHis work on intercultural language education engages with the roles curriculum design and classroom tasks play in the development of intercultural communicative competence, most recently in situations of conflict and extended crisis. He is also interested in the interaction between intercultural language education and professionalism in domains such as medicine and tourism. He is the author of An Intercultural Approach to English Language Teaching (Multilingual Matters, 2003, second edition 2022), Intercultural Language Activities (Cambridge University Press, 2010) and (with Peih-ying Lu) of English in Medicine: An Intercultural Approach to Teaching Language and Values (Multilingual Matters, 2012). He has authored and co-authored numerous articles and book chapters, including (with Wendy Anderson and Alison Phipps) explorations of intercultural language learning and telecollaboration. He was editor of the journal Language and Intercultural Communication between 2004-9. While he works in Asia, he also has strong links with Brazil, where he has been President of the BRAZ-TESOL Special Interest Group on Intercultural Language Education.

Go to his website for further details.

Work for CID:

John Corbett wrote KC9: Communicative Competence, was interviewed on this topic, and has co-authored a guest post on Critical Intercultural Pedagogy for Difficult Times. He also was one of the organizers of the Roundtable on Intercultural Dialogue in Asia, co-sponsored by CID.

Aimee Dawis Profile

ProfilesAimee Dawis teaches courses in cultural studies, qualitative research methods, ethnography, postmodernism and media and identity at the University of Indonesia’s Department of Communication within the School of Political and Social Sciences.

Aimee Dawis

She holds a Ph.D. in Media Ecology from New York University, an MPS (Master’s of Professional Studies) in Communication from Cornell University, and a B.A. in Communication Arts from Loyola Marymount University.

Her first book, The Chinese of Indonesia and Their Search for Identity: The Relationship between Collective Memory and the Media was based on her doctoral dissertation at NYU. It was published by Cambria Press, NY in 2009. An Indonesian version of the book was published by PT. Gramedia, the biggest Indonesian publishing house, in 2010. Her second book, Portraits of Inspiring Chinese-Indonesian Women, was first published by PT. Gramedia in Indonesia as a bilingual book (English and Indonesian) in 2012. An international version of the book, with an updated introduction, was published by Tuttle Publishing in March 2014.

Apart from these books, Dawis also regularly publishes her work on the ethnic Chinese in Indonesia, Indonesia-China relations, the overseas Chinese diaspora and media studies.

Work for CID:

Aimee Dawis was one of the participants in the Roundtable on Intercultural Dialogue in Asia, co-sponsored by CID.

Stephen Croucher Profile

ProfilesStephen Croucher (PhD, University of Oklahoma, 2006) is Head of the School of Communication, Journalism and Marketing, Massey University, Wellington, New Zealand.

Stephen Croucher

His research focuses on three main area of interest. First, the cultural adaptation process. Within this area of study he has explored adaptation in 15 nations. Within these studies he has shown through qualitative and quantitative analyses that current models of adaptation do not adequately describe: the fusion of identities that occur during adaptation, and the influence/resistance of the host culture. Second, and closely related to cultural adaptation, is his work into integrated threat theory. In these studies Croucher has shown how many dominant cultural groups in Europe, North America, and Asia fear immigrant and minority communities. These fears (prejudice) lead to less acceptance of adaptation overtures from the minority groups. Third,  he studies the relationships between communicative behaviors/traits and religious identification and religiosity. In this line of work he has found religion (identity and religiosity) to have a significant effect on a variety of traits/behaviors.

Croucher has published 4 books and more than 50 articles in journals such as: Communication Monographs, Journal of International and Intercultural Communication, Management Communication Quarterly, Communication Studies, International Journal of Conflict Management, and Journal of Intercultural Communication Research. 

Croucher is active in various professional associations and has served in a variety of capacities: Vice-Chair of the Intercultural Division of the International Communication Association, editor of the Journal of Intercultural Communication Research and Speaker & Gavel, and World Communication Association Vice President for Europe. He has also served on the editorial board of numerous journals: Communication Studies, Journal of International and Intercultural Communication, International Journal of Conflict Management, Mass Communication and Society, and the Western Journal of Communication. 

Work for CID:

Stephen Croucher was one of the participants in the Roundtable on Intercultural Dialogue in Asia, co-sponsored by CID.

Polina Golovátina-Mora Profile

ProfilesDr. Polina Golovátina-Mora is an Associate Professor at the School of Social Sciences at Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana, in Medellín (Colombia).

Polina Golovatina Mora

She is an instructor for the PhD Program in Social Sciences and a Faculty Affiliate at the MA in Learning and Teaching Processes in Second Languages. Her current teaching duties focus on introduction to epistemology and graduate seminars on language, culture, and power. She has been a lecturer and visiting professor at universities in Russia, Czech Republic, and Colombia. She has also been a visiting researcher at the University of California-Berkeley and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Dr. Golovátina-Mora has a doctoral degree in history (Urals Federal University) and a master’s degree in Russian and Eastern European Studies (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), the latter as a Fulbright Scholar. She was an Erasmus Mundus Postdoctoral Fellow at the Pultusk Academy of Humanities in Poland.

Her scholarship ranges across different languages and topics. A multilingual writer, she has published and presented her work in English, Russian, Polish, Czech, and most recently, Spanish. Her work includes articles and book chapters on historiography, representations of social processes (collective memory and identity construction, responses to the social structures and pressures). She has presented her work, including conference presentations, plenaries, and invited talks, in Colombia, the United States, Poland, Czech Republic, Finland, Turkey, Russia, Germany, and Italy. Her most recent research features narrative inquiry and discourse analysis studies on monstrous theory and how fear is constructed in contemporary cities and societies and through popular culture (especially in light of the renaissance of the vampire genre). Recent work (along with her husband, Dr. Raúl A. Mora) includes discussions of social and curricular constructions of bilingualism and multiculturalism and the use of Bourdieusian frameworks to analyze culture.

You can find out more about Dr. Golovátina-Mora’s scholarship through her website and her Academia.edu profile.

Work for CID:
Polina Golovátina-Mora co-authored KC19: Multiculturalism.

Raúl A. Mora Profile

ProfilesDr. Raúl Alberto Mora is at present an Assistant Professor in the School Education and Pedagogy Graduate Program at Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana (UPB), in Medellín, Colombia, where he also coordinates the MA in Learning and Teaching Processes in Second Languages (ML2).

Raul Alberto Mora Velez

He is also a faculty affiliate at the PhD in Social Sciences at UPB and the PhD in Education at Universidad Distrital in Bogotá. Dr. Mora’s current teaching duties include preservice language courses and graduate-level seminars on research and literacies in second language contexts. He holds a PhD in Language and Literacy and an MA in Teacher Education, both from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He was a Fulbright Scholar and belongs to the Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi.

He has written peer-reviewed articles and book chapters on issues of language teaching, literacy, and qualitative research. He has presented conference papers (both on site and virtually) and has participated as plenary speaker in Colombia, Argentina, Spain, India, Vietnam, the United States, and Russia. In addition, he has been a guest lecturer at different universities in Colombia and Spain. He is at present an Editorial Board member for the Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, where he also serves as Editor for the Advocacy/Policy Department section. Other editorial duties include the International Review Board for the HETL Review and the Editorial Boards for PROFILE and HOW Journals in Colombia. Dr. Mora also sits on the Advisory Committee for the Colombian Fulbright Commission and has been an educational adviser for the Colombian Ministry of Education.

His research work features membership in the Language and Culture Research Group at UPB and the Teacher Education Research Group at Universidad Distrital. He also chairs the Student Research Group on Second Language (SRG-L2) at UPB. A qualitative researcher by choice and training, he has specialized in the education of novice researchers at the undergraduate and graduate levels. Most of his research includes ethnographic approaches and action research, interspersed with elements of case study research, narrative inquiry, and discourse analysis.

His current research agenda covers the fields of alternative literacies, critical discourse analysis, world languages, socio-cultural theory, and issues of bilingualism and multiculturalism. His research on literacies include the analysis of English literacies in urban spaces of Medellín, Colombia, the description of English literacies in virtual gaming communities in the city, and the development of frameworks to discuss the evolution of the notion of literacy in languages other than English. His work on world languages includes the development of conceptual frameworks that defy the traditional binary of second/foreign language and respond to the language ecologies present in today’s world. Recent studies on critical discourse have analyzed the social imaginaries of teachers in advertisements for online courses and the idea of the trickster in Colombian comedy. His most recent work on Socio-cultural theory has analyzed media and the situation of teacher education in Colombia through the use of Pierre Bourdieu’s social frameworks. Finally, his work on bilingualism and multiculturalism (most of it in tandem with his wife, Dr. Polina Golovátina-Mora) intends to look at the multiple dimensions of bilingualism to give it a stronger social dimension.

You can check Dr. Mora’s website for more details about his academic interests, teaching, and research endeavors, as well as his Academia.edu profile.

Work for CID:

Raúl Alberto Mora wrote KC13: Language Ecology, KC21: Reflexivity, KC36: Counter-Narrative, KC42: Conscientização, KC45: Testimonio, and co-authored KC19: Multiculturalism. He has also reviewed translations into Spanish.

Casey Man Kong Lum Profile

ProfilesCasey Man Kong Lum (Ph.D., NYU) is Professor Emeritus at William Paterson University (New Jersey, USA), where he was the Founding Director of the M.A. in Professional Communication Program (2007-2012).

Casey Man Kong LumCasey is also an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Teaching and Learning, Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development, and in the Division of Applied Undergraduate Studies, School of Professional Studies, New York University.

His research intersects among media ecology, food studies, urban foodways as intangible cultural heritage, urban communication, transnational communication in the diaspora, global media, the Chinese American experience, intercultural education and communication, multilingual education, the intellectual history of communication scholarship, etc. Casey has had extensive experience in intercultural consultancy and study abroad programs (e.g., global food cultures; media and globalization; intercultural communication and education).

Sample publications:

Books:

林文刚编：《媒介环境学：思想沿革与多维视野》, 第二版，何道宽译，北京：中国大百科全书出版社，2019 年。[The is the second simplified Chinese translation edition of Lum (2006) by the Encyclopedia of China Publishing House, Beijing.]

Lum, C. M. K., & de Ferrière le Vayer, M. (Eds.). (2016). Urban foodways and communication: Ethnographic studies in intangible cultural food heritages around the world. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.

Lum, C. M. K. (2006). (Ed.). Perspectives on culture, technology, and communication: The media ecology tradition. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press. [Winner, Lewis Mumford Award for Outstanding Scholarship in the Ecology of Technics, The Media Ecology Association, 2006]. This book has been translated and published in simplified Chinese by Peking University Press in Beijing, China (2007); in Korean by Hannarae Publishing Company in Seoul, South Korea (2008); in traditional Chinese by Chu Liu Publishing Company in Taipei, Taiwan (2010).

Lum, C. M. K. (1996). In search of a voice: Karaoke and the construction of identity in Chinese America. Foreword by N. Postman. London: Routledge.

Articles and Book Chapters:

Lum, C. M. K. (2024, May 27). What can and should we learn from these dark and tragic histories? Associate Director’s Activities. Center for Intercultural Dialogue.

Lum, C. M. K. (2023, Sep 11). Culturally responsive teaching and intercultural dialogue. Associate Director’s Activities, Center for Intercultural Dialogue.

Li, M. W., & Lum, C. M. K. (2022). The vector of media and the media turn of communication theory research: Comments on the Media Ecology Translation Book Series (in Chinese). Chinese Journal of Journalism & Communication, 44(12), 156-169. [Original in Chinese] 李明伟 林文刚, 媒介矢量与传播学理论研究的媒介转向——兼评 “媒介环境学译丛”, 《国际新闻界》, 2022年 (44卷12期): 156-169。

Lum, C.  M. K. (2019). Media ecology and media education: Reflections on media literacy in a globalized communication ecology [in Chinese]. Chinese Journal of Journalism and Communication, 41(4), 89-108. 林文刚: 媒介环境学和媒体教育: 反思全球化传播生态中的媒体素养, 《国际新闻界》, 2019年4月 (41卷 4期): 89-108.

Lum, C. M. K. (2018). Developing intercultural competence in the language classroom. In J. Liontas (Ed.) (Vol Ed.: S. Nero). The TESOL Encyclopedia of English Language Teaching, Vol. VI (pp. 3545-3550). Oxford, UK: Wiley. DOI: 10.1002/9781118784235.eelt0282

Lum, C. M. K. (2015). Regionalism and communication: Voices from the Chinese diaspora. In A. Gonzalez & Y.-W. Chen (Eds.), Our voices: Essays in culture, ethnicity, and communication (pp. 327-334, 6th ed.). New York: Oxford University Press.

Lum, C. M. K. (2014). Media ecology: Contexts, concepts, and currents. In R. Fortner & M. Fackler (Eds.), The handbook in media and mass communication theory (pp. 137-153, Vol. 1). Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell. (Winner: The 2016 Walter Benjamin Award for Outstanding Article in the Field of Media Ecology.)

Lum, C. M. K. (2013). Understanding urban foodways and communicative cities: A taste of Hong Kong’s yumcha culture as urban communication. In S. Drucker, V. Gallenger, & M. Matsaganis (Eds.), The urban communication reader III: Communicative cities and urban communication in the 21st century (pp. 53-76). New York: Peter Lang.

Lum, C. M. K. (2006). Communicating Chinese heritage in America: A study of bicultural education across generations. In W. Leeds-Hurwitz (Ed.), From generation to generation: Maintaining cultural identity over rime (pp. 75-98). Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press.

Lum, C. M. K., & Haratonik, P. L. (2011). A comparative study of Xintiandi in Shanghai and South Street Seaport in New York City [in Chinese]. In F. Sun & J. Yang (Eds.), Tales of two cities: Urban culture in Shanghai and New York City (pp. 44-57). Shanghai, China: Truth & Wisdom Press and Shanghai People’s Publishing.

Currently on the Board of Directors of the Urban Communication Foundation, Casey has been actively serving the profession in various leadership capacities, such as:

Casey serves as a reviewer and on the editorial board of a number of refereed journals. He is a long-time resident of New York City.

Work for CID:

Casey Lum wrote KC35: Media Ecology. He currently serves as CID Associate Director. In that capacity, he began and currently edits the series Voices from the Field. See Associate Director’s activities posts for descriptions of stops in various cities and conversations with individual scholars.