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Trudy Milburn Profile

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Trudy Milburn is is associate vice president for academic affairs at Southern Connecticut State University.

Trudy Milburn

Her academic work examines the ways membership categories are enacted and displayed in various organizational and professional settings, both online and face-to-face.

Dr. Milburn has been a tenured Associate Professor at California State University, Channel Islands and Baruch College/City University of New York. You can read more about her professional accomplishments in her e-portfolio and see her brief analysis of rhetorical communication in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia here.

Selected Publications

Scollo, M. & Milburn, T. (Eds.). (2019). Engaging and transforming global communication through Cultural Discourse Analysis: A tribute to Donal Carbaugh. Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson Press.

Milburn, T. (Ed.). (2015). Communicating user experience: Applying local strategies research to digital media design. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.

Gilbertz, S. & Milburn, T. (2011).  Citizen discourse on contaminated water, superfund cleanups, and landscape restoration: (Re)making Milltown, Montana. Amherst, NY: Cambria Press.

Milburn, T. (2009). Nonprofit organizations: Creating membership through communication.  Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press.

Work for CID:

Trudy Milburn has written multiple guest posts: Intercultural Visual Communication, Dialogue About Border Crossers, How Conducting Assessment is Similar to Learning About New Cultures, Assessing Intercultural Competency, Part II, and Listening Carefully to Intercultural Dialogue in Saudi Arabia. In addition she is the author of KC111: Membership Categorization Analysis.

Olga Kozar Profile

ProfilesOlga Kozar is a Ph.D. researcher in Applied Linguistics. She is currently completing her candidature at Macquarie University (Sydney,  Australia).

Her main research interest is private one-on-one ESOL lessons conducted via videoconferencing tools (e.g., Skype) with learners and teachers from different cultural backgrounds. The questions that she addresses in her Ph.D. and a series of related publications are the following: Who teaches and who learns privately via videoconferencing tools? What expectations do private language learners have of their future instructors? What are the discourses and genres of private ESOL lessons conducted via Skype?

Her work can be found in both academic journals (for example, Distance Education, Research in Comparative and International Education) as well as practice-oriented publications such as Modern English Teacher and English-teaching Professional. Olga’s personal website is: www.olgakozar.com

Heidi M. Rose Profile

ProfilesHeidi M. Rose, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication at Villanova University, in the US.

Dr. Rose’s work focuses primarily on performance, culture, and identity, in particular understanding performance as constitutive of cultural identity. She has conducted pioneering research in Deaf culture and the poetics of American Sign Language, co-editing and contributing to the first book/DVD on ASL literary theory and criticism. Her research has been supported by grants from Villanova University, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Waterhouse Family Institute for the Study of Communication and Society.

Current interests include autoethnographic solo performance and performance as presence, and her current project examines Jamaican theatre performance and postcolonial identity. Dr. Rose is the immediate past Editor-in-Chief of Text and Performance Quarterly, the journal of performance studies sponsored by the National Communication Association.She recently organized and hosted a national performance studies conference at Villanova, Economies and Ethics of Performance—Performance Studies in and as Communication (June 2012).

Publications include:

Rose, H. (2012). Breathing, again. Liminalities: A Journal of Performance Studies, 8(2), 1-6. http://liminalities.net/8-2/

Coonfield, G., & Rose, H. (2012). What is called presence. Text and Performance Quarterly, 32(3), 192-208. Lead article.

Rose, H. (2011). A conversation with Anna Deavere Smith. Text and Performance Quarterly 31(4), 440-448.

Rose, H. M. (2008). Approaching a politics of difference through performance. (review essay). Text and Performance Quarterly 28(1,2), 256-266.

Rose, H. M. (2006). Writing and performing Mirror Image. Text and Performance Quarterly 26, 274-277.

Rose, H. M. (2006). Mirror Image. Text and Performance Quarterly 26,278-296.

Bauman, H-Dirksen L., Nelson, J. L., & Rose, H. M. (eds.) (2006). Signing the body poetic: Essays in American Sign Language Literature. (book/DVD) Berkeley: University of California Press.

Rose, H. M. (2006). The poet in the poem in the performance: The relation of body, self and text in ASL literature. In H-D. L. Bauman, J.L. Nelson, & H. M. Rose (Eds.), Signing the body poetic: Essays in American Sign Language literature. Berkeley: U of California P, pp.130-146.

Ann Neville Miller Profile

ProfilesAnn Neville Miller is a Professor in the Nicholson School of Communication at the University of Central Florida.

She has published over 60 peer-reviewed journal articles, one edited volume, and numerous book chapters. Much of her work addresses critical issues concerning communication about HIV in sub-Saharan Africa, including communication of religious leaders and churches toward HIV prevention in Africa, and the role of sexual content in African entertainment media in youth sexual attitudes and behavior. She also has a long-running research interest in barriers to research productivity of African communication scholars. Dr. Miller’s study of African communication patterns arises out of over a dozen years of living, studying, teaching, and researching as an American in Kenya and Uganda. She continues to work closely with former colleagues there on a range of projects.

Dr. Miller was the receipt of a Fulbright African Regional Research Grant in 2015 and a Fulbright Specialist grant in 2017, and has served as a consultant to the World Health Organization.

Recent publications include:

Kayongo, C., & Miller, A. N. (2018). Men’s response to Obulamu campaign messages about male involvement in maternal health: Mukono District, Uganda. Health Communication, electronic publication Aug 1, 2018.

Ngula, K., Miller, A. N., & Mberia, J., K. (2018). Motivational and contextual factors related to Kenyan adolescents’ intake of sexual radio and TV content. Health Communication, 33, 724-732.
doi: 10.1080/10410236.2017.1306909

Miller, A. N., Gabolya, C., Mulwanya, R., Nabasaaka, G., Kiva, J., Nalugya, E., Lagot, S., & Chibita, M. B. (2018). The relationship between parental mediation of adolescent media use and Ugandan adolescents’ sexual beliefs, attitudes and behavior. Howard Journal of Communications, 29, 161-174. doi:10.1080/10646175.2017.1354788.

Miller, A. N., Sellnow, T., Neuberger, L., Todd, A., Freihaut, R., Noyes, J., Allen, T., Alexander, N., Vanderford, M., Gamhewage, G. (2017). A systematic review of literature on training in crisis and risk preparedness. Journal of Health Communication, 22, 612-629.
doi: 10.1080/10810730.2017.1338802

Jing Yin Profile

ProfilesJing Yin (Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University, USA) is Professor and Chair of the Department of Communication at the University of Hawai’i at Hilo and Fellow at the Molefi Kete Asante Institute for Afrocentric Studies.

Jing Yin

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 International and Intercultural Communication Division of the National Communication Association. She co-edited two editions of The Global Intercultural Communication Reader (Routledge, 2008 and 2014) and guest-edited a special section of China Media Research on “Cultural Traditions and Ethical Concerns in the Age of Global Communication” (Vol. 9, No. 2, 2013). 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, Intercultural Communication: A Reader, and Systems and Policies for the Globalized Learning Economy. She served as a member of the editorial board of Human Communication: A Journal of the Pacific and Asian Communication Association and reviewed manuscripts for Asian Journal of Communication, Critical Studies in Media Communication, Intercultural Communication Studies, and Journal of Multicultural Discourses.

Selected Publications:

Miike, Y., & Yin, J. (2015). Asiacentricity and shapes of the future: Envisioning the field of intercultural communication in the globalization era. In L. A. Samovar, R. E. Porter, E. R. McDaniel, & C. S. Roy (Eds.), Intercultural communication: A reader (14th ed., pp. 449-465). Boston, MA: Cengage Learning.

Yin, J. (Ed.). (2013). Cultural traditions and ethical concerns in the age of global communication [Special section]. China Media Research, 9(2), 64-110.

Yin, J. (2011). Popular culture and public imaginary: Disney vs. Chinese stories of Mulan. Javnost-The Public: Journal of the European Institute for Communication and Culture, 18(1), 53-74.

Yin, J. (2009). Negotiating the center: Towards an Asiacentric feminist communication theory. Journal of Multicultural Discourses, 4(1), 75-88.

Yin, J., & Miike, Y. (2008). A textual analysis of fortune cookie sayings: How Chinese are they? Howard Journal of Communications, 19(1), 18-43.

Yin, J. (2007). The clash of rights: A critical analysis of news discourse on human rights in the United States and China. Critical Discourse Studies, 4(1), 75-94.

Yin, J. (2006). Toward a Confucian feminism: A critique of Eurocentric feminist discourse. China Media Research, 2(3), 9-18.

Yin, J. (2006). China’s second Long March: A review of Chinese media discourse on globalization. Review of Communication, 6(1/2), 32-51.

Yin, J. (2005). Constructing the Other: A critical reading of The Joy Luck Club. Howard Journal of Communications, 16(3), 149-175.

Yin, J. (2002). Telling the truth? A cultural comparison of “facilitating discussion” in American talk. Discourse Processes, 33(3), 235-256.

LIU Xue Profile

ProfilesLIU Xue, Ph.D., is assistant professor of the School of Journalism and Communication in Wuhan University, China.

Book:

Shan, Bo, Yibin Shi & Xue Liu. (Eds.). (2011). The intercultural turn of journalism and communication. Shanghai Jiaotong University Press.

Journal Articles:

Liu, Xue & Zongping Xiang (2011). The democratic concern in America’s media criticism and its problem. Commentary on China’s Media Development and Media Research (Zhongguo Meiti Fazhan Yanjiu Baogao).

Shan, Bo & Xue Liu (2011). A study of intercultural events in 2011. Commentary on China’s Media Development and Media Research (Zhongguo Meiti Fazhan Yanjiu Baogao).

Liu, Xue (2010). Pursuing the media ethic for intercultural communication. Social Sciences Abroad (Guowai Shehui Kexue), 3, 155-158.

Shan, Bo & Xue Liu (2009). Discourse bias & face-negotiation: Intercultural analysis on coverage of Wenchuan earthquake. Communication & Society (Chuanbo Yu Shehui Xuekan), 10, 135-156.

Liu, Xue & Zongping Xiang (2008). Civic media reform movement in the U.S.A: 1920s-2007. Mass Communication Research (Xinwenxue Yanjiu), 97, 179-229.

Shan, Bo & Xue Liu (2007). The democratic implications, inherent nature and problems of the American media reform movement. China Media Reports (Zhongguo Chuanmei Baogao), 23(3), 4-17.

Liu, Xue (2007). The transition of American media in recent thirty years. Hubei Social Sciences (Hubei Shehui Kexue), 10, 188-190.

Yu-Sheng Li Profile

ProfilesYu-Sheng Li received his Ph.D. in Communication Studies at the University of York, United Kingdom, and is currently an assistant professor at Ming Chuan University, Taiwan.

His principal interest is the psychology of social interaction, in particular cross-cultural communication and political communication.  He also has an ongoing interest in the impact of culture on technology use.  His latest English publication is below.

Li, Y.-S.  (2010).  Equivocation in ‘reunification’ for Taiwan and mainland China: Language, Politics, Culture. Lambert Publishing Company.

Recent publications in Chinese follow:

Li Y.-S. (2015). Formosa hakka radio station: The documentary of My Amazing Hakka Sisters. Global Hakka Studies, 5, 225-234.

Li Y.-S. (2015). Golden melody awards ceremony – across cultural communication between Hakka and mainstream. Global Hakka Studies, 6, 309-320.

Donald G. Ellis Profile

ProfilesDonald G. Ellis is Professor of Communication in the School of Communication at the University of Hartford.

His Ph.D. is from the University of Utah, where his doctoral dissertation on Conflict Interaction in Groups won the National Communication Association Golden Anniversary Dissertation Award, and he has been on the faculty of Purdue University and Michigan State. He is interested in communication issues related to ethnopolitical conflict with particular emphasis on conflict resolution, intractable conflicts, intercultural communication, and democracy. Dr. Ellis is the past editor of the journal Communication Theory and the author of numerous books and articles including Crafting Society: Ethnicity, Class, and Communication Theory, as well as Transforming Conflict: Communication Approaches to Ethnopolitical Conflict. His most recent book (2012) is Deliberative Communication and Ethnopolitical Conflict. He was a fellow at the Asch Center for the Study of Ethnopolitical Conflict at the University of Pennsylvania, and a Fulbright Scholar in Israel in 2004-2005. He participates in various national organizations and lectures and writes in the fields of communication, conflict resolution, intercultural communication, and related topics. Some recent publications are below.

In press. Reconciling intergroup conflict. Handbook of intergroup conflict. Howard Giles (Ed.)

2010 Donald G. Ellis, Argument and Ethnopolitical Conflict, Communication Methods and Measures, 4, 98-113.

2010 Donald G. Ellis, Democratic Argument and Deliberation Between Ethnopolitically Divided Groups, In Giles and Harwood (Eds.) Intergroup Communication (pp. 129-139). Peter Lang.

2010, Donald G Ellis. Online deliberation between Ethnopolitically divided groups. Landscapes of violence

2010 Donald G. Ellis and Yael Warshel, The Contributions of Communication and Media Studies to Peace Education, In G. Saloman and E. Cairns (Eds.) Peace Education (pp. 135-153)

2010, Donald G. Ellis, Intergroup Conflict, In C.R. Berger, M.E. Roloff, & D.R. Roskso-Ewoldsen (Eds.), Handbook of Communication Science, (pp. 291-308). Sage Publications

2008, Ifat Moaz & Donald G. Ellis, Intergroup Communication as a Predictor of Jewish-Israeli Agreement with Integrative Solutions to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: The Mediating Effects of Outgroup Trust and Guilt, Journal of Communication, 58, 490-507

2008, Ifat Maoz & Donald G. Ellis, Misperceptions and Miscommunication in Ethnopolitical Conflict. Encyclopedia of Violence, Peace and Conflict, (pp. 1-8). Elsevier.

2007, Donald G. Ellis & Ifat Maoz, Online Argument between Israeli-Jews and Palestinians. Human Communication Research, 33, 291-309.

Work for CID:

Donald Ellis wrote KC32: Ethno-Political Conflict.

Sara DeTurk Profile

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Sara DeTurk is a professor of communication at the University of Texas at San Antonio.

 

Her research focuses on education, training, dialogue, identity (especially whiteness), alliances across difference, and social change activism. Her doctoral dissertation (Arizona State University, 2004) was a phenomenological study of an intergroup dialogue program. She also holds an M.Ed. in international education and a B.A. in psychology. Her publications include the following:

DeTurk, S. (2019). Social and cultural diversity in training and group facilitation. In J. D. Wallace & D. Becker (Eds.), Handbook of Communication Training: A Framework for Assessing and Developing Competence (pp. 414-421). London: Routledge.

DeTurk, S., & Briscoe, F. (2019). Equity vs. excellence: Is “tier-one” status compatible with social justice? Journal of Hispanic Higher Education, 18 (2), 1-17.. DOI: 10.1177/1538192719836197

DeTurk, S. (2018). All students are special (though some are more special than others). In A. Atay and D. Trebing (Eds.), The discourse of “special populations”: Critical intercultural communication pedagogy and practice (pp. 11-22). New York, NY: Routledge.

DeTurk, S. (2017). Intercultural alliance. In Y. Y. Kim (Ed.), International Encyclopedia of Intercultural Communication. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley & Sons. Intercultural Communication. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons. DOI: 10.1002/9781118783665.ieicc0224

DeTurk, S. (2016). “The social conscience of the city”:  Strategies and challenges of a multi-issue social change organization.  In K. Sorrells & S. Sekimoto (Eds.), Globalizing intercultural communication (pp. 269-278). Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications.

DeTurk, S. (2015). Activism, alliance building, and the Esperanza Peace and Justice Center. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.

Kristjánsdóttir, E., & DeTurk, S. (2013). Cultural insiders to cultural outsiders: Structure, identity, and communication in the adaptation of domestic, involuntary migrants. Howard Journal of Communications, 24, 194-211.

DeTurk, S. (2011). “I need to know”:  Conditions that encourage and constrain intercultural dialogue.  Journal of Intergroup Relations, 35 (1), 37-60.

DeTurk, S. (2010). “Quit whining and tell me about your experiences!”:  (In)tolerance, pragmatism, and muting in intergroup dialogue. In R. T. Halualani & T. K. Nakayama (Eds.), The Handbook of Critical Intercultural Communication. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell.

DeTurk, S., &  Foster, E. (2008). Dialogue about dialogue:  Investigating intersubjectivity in interview research. Qualitative Research Journal, 8 (2), 14-27.

DeTurk, S. (2006).  The power of dialogue:  Consequences of intergroup dialogue and their implications for agency and alliance building.  Communication Quarterly, 54, 33-51.

Work for CID:

Sara DeTurk wrote Constructing Intercultural Dialogues #3: Intergroup Dialogue & Service Learning.

Yoshitaka Miike Profile

ProfilesYoshitaka Miike is Professor of Intercultural Communication at the University of Hawai‘i at Hilo, where he has been on the faculty since 2004 and chaired the Department of Communication from 2013 to 2015.

 

He is also Senior Fellow at the Molefi Kete Asante Institute for Afrocentric Studies. He specializes in Asian communication theory and philosophy, non-Western traditions of communication ethics, and Japanese culture and communication. He holds one of the first M.A.s in Communication Studies from Dokkyo University (Japan) and earned his Ph.D., with distinction, in Intercultural Communication from the University of New Mexico (USA). He received a 2004 Distinguished Scholarship Award from the International and Intercultural Communication Division (IICD) of the National Communication Association (NCA) for the 2003 Outstanding Article of the Year.

Dr. Miike is best known as the founding theorist of Asiacentricity. He co-edited The Handbook of Global Interventions in Communication Theory (Routledge, 2022) and The Global Intercultural Communication Reader (Routledge, 2008; 2014). He also guest-edited four journal special issues and themed section on Asian theories of communication. His original essays have appeared in a number of academic journals and scholarly books such as Communication Monographs, Communication Theory: The Asian Perspective, Encyclopedia of Identity, Handbook of Communication Science, Handbook of Critical Intercultural Communication, Howard Journal of Communications, Intercultural Communication: A Reader, International and Intercultural Communication Annual, International Encyclopedia of Communication Theory and Philosophy, Journal of International Communication, Keio Communication Review, Review of Communication, and Routledge Handbook of Cultural Discourse Studies. Some of his pioneering work has been translated into Chinese and Korean.

Dr. Miike was Chair (2013-2014) of the NCA’s IICD and a member (2012-2014) of the NCA’s Legislative Assembly. He was Review Article Editor of the Journal of Multicultural Discourses for 2011-2016 and the 3rd Vice President of the Pacific and Asian Communication Association for 2006-2008. He has served on the editorial boards of Bodhi: An Interdisciplinary Journal, China Media Research, Intercultural Communication Studies, International Encyclopedia of Intercultural Communication, Journal of Black Studies, Journal of Content, Community and Communication, Journal of International and Intercultural Communication, and Universal Write Publications. He has reviewed manuscripts for many national and international journals including Communication Yearbook, International Communication Gazette, Journal of Intercultural Communication Research, and Language and Intercultural Communication.

Selected Publications:

Miike, Y. (2024). Asiacentricity and the field of Asian communication theory: Today and tomorrow. In Shi-xu (Ed.), The Routledge handbook of cultural discourse studies (pp. 45-69). London, UK: Routledge.

Miike, Y. (2024). Culture as text and culture as theory: Asiacentricity and its raison d’être in intercultural communication research. In T. K. Nakayama & R. T. Halualani (Eds.), The handbook of critical intercultural communication (2nd ed., pp. 129-150). Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell.

Miike, Y. (2022). An anatomy of Eurocentrism in communication scholarship: The role of Asiacentricity in de-Westernizing theory and research. In W. Dissanayake (Ed.), Communication theory: The Asian perspective (2nd ed., pp. 255-278). Manila, Philippines: Asian Media Information and Communication Center.

Miike, Y. (2022). The question of Asianness in Asian communication studies: Notes on Asiacentricity and its critics. In Y. Miike & J. Yin (Eds.), The handbook of global interventions in communication theory (pp. 155-187). New York, NY: Routledge.

Miike, Y. (2022). What makes multicultural dialogue truly multicultural? Rethinking cultural convergence, theoretical globalism, and comparative Eurocentrism. Journal of Multicultural Discourses, 17(1), 34-43.

Miike, Y. (2019). Intercultural communication ethics: An Asiacentric perspective. Journal of International Communication, 25(2), 159-192.

Miike, Y. (2019). The Asiacentric idea in communication: Understanding the significance of a paradigm. Seinan Studies in English Language and Literature, 60(1), 49-73.

Miike, Y. (2018). Asiacentricity. In Y. Y. Kim (Ed.), The international encyclopedia of intercultural communication (Vol. 1, pp. 39-46). Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons.

Miike, Y. (2017). Between conflict and harmony in the human family: Asiacentricity and its ethical imperative for intercultural communication. In X. Dai & G.-M. Chen (Eds.), Conflict management and intercultural communication: The art of intercultural harmony (pp. 38-65). London, UK: Routledge.

Miike, Y. (2017). Non-Western theories of communication: Indigenous ideas and insights. In L. Chen (Ed.), Handbooks of communication science: Vol. 9. Intercultural communication (pp. 67-97). Berlin, Germany: De Gruyter Mouton.

Miike, Y. (2016). Asian communication studies at the crossroads: A view to the future from an Asiacentric framework. Journal of Content, Community and Communication, 3, 1-6.

Miike, Y. (2016). Theoretical perspectives on culture and communication: An Asiacentric bibliography. China Media Research, 12(4), 93-104.

Miike, Y. (2015). “Harmony without uniformity”: An Asiacentric worldview and its communicative implications. In L. A. Samovar, R. E. Porter, E. R. McDaniel, & C. S. Roy (Eds.), Intercultural communication: A reader (14th ed., pp. 27-41). Boston, MA: Cengage Learning.

Miike, Y., & Yin, J. (2015). Asiacentricity and shapes of the future: Envisioning the field of intercultural communication in the globalization era. In L. A. Samovar, R. E. Porter, E. R. McDaniel, & C. S. Roy (Eds.), Intercultural communication: A reader (14th ed., pp. 449-465). Boston, MA: Cengage Learning.

Miike, Y. (2014). The Asiacentric turn in Asian communication studies: Shifting paradigms and changing perspectives. In M. K. Asante, Y. Miike, & J. Yin (Eds.), The global intercultural communication reader (2nd ed., pp. 111-133). New York, NY: Routledge.

Miike, Y. (2014). Intercultural communication as a field of study: A selected bibliography of theory and research. In M. K. Asante, Y. Miike, & J. Yin (Eds.), The global intercultural communication reader (2nd ed., pp. 515-556). New York, NY: Routledge.

Asante, M. K., & Miike, Y. (2013). Paradigmatic issues in intercultural communication studies: An Afrocentric-Asiacentric dialogue. China Media Research, 9(3), 1-19.

Work for CID:

Yoshitaka Miike wrote the guest post, On Inheriting the Fields of International and Intercultural Communication: A Personal Reflection, and KC24: Asiacentricity. He translated KC24: Asiacentricity and KC23: Afrocentricity into Japanese, and has reviewed translations into Japanese.