Rutgers University – Center for Intercultural Dialogue

Rutgers U: Organizational Communication (USA)

Tenure-Track/Tenured Faculty Position in Organizational Communication, Rutgers University, NJ, USA. Deadline: Review begins 1 October 2024.

The Department of Communication at Rutgers University’s School of Communication and Information seeks a full-time faculty member in organizational communication. The search is open-rank and the appointment will begin Fall 2025.

They seek a social scientist using organizational communication theories to understand how organizations engage diverse stakeholders. The candidate should have a research program that is theory-driven, empirical, and communication-centered. The ideal candidate would emphasize strategic communication, policy, and/or applied challenges. Additionally, experience leading or working in research partnerships in the public, private, or nonprofit sectors is a plus.

Applicants’ scholarship and teaching could focus on a variety of issues in the field, including but not limited to:
• Information and communication technology, including emerging technology and social media
• Crisis communication and organizing in disaster contexts
• Corporate communication, including corporate social responsibility
• Cross-sector partnerships (public, private and non-profit sectors)
• Global teams and global organizational communication
• Organizational resilience and community well-being
• Organizational leadership

Steven Darian Profile

Steven Darian is Professor Emeritus, Rutgers University, Camden, NJ.

Steven Darian

Darian’s Ph.D. is from New York University, in Applied Linguistics. He has used language as his Archimedes fulcrum, to dig into everything from science to religion. He has taught at the University of Pennsylvania and Columbia University. He has been lucky enough to have had 3 Fulbrights, and has lived, worked, and studied in 9 or 10 countries. He has written a dozen books, both scholarly and popular; the last one being The Wanderer: Travels & Adventures Beyond the Pale. The next, The Heretic’s Book of Death & Laughter: The Role of Religion in Just About Everything, is due out later this year.

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Steven Darian wrote a guest post, and described his Fulbright experience in Uzbekistan, 1997-1998.

Steven Darian Fulbright

Steven Darian, Professor emeritus at Rutgers University, has sent in a description of his Fulbright experience in Uzbekistan, 1997-1998. Details follow.

Steven Darian The Fulbright was for someone to teach courses in management at the Tashkent Institute of Finance. I had a keen cultural interest in Central Asia, but my Ph.D. was in Applied Linguistics, & most of my teaching dealt with the English language, with courses like applied linguistics, fiction, & non-fiction writing, I also taught an MBA course in business communication. In my Fulbright application, I stressed the fact that an American business professor teaching in a place like Tashkent would be faced with serious comprehension problems from his students, especially since management has its share of jargon and technical terms. I offered to prepare a book for management students who were also nonnative speakers of English. I was also lucky enough to have had a previous Fulbright, plus several other long-term overseas ESL teaching assignments (in Afghanistan, Saudi, & Indonesia). At any rate, the Fulbright came through, and I arrived in Tashkent with copies of the book (later published as English for Decision-Makers: A Course in Modern Management).