Tag: Soumia Bardhan

CFP Internationalizing the Communication Curriculum

Publication OpportunitiesCALL for Proposals: “Internationalizing the Communication Curriculum in an Age of Globalization:  Why, What, and How.” Abstracts due: May 1, 2018.

Author/Editors: Paaige K. Turner, Ph.D. Soumia Bardhan, Ph.D. Tracey Quigley Holden, Ph.D., Eddah Mbula Mutua, Ph.D.

Universities around the world have begun to participate in the higher education internationalization process in diverse ways, including expanded recruitment of international students, study-abroad programs, dual/joint degrees, and the development of international branch campuses. In the United states, student mobility will more than double from three to more than seven million annually from 2000 to 2025 (Banks et al. 2007; Haddad 2006). Given this trend of globalization and its resulting internationalization of our campuses, it is a timely mandate that we review the current trends in the Communication curriculum and modify it appropriately to adjust to the new global environment.

The goal of this book, therefore, is to facilitate internationalization of the communication discipline in an era of globalization. Section 1 of the book discusses the theoretical perspectives of globalism, internationalization, and the current state of the Communication discipline and curriculum. Section 2 offers a comprehensive understanding of the role, ways, and impact of internationalizing teaching, learning, and research in diverse areas of study in Communication, including travel programs and initiatives to bring internationalization to the classroom. The pieces in this section will include research-based articles, case studies, analytical reviews that examine key questions about the field, and themed pieces for dialogue/debate on current and future teaching and learning issues related to internationalizing the Communication discipline/curriculum. Section 3 provides an extensive sampling of materials and resources for immediate use in internationalization in communication studies; sample syllabi, activities, examples, and readings will be included. In sum, our book is designed to enable communication curriculum and communication courses in other disciplines to be internationalized and to offer different approaches to enable faculty, students, and administrators to incorporate and experience an internationalized curriculum regardless of time and financial limitations.
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Study Abroad: Intercultural Communication in France/Spain

Study AbroadIntercultural Communication: Jan. 2018 Faculty-Led Travel Course in France and Spain. December 31, 2017 – January 13, 2018 (Paris, Aix-en-Provence, Marseille, Granada, Seville, Cordoba, and Madrid). Admission is competitive, deadline for registration is Oct. 1, 2017.

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The department of communication studies at Kansas State University is offering a two-week, faculty-led, travel course in France and Spain for undergraduates and graduate students in all majors interested in an academic and intercultural experience in a foreign culture.

The course, directed by Professor Soumia Bardhan, may be taken as COMM 480: Intercultural/International Communication, three credits, or COMM 799: Problems in Intercultural/International Communication, three to six credits, independent study. The program kicks off with a welcome reception in Paris on Jan. 1, 2018, and concludes in Madrid on Jan. 13, 2018. It features field trips to Aix-en-Provence and Marseille in southern France, and Granada, Seville and Cordoba in southern Spain.

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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.