Todd Sandel (Ph.D., University of Illinois) is Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Macau, past Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of International and Intercultural Communication, (2017-2020) and Associate Editor, Communication Monographs (2026-2029).
He was a Fulbright Scholar to Taiwan 2007-2008, and in 2015 authored the book, Brides on Sale: Taiwanese Cross Border Marriages in a Globalizing Asia, for which he received the “Outstanding Book Award” from the International & Intercultural Division of the National Communication Association (NCA). Sandel has served as Chair of the Language & Social Interaction Division of NCA, President of the Association for Chinese Communication Studies, and Secretary of the Language & Social Interaction (LSI) Division of the International Communication Association (ICA). He is interested in studying “communication in context,” working with students and colleagues with data collected in such places as Belarus, Bhutan, China, Indonesia, and Macau. Recent work has been published in such journals as Asian Studies Review, Discourse, Context & Media, Chinese Journal of Communication, Journal of Gender Studies, and International Journal of Multilingualism.
Select Publications
Cao, X., Sandel, T. L. (2026). Personal mourning in the “home letter”: Contextualization, living-dead communication, and a co-constructed afterlife. Discourse, Context & Media, 72, 1-11, 101031.
Dinerstein, A., & Sandel, T. L. (2024). Transforming culture through “communication” (rituals): The “banality” of public creativity in Belarus. Journal of International and Intercultural Communication, 17(3), 269-292.
Sandel, T. L., & Lie, S. (2025). “Marriage is like gambling”: Interpreting and narrating stories of Chinese Indonesians’ marriage migration. Asian Studies Review, 49(2), 272-291.
Sandel, T. L., Wang, Y., & Ming, X. (2025). How vernacular languages create humour on China’s social media: A linguistic and multimodal analysis. International Journal of Multilingualism, 22(3), 1520-1539.
Wangchuk, D., & Sandel, T. L. (2026). “Listen to the Lama”: Analysing Bhutan’s digital media and online religious practices. In C. Tagg, K. Giaxoglou & K. V. Lexander (Eds.), The Routledge handbook of language and social media (pp. 499-512). Routledge.
Yu, Y., Sandel, T. L., & Chan, T. F. (2025). Media representations of the “little fresh meat” phenomenon in China: A feminist critical discourse analysis of the masculine nonconformity discourse. Journal of Gender Studies, 34(1), 59-71.
Work for CID:
Todd Sandel wrote KC59: Teng, and described his Fulbright experience. He was 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, and one of the organizers of the Roundtable on Intercultural Dialogue in Asia, co-sponsored by CID. He currently serves on the CID Advisory Board.
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