About the contributors

Kelly Fudge Albada (PhD, The University of Texas at Austin) is an associate professor in the Department of Communication at North Carolina State University. Her research inter­ests include the influence of interpersonal and mediated communication on health com­munication and behavior, with a focus on messages about pregnancy, obesity, and body image.

Willow J. Anderson is an independent researcher and intercultural engagement con­sultant based out of St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. An alumna of the Japanese government-sponsored Ship for World Youth, Willow has a master’s degree in conflict resolution from the University of Bradford (England) and a Ph.D. in commu­nication from the University of New Mexico. Her diverse research interests range from peace and conflict communication to rural immigration to community building across cultural difference.

Dorothy C. Andreas (PhD, Texas A&M University, 2010) is an assistant professor in the Communication Division of Seaver College at Pepperdine University. Her research interests address the intersection of organizational, health, environmental, and conflict communication in ways that help explain how individuals, groups, and com­munities make sense of potential risks, coor­dinate different views, and determine how to respond.

Hassan Abu Bakar is a senior lecturer in the School of Multimedia Technology and Communication, Universiti Utara Malaysia. He is an active member of the International Communication Association and National Communication Association, based in the United States, and the Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management. His current research interests include dyadic relationships, supervisory communication, multilevel model­ing, and cultural context in workplace. To date, he has completed more than 12 research projects and published more than 10 articles in both local and international journals.

J. Kevin Barge (PhD, University of Kansas, 1985) is a professor of communication at Texas A&M University and an associate with the Taos Institute. His major research interests center on developing a social constructionist approach to leadership, articulating the con­nections between appreciative practice and organizational change, as well as exploring the relationship between discourse and public deliberation, specifically practices that facilitate communities working through polarized and polarizing issues. He has published articles on leadership, dialogue, and organizational change in The Academy of Management Review, Management Communication Quarterly, Human Relations, Communication Theory, Journal of Applied Communication Research, and Communication Monographs.

Gary Beck (PhD, University of Texas at Austin, 2010) is an assistant professor of communication at Old Dominion University (Norfolk, Virginia). His work has appeared in C ommunication Monographs, Personal Relationships, and Jo urnal of Social Psychology. His current research focuses on how communication promotes resilience in managing difficult life circumstances within relational and family contexts.

Keri Bolton Oetzel, PhD, MPH, is a board- certified clinical counselor, researcher, and consultant. She currently holds a voluntary appointment as Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Internal Medicine at the University of New Mexico. She works exten­sively alongside indigenous and underserved communities—including children, adoles­cents, families, and health care providers— within medical settings regarding behavior change. She is a member of the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers and provides training around the world in Motivational Interviewing.

Jeanne M. Brett is the DeWitt W. Buchanan Jr. Distinguished Professor of Dispute Resolution and Organizations and the Director of the Dispute Resolution Research Center, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois. Her ground­breaking research documents how negotia­tors from around the world use negotiation strategy differently, what causes these differ­ences, and how to adjust strategy to negoti­ate effectively around the world. She is the author of numerous journal articles, nego­tiation teaching materials, and two award­winning books: Getting Disputes Resolved (with William Ury and Stephen Goldberg) and Negotiating Globally. She initiated Kellogg’s MBA courses in negotiations in 1981 and in cross-cultural negotiations in 1994. She was a founder in 1986 and continues to be the direc­tor of Kellogg’s Dispute Resolution Research Center. She has received numerous career awards for her scholarship and has taught, consulted with, and coached negotiations to managers from some of the world’s largest global companies.

Benjamin J. Broome, PhD, is a profes­sor in the Hugh Downs School of Human Communication at Arizona State University, where he teaches courses in intercultural com­munication, intergroup conflict, and facilita­tion of dialogue. He has published books, journal articles, and book chapters on inter­active design, intercultural conflict, dialogue, peacebuilding, and facilitation. Using a set of theoretically grounded and experience- tested interactive methodologies and design processes, he has facilitated numerous work­shops in the United States, Europe, the east­ern Mediterranean, Mexico, and Australia, working with educational institutions, pol­icy centers, government agencies, corpora­tions, professional organizations, community groups, and Native American Tribes and orga­nizations.

Patrice M. Buzzanell (PhD, Purdue University) is a professor in the Brian Lamb School of Communication at Purdue University. She has published three books and more than 130 articles and chapters in areas such as gender and feminism, leadership, career, work-family, and resilience commu­nication theory and practice, as well as on children’s career aspirations. International Communication Association Fellow and National Communication Association Carroll C. Arnold Distinguished Lecturer, she has delivered keynote addresses around the globe. She currently co-advises an engi­neering team on women’s empowerment in Ghana through the Engineering Projects in Community Service (EPICS) at Purdue.

Deborah A. Cai is professor in the Department of Strategic Communication, faculty mem­ber in the Media and Communication doc­toral program in the School of Media and Communication, and Senior Associate Dean of the School of Media and Communication at Temple University. She is an interna­tionally recognized researcher specializing in intercultural communication, negotiation and conflict management, and persuasion. She studies social networks and relational obligations across cultures, in particular comparing China with Western cultures. She has published more than 35 articles and book chapters and is the editor of the Sage Benchmarks in Communication four-volume set, Intercultural Communication (2010). She is the current editor of Negotiation and Conflict Management Research.

Daniel J. Canary is a professor in the Hugh Downs School of Human Communication, Arizona State University. He has also taught at Penn State University, Ohio University, and California State University, Fullerton.

John P. Caughlin (PhD, University of Texas at Austin) is Conrad Professorial Scholar, Professor, and Associate Head of Communication at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He has published recently in journals such as C ommunication Monographs, Health Communication, Human Communication Research, and Journal of Social and Personal Relationships. His awards include the Brommel Award from the National Communication Association for contributions to family communica­tion, the Miller Early Career Achievement Award from the International Association for Relationship Research, the Arnold O. Beckman Research Award from the University of Illinois Research Board, and the Franklin H. Knower Article Award from the Interpersonal Communication Division of the National Communication Association.

George Cheney (PhD, Purdue University, 1985) is a professor of communication studies at Kent State University. Also, he is an asso­ciate investigator with the Ohio Employee Ownership Center there and an adjunct pro­fessor at the University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand. Previously, he taught at the universities of Illinois, Colorado, Montana, Utah, and Texas. Working solo or in col­laboration, George has published nine books and more than 100 articles, chapters, and reviews. His teaching and research are concentrated on the topics of identity and organization, participation and workplace democracy, communication and professional ethics, global marketization and consumer­ism, and the rhetoric of war and peace.

Rebecca J. Cline (PhD, The Pennsylvania State University) is a professor of communication studies at Kent State University. She has more than 30 years of experience in health commu­nication research, leadership, and graduate curriculum development.

Kristen L. Cole is a doctoral candidate in Communication at The University of New Mexico. She received her master’s degree in communication from Colorado State University. Her research interests include fem­inist, queer, and rhetorical approaches to media texts, particularly contemporary news, television, film, and online discourses. More specifically, she is interested in constructions of identity and enactments of agency within marginalized communities and how these are represented in mediated spaces. Her current projects include rhetorical analyses of repre­sentations of sexualities and kinship structures deemed taboo, such as Objectum Sexuality and plural marriage.

Stephen M. Croucher (PhD, University of Oklahoma, 2008) is a professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Jyvaskyla in Finland. He special­izes in intercultural communication and reli­gion. His work focuses on cultural adaptation, conflict, and religion. His book credits include Looking Beyond the Hijab and Religious Misperceptions. He has published articles in the Journal of International and Intercultural Communication, the International Journal of Conflict Management, Mass Communication and Society, Communication Studies, Communication Education, Communication Quarterly, and the Journal of Intercultural Communication Research. He has edited Speaker and Gavel and the Journal of Intercultural Communication Research.

Tenzin Dorjee (PhD, University of California, Santa Barbara) is an assistant professor at the Department of Human Communication Studies, California State University, Fullerton (CSUF). His primary teaching and research interests are in intergroup, intercultural, intergenerational communication, identity issues, peace building, and conflict resolu­tion. He has authored and coauthored arti­cles and chapters on Tibetan culture, identity, and communication, nonviolence and middle way approaches to Sino-Tibetan conflict, intergenerational communication context, and others. He is also a prominent native Tibetan translator who has translated for His Holiness the Dalai Lama. He was awarded the Teacher-Scholar Award in 2011 by CSUF.

Melodi A. Everett (MA, Western Michigan University) is currently working in marketing and consumer research in Detroit, Michigan. Her research interests include diversity within organizations, interracial conflict, and the impact of fatherlessness on the adult relation­ships of women of color.

Andrea Marie Feldpausch-Parker, PhD, is an assistant professor in the Department of Environmental Studies at the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry. Her research focuses on environmental communication with interests in conservation of natural resources through communication and cooperative learning among scientists, policymakers, and the gen­eral public. Her current focus is on climate change mitigation and adaptation strategies, with additional interests in natural resources management and policy, energy policy, pub­lic participation in environmental decision making, and social movements. Her publi­cations have appeared in journals such as Conservation Biology, Local Environment, and E nvironmental Communication: A Journal of Nature and Culture.

Edward L. Fink is professor of communica­tion, affiliate professor of sociology, affiliate professor of psychology, affiliate professor in the PhD Program on Second Language Acquisition, and a Distinguished Scholar­Teacher at the University of Maryland. His research involves creating and testing mathe­matical models of attitude, belief, and cultural processes, and quantitative research meth­ods and measurement. He coauthored The Measurement of Communication Processes and has published more than 60 articles and chapters in the communication, sociology, psychology, criminology, and health educa­tion literatures. From 1998 to 2000, he was editor of Human Communication Research, and from 1997 to 2007, he served as chair of Maryland’s Department of Communication.

Beth Fisher-Yoshida, PhD, CCS, is a facili­tator, educator, mediator, and coach, part­nering with clients to develop improved communication, relationships, and organi­zational performance. Clients include global organizations in the private, nonprofit, and government sectors; communities, school districts; and academic institutions. She is Director and Faculty of the Master of Science in Negotiation and Conflict Resolution and she cochairs the Advanced Consortium for Cooperation, Conflict and Complexity (AC4), both at Columbia University. She is a board member at the CMM Institute for Personal and Social Evolution. She writes on conflict resolution, intercultural communica­tions, transformative learning and coordi­nated management of meaning (CMM).

Courtney Vail Fletcher (PhD, University of New Mexico, 2009) is an assistant profes­sor in the Department of Communication Studies at the University of Portland and currently teaches courses related to interper­sonal communication, international develop­ment, eco-feminism, gender, and social media and culture. Her research focuses on the intersections of culture, conflict, and identity with an emphasis on romantic and interper­sonal relationships. She recently completed a grant-funded project that explored the re-creation and disruption of identity among youth in a postgenocidal Rwanda, while her dissertation explored cross-cultural dif­ferences in the romantic conflict styles of individuals in Uganda and Ethiopia. She is currently working on a grant-funded project that examines the effectiveness of online and mediated social discourses in a uni­versity classroom. She has taught at West Virginia University, the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, the University of New Mexico, and California State Polytechnic University. She is a trained mediator and relationship consultant and her most recent journal article was published in the Western Journal of Communication. She also enjoys using digital storytelling in her research and teaching and recently completed a 35-minute documentary about Nicaragua’s troubled relationship with the United States and the role that capitalism and neo-liberalism has played in the country’s struggle to develop. She lives in Portland, Oregon, with her red- bone coonhound, Ruby Tuesday, and three chickens, Goldie, Clooney, and Katniss.

Johny T. Garner (PhD, Texas A&M University) is an assistant professor in the Communication Studies Department at Texas Christian University. His work has appeared in a variety of journals including Management Communication Quarterly, Journal of Applied Communication Research, International Journal of Strategic Communication, Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, and Journal of Communication and Religion. His research focuses on conflict and dissent in organizations and communication in non­profit organizations.

Laura K. Guerrero is a professor in the Hugh Downs School of Human Communication at Arizona State University, Tempe. Her research focuses on relational, nonverbal, and emo­tional communication, with special empha­sis on the “dark” (jealousy, hurtful events, conflict) and “bright” (nonverbal intimacy, maintenance, forgiveness) sides of personal relationships. She is the recipient of research awards from the International Association for Relationship Research, the International Communication Association, and the Western States Communication Association. Her book credits include C lose Encounters: Communication in Relationships, Nonverbal Communication in Close Relationships, and The Handbook of Communication and Emotion.

Brian C. Gunia (PhD, Northwestern University) is an assistant professor at the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School. His research focuses on ethical decisions in orga­nizations. Currently, he is investigating the factors that lead people to take blame for col­lective mistakes, as well as other people’s reac­tions to blame-taking. Brian’s work has been published in the Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Journal of Applied Psychology, Negotiation and Conflict Management Research, and Annual Review of Psychology. His research has also been featured in such popular media outlets as The Boston Globe, The Chicago Tribune, The Los Angeles Times, Fox Business, and F orbes. Brian’s dissertation received the best student paper award from the International Association of Conflict Management and the Academy of Management’s Conflict Management Division.

Min Jiang (PhD, Purdue University) is an assistant professor of communication at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and an affiliate researcher at the Center for Global Communication Studies, University of Pennsylvania. She has published 12 jour­nal articles and book chapters in the areas of Chinese Internet politics, social activism, media policies, and international relations. She has given talks at Harvard University, Oxford University, Johns Hopkins University, and the French Institute of International Relations, among others. Prior to pursing her doctorate in the United States, she had worked as an international news editor at Chinese Central Television and as an assis­tant to director for Kill Bill Vol.I in her native country, China.

Tricia S. Jones is a professor of adult and orga­nizational development in the Department of Psychological Studies in Education at Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Dr. Jones is the project director of the Conflict Resolution Education in Teacher Education (CRETE) project funded by the U.S. Department of Education’s FIPSE program (Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education), the George Gund Foundation, the JAMS Foundation, and the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. Dr. Jones is a member of the Peace Education Reference Group for the Global Partnership for the Prevention of Armed Conflict (GPPAC).

Jessica Katz Jameson (PhD, Temple University) is an associate professor in the Department of Communication at North Carolina State University. Her research emphasis is in organizational communica­tion and conflict management. Her current projects include studies of communication in mediation and community-based research on nonprofit board communication and gover­nance.

Erika L. Kirby (PhD, University of Nebraska-Lincoln) is Professor and Chair of Communication Studies at Creighton University. A teacher-scholar of orga­nizational communication, she stud­ies the everyday intersections of working and personal life, emphasizing how dif­fering social identities (especially gender) assimilate into/collide with organizations. She coedited G ender Actualized: Cases in Communicatively Constructing Realities (with Chad McBride) and has also published in C ommunication Monographs, Journal of Applied Communication Research, Management Communication Quarterly, and Communication Yearbook. She is a past president of the Organization for the Study of Communication, Language, and Gender. She lives in Omaha, Nebraska, with her partner Bob and daughters Meredith and Samantha.

Ascan F. Koerner (PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison) is an associate professor of communication studies at the University of Minnesota. His research focuses mainly on family communication patterns and the cognitive representations of relationships and their influence on interpersonal communica­tion, including message production and mes­sage interpretations. His secondary research interests include evolutionary psychology and interpersonal influence. His research has appeared in communication journals, such as Co mmunication Monographs, Communication Theory, and Human Communication Research; in interdisciplin­ary journals, such as the Journal of Marriage and Family and the Journal of Social and Personal Relationships; and a number of edited volumes.

Young Yun Kim (PhD, Northwestern University) is Professor of Communication at the University of Oklahoma. Her main research aim has been to establish the cen­trality of communicative engagement in the cross-cultural adaptation process. Her more recent research program investigates the psy­chological, situational, and environmental factors influencing an individual’s interethnic association/dissociation. Kim has published more than 100 journal articles and book chapters as well as 11 books, including Becoming Intercultural and Communicating With Strangers (with W. Gudykunst). She is a Fellow of the International Communication Association, a recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award from the ICA Intercultural Communication Division, and President-Elect of the International Academy for Intercultural Research.

Sandra G. Lakey (PhD, The Pennsylvania State University) is an associate professor of com­munication and composition and head of the Communication and Literature Department at Pennsylvania College of Technology. She previously taught at Lycoming College and C. S. Mott Community College. Her research interests include conflict communication, communication competence, and classroom communication. Her other interests include continuing to learn and spending time in Maine. She earned her Ph.D. in interpersonal communication from the Pennsylvania State University and degrees in English education from Indiana University of Pennsylvania.

Stephen W. Littlejohn was a professor of com­munication for 26 years at Humboldt State University in California. He now serves as a lecturer for communication and journalism at the University of New Mexico, where he teaches courses in mediation and interpersonal communication. He has published widely on topics related to communication, conflict, and dialogue. In addition to Theories of Human Communication, now in its 10th edition, he is coauthor of M oral Conflict: When Social Worlds Collide; Engaging Communication in Conflict: Systemic Practice; Communication, Conflict, and the Management of Difference; and Communication and the Management of Face: From Theory to Practice. He recently coedited the Sage Encyclopedia of Communication Theory. As a communica­tion consultant, he facilitates planning and decision-making processes in educational insti­tutions, communities, corporations, and agen­cies. He works as a mediator with individuals, groups, and organizations throughout the United States and abroad to create constructive dialogue and effective conflict management.

Julie E. Lucero is the Associate Director of the University of New Mexico’s Center for Participatory Research—a center dedi­cated to increasing knowledge, awareness, and benefits of community-based participa­tory research. Her research is focused on participatory partnership dynamics, health communication ethics, and social deter­minants of health. Her publications have appeared in journals such as Jo urnal of Health Communication, Health Education Research, AIDS Education and Prevention, and Ps ychological Services. Raised in Espanola, New Mexico, Julie is committed to serving communities that endure health inequalities while promoting ethical research approaches for action.

Pamela Lutgen-Sandvik (PhD, Arizona State University) is an associate professor of orga­nizational communication in the Department of Communication and Journalism at the University of New Mexico. She researches workplace bullying and employee emotional abuse, as well as positive organizational com­munication and how these might interact.

Kirstie McAllum (PhD, University of Waikato) is a lecturer in management communication at the University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand. Her research interests include volunteering, the impact of professionalism on nonprofit organizing, and conflict, dis­sent, and collaboration within nontraditional organizations. She has published articles in Communication Yearbook and Management Communication Quarterly.

M. Chad McBride (PhD, University of Nebraska-Lincoln) is an associate profes­sor of communication studies at Creighton University. His broad research interest is how people communicatively construct situated identities within relational networks and larger social culture. His work has been pub­lished in J ournal of Family Communication, Southern Communication Journal, Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, Communication Studies, and so on. He also has a coedited volume, G ender Actualized: Cases in Communicatively Constructing Realities (with Erika Kirby). He has also served on the board of the Organization for the Study of Communication, Language, and Gender and is currently that organization’s Communication Coordinator.

Robert M. McCann (PhD, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2003) is the Associate Dean of Global Initiatives at the UCLA Anderson School of Management, where he is also on the Management & Organizations faculty. His research interests focus on the intersection of communication and ageism, particularly in workplace con­texts and across Asia. Professor McCann’s latest book, titled Ageism at Work: The Role of Communication in a Changing Workplace (2012), is now out in English, Spanish, and Catalan from the Europe-based publisher Editorial Aresta. He serves on the executive editorial board of the Journal of Asian Pacific Communication. He lived in Thailand for nearly 20 years.

Sylvia L. Mikucki-Enyart is an assistant professor at University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point. Her research examines communication in families, focusing on uncertainty and inter­action goals during family transitions. Her work has appeared in publications such as the Handbook of Relationship Initiation and journals such as Communication Monographs and J ournal of Family Communication.

Mark P. Orbe (PhD, Ohio University) is Professor of Communication & Diversity in the School of Communication at Western Michigan University, where he also holds a joint appointment in Gender and Women’s Studies. His research and teaching interests center on exploring the inextricable relation­ship between culture, power, and communi­cation across multiple contexts.

Tarla Rai Peterson, PhD, is the Boone and CrocketProfessorofWildlifeandConservation Policy at Texas A&M University, guest pro­fessor of environmental communication at Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, and adjunct professor of communication at University of Utah. She studies intersec­tions between communication, environmen­tal policy, and democracy, with the goal of facilitating community-based conservation that contributes to sustainable public policy. Her research centers on how communica­tion enables/constrains interactions among humans, as well as between humans and the larger biophysical community. She has pub­lished articles and book chapters in numer­ous academic and trade outlets. Her books include Sharing the Earth: The Rhetoric of Sustainable Development, Green Talk in the White House: The Rhetorical Presidency Encounters Ecology, and S ocial Movement to Address Climate Change: Local Steps for Global Action.

Marshall Scott Poole (PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1980) is Professor of Communication and director of the Institute for Computing in the Humanities, Arts, and Social Science at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. He has authored more than 150 articles, book chapters, and pro­ceedings publications. He has coauthored or edited 11 books, including Organizational Change and Innovation Processes: Theory and Methods for Research and The Handbook of Organizational Change and Innovation. His current research interests include team behavior in online games, communication in emergency response, and integrating theories of small groups and social networks in the explanation of large, dynamically changing groups and intergroup networks.

Angela L. Putman (MA, Western Michigan University) is currently a doctoral student in the Department of Communication and Journalism at the University of New Mexico. Her research, which focuses on race/ethnicity, culture, and communication, has been pub­lished in The International and Intercultural Communication Annual and presented at var­ious National Communication Association conventions.

Linda L.Putnam (PhD, University of Minnesota, 1977) is Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her current research interests include negotiation and organizational con­flict, discourse analysis in organizations, and gender and organizational communication. She is the recipient of the 2012 Samuel L. Becker Distinguished Service Award from the National Communication Association, the 2012 Lifetime Achievement Award from Management Communication Quarterly, and the 2011 Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Association for Conflict Management. She is also a Distinguished Scholar of the National Communication Association and a Fellow of the International Communication Association.

Michael E. Roloff (PhD, Michigan State University, 1975) is Professor of Communication Studies at Northwestern University. His research interests include bar­gaining and negotiation, and conflict man­agement. He is the author of Interpersonal Communication: The Social Exchange Approach and coeditor of Persuasion: New Directions in Theory and Research, Interpersonal Processes: New Directions in Communication Research, Social Cognition and Communication, and C ommunication and Negotiation. His work has been pub­lished in journals such as Communication Monographs, Communication Research, and Human Communication Research. He is senior associate editor of the International Journal of Conflict Management and coeditor of C ommunication Research.

Alan L. Sillars (PhD, University of Wisconsin, 1980) is Professor of Communication Studies at the University of Montana. His research focuses on conflict and interpersonal percep­tion, particularly in the context of family relationships. Sillars has published numer­ous articles and chapters on these topics and twice received the Franklin H. Knower article award from the National Communication Association for his work on family conflict.

Mary Simpson (PhD, University of Waikato) is a senior lecturer in management com­munication at the University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand. Her research inter­ests include the marketization of ageing, communication between organizations and elders, and facilitation in managing con­flict. She has published articles in D iscourse and Communication, Work Employment and Society, and Management Communication Quarterly.

Cynthia Stohl is Professor of Communication at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her work focuses on organizing and network processes across global contexts, including multinational teams, corporate-NGO part­nerships, and the contemporary global social justice movement. Her empirical studies span several countries in Europe and Asia and the United States. She is the author of more than 90 research articles and two books—Organizational Communication: Connectedness in Action (Sage, 1995) and Collective Action in Organizations: Interaction and Engagement in an Era of Technological Change (coauthored with Bruce Bimber and Andrew Flanagin; Cambridge University Press, 2012). Stohl is a Fellow of the International Communication Association and President of the International Communication Association.

Brian H. Spitzberg (PhD, University of Southern California, 1981) is currently Senate Distinguished Professor in the School of Communication at San Diego State University. He is the honoree of the 2011 National Communication Association Larry Kibler Memorial Award and the 2009 Western States Communication Association Scholar Award for lifetime contribution to the discipline. His 1994 coauthored book The Dark Side of Relationship Pursuit: From Attraction to Obsession and Stalking won the biennial International Association for Relationship Research Book Award in 1996. He is author or coauthor of more than 100 scholarly articles and book chapters and has coauthored or coedited several scholarly books on communication competence and the dark side of communication.

Brosh M. Teucher (PhD, University of Washington, Seattle) is an assistant professor of business administration and accounting at Saint Michael’s College, Colchester, Vermont. His research focuses on the impact of national culture and individual factors on negotiation and dispute resolution processes and outcomes. He also studies the impact of organizational culture on stock prices. At Saint Michael’s, he teaches management and negotiations. Prior to joining Saint Michael’s, he served as a visiting assistant professor of management and organi­zations at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, where he taught negotiations and cross-cultural negotiations MBA courses. Prior to joining Kellogg, taught negotiations, management, and human resources courses at the MBA and EMBA levels in Costa Rica, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Panama, and Peru for INCAE Business School, Costa Rica.

Anita L. Vangelisti is the Jesse H. Jones Centennial Professor of Communication at the University of Texas at Austin. Her work focuses on the associations between communication and emotion in the context of close, personal relationships. She has published numerous arti­cles and chapters and has edited or authored several books, including the The Routledge Handbook of Family Communication and the The Cambridge Handbook of Personal Relationships. Vangelisti has received recog­nition for her research from the National Communication Association, the International Society for the Study of Personal Relationships, and the International Association for Relationship Research and served as presi­dent of the International Association for Relationship Research.

Nina B. Wallerstein, DrPH, is a professor of public health in the Department of Family and Community Medicine; Director of the Center for Participatory Research, Office of Community Health; and a Senior Fellow for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy Center at University of New Mexico. For more than 30 years, she has been involved in empowerment/popular educa­tion, and participatory research with youth, women, tribes, and healthy community and health coalition interventions. Her research focuses on tribal community assessments and capacity development, culturally centered translational intervention research to reduce health disparities, participatory evaluation, and the science of community-based partici­patory research processes and outcomes.

Qi Wang (PhD, University of Maryland) is assistant professor in the Department of Communication at Villanova University. Her research interests focus on interpersonal and intercultural communication, with special interest in conflict management. Her research has appeared in journals such as Human Communication Research, Communication Quarterly, and Journal of Public Relations Research.

Stacey M. B. Wieland (PhD, University of Colorado, Boulder) is an assistant professor of communication at Western Michigan University. She uses critical and qualitative approaches to study meanings of work, work-life issues, and intersections between identity, culture, and work. She has published several book chapters and articles, which appear in journals such as C ommunication Monographs, Management Communication Quarterly, and C ommunication Theory. Her dissertation won the 2008 W. Charles Redding Dissertation Award from the International Communication Association, and her article “Ideal Selves as Resources for the Situated Practice of Identity” was Management Communication Quarterly’s Article of the Year in 2010.

Courtney N. Wright (PhD, Northwestern University, 2008) is an assistant professor in the School of Communication Studies at the University of Tennessee (Knoxville). Her research interests focus on relational communication and conflict management in close relationships and instructional contexts.