VITA

  ARTHUR P. BOCHNER

Department of Communication

University of South Florida

Tampa, FL  33620

    (813) 974-6821

AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION & INTEREST

Interpersonal Communication; Close Relationships, Communication Theory, Philosophy of Communication, Marital and Family Communication, Aging and Health, Interpretive Studies, Qualitative Research, Narrative Inquiry.

EDUCATION

Ph.D., Communication, Bowling Green State University, 1971

M.A.,  Speech Communication, Syracuse University, 1969

B.S.,  Speech Communication, California State University (PA), 1968

ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT

Professor, Department of Communication, University of South Florida, August, 1984 to present.

Co-Director, Institute for Interpretive Human Studies, College of Arts & Sciences, 1990-present.

Professor, Joint Appointment, College of Education, Department of Special Education; Graduate Faculty, Institute on Aging; Courtesy Appointment, Department of Gerontology, USF, 1994-present.

Chairperson, Department of Communication, University of South Florida, July, 1985 to August 6, 1991; August 7, 1994 to August 5, 1996.

Visiting Professor, Department of Communication, University of South Florida, May 1984 to June, 1984.

Professor, Department of Speech, Temple University, 1982 to May, 1984.

Visiting Professor, Michigan State University, Winter, 1980.

Associate Professor, Department of Speech, Temple University, 1977 to 1982.

Assistant Professor, Department of Speech, Temple University, 1974 to 1977.

Assistant Professor, Department of Communication, Cleveland State  University, 1971 to 1974.

PUBLICATIONS

1.  Books

Arthur P. Bochner and Carolyn Ellis (Eds.), ETHNOGRAPHICALLY SPEAKING: AUTOETHNOGRAPHY, LITERATURE, & AESTHETICS.  Walnut Creek, CA.: 2002.

Carolyn Ellis and Arthur P. Bochner (Eds.), COMPOSING ETHNOGRAPHY: ALTERNATIVE FORMS OF QUALITATIVE WRITING. Walnut Creek, Cal.: Altamira Press (1996).

Janet Yerby, Nancy Buerkele-Rothfuss, and Arthur P. Bochner, UNDERSTANDING FAMILY COMMUNICATION.  Scottsdale, Ariz.: Gorsuch, INC. 1990.  2nd edition (revised), 1995.

2.  Edited Special Issues of Journals

Marjatta Saarnivaara and Arthur P. Bochner (eds.), “The Arts and Narrative Inquiry,” Special Issue of Qualitative Inquiry  (To be published October 2003).

Carolyn Ellis and Arthur P. Bochner (eds.), "Taking Ethnography into the Twenty-First Century," Special Issue of Journal of Contemporary Ethnography (April 1996).

Arthur P. Bochner (ed.), "Family Communication," Special Issue of  Journal of Applied Communication Research, Volume 17, Nos. 1 & 2, 1989.

3.  Chapters in Books

Arthur P. Bochner, “Letters from Tampa,” In N. Denzin (Ed.) STUDIES IN SYMBOLIC INTERACTION, 2003, Elsevier Press, (accepted for publication).

Arthur P. Bochner, “Interpretive Perspectives,” in J. Paul (Ed.) RESEARCH AND INQUIRY IN EDUCATION AND THE SOCIAL SCIENCES: PHILOSOPHICAL AND CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES.  Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Prentice Hall, 2003 (in production).

Arthur P. Bochner, “Response to Ellis,” in J. Paul (Ed.) RESEARCH AND INQUIRY IN EDUCATION AND THE SOCIAL SCIENCES: PHILOSOPHICAL AND CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES.  Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Prentice Hall, 2003 (in production).

Arthur P. Bochner, “Response to Sullivan,” in J. Paul (Ed.) RESEARCH AND INQUIRY IN EDUCATION AND THE SOCIAL SCIENCES: PHILOSOPHICAL AND CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES.  Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Prentice Hall, 2003 (in production).

Arthur P. Bochner, “Response to Alexander,” in J. Paul (Ed.) RESEARCH AND INQUIRY IN EDUCATION AND THE SOCIAL SCIENCES: PHILOSOPHICAL AND CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES.  Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Prentice Hall, 2003 (in production).

Arthur P. Bochner, “Response to Heath,” in J. Paul (Ed.) RESEARCH AND INQUIRY IN EDUCATION AND THE SOCIAL SCIENCES: PHILOSOPHICAL AND CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES.  Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Prentice Hall, 2003 (in production).

Arthur P. Bochner, “Response to Raudenbush, Rowan, & Cheong,” in J. Paul (Ed.) RESEARCH AND INQUIRY IN EDUCATION AND THE SOCIAL SCIENCES: PHILOSOPHICAL AND CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES.  Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Prentice Hall, 2003 (in production).

Arthur P. Bochner, “Response to Carr, Levin, McConnachie, Carlson, Kemp, Smith & McLaughlin,” in J. Paul (Ed.) RESEARCH AND INQUIRY IN EDUCATION AND THE SOCIAL SCIENCES: PHILOSOPHICAL AND CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES.  Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Prentice Hall, 2003 (in production).

Jane Jorgenson and Arthur P. Bochner, “Imagining Families Through Stories and Rituals,” in A. Vangelisti (Ed.) THE HANDBOOK OF FAMILY COMMUNICATION.  Mahweh, New Jersey: Lawrence Earlbaum, Inc.  (Scheduled for publication in 2003).

Arthur P. Bochner, “Perspectives on Inquiry III.: The Moral of Stories,” in M. Knapp and J. Daley (Eds.) THE HANDBOOK OF INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION (3RD Edition), 2002, Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 73-101.

Carolyn Ellis, Arthur P. Bochner, and Norman K. Denzin, “Symbolic Interaction in Retrospect: A Conversation with Norman Denzin, in N. Denzin (Ed.) STUDIES IN SYMBOLIC INTERACTION, Volume 25, 2002, 179-198.   

Arthur P. Bochner and Carolyn Ellis, “How Does a Conference Begin?” in ETHNOGRAPHICALLY SPEAKING: AUTOETHNOGRAPHY, LITERATURE & AESTHETICS, A. Bochner & C..Ellis (Eds.), AltaMira Press, 2002, 1-10.

Arthur P. Bochner and Janis Hocker Rushing, “Breathing Life Into Work,” in ETHNOGRAPHICALLY SPEAKING: AUTOETHNOGRAPHY, LITERATURE & AESTHETICS, A. Bochner & C. Ellis (Eds.), AltaMira Press, 2002, 150-164.

Carolyn Ellis & Arthur P. Bochner, “When Does a Conference End?” in ETHNOGRAPHICALLY SPEAKING: AUTOETHNOGRAPHY, LITERATURE & AESTHETICS, A. Bochner & Carolyn Ellis (Eds.), AltaMira Press, 2002, 388-392.

Carolyn Ellis and Arthur P. Bochner, “Writing from the   Periphery,” in S. Cole (Ed.) WHAT’S WRONG WITH SOCIOLOGY, Transactions Press, 2001, 341-372.

Arthur P. Bochner, Carolyn Ellis, and Lisa Tillmann-Healy, “Relationships as Stories: Accounts, Storied Lives, Evocative Narratives,” (rev. version), in Kathryn Dindia and Steve Duck (Eds.) COMMUNICATION IN PERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS. Sussex, England: John Wiley and Sons, 2000.

Carolyn Ellis and Arthur P. Bochner, “Autoethnography,   Personal Narrative, Reflexivity: Researcher As Subject,” in N. Denzin and Y. Lincoln (eds.) THE HANDBOOK OF QUALITATIVE RESEARCH (2ND EDITION).  Thousand Oaks, Ca.: Sage, 2000, pp. 733-768.

Arthur P. Bochner, “Storied Lives: Recovering the Moral  Importance of Social Theory,” in J. Trent (Ed.) COMMUNICATION: VIEWS FROM THE HELM FOR THE 21ST CENTURY. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1998, 345-350.

Arthur P. Bochner, Carolyn Ellis, and Lisa Tillmann-Healy, "Mucking Around Looking For Truth," in B. Montgomery and L. Baxter (eds.) DIALECTICAL APPROACHES TO STUDYING PERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS. Mahwah, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1998, 41-62.

Arthur P. Bochner and Carolyn Ellis, “Editors’ Introduction.” In Annette N. Markham, LIFE 0NLINE: RESEARCHING REAL EXPERIENCE IN VIRTUAL SPACE. Walnut Creek, CA.: AltaMira Press, 1998.

Arthur P. Bochner and Carolyn Ellis, “Editors’ Introduction.”  In Anna Banks & Stephen P. Banks (eds.) FICTION AND SOCIAL RESEARCH: BY FIRE OR WATER.  Walnut Creek, CA.: AltaMira Press, 1998.

Carolyn Ellis and Arthur P. Bochner, “Editors’ Introduction.”  In Stacy Holman Jones, KALEIDOSCOPE NOTES: WRITING WOMEN’S MUSIC AND ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE.  Walnut Creek, CA.: AltaMira Press, 1998.

Carolyn Ellis and Arthur P. Bochner, “Editors’ Introduction.”  In Michael V. Angrosino, OPPORTUNITY HOUSE: ETHNOGRAPHIC STORIES OF MENTAL RETARDATION.  Walnut Creek, CA.: AltaMira Press, 1998.

Arthur P. Bochner, Carolyn Ellis, and Lisa Tillmann-Healy, Relationships as Stories," in  S. Duck (Ed.) HANDBOOK OF PERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS. Sussex, England: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 1996, 307-324.

Arthur P. Bochner, "Foreword," in T. Socha and G. Stamp (Eds.) PARENTS, CHILDREN AND COMMUNICATION, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1995, pp. vii-viii.

Arthur P. Bochner and Carolyn Ellis, "Telling and Living: Narrative Co-Construction and the Practices of Interpersonal Relationships," in W. Leeds-Hurwitz (ed.) COMMUNICATION AS SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION: SOCIAL APPROACHES TO THE STUDY OF INTERPERSONAL INTERACTION, Guilford Publications, 1995, 201-213.       

Arthur P. Bochner and Joanne B. Waugh, "Talking-with as a Model for Writing About: Implications of Rortian Pragmatism for Communication Theory," in L. Langsdorf and A. Smith (Eds.)RECOVERING PRAGMATISM'S VOICE: THE CLASSICAL TRADITION AND THE PHILOSOPHY OF COMMUNICATION, SUNY Press, 1995, 211-233.

Arthur P. Bochner, "Perspectives on Inquiry II: Theories and Stories," in M. Knapp and G. R. Miller (Eds.) HANDBOOK OF INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION (2nd ed.), 1994, Sage Publications, 21-41.

Carolyn Ellis and Arthur P. Bochner, "Telling and Performing Personal Stories: The Constraints of Choice in Abortion," in C. Ellis and M. Flaherty (Eds.) ON SUBJECTIVITY: WINDOWS ON LIVED EXPERIENCE, Sage Publication, 1991, pp. 79-101.

Arthur P. Bochner, Kenneth Cissna, and Michael Garko, "Optional Metaphors for Studying Interaction," in B. Montgomery and S. Duck (Eds.) STUDYING INTERPERSONAL INTERACTION, Guilford Press, 1991, pp. 16-35 (lead essay).

Arthur P. Bochner, "On the Paradigm That Would Not Die," in J. Andersen (Ed.), COMMUNICATION YEARBOOK 14, Sage Publications, 1991, 484-491.

Arthur P. Bochner, "Preface," in Wendy Leeds-Hurwitz, SOCIAL COMMUNICATION, Ablex Publishing Corp., 1989, xv-xix.

Arthur P. Bochner, "Interpersonal Communication," in Erik Barnouw (Ed.) ENCYCLOPEDIA OF COMMUNICATIONS, Oxford University Press, 1988.

Arthur P. Bochner and Eric Eisenberg, "Family Process:  System Perspectives on Family Communication," in C. Berger and S. Chafee (eds.), HANDBOOK OF COMMUNICATION SCIENCE, Sage Publications, 1988, 540-563.

Arthur P. Bochner, "Perspectives on Inquiry:  Representation, Conversation, and Reflection," in Mark Knapp & Gerald R. Miller (eds.), HANDBOOK OF INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION, Sage Publications,  1985,  27-58 (lead chapter).

Arthur P. Bochner and Eric M. Eisenberg, "Legitimizing Speech Communication:  An Examination of Coherence and Cohesion in the Development of the Discipline," in Tom Bensen (ed.), SPEECH COMMUNICATION IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY, Southern Illinois University Press, 1985, 299-321.

Arthur P. Bochner, "The Functions of Communication in    Interpersonal Bonding," in C. Arnold & J. Bowers (eds.), THE HANDBOOK OF RHETORIC  AND COMMUNICATION, Allyn and Bacon, 1984, pgs. 544-621.

Arthur P. Bochner, "On the Efficacy of Openness in Close Relationships," in M. Burgoon (ed.), COMMUNICATION YEARBOOK 5 (New  Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Books, 1982).

Arthur P. Bochner, "Forming Warm Ideas," in C. Wilder and J. Weakland (eds.), RIGOR AND IMAGINATION:  ESSAYS IN HONOR OF GREGORY BATESON  (Palo Alto, Calif:  Praeger, 1981), 65-81.

Arthur P. Bochner and Mary Anne Fitzpatrick, "Multivariate Analysis of  Variance:  Models, Techniques and Applications in Communication  Research," in P. Monge and J. Cappella (eds.),      MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS IN COMMUNICATION RESEARCH (New York: Academic Press, 1980).

Arthur P. Bochner and Dorothy Lenk Krueger, "On Inscrutable Epistemologies and Muddled Concepts," in D. Nimmo (ed.), COMMUNICATION YEARBOOK 3, (New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Books, 1979), pgs. 197-211.

Vincent DiSalvo and Arthur Bochner, "The Use of Simulated Profiles and the PROF Technique in Capturing the Policies of `Raters',"  in S. J.  Kidder and A. W. Nafziger (eds.), PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL GAMING COUNCIL'S ELEVENTH ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM (Baltimore, MD.:  Center for Social Organization of Schools, 1982), 237-242.

4.  Articles in Refereed Journal

Arthur P. Bochner and Carolyn Ellis, “The Arts and Narrative Inquiry: An Introduction,” QUALITATIVE INQUIRY, (scheduled for publication in October 2003).

Arthur P. Bochner, “Love Survives,” QUALITATIVE INQUIRY, April 2002, 8, 2, 161-170.

Arthur P. Bochner, “Narratives Virtues,” QUALITATIVE INQUIRY, March 2001, 7, 2, 131-157.

Arthur P. Bochner, “Criteria Against Ourselves,” QUALITATIVE INQUIRY, 2000, 6, 266-272. (Reprinted in: THE QUALITATIVE INQUIRY READER, Norman Denzin and Yvonna Lincoln (Eds.) Sage 2002.)       

Arthur P. Bochner and Carolyn Ellis, “Which Way to Turn?” JOURNAL OF CONTEMPORARY ETHNOGRAPHY, 1999, 28, 485-499.

Carolyn Ellis and Arthur P. Bochner, “Bringing Emotion and Personal Narrative Into Medical Social Science,” HEALTH, 1999, 3, 229-237.

Arthur P. Bochner, “It’s About Time: Narrative and the Divided Self,” QUALITATIVE INQUIRY, 1997, 3, 418-438.

Arthur P. Bochner, "The Coercive Grip of Neutrality: Can Psychology Escape," CONTEMPORARY PSYCHOLOGY, 1993, 38, 537-538.

Arthur P. Bochner and Carolyn Ellis, "Personal Narrative as a Social Approach to Interpersonal Communication," COMMUNICATION THEORY, May, 1992, pp. 65-72.

Kenneth Cissna, Dennis Cox and Arthur P. Bochner, "Managing the Dialectic Between Marital and Parental Relationships in the Stepfamily," COMMUNICATION MONOGRAPHS, March 1990, 57, 44-61.

William K. Rawlins, Kenneth Leibowitz, and Arthur P. Bochner, "Affective and Instrumental Dimensions of Best, Equal and Unequal Friendships," CENTRAL STATES SPEECH JOURNAL, (Summer,1986), 90-101.

Arthur P. Bochner, Dorothy L. Krueger, and Terrence Chiemelski, "Interpersonal Perceptions and Marital Adjustment," JOURNAL OF COMMUNICATION, 1982, 32, 135-147.

Mary Anne Fitzpatrick and Arthur P. Bochner, "Perspectives on Self and  Others:  Sex Differences in the Perception of Interpersonal Behavior," SEX ROLES, 1981, 7, 523-535.

Arthur P. Bochner, "On Taking Ourselves Seriously:  An Analysis of Some Persistent Problems and Promising Directions in Interpersonal  Research," HUMAN COMMUNICATION RESEARCH, 1978, 4, 179-191.

Mary Anne Fitzpatrick and Arthur P. Bochner, "Beyond    Ingratiation:  Factors Affecting the Communication of   Interpersonal Evaluations,"  COMMUNICATION QUARTERLY, 1977, 11-17.

Arthur P. Bochner, Edmund P. Kaminski, and Mary Anne    Fitzpatrick,   "The Conceptual Domain of Interpersonal  Communication Behavior: A Factor Analytic Study, "HUMAN COMMUNICATION RESEARCH, 1977,      3, 291-302.

Arthur P. Bochner, "Whither Communication Theory and Research?" QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF SPEECH, (lead review essay), 1977, 324-332. 

Arthur P. Bochner, "Conceptual Frontiers in the Study of Communication in Families:  An Introduction to the   Literature," HUMAN COMMUNICATION RESEARCH, 1976, 2,     381-397.

Arthur P. Bochner and Janet Yerby, "Factors Affecting   Instruction in Interpersonal Competence," COMMUNICATION EDUCATION, 1976, 26, 91-104.

Arthur P. Bochner and Edmund Kaminski, "Modes of Interpersonal Behavior:  A Replication," PSYCHOLOGICAL REPORTS, 1974, 35, 1075-1083.

Arthur P. Bochner and Clifford W. Kelly, "Interpersonal Competence:  Rationale, Philosophy, and Implementation of a Conceptual Framework,"  SPEECH TEACHER, 1974, 23, 279-301 (Reprinted in 2 books).

Arthur P. Bochner, Vincent DiSalvo, and Thomas Jonas, "A Computer-Assisted Analysis of Small Group Process:  An Investigation of Two Machiavellian Groups," SMALL GROUP BEHAVIOR, May 1975, 6, 187-203.

John Holm, Sidney Kraus, and Arthur P. Bochner, "Communication and Opinion Formation:  Issues Generated by the Watergate Hearings,"  COMMUNICATION RESEARCH, October 1974, 368-390.

Arthur P. Bochner, "Task and Instrumentation Variables as Factors Jeopardizing the Validity of Small Group Research, 1970-1971,"SPEECH  MONOGRAPHS, 1974, 41, 169-178.

Vincent DiSalvo and Arthur P. Bochner, "PROF:  A Simulation and Analysis Technique for Capturing Information Processing Policies,"  SIMULATION AND GAMES," December 1973, 279-287.

Brenda Bochner and Arthur P. Bochner, "The Effects of Social Status  and Social Dialects on Listener Responses," CENTRAL STATES SPEECH JOURNAL, Summer 1973, 75-82.

Arthur P. Bochner and Brenda Bochner, "A Multivariate   Investigation of  Machiavellianism and Task Structure in Four-Man Groups," SPEECH  MONOGRAPHS, 38, 4, 1972, 277-285.

Vincent DiSalvo and Arthur P. Bochner, "The Use of Simulated Speech  Profiles and the PROF Technique in Capturing the Policies of Speech Raters," SPEECH TEACHER, 1972, 273-280.

SPECIAL APPOINTMENTS / INVITED UNIVERSITY LECTURES/KEYNOTES

Invited Public Lecture, Centre for Contemporary Culture, University of Jyvaskyla, June 2002.

Invited Public Lecture to Symposium on “Education after 9/11.”  University of Art and Design, Helsinki, Finland, June 2002.

Keynote Symposium Dialogue:”Between Autoethnography and Cultural Studies,” Bochner/Ellis and Mikko Lehtonen.  University of Art and Design, Helsinki, Finland, June 2002.

Invited Storyteller for Program: “Voices in Uncertainty,” College of Public Health, December 7, 2001. “Love Survives.” 

Invited Lecture, Research Centre for Contemporary Culture and the Network Cultural Studies, Jyvaskyla, Finland, January 2001.

University of Art and Design, Helsinki UIAH, Invited Keynote Lecture for Seminar on The Arts and Narrative Inquiries, January 25, 2001.

Saginaw Valley State University, Dow Visiting University Scholar, Spring 1999.

Central Michigan University,Department of Communication, Spring 1999.

University of South Africa, Pretoria, South Africa, August 1998.

Syracuse University, Department of Speech Communication & Department of Sociology, 1997.

East Tennessee University, University Lecture Series &   Department of Communication, 1996.

Old Dominion University, Department of Speech Communication and Theatre Arts, 1993.

Florida State University, Department of Communication, 1992.

University of Florida, Department of Communication, 1990.

Purdue University, Department of Communication, 1989.

Michigan State University, Department of Communication, 1989.

University of Southern California, Department of Speech of Communication and Annenberg School of Communication, 1988.

University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department of Speech Communication, 1986.

Pennsylvania State University, Department of Speech Communication, 1984.

Visiting Professor, University of Texas-Austin; Spring, 1983.

Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Communication, Michigan State University; Spring, 1980.

Visiting Professor, Department of Communication, Purdue University (Lecture Series); Fall, 1976.

Michigan State University, Department of Communication, 1980.

University of Iowa, Department of Speech Communication, 1980.

University of California, Santa Barbara, Speech Department, 1979.

San Jose State University, Department of Speech Communication, 1978.

University of Maine, Department of Speech Communication, 1977.

University of Massachusetts, Communication Studies Department,1977.

Michigan State University, Department of Communication, 1976.

Rutgers University, Department of Human Communication, 1976.

HONORS, AWARDS, & GRANTS

National Communication Association, Ethnography Division, “Spotlight on Ethnographic Scholarship: The Life and Work of Arthur Bochner,” New Orleans, Louisiana, 2002.

Invited Keynote to Seminar on “After 9-11: Implications for Pedagogy and Teacher Education,” (with C. Ellis).  “Shatters lives/Love survives.”  Graduate School of Multicultural Art Education, University of Art and Design, Helsinki, Finland, June 2002 (Funded by Finnish Academy)

Invited Guest Professor, Summer School of Cultural Studies, Centre for Contemporary Culture, University of Jyvaskyla, Jyvaskyla Finland.  Four-day Writing Workshop for Ph.D. students funded by The Finnish Academy on “Bringing Subjectivity and Emotionality into the Human and Cultural Sciences (jointly taught with Carolyn Ellis and Marjatta Saarnivaara), June 2002.

Invited Lecture, Research Centre for Contemporary Culture and the Network Cultural Studies, Jyvaskyla, Finland, January 2001.

University of Art and Design, Helsinki UIAH, Invited Keynote Lecture for Seminar on The Arts and Narrative Inquiries, January 25, 2001.

Dow Distinguished Visiting Scholar, Saginaw Valley State University, 1999.

College of Arts and Sciences Conference Grant, $2,000, USF 1999.

SSSI Stone/Couch Grant, $5000, 1999.  (To Hold Conference on “Ethnography for the 21st Century: Alternatives and Opportunities.)

Elected Vice-President, Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction, 1998-1999.

USF Institute on Aging Grant for Research on Geriatric Care Managers, 1997-98, $7000.

USF Professorial Excellence Program (PEP) Award, 1997.

USF Institutional Travel Award, 1997.

McKnight Foundation, William R. Jones Most Valuable Doctoral Mentor Award, First Place, 1995.

SCA Teachers on Teaching Award for contributions to the philosophy and methodology of teaching, 1994.

Outstanding Graduate Professor Award from the Graduate Communication Council.

Nominated for Bowling Green State University Distinguished Graduate Alumni Award, 1994.

Provost's Brain Event Lecture, University of South Florida, 1992.

USF International Travel Award, 1990.

Keynote Lecture, Oxford University Conference on Personal Relationships, 1990.

Keynote Lecture, Commission on Family Communication, SCA Convention, 1990.

Outstanding Research Scholar Award, Florida Speech Communication Association, 1987.

Scholar of the Year Award, College of Arts and Letters, University of South Florida, 1987.

Single Scholar Convention Program, Southern Speech Communication Association, 1985.

Nominated to run for President of International Communication Association, 1985.

Committee of Scholars Award, Eastern Communication Association, 1984.

Carroll C. Arnold Honorary Lecture, Penn State University, 1984. Study Leave Award, Temple University, Winter term, 1980.

Bureau for the Education of the Handicapped Grant (for T. Thompson's dissertation research), 1979-80.

Emerging Scholar of the Year Award (Article Award), Speech Communication Association of Pennsylvania, 1974.

Faculty Research Initiation Award, Cleveland State University, 1972.

EDITORIAL SERVICE

International Advisory Board, HANDBOOK OF QUALITATIVE RESEARCH (3rd Edition), 2002-2003).

Editorial Board, FAMILY COMMUNICATION, 2000-present.

Editorial Board, JOURNAL OF SYSTEMIC THERAPIES, 1998-present.

Referee, NARRATIVE INQUIRY, 2001.

Referee, QUALITATIVE INQUIRY, 1999-present.

International Advisory Board, HANDBOOK OF QUALITATIVE RESEARCH (2nd Edition), 1998-2000.

Associate Editor, COMMUNICATION THEORY, 1997-2001.

Editorial Board, JOURNAL OF PERSONAL AND INTERPERSONAL LOSS, 1996-PRESENT.

Co-Editor, ETHNOGRAPHIC ALTERNATIVES, AltaMira Press, 1995- present.

Deputy Editor, CONTEMPORARY ETHNOGRAPHY, 1994-1999.

Associate Editor, TEXT AND PERFORMANCE, 1991-94.

Advisory Editor, COMMUNICATION THEORY, 1989-1993.

Editor, JOURNAL OF APPLIED COMMUNICATION RESEARCH, 1988-91.

Associate Editor, SOUTHERN STATES COMMUNICATION JOURNAL, 1989-1992.

Associate Editor, QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF SPEECH, 1985-1989.

Associate Editor, COMMUNICATION MONOGRAPHS, 1984-1986.

Editorial Board, JOURNAL OF APPLIED COMMUNICATION RESEARCH, 1983-present.

Editorial Board, HUMAN COMMUNICATION RESEARCH, 1982-1986.

Referee, COMMUNICATION MONOGRAPHS, 1982.

Referee, COMMUNICATION RESEARCH, 1981.

Division Editor, HUMAN COMMUNICATION RESEARCH, 1980-1982.

Referee, QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF SPEECH, 1979.

Editorial Board, COMMUNICATION EDUCATION, 1978-present.

Editorial Board, HUMAN COMMUNICATION RESEARCH, 1977-1980.

Associate Editor, COMMUNICATION MONOGRAPHS, 1977-1980.

Editorial Board, COMMUNICATION QUARTERLY, 1975-1978.

Editorial Board, ERIC SPEECH COMMUNICATION MODULE, 1975.

Referee, SIMULATION AND GAMES, 1974.

DISSERTATIONS/THESES DIRECTED

USF

Ellisa Foster, “INTIMATE STRANGERS: RELATIONAL COMMUNICATION BETWEEN HOSPICE VOLUNTEERS AND PATIENTS,” 2002 ( now Assistant Professor, University of Texas, San Antonio).

Lisa M. Tillmann-Healy, LIFE PROJECTS: A NARRATIVE ETHNOGRAPHY OF GAY-STRAIGHT FRIENDSHIP, 1998. (Now Assistant Professor, Rollins College)

Deborah Ann Austin, UNDERSTANDING CLOSE RELATIONSHIPS AMONG AFRICAN AMERICANS IN THE CONTEXT OF THE MILLION MAN MARCH, 1998 (Lawton Childs Center, University of South Florida).

Timothy A. Simpson, CONTESTING COMMUNITY: MEMORY, PLACE AND CULTURE IN YBOR CITY, FLORIDA, 1997. (Now Associate  Professor, Ohio University)

Christine Elizabeth Kiesinger, ANOREXIC AND BULIMIC LIVES: MAKING SENSE OF FOOD AND EATING, 1995. (Now Assistant Professor and Chair, Southwestern University).

TEMPLE UNIVERSITY

Linda Eagle, THE EFFECTS OF METACOMMUNICATING ABOUT PROCESS ON RECIPROCITY AND SELF-DISCLOSURE IN INITIAL INTERACTIONS, 1980. (Now runs consulting firm in New York City).

William Rawlins, FRIENDSHIP AS A COMMUNICATIVE ACHIEVEMENT:  A THEORY AND AN INTERPRETIVE ANALYSIS OF VERBAL REPORTS, 1980. (Now Professor, Purdue University).

Teresa L. Thompson, THE EFFECTS OF MAINSTREAMING ON THE  COMMUNICATIVE DEVELOPMENT OF PHYSICALLY HANDICAPPED AND  NON-HANDICAPPED CHILDREN, 1979. (Now Professor, University of Dayton).

Dorothy Lenk, A STOCHASTIC EXAMINATION OF COMMUNICATIVE  DEVELOPMENT IN SELF-ANALYTIC GROUPS, 1978. (Ret. Associate Professor, University of California, Santa     Barbara).

Mary Anne Fitzpatrick, AN EMPIRICALLY DERIVED TAXONOMY OF TYPES OF RELATIONSHIPS, 1976. (Now Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison).

HONORS THESIS SUPERVISION

Jana Huskey, ROMANTIC IDEALIZATION: A STUDY IN FILM      Undergraduate Honors Thesis), 1992.

Kerry P. Hefner, THE STRUCTURE AND COMPOSITION OF SOCIAL NETWORKS IN THE ADAPTATION TO MARITAL SEPARATION, 1984.

CONVENTION AND CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION (1980-2002)

“Publishing Qualitative Work” (with Carolyn Ellis).  Paper at the Ethnography Division Pre-Conference.  NCA Convention, 2002.

Invited Respondent for Program on “Continuing the Conversation About What Constitutes Ethnography: Exploring Autoethnography, Autobiography and Other Experimental Forms.”  NCA Convention, November 2002.

Paper: “Letters from Tampa.”  Program on “Writing Issues: On and Off the Page.”  NCA Convention, November 2002.

Invited Respondent for Panel on “Embodying and Acting the Life of the Mind: Autobiographical Narratives from the Not-So-Ivory Tower.”  NCA Convention, November 2002.

Paper: “Love Survives.”  Program on “Bearing Witness to and Making Sense of September 11th and Its Aftermath: Stories of Love, Loss, and Disconnection.  NCA Convention, November 2002.

Chaired: of Panel on “Life, Death, and Identity in Ethnography.”  NCA Convention, November 2001.

Respondent, Session on “Living the Arts Through Ethnography:  Painting Stories, Performing Selves, Ballroom Dancing.” NCA Convention, November 2001.

Presented: “Minding Mother: A Critical Autoethnography.”  NCA Convention, November 2001.

Presented: “The Dialectics of Expression and Protection: A  Personal Account of WebCT Forum  Participation in a Course on Close Relationships.”  NCA Convention, November, 2001.

Panelist on Session on “Radicalizing New Writing: Responding to H. L. Goodall, Jr’s Writing The New Ethnography as Impetus for (Re)Considering The Methodological Implications of Performative and New Ethnographic Writing.”  NCA Convention, November 2001.

Panelist on Session on “The Self and Other in Ethnographic  Storytelling.” NCA Convention,      November 2001.

Presented: “A Conversation with Norman Denzin” (with Carolyn Ellis, NCA Convention, Seattle, Washington, November 2000.

Presented: “Evaluating Ethnographic Alternatives: Editors’ Reflections” (with Carolyn Ellis), NCA National Convention, Seattle, Washington, November 2000.

Presented “Personal Narratives in Teaching Courses Focusing on Close Relationships.”  Panel on Personal Narratives, K-12, NCA Convention, Seattle, Washington, November, 2000.

Workshop (with Carolyn Ellis), “Teaching with Personal   Narratives.”  Conference on Learning Love: Articulating a Space for Love and Compassion in the Teaching and Healing Arts, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, May 2000.

Chair, Program on “Writing Ethnographic Alternatives,” NCA Convention, Chicago, Illinois, November 1999.

Respondent, Program on “Evocative Writing in Ethnography,” NCA Convention, Chicago, Illinois, November 1999.

Chair, Session on “The Contributions of David Maines’ Works In Interdisciplinary Inquiry,” NCA Convention, Chicago, Illinois, November 1999.

Invited Presenter at “The Symposium on Teaching The      Undergraduate Family Communication Communication Course.”Preconference on “The State of Family Communication Education: Building For the Future,” NCA Convention, Chicago, Illinois, November 1999.

Presented “Criteria Against Ourselves” at the Plenary Session of the 1999 SSSI Meeting, Chicago, Illinois, August 7-8, 1999.

Planned, Coordinated, and Administered the 1999 Program for the Society for The Study of Symbolic Interaction (SSSI), Chicago, Illinois. August 7-8, 1999 (“Bridging Diffferences, Inspiring Dialogue, Making Sense”).

Program Chair, “Autoethnography and Personal Narrative,” Stone Symposium, Las Vegas, Nevada, January 1999.

Invited participant, Panel on Co-Constructed Narrative in personal relationships, NCA Annual Convention, New York, New York, November 1998.

“Five Minutes: A Dream.”  Invited panel on Narrative.  NCA Annual Convention, New York, New York, November 1998.

“On the Ethnography of Loss,” NCA Annual Convention, New York, New York, November 1998.

“Bringing the First-Person Voice Into Ethnography” (w/Carolyn Ellis).  Annual meeting of the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction, San Francisco, California, August 1998.

“The Empowered Teacher: Using Personal Experiences to Enhance Teaching.” Panel Participant, NCA, Chicago, November 1997.

“Exploring Forms of Reflexivity in Narratives of Communication,” (w/Carolyn Ellis), NCA, Chicago, November 1997.

“National Communication Association (NCA) PRECONVENTION SEMINAR (Co-Leader w/Carolyn Ellis): Interpretive and Narrative Ethnography, Chicago, November 1997.

“Narrative Truth: Toward an Expressive Sociology,” Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction, New York, New York, August 1996.

“Relationship As Stories Symposium,” 8th International Conference on Personal Relationships, Banff, Canada, August 1996.

“A Narrative Perspective on Interpersonal Communication,” Southern Communication Association, April 1996.

"Narrative Modes of Teaching Interpersonal and Family    Communication," (with C. Ellis, L. Tillmann, & J. Yerby) Speech Communication Association, San Antonio, Texas, November 1995.

"Seeing Through Film:  Cinema as Inquiry and Pedagogy,"  (with Lisa Tillmann) Speech Communication Association, San Antonio, Texas, November 1995.

"Issues in the Use of Narratives to Teach Family Communication," Speech Communication Association, New Orleans, Louisiana, November 1994.

"Teachers on Teaching: Arthur P. Bochner."  Speech Communication Association, November 1994.

"Co-Constructed Narrative as Interpersonal Process" (with Carolyn   Ellis).  International Communication Association, Sydney, Australia, July 1994.

"On Theories and Stories."  Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction, Conference on Validity in Postmodernism, Urbana, Illinois, April 1994.

Chaired and Coordinated Panel on "From Inquiry to Storytelling: Toward an Expressive Social Science."  Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction, Conference on Validity in Postmodernism,   Urbana, Illinois, April 1994.

"Living Our Stories or Storying Our Lives" (with C. E.   Kiesinger).  Speech Communication Association, November 1993.

"The Neglect of Autobiography, Subjectivity, and Emotion in Communication Research: A Call for Stories" (Invited Address), Old Domininion University, October 1993.

Respondent to Session on "New Forms of Ethnographic      Representation."  Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction, August 1993.

"Talking-with as a Model for Writing-about:  Rorty's     Contributions to Communication Theory" (with J. Waugh). Temple Discourse Conference, April 1993.

"Interpretive Human Studies at USF: Narrative Inquiry as a Bridge    Between Humanities and Social Sciences" (with C. Ellis). Midwest Sociological Association, March 1993.

"Writing for the Reader:  Storytelling as Journalism," Southern Newspaper Publishers Association," (Invited Address), 1992.

"Ordinary People and the Call of Stories," (with C.E. Kiesinger), SPEECH COMMUNICATION ASSOCIATION, Chicago, Illinois, 1992.

Featured Panel on "The Future of Communication Theory," SPEECH COMMUNICATION ASSOCIATION, Chicago, Illinois, 1992.

"Narrative and First-Person Accounts in the Study of Family Communication," Panel on the Future of Communication Theory Research, SPEECH COMMUNICATION ASSOCIATION, Chicago, Illinois, 1992. 

Workshop on Co-constructing Narratives of Emotional Experience, (with C. Ellis) INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR THE STUDY OF EMOTIONS, Pittsburgh, PA, 1992.

"Personal Narrative as Sociology," (with C. Ellis), SOUTHERN SOCIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION, New Orleans, LA  1992.

"Living by Metaphor," President's Panel, Eastern Communication Association, 1991.

"Constraints of Choice in Abortion: A Personal Narrative," Stone Symposium, San Francisco, California, 1991 (with C. Ellis).

"An Interpretive World View and the Study of Family Communication,"  Keynote Address to the SCA Pre-Conference on Family Communication, SPEECH COMMUNICATION ASSOCIATION, Chicago, November, 1990.

"Embracing Contingencies of Lived Experience in the Study of Close Relationships," Keynote Address, CONFERENCE ON PERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS, Oxford, England, July 1990.

"Phenomena of Language," Plenary Session, American Cybernetics Association Meeting, November 1989.

"Reflexivity in Theory and Practice," Plenary Session, Temple University Discourse Conference, March 1989.

"On Taking Relational Communication More Seriously" (with Pam Secklin and Ken Cissna), Vice President's Program, SOUTHERN SPEECH  COMMUNICATION ASSOCIATION Convention, Louisville, April, 1989.

"Response to the Top Three in Communication Theory," SOUTHERN SPEECH COMMUNICATION ASSOCIATION Convention, Louisville, April, 1989.

"Response to Confrontation on the Evening News:  The Interactive Discourse of Dan Rather and George Bush," SPEECH COMMUNICATION ASSOCIATION Convention, November 1989.  (Written but not delivered due to my father's death.)

"Explorations in Social Constructionism:  A Case Study in Redescribing War Experience."  USF Department of Communication Colloquium, Fall Semester, 1988.  (Also presented at University    of Wisconsin, University of Southern California and Purdue University).

"Technique or Tradition:  Differences Between Mass Communications as a Profession and Speech Communication as a Liberal Study."  Presented at Feature Session of the FLORIDA COMMUNICATION ASSOCIATION Convention, Fort Myers, October, 1988.

Doctor/Patient Communication as Conversation,"  Presentation at special session of USF's Conference on Doctor/Patient Communication, February, 1987.

"Mediation as Communication:  What's In It for Communication Theory."   Keynote panel at Temple University Discourse Conference on Mediation, Negotiation, and Bargaining, March 26-28, 1987.

"Consequences and Assumptions of Social Penetration Theory."  Special panel on the contributions of Irwin Altman to the study of interpersonal communication.  WESTERN SPEECH COMMUNICATION ASSOCIATION  Convention, February 14-15, 1987.

Chaired panel on Interpretive/Qualitative Studies of     Communication,  FLORIDA SPEECH COMMUNICATION ASSOCIATION CONVENTION, 1986.

Critique of five papers on "Relational      Communication,"  for the INTERNATIONAL COMMUNICATION     ASSOCIATION Convention, Chicago, 1986.

Planned and chaired panel on "Ethics in Applied Communication" for the  SOUTHERN SPEECH COMMUNICATION ASSOCIATION Convention, Houston, 1986.

"Wither Relational Communication Research:  Trends and Directions in the Next Decade."  Presentation at the SOUTHERN SPEECH COMMUNICATION  ASSOCIATION Convention, Winston-Salem, NC, 1985.

Critique of "Papers on Interracial Communication."  SPEECH COMMUNICATION ASSOCIATION Convention, Denver, 1985.

Panel on "Current Trends in Relational Communication."  Feature panel  with J. Delia and M. Fitzpatrick, SOUTHERN SPEECH COMMUNICATION ASSOCIATION Convention, Winston-Salem, 1985.

Chairman and Program Planner, SCA Research Board Program, "The Third World of Inquiry."  Participants included Wayne Brockriede, Herbert Simons, Barnett Pearce, and Michael McGee, SPEECH COMMUNICATION ASSOCIATION Convention, Chicago, 1984.

Short course on Family Communication, SPEECH COMMUNICATION ASSOCIATION Convention, Chicago, 1984.

"The Scientific Field of Communication After Kuhn," Special Philosophy of Communication Program at the INTERNATIONAL COMMUNICATION ASSOCIATION Convention, Boston, 1982.

Planned and Coordinated Temple Discourse Conference on   Communication and Paradox, 1981.

"Notes on Contradiction and Interpersonal Communication:  Toward a Dialectical Perspective on Relational Development,"  Seminar on Communication from Eastern and Western Perspectives, EAST-WEST COMMUNICATION INSTITUTE, Honolulu, 1980.

Organized seminar on "Interpersonal Communication in a   Cross-Cultural Context," which was held Guadalajara, Mexico, Spring, 1980.

"The Social Construction of Communication Theory," paper presented at a plenary session of the annual convention of the INTERNATIONAL  COMMUNICATION ASSOCIATION, Acapulco, Mexico, 1980. 

"Interpersonal Bonding," paper presented at the annual meeting of the SPEECH COMMUNICATION ASSOCIATION, New York, November 1980.

(Note: Presentations prior to 1980 are available upon request)

UNIVERSITY SERVICE

Institute on Aging Development Committee, 2002-

Co-Chair, College of Arts and Sciences, Tenure and Promotion Committee, 2000-2001.

College of Arts and Sciences, Tenure and Promotion Committee, 1999-2001.

Provost’s Discipline Committees for selection of Distinguished University Professor, 1999.

Graduate Committee, College of Arts and Sciences, 1993-94.

Co-Director, Institute for Interpretive Human Studies, 1991-present.

Chair, Year of Discovery Committee, "Faith, Intellect and the Future," 1991.

College of Arts and Sciences Strategic Planning Committee, 1990-91.

Member, Communication and Information Sciences Building  Committee, 1987-91.

Chair, Search Committee for Inaugural Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, 1989-90.

Chair, Committee for Structure of the Liberal Arts Colleges, 1989-90.

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

Norman Denzin Outstanding Qualitative Research Award Committee, Couch Center for Social & Internet Research, 2001-present.

Publications Committee, Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction, 2000-present.

Vice-President Elect, Society for The Study of Symbolic Interaction, 1999-2000

SCA Research Board, 1983-1985

SCA Legislative Assembly, 1974-76

SCA Nominating Committee, 1976.

Division Chair, SCA Interpersonal Communication Division, 1973-74.

Division Chair, ICA Interpersonal Communication Division, 1974-75.

ICA Board of Directors, 1974-75.

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

National Communication Association

International Communication Association

Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction