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.
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
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,
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