Dr. Steier joined the Communication faculty in 1996. His current research projects with the Museum of Science and Industry (MOSI) explore issues of organizational learning and action research.

Undergraduate course offerings

• Intercultural Communication
• Communication, Culture, and Community
• Introduction to Communication Theory in Organizations

Graduate course offerings

• Action Research
• Communication Systems Practice
• Communication Theory
• Reflexivity in Social Systems
• Communities and Sustainability

Representative publications

• Gregory Bateson: Essays for an Ecology of Ideas (ed.) Imprint Academic, 2005.
• Research and Reflexivity (ed.) London: Sage, 1991.

Links of Interest

• Let's Talk American
• The World Cafe
• The Museum of Science and Industry (MOSI)

Education

Ph.D., General Systems Theory, University of Pennsylvania, 1983.