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03/09/2015

CSCA - Intercultural Communication IG - Candidate Statements

Hello, Intercultural Communication Interest Group Members!

I hope everyone is getting very excited about the convention next month. Apart from attending all the great sessions and excellent special events, please don’t forget to attend the Intercultural Communication Business meeting. It will be held on Thursday, April 16 at 5:00 – 6:15 pm in Conference Room II. As part of this meeting we will hold elections for our incoming officers: vice chair and secretary. Below please find the biographical statements for our candidates, and please make sure to attend the Business meeting so you can participate in the election.

I am looking forward to seeing everyone in Madison. And, as always, please let me know if you have any questions.

Diana Trebing

Intercultural Communication Interest Group Chair
dtrebing@svsu.edu

Candidate Statements for Vice-Chair

Dr. Carolyn Calloway-Thomas is President of the World Communication Association and a Professor in the Department of Communication and Culture at Indiana University. She is author of Empathy in the Global World: An Intercultural Perspective (2010), coauthor of Intercultural Communication: A Text with Readings (2007) and  Intercultural Communication: Roots and Routes (1999), as well as coeditor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Sermonic Power of Public Discourse (1993). Her teaching and research areas are intercultural communication, public dialogue in America, civic engagement, pedagogy, and communication in Black America. Professor Calloway-Thomas has given hundreds of talks nationally and internationally in places such as China, England, Estonia, Finland, Indonesia, Latvia, Lithuania, Nigeria, Mexico, Puerto Rico, and South Africa. Her national awards include a Ford Postdoctoral fellowship; a Fulbright scholarship to Nigeria, West Africa; a Carnegie scholarship; the National Communication Association’s Robert J. Kibler award, and the Distinguished Alumni award from Grambling State University. In 2012, she was inducted into the Central States Communication Association’s Hall of Fame. She holds a BS degree from Grambling College, an MA degree from the University of Wisconsin, and a PhD degree from Indiana University.

Dr. Alberto González (PhD, The Ohio State University) is professor and chair in the Department of Communication at Bowling Green State University. He has done program planning for the intercultural communication units at NCA, SSCA, and CSCA. Most recently, he co-edited Mediating Cultures: Parenting in Intercultural Contexts (2013) and he is co-author of Intercultural Communication For Everyday Life (2014). The 6th edition of Our Voices: Essays in Culture, Ethnicity, and Communication will appear in fall 2015.

Candidate Statements for Secretary

Dr. Grace Leinbach Coggio is an Assistant Professor of Communication Studies at University of Wisconsin-River Falls teaching courses in organizational, leadership, intercultural, and small group communication. She received her Ph.D. in Rhetoric and Scientific & Technical Communication from the University of Minnesota in 2010 and her M.A. in Speech Communication from Pennsylvania State University in 1990. Her research interests include innovation diffusion across cultures and intercultural communication via collaborative technologies (i.e. global virtual teams). She has three children (2 are students at UW-Madison and 1 is a high school 10th grader), and during their brief but glorious summers, she enjoys the tranquility of tending her many gardens.

Dr. Eddah Mbula Mutua is Associate Professor of Communication Studies at St. Cloud State University, Minnesota. She teaches in the area of intercultural communication. Her research focuses on peace communication in post-conflict societies in Eastern Africa with a special interest in the role of women in post-genocide Rwanda and grassroots peacebuilding initiatives in Kenya. In the U.S., her areas of research include East African refugee and host communities’ interactions in Central Minnesota, Africans and African-Americans relations, and critical service-learning as a pedagogical practice in peace education.

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