Timothy R. Kuhn
Department
of Communication
University
of Colorado at Boulder
270 UCB
Boulder CO 80309-0270
303.492.2986
(office) §
303.492.8411 (fax)
Assistant
Professor of Communication, University of Colorado at Boulder
I. EDUCATION
Arizona State University, Hugh Downs School of Human Communication
Ph.D., July 2000 (Dissertation
title: The Complex Process of Planned Organizational Change: Developing a Model
of Knowledge, Activity, and Communication Networks). Advisor: Steven
R. Corman
University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Department of Speech-Communication
M.A., June 1996 (Thesis
title: The Impact of Conflict Management
on Decision Effectiveness in Organizational Work Groups). Advisor:
Marshall Scott Poole
University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Curtis L. Carlson School of Management
B.S.,
December 1991 (Double Major: Management
and Speech Communication)
II. RESEARCH
A.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
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How constitutive conceptions of
communication—which highlight the intersections of discourse, knowledge, and
practices—can lead to novel conceptions of organizations, complex change processes,
and technology appropriation
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How knowledge and practices of knowing shape
organizational activity, including the influence of communication technologies
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Processes of identity negotiation, particularly in
knowledge-intensive and professional service environments
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How groups collaborate, make decisions, and manage
conflict
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Article
Award, from the Organizational Communication Division of the
National Communication Association (NCA) (best published article or book
chapter of 2003-04)
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Runner-up,
Best Published Paper of 2003, from the Organizational
Communication and Information Systems division of the Academy of Management
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Dennis
Gouran Research Award, from the Group Communication Division of NCA,
2001 (best article or book chapter on group communication published in a communication or
related-discipline journal or book, 2000-01)
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W.
Charles Redding Dissertation Award, Organizational Communication
Division of the International Communication Association (ICA), 2001 (Top
dissertation in organizational communication completed in 2000)
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Top four paper (1st overall) in NCA’s
Organizational Communication Division, 2004
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Top four paper in NCA’s Organizational
Communication Division, 2001
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Top three and top student paper in NCA’s
Organizational Communication Division, 1998
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Top three paper in NCA’s Group Communication
Division, 1998
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Top paper in NCA’s Student Section, 1996
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ASU Department of Communication Outstanding Ph.D.
Student, 1998-99
C.
JOURNAL ARTICLES (peer-reviewed except where noted)
Kuhn, T. (in press). A “demented
work ethic” and a “lifestyle firm”: Discourse, identity, and workplace time commitments. Organization Studies.
Corman, S. R., & Kuhn, T. (2005).
The detectability of socio-egocentric group speech: A quasi-Turing Test. Communication
Monographs, 72, 117-143. (Lead
article)
Kuhn,
T. (2005). The institutionalization of Alta in organizational communication
studies. Management Communication
Quarterly, 18, 618-627. (Invited by editor and Forum section editor)
Kuhn,
T., & Corman, S. R. (2003). The emergence of homogeneity and heterogeneity
in knowledge structures during a planned organizational change. Communication
Monographs, 70,
198-229. (Recipient of “Article Award” from Organizational Communication
division of NCA; runner-up award for best published article from the
Organizational Communication and Information Systems division of the Academy of
Management)
Kuhn,
T., & Ashcraft, K. L. (2003). Corporate scandal and the theory of the firm:
Formulating the contributions of organizational communication studies. Management Communication Quarterly, 17,
20-57. (Lead article after editor’s introduction)
Dooley,
K. D., Corman, S. R., McPhee, R. D., & Kuhn, T. (2003). Modeling
high-resolution broadband discourse in complex adaptive systems. Nonlinear Dynamics, Psychology and Life
Sciences, 7, 61-85.
Kuhn,
T., & Nelson, N. (2002). Reengineering identity: A case study of multiplicity and duality in
organizational identification. Management
Communication Quarterly, 16,
5-39. (Lead article)
Kuhn,
T. (2002). Negotiating boundaries between scholars and practitioners:
Knowledge, networks, and communities of practice. Management Communication Quarterly, 16, 106-112. (Selected by editor, associate editor, and section
editor)
Corman,
S. R., Kuhn, T., McPhee, R. D., & Dooley, K. J. (2002). Studying complex
discursive systems: Centering resonance analysis of communication. Human Communication Research, 28, 157-206. (Lead article)
Kuhn,
T., & Poole, M. S. (2000). Do conflict management styles affect group
decision-making?: Evidence from a longitudinal field study. Human Communication Research, 26, 558-590. (Recipient of Dennis Gouran
Research Award)
Kuhn,
T. (1997). The discourse of issues management: A genre of organizational
communication. Communication Quarterly,
45, 188-210.
D.
CHAPTERS IN EDITED BOOKS
McDaniel, J. P., Kuhn, T., &
Deetz, S. A. (in press). Voice, participation, and the globalization of
communication: A policy orientation for new communication technologies. To
appear in J. V. Ciprut (Ed.), Democratizations: Complex perspectives,
compound contexts, SUNY Press (expected publication: Spring 2006).
Kuhn,
T. (2005). Engaging networks of practice through a communicative theory of the
firm. In J. L. Simpson & P. Shockley-Zalabak (Eds.), Engaging
communication, transforming organizations: Scholarship of engagement in action (pp. 45-66). Cresskill,
NJ: Hampton Press.
Jackson,
M. H., Poole, M. S., & Kuhn, T. (2002). The social construction of
technology in studies of the workplace. In L. Lievrouw & S. Livingstone
(Eds.), Handbook of new media: Social shaping and consequences of
ICTs (pp. 236-253). London: Sage. (Approved by editorial board)
E. OTHER PUBLICATIONS
Kuhn,
T. (2005). Transforming knowledge and technology. (Review of Representing Organization: Knowledge,
Management, and the Information Age.) Organization,
12, 457-461.
Text
box on “Knowledge and Organizational Change,” appearing in G. Cheney, L. T.
Chistensen, T. E. Zorn, & S. Ganesh (2004), Organizational communication
in an age of globalization: Issues, reflections, practices (p. 322). Prospect Heights, IL:
Waveland Press.
F. MANUSCRIPTS CURRENTLY UNDER REVIEW:
Kuhn, T., & Jackson, M. H. Accomplishing
knowledge: Reformulating the knowledge-knowing dualism in organizational
communication.
G.
CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECTS AND WORKS IN PROGRESS
1. PROJECTS:
Identity,
socialization, and managing tensions in entering a large law firm.
Consists of in-depth interviews with 30 junior members or former members of a
large local law firm. At least three manuscripts are planned: (1) Managing tensions between
work and non-work in a “lifestyle” firm, with graduate student Stacey Wieland;
(2) Identity and socialization in the approach to work in a professional
service partnership firm; (3) Sense-making around balancing law firm work and
personal social commitments. Drafts of these manuscripts will be developed in
the order given here.
Knowledge
and interactions around technology in a call center (with
Michele Jackson). Consists primarily of observations and transcribed calls in a
campus-based telecommunications call center. Several papers have been produced
(see Kuhn & Jackson, 2003; Kuhn, 2003; Hudson, Kuhn, & Jackson 2003);
additional work will address structure of call breakdowns and conversational
“moves” that make technological problems effectively co-present for call center
representatives.
2. PAPERS IN PROGRESS:
1. Competitively-Selected
Conference Papers
Kuhn, T. (2004, November). A “demented work ethic” and a “lifestyle
firm”: Identity formation and rationalizations of workplace time commitments. Paper presented at the annual meeting of
NCA, Chicago. (Top Four paper [1st rated overall],
Organizational Communication Division)
Kuhn, T., & Jackson, M. H. (2003, November). Accomplishing knowledge: Extending the
performative model of organizational knowledge and knowing. Paper presented at the annual meeting of NCA, Miami
Beach, FL.
Corman, S. R., & Kuhn, T. (2003, November). The
detectability of socio-egocentric group speech: A quasi-Turing test. Paper presented at the annual meeting of NCA, Miami Beach, FL.
Kuhn,
T. (2003, July). Practices of knowledge and control: Collaborative activity
and expertise in a call center. Paper presented at the 3rd
Critical Management Studies Conference, Lancaster, England.
Nelson,
N. A., Jackson, M. H.., & Kuhn, T. (2003, May). To be or not to be: The
ontological project of the modern professional identity structure. Paper
presented at the annual meeting of the ICA, San Diego, CA.
Dooley, K., Corman, S., McPhee, R., & Kuhn, T.
(2001, July), Modeling high resolution broadband discourse in complex
adaptive systems. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Society for
Chaos Theory in Psychology and the Life Sciences, Madison, WI.
Kuhn,
T. (1999, November). Surmounting obstacles to theory development: On the
need for critical realism in organizational communication. Paper presented
at the 85th annual meeting of the NCA, Chicago, IL.
Kuhn, T. (1998, November). Dynamic processes and emergent structures: A parallel distributing processing model of communication networks. Presented at the annual meeting of NCA, New York. (Top Three paper and Top student paper, Organizational Communication Division)
Kuhn,
T. (1998, November). Group process and group performance: A qualitative,
longitudinal analysis of conflict and decision-making. Paper presented at
the annual meeting of the NCA, New York, NY. (Top student paper and 2nd-ranked
overall, Group Communication Division)
Kuhn,
T., & Poole, M. S. (1997, November). Do conflict styles influence group
decision-making? Toward a contingency theory of group decision-making. Paper
presented at the annual meeting of the NCA, Chicago, IL.
Kuhn,
T., & Poole, M. S. (1997, February). Complex tasks and group outcomes.
Paper presented at the annual Meeting of the Western States Communication
Association (WSCA), Monterey Bay, CA.
Kuhn,
T. (1996, November). Organizational communication research and structuration
theory: Review, critique, and re-direction. Paper presented at the annual
meeting of the Speech Communication Association (SCA), San Diego, CA. (Top
Paper, Student Section)
Theodossopoulou-Papalois,
V., & Kuhn, T. (1996, May). Rhetorical concerns in negotiation theory:
The common sense notion. Paper presented at the biennial meeting of the
Rhetoric Society of America, Tucson, AZ.
Kuhn,
T. (1996, February). The discourse of issues management: A genre of
organizational communication. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the
WSCA, Pasadena, CA.
Theodossopoulou-Papalois,
V., Ibrahim, B., & Kuhn, T. (1995, November). Verbal components of image
advertising: A content analysis. Paper presented at the annual meeting of
the SCA, San Antonio, TX.
2. Papers
on Competitively-Selected Panels or Preconferences
Kuhn,
T.(2003, November). A theoretical resource for heterogeneous networks of
practice: The case for a communicative theory of the firm. Paper to be presented at the annual meeting of NCA,
Miami Beach, FL.
Kuhn,
T. (2001, February). Translating scholarship into practice. Presentation
at the annual meeting of the WSCA, Coeur d’Alene, ID.
Kuhn,
T. (2001, February). Theoretical perspectives on technology and
organizations. Presentation
at the annual meeting of the WSCA, Coeur d’Alene, ID.
Kuhn,
T., & Nelson, N. (2000, November). Negotiating “proper perspective”: A case
study of the duality of organizational identification with multiple targets. Paper presented at the annual
meeting of the NCA, Seattle, WA.
McPhee,
R. D., Corman, S. R., Dooley, K. J., Kuhn, T., Zaug, P. J., & Iverson, J.
O. (2000, November). Discourse
analysis of organizational knowing: A survey of assumptions and problems. Paper presented at the annual
meeting of the NCA, Seattle, WA.
Kuhn,
T. (1999, November). They might be agents: Structuration theory and the
problem of group agency. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the NCA,
Chicago, IL.
Kuhn,
T. (1999, May). From one to many: Overcoming the pitfalls in mapping
collective cognition. Presented at the annual meeting of ICA, San
Francisco, CA.
Kuhn,
T. (1996, November). Organizing for democracy: Communication and power in
non-traditional organizations. Presented at the annual meeting of the SCA,
San Diego, CA.
Kuhn,
T. (1996, November). Communication research and structuration theory: An
examination of metatheoretical claims. Paper presented at the annual
meeting of the SCA, San Diego, CA.
3. Invited
Talks & Conference Presentations
Kuhn,
T. (2004, August). Response to the Pew Internet Project Report, “The
Internet Goes to College.” Presentation to the annual conference of the
Higher Education Association of the Rockies, Boulder, CO.
Kuhn,
T. (2003, January). Lessons learned through the practice of organizational
communication research. Presentation at the annual meeting of the Rocky
Mountain Communication Association, Boulder, CO.
Kuhn,
T. (2002, March). The social construction of knowledge management
technologies in organizations.
Presentation to the Hugh Downs School of Human Communication, Arizona State
University, Tempe, AZ.
Kuhn,
T. (2001). On using multiple methods in the dissertation. Presentation
at the Organizational Communication Division Doctoral Preconference, at the
annual meeting of the ICA, Washington, DC.
Kuhn,
T. (2001, October). Knowledge management systems outside the box. Presentation at the GROUP 2001
Conference, Boulder, CO.
Center for the Advancement
of Research and Teaching in the Social Sciences (CARTSS), University of
Colorado. $1050 award from the CARTSS Scholars Program to
support research project with jetBlue Airlines. 2004-2005.
National Science Foundation
Science of Learning Center program: $25 million proposal for development of Center for
Research on Undergraduate Science Learning (CRUSL) to alter the culture of
education and the institutional structures that support instructional practices
in departments of physics, chemistry, biology, astronomy, and geosciences.
Senior personnel under PI Carl Wieman (Physics), with proposed responsibility
to investigate issues of identity and cultural change. Not funded.
Avaya Corporation: $250,000 gift to study
content and structure of interactions in Information Technology Services campus
help center. With (Bryan Pellom, CU Center for Spoken Language Research, as
PI), Michele Jackson (Communication) and Lecia Barker (ATLAS), 2001-02.
National Science Foundation
Information Technology Research program: $2,049,940 application for multidisciplinary
project to study virtual collaboration in tele-immersive environments. Co-PI,
with Geoffrey Dorn (BP Center for Visualization), Eric Frost (San Diego State
University), Michele Jackson (Communication), and Heinrich Schwarz (Communication).
Not funded.
National Science Foundation Information
Technology Research program. $2.3
million application for Mining, Mapping, and Managing Organizational Knowledge
From Text and Conversation. Spring, 2000. Contractor under PI Kevin Dooley
(Department of Management, Arizona State University). Not funded.
Arizona State University (ASU) Graduate Research
Support Grant, 1999 (to support dissertation research). $400.
III. TEACHING
A. TEACHING AWARDS/RECOGNITION
ASU
Communication Students Association “Outstanding Instructor” and “Most Rigorous Instructor” (selected
by undergraduate majors), 1999
ICA
Instructional and Development Division, Outstanding Graduate Student Teaching
Award, 1998-99
B.
APPOINTMENTS
DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNICATION
University
of Colorado at Boulder
Courses Taught:
COMM 1600, Interaction
Skills
COMM 2600, Introduction to
Organizational Communication
COMM
4600, Senior Seminar: Knowledge, Learning, and Communication in Organizations
COMM
6020, Quantitative Methods in Communication Research
COMM
6200, Graduate Seminar: Discourse, Knowledge, and Organizational Communication
COMM
6300, Advanced Readings in Organizational Communication
HUGH DOWNS SCHOOL OF HUMAN COMMUNICATION
Arizona State University
Graduate Associate, August, 1995–May 2000
Courses Taught:
COM
450, Theory and Research in Organizational Communication
COM
408, Quantitative Research Methods in Communication
COM
308, Advanced Research Methods in Communication
COM
250, Introduction to Organizational Communication
COM
230, Small Group Communication
COM
225, Public Speaking
COM 207, Introduction to
Communication Inquiry (multi-section course; administrative responsibility for
two Ph.D. teaching assistants)
DEPARTMENT OF SPEECH-COMMUNICATION
University of Minnesota
Teaching Assistant, January 1994 - July 1995
Courses Taught:
Spch 1101, Fundamentals of Oral
Communication (Public Speaking)
Spch 3441, Introduction to
Organizational Communication
C. ADVISING
PhD Students
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Renee Heath (co-advisor with S. Deetz; completed Summer 2005)
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Stacey Wieland (Expected completion: Spring 2006)
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Lucie Sommer (Expected completion: Spring 2007)
MA Students with Thesis
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Katherine Bunch (Spring 2002). Thesis title:
“Communication in Computer Science Classroom Collaboration”
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Natalie A. Nelson (Spring 2002). Thesis title: “To
Be or Not to Be: The Ontological Project of the Modern Professional Identity
Structure”
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Krista Belanger (expected completion: Fall 2005)
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John McClellan (expected completion: Spring 2006)
MA Students with Comprehensive Exams
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Ryan Lantz (Completed Spring 2003)
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Rita Mahoney (Completed Spring 2003)
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Daniel Stewart (Completed Spring 2003)
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Wen Yu (Completed Fall 2003)
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Yintao Chen (Completed Summer 2004)
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Jessica Stollen (Completed Spring 2005)
Undergraduate Honors Students with Theses
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Kari Kolbo (Completed Spring 2002): “Knowledge
Management: Its Perspectives and Their Relationship with High Performing
Organizations”
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Mary Scordo (Completed Spring 2002): “Candidate
Image Framing: Media Interpretations of Third Party Reality”
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Tangie Sutton (Completed Spring 2003): “Superior-Subordinate
Relationships: The Effects of Trust and Group Status on Perceived Performance”
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Nicole Bates (Completed Spring 2004): “The Study of Identity Formation and Control:
Expanding the Research to the Small Business Domain”
Committee Member for Graduate
Students
PhD:
Kirsti Broadfoot, Devon Brown, Sarah Dempsey (comprehensive exam reader), Aaron
Dimock (comprehensive exam reader), Erin Foley-Reynolds, Randall Ford, Matt
Germonprez (Systems Dept.), Dirk Hovorka (Systems Dept.), Guowei Jian, Alex
Heintzman, Michael Khoo, Alexander Lyon, Brett Maddex, Jessica MacDonald,
Jeanne McPherson
MA: Anne
Heintzman (thesis), Paul Leonardi (thesis), Kealy Spring (thesis)
Graduate Independent Studies Courses
Directed: 8
Undergraduate Internship
Projects Directed: 24
IV. SERVICE
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Technology Liaison, Department of Communication,
AY 2000-01, 01-02, 02-03
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Search committees: Instructor (Spring 01), Senior
hire (Fall 01)
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Graduate Program Committee, Department of
Communication , AY 2001-02, 02-03
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Technology Policy Committee, Department of
Communication, AY 2001-02, 02-03
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TA Orientation Workshop, Department of
Communication, 2001, 02, 03
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Merit Review Committee, Department of
Communication, AY 2001-02
B. UNIVERSITY
OF COLORADO
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Presentation to the University Risk Management
retreat on Incorporating Cultural
Differences into Workplace Interactions, September, 2001
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Served on Statewide
Core Requirements Committee (for English and Communication programs across the
state), Fall 02
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Primary planner/coordinator for three-day
interdisciplinary conference (entitled Transforming Organizations Through
Theory, Research, and Practice) held in Aspen, Colorado, July 2003. (Member
of planning team for 2002 conference)
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Secretary, NCA Organizational Communication
Division
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Editorial Board Member, Major Works in Organizational Communication (five-volume set edited
by L. Putnam and K. Krone), to be published by Sage in 2005
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Editorial Board Member, Communication Theory
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Editorial Board Member, Management
Communication Quarterly
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Editorial Board Member, Western Journal of
Communication
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Co-convener, with S. Deetz and M. Jackson, for
competitive paper stream on Communication and Collaboration at the 3rd Critical
Management Studies conference, Lancaster, England, July 2003.
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Panelist/Reviewer, National Science Foundation
program on Human and Social Dynamics (June 2004)
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Review of book manuscripts: Roxbury (2000),
Lawrence Erlbaum (2002), Oxford University Press (2003)
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Ad hoc reviewer of journal submissions:
2001, 03, 04, 05 Communication
Theory
2005 Communication
Yearbook
2000,
01, 02 Management Communication Quarterly
2002 Journal
of Applied Communication Research
2003 Organization
2002 Group Dynamics:
Theory, Research, and Practice
2002 Journal of Business and Management
2003, 05 The Information Society
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Conference Respondent to Competitive Papers:
1. NCA:
Panel on Non-Profit Organizations (2004, Chicago)
2. NCA:
Panel on Organizational Identification (2002, New Orleans)
3. ICA:
Panel on Organizational Knowledge (2003, San Diego)
4. ASU
West Student Conference: Panel on Philosophy and Rhetoric (1999, Phoenix)
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Competitive Paper Referee:
1. NCA
annual convention, Organizational Communication Division: 2000, 2001, 2002
2. NCA
annual convention, Group Communication Division: 2002
3. ICA
annual convention, Organizational Communication Division: 2001, 2002, 2003,
2004
4. Academy
of Management annual convention, Organizational Communication and Information
Systems Division: 1997, 1998
5. International
Students of Organizations Conference: 1996
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Nominating Committee Member, NCA, Organizational
Communication Division Book and Article Awards, 1997
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Book and Article Awards Committee, NCA
Organizational Communication Division: 2003
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Awards Committee, NCA Group Communication
Division: 2003
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ICA Redding Dissertation Award Committee: 2004
D. OTHER
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Seminar for TAs across the Arizona State
University, entitled “Surviving and Thriving in the Teaching Assistantship”
(with Rona Halualani). February, 1997
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Presentations to Political Science classes at the
U.S. Air Force Academy, entitled “New Communication Technologies
And Democratic Participation.” March, 2002.
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Guest lecture to
Aviation Engineering course at Metropolitan State University, Denver, CO, entitled
“Communication and Decision-Making in
the Cockpit.” June 2002.
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Report on Summer
Clerkship Program for Holland and Hart, LLP (37 pp.), April 2004
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Presentation on
“Navigating the First Few Years of the Tenure-Track Position.” At Nuevo Día: Southwest Organizational
Communication Conference. January 2005.
V. RELEVANT EMPLOYMENT
DEPARTMENT OF SPEECH-COMMUNICATION
University of Minnesota
Undergraduate
Adviser, September 1994 - July 1995
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Tracked and facilitated the progress of majors and
minors
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Advised undergraduates on department and college
policies and procedures
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Revised undergraduate curriculum and senior
project standards
DEPARTMENT OF INSTITUTIONAL
RELATIONS
University of Minnesota
Research
Assistant, October 1993 - September 1994
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Assisted Associate Vice President in speechwriting
for University President
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Created and maintained databases of awards &
achievements of faculty and programs, as well as University research, teaching,
and service initiatives
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Completed in-depth interviews of 36 users of
University Foundation’s donor & alumni database as part of a Total Quality
Management initiative; prepared detailed report and recommendations to
University administrators
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Received “Pedestal Award” for excellence in job
performance and service
KELLOGG, INC.
Spokane, WA (headquartered in
Battle Creek, MI)
Account
Representative, January 1992 - August 1993
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Represented products & promotions to
wholesale, retail, & military accounts
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Responsible for attaining sales budgets and cost
controls with a $3 million wholesale & retail customer