Fielding Graduate University

Scholarly & Professional Interests:

• Improving the quality of communication in a wide variety of contexts
• Communication research, theory and practice
  
  
  

Professional Memberships:

• National Communication Association
• Western States Communication Association
• National Coalition for Dialogue and Deliberation

Honors and Awards:

• Focus Panel, Western States Communication Association, 2001
• Theories that have stood the test of time. Fulbright Scholar (Argentina), 1997
• Spotlight on Scholarship Award, Central States Communication Association, 1994
• Scholarship Award, Eastern Communication Association, 1985
• Elizabeth Andersch Award, Ohio University, 1985
  
  

Publications:

• Moral Conflict: When Social Worlds Collide, Sage, 1997
• "The conversational turn in public discourse," Communication Quarterly, 1997
• Interpersonal Communication: Making Social Worlds, HarperCollins, 1994
• "Achieving dialogue with the other in the postmodern world," in P. Gaunt Beyond Agendas, Westwood, 1993
• Reagan and American Public Discourse, Univ. of Alabama Press, 1991
• Cultures, Politics, and Research Programs: An International Assessment of Practical Problems in Field Research, Lawrence Erlbaum, 1990
• Communication and the Human Condition, Southern Illinois Univ. Press, 1987
• Development as Communication: A Study of India, Southern Illinois Univ. Press, 1987
• Communication, Action and Meaning: Creating Social Worlds, Praeger, 1980
• Communicating Personally, Bobbs-Merrill, 1975
• "Public Dialogue and Democracy" (video), Loyola University, 1996
• "Interviewing Styles" (video), Loyola University, 1995; "Communication and Democracy" (video), Loyola University, 1994

Other Professional Activities:

• Co-Principal, Pearce Associates
• President, Public Dialogue Consortium.