Research
RESEARCH, CONSULTING AND RELATED EXPERIENCES
2005 & 2008 Spokane County Library District Board, Working With the Media
2005 – present Annual “Thinking Out Loud With …” public town and gown speaking events related to public scholarship in Communication.
2007 Spokane Area Red Cross
2004 ISR Corporation, Liberty Lake, WA. Communication Audit
1999 Spokane County Library District Board and Managers, Working With the Media
1994-2002 Director, Annual Conference on Spirituality, Culture and the Media. Gonzaga University.
1990-present Media and Culture. This research looks at the influence of media on foreign cultures.
1993 American Red Cross - Intercultural Training.
1991-92 U.S. Bank Corporation, Eastern Washington Area Managers. Process and Proposal.
Army Corp of Engineers, Walla Walla, Washington.
General Electric Medical Systems Corp., Spokane, Washington.
1987 Mills College (Oakland, California) Program In Communication. External Consultant for curriculum revision and future directions.
1981-1990 Research in comparative education processes of reading, writing, and speaking and the impact of early teaching in the United States and England.
1984-85 Saint Mary's College of California. Department of Communications. Consultant for curriculum revision and departmental philosophy.
1977-87 Director, Annual Conference on Communication, Chaffey College. The Conference each year attracted nearly 200 academics and professional people for a series of practical workshops on some specific theme in communication.
1983 Child Development Seminars, Inland Empire Schools, "Working With Multi-Cultural School Age Groups."
1982 Center for Public Safety, Orange County, California, Communication and Stress Management Seminars.
1975-82 Ethnographic Research, Description of Classroom Communication, California Public Schools.
1981 California Police Association, Communication Skills and Organizational Behavior.
1980 Post-service Teacher Center Consulting, Rowland Unified School District-Language and Reading in Primary and Special Education Classrooms.
1975-80 Research and Coordination of the Discourse Analysis and Language Function Projects, International Association of Applied Linguistics.
1979 Post-service Teacher Training Seminars - Bonita Unified School District-Toward a Philosophy of Reading in the Primary Grades.
1978 Freightliner Corporation, Organizational Communication Audit, Chino, California.
1975-77 Research Assistant to Professor John O. Regan, Claremont Graduate School and University Center.
Duties included coordination of research projects, supervision and conducting of field research, experimental design and data analysis, construction of ethnographic analysis systems, investigation of interaction of verbal and nonverbal modalities of human communication, applied educational linguistics.)
1975 Consulting Upward Bound Program, Claremont Colleges.
1974 Consulting Lynwood Unified School District, in-service workshop on behavioral and educational problem children, Lynwood, California.
2005 & 2008 Spokane County Library District Board, Working With the Media
2005 – present Annual “Thinking Out Loud With …” public town and gown speaking events related to public scholarship in Communication.
2007 Spokane Area Red Cross
2004 ISR Corporation, Liberty Lake, WA. Communication Audit
1999 Spokane County Library District Board and Managers, Working With the Media
1994-2002 Director, Annual Conference on Spirituality, Culture and the Media. Gonzaga University.
1990-present Media and Culture. This research looks at the influence of media on foreign cultures.
1993 American Red Cross - Intercultural Training.
1991-92 U.S. Bank Corporation, Eastern Washington Area Managers. Process and Proposal.
Army Corp of Engineers, Walla Walla, Washington.
General Electric Medical Systems Corp., Spokane, Washington.
1987 Mills College (Oakland, California) Program In Communication. External Consultant for curriculum revision and future directions.
1981-1990 Research in comparative education processes of reading, writing, and speaking and the impact of early teaching in the United States and England.
1984-85 Saint Mary's College of California. Department of Communications. Consultant for curriculum revision and departmental philosophy.
1977-87 Director, Annual Conference on Communication, Chaffey College. The Conference each year attracted nearly 200 academics and professional people for a series of practical workshops on some specific theme in communication.
1983 Child Development Seminars, Inland Empire Schools, "Working With Multi-Cultural School Age Groups."
1982 Center for Public Safety, Orange County, California, Communication and Stress Management Seminars.
1975-82 Ethnographic Research, Description of Classroom Communication, California Public Schools.
1981 California Police Association, Communication Skills and Organizational Behavior.
1980 Post-service Teacher Center Consulting, Rowland Unified School District-Language and Reading in Primary and Special Education Classrooms.
1975-80 Research and Coordination of the Discourse Analysis and Language Function Projects, International Association of Applied Linguistics.
1979 Post-service Teacher Training Seminars - Bonita Unified School District-Toward a Philosophy of Reading in the Primary Grades.
1978 Freightliner Corporation, Organizational Communication Audit, Chino, California.
1975-77 Research Assistant to Professor John O. Regan, Claremont Graduate School and University Center.
Duties included coordination of research projects, supervision and conducting of field research, experimental design and data analysis, construction of ethnographic analysis systems, investigation of interaction of verbal and nonverbal modalities of human communication, applied educational linguistics.)
1975 Consulting Upward Bound Program, Claremont Colleges.
1974 Consulting Lynwood Unified School District, in-service workshop on behavioral and educational problem children, Lynwood, California.
My current research areas include:
Media and Social Values
Communication and Culture
Communication Pedagogy