Fred Bales, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus

Dr. Bales taught journalism for 18 years at the University of New Mexico, leaving as professor emeritus in 1994 to teach at Xavier University of Louisiana in New Orleans. He retired there and then taught for one year as a visiting professor at the University of Texas in Brownsville. He moved back to the Albuquerque area in 2005.

ACADEMIC AFFILIATIONS
       University of Texas at Brownsville, 2004-2005, Visiting Professor
       Xavier University of Louisiana, 1997-2004, Professor, Department of Communications
       University of New Mexico, 1979-1997, Professor Emeritus
       University of Texas, Graduate Assistant, 1976-1979
       Indiana University Southeast, Adjunct Faculty, 1971-1975
       Indiana University Bloomington, Graduate Assistant, 1964-1965

PROFESSIONAL JOURNALISM EMPLOYMENT
       Albuquerque Tribune, Copy Editor, September 1989
       Louisville Courier-Journal, Assistant to the Managing Editor, 1972-1975; Reporter, l968-l972
       Hagerstown (Ind.) Exponent, News Editor, Summer l965
       Muncie (Ind.) Star- Reporter, Fall l963, Summer l964

EDUCATION
       Ph.D., l980, University of Texas at Austin (Mass Communication)
       M.A., l965, Indiana University (Journalism)
       B.A., l962, DePauw University (Economics)

INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCE
       Fulbright Lecturer, The Philippines, October 1989-April 1990
       Peace Corps Volunteer, Chile, 1966-1967

Jean Civikly-Powell, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus

Charles Coates, Professor Emeritus

John Condon, Ph.D., Regents Professor and Professor Emeritus
Room 210


Dr. Condon is an internationally known scholar in intercultural communication who retired from fulltime teaching in the Communication and Journalism Department at the end of 2003. The University of New Mexico named him a Regents Scholar, of whom there are only eight on campus. Dr. Condon continues to teach on a part-time basis with the department. He received his Ph.D. from Northwestern University in 1964.

Sample Publications:

• 1997, Good Neighbors: Communicating with Mexicans, (2nd ed.). Intercultural Press.
• 1996, With Respect to the Japanese: A Guide for Americans, (2nd ed.) Intercultural Press.

Teaching Style: Dr. Condon is known as a highly respected teacher in the C&J department. His intercultural classes often include trips to Mexico and within New Mexico to actively engage students with other cultures.

Why UNM?: The diverse cultural climate in the Southwest offers numerous opportunities to try to learn about and understand different cultures.

Spare Time: Spends a lot of time working and living in the Jemez Mountains north of Albuquerque.

Ken Frandsen, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus

Ph.D. Ohio University, 1962
Room 210, 505/277-0168

Professor Frandsen served as chair of the Department of Communication from 1979 to 1989 before the merger that resulted in the Department of Communication and Journalism.   From 1989 to 2000 he was Associate Dean, College of Arts and Sciences, and also served as Interim Chair of the UNM Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences from 1998 to 2000.

From 2000 to 2002, he served as Interim Dean of Graduate Studies
at UNM. He retired from his full time faculty position at the end
of 2004 and continued as a part time faculty member until 2007.
He served as a member of the Board of Directors and President of
the UNM Retiree Association and as a member of the Board of
Directors of the Sun Country Amateur Golf Association Foundation.
At the Western States Communication Association's Annual
Convention in 2004, he received the WSCA Distinguished Service
Award, the association's highest honor. He currently resides in
Windsor, Colorado.

Sample Publications:

• "On Conceptual, Theoretical and Empirical Treatments of Feedback in Human Communication: Fifteen Years Later." Communication Reports, 6 (1993), 79-91 (with Michael A Millis).
• "Conceptions of Communication," in Handbook of Rhetorical and Communication Theory (ed.) C.C. Arnold and J. Bowers. Boston: Allyn & Bacon, 1984, pp. 3-50 ( co-authored with C.C. Arnold).
• "Functions of Human Communication in Informing: Communicating and Processing Information," in Handbook of Rhetorical and Communication Theory (ed.) C.C. Arnold and J. Bowers. Boston: Allyn & Bacon, 1984, pp. 338-99 (co-authored with D.A. Clement).

Research Areas: Communication Theories and Research Methods, Persuasion, Nonverbal Communication.

Methods: Generally, I measure and/or count things, because things I am interested in require counting. After counting and measuring, I use various forms of analysis and interpretation. Occasionally, I use other methods. Authors: Carroll C. Arnold, Gerald M. Phillips, John O. Greene, and Aristotle.

Teaching Style: My teaching style is student-centered and heavily dependent on students who are prepared to take an active role in their learning process.

Favorite Classes: Theories of Communication, Seminar in Persuasion, Foundations of Communication Research, and Senior Seminar.

Why UNM?: Because, in 1979, it looked like a university that had potential (and still looks like it has potential.)

Spare Time: Work on fund-raising efforts for Presidential Scholarships, Childrens' Cancer Center, etc. Watch my grandchildren (2) and my children (4) grow. Play golf.

Bob Gassaway, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus

Ph.D. University of Missouri-Columbia, 1984

Dr. Gassaway has worked as a professional journalist and teaches both journalism and communication courses. He worked under a special grant recently, speaking to students at high schools all over New Mexico about writing, journalism, and the importance of telling their own stories.

Sample Publications:

• "Of the Diné, by the Diné and for the Diné: The Navajo Nation Would like a More Grassroots Form of Government," Mirage Magazine, 1995.
• "Small Papers Can Have Detailed Market Studies for $2,000-$4,000," HBNC Review, Huck Boyd National Center for Community Media, Manhattan, Kansas State University,1995.

Research Areas : Cross-cultural mass communication issues, particularly cross-border news coverage, professional journalism issues. Currently studying communication in casinos.

Methods: Combination of qualitative and quantitative methods. You can learn more by blending the two than by keeping them separate.

Authors: Erving Goffman, David Altheide, Gaye Tuchman.

Teaching Style: I teach writing courses as though I am editing the copy for publication in a daily newspaper. I expect professional-quality work from my more advanced students. In ethics and research methods classes, I create problems for students to attack and solve.

Why UNM?: I prefer life in the Southwest because I enjoy the blending of culture and languages.

Spare Time: Bonsai tree sculpting and writing.

Tony Hillerman, Professor Emeritus

Tony Hillerman taught journalism for several years at the University of New Mexico after a long and distinguished career as a newspaper reporter. He headed the journalism program before it was merged to become today's Department of Communication and Journalism.

Hillerman is widely known for his work as a novelist, particularly for his best-selling Navajo detetective series of books. Four of them have been made into movies—The Dark Wind, Skinwalkers, Coyote Waits and A Thief of Time.

He is past president of the Mystery Writers of America and has received their Edgar and Grand Master writing awards. Among his other honors are the Center for the American Indian's Ambassador Award, the Silver Spur Award for the best novel set in the West, and the Navajo Tribe's Special Friend Award.

Elaine Raybourn, Ph.D., National Laboratory Professor

http://www.cs.unm.edu/~raybourn
Dr. Elaine M. Raybourn has a background in Intercultural Communication and Human-Computer Interaction. She brings an expertise in understanding culture and communication to the design of interactive software and groupware. In doing so, she collaborates with international organizations including BTexact, British Telecom Advanced Communications Centre in Ipswich, England (1999-2003); Fraunhofer FIT Applied Information Technology Institute in Sankt Augustin, Germany (2001-2003); and INRIA French National Research Institute in Computer Science and Automation located in Paris, France (2003). She has been an ERCIM (European Consortium for Research in Informatics and Mathematics) fellow, and is currently a member of Sandia National Laboratories and a National Laboratory Professor at the University of New Mexico’s Department of Communication & Journalism, Institute for Organizational Communication.
See http://www.sandia.gov/media/NewsRel/NR2000/virtual.htm and http://www.cs.unm.edu/~raybourn for more.

Sample publications:

• Raybourn, E. M. (in press). Designing Intercultural Agents for Multicultural Interactions. In Agent Culture: Agent-Human Interaction in a Multicultural World, Robert Trappl & Sabine Payr (Eds.)
• Raybourn, E. M., Kings, N. J., and Davies, J. (2003). Adding Cultural Signposts In Adaptive Community-Based Environments. Interacting With Computers: the Interdisciplinary Journal of Human-Computer Interaction, Special Issue on Intelligent Community-based Systems, Elsevier, 15, 91-107.
• Raybourn, E. M. (2003). Design Cycle Usability and Evaluations of an Intercultural Virtual Simulation Game for Collaborative Virtual Learning. In C. Ghaoui (Ed.), Usability Evaluation of Online Learning Programs, Information Science Publishing, 233-53.
• Pankoke-Babatz, U., and Raybourn, E. M. (2003). Electronic Behavior Settings in Distributed Cooperation. In Universal Access in HCI: Inclusive Design for the Information Society, Constantine Stephanidis (Ed.). Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1178-82.
• Valle, C., Raybourn, E. M., and Prinz, W., (2003). Group Storytelling to Support Tacit Knowledge Externalization. In Universal Access in HCI: Inclusive Design for the Information Society, Constantine Stephanidis (Ed.). Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1218-22.

Research Areas:
My research concerns intelligent community-based systems, intercultural collaborative virtual environments, social-process simulations, games, and interaction design. Current efforts include storytelling in context-aware groupware systems, creating cultural signposts in knowledge-sharing environments, social computing, addressing cultural dynamics in agent and avatar behaviors, and designing learning applications and simulations that stimulate intercultural awareness, adaptive thinking, and leadership.
Methods: Both qualitative and quantitative methods are important methods for the research I do. I spend a lot of time doing ethnographic evaluations and naturalistic inquiry of work settings in order to develop technologies that people use to communicate.

Teaching Style: I like experiential learning and encourage students to take an active role in their learning process.

Favorite Classes: I enjoy teaching intercultural communication, business communication, and public speaking.

Roli Varma, Courtesy Appointment
 

Roli Varma is an associate professor of public administration at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque. She also teaches Technology in Society for the School of Engineering. Her research interest and publications include restructuring of centralized corporate R&D laboratories, women and minorities in information technology, engineering ethics, and new immigrants in the U.S. labor force.