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Students Misc Elizabeth Dickinson
PhD Student and Instructor, Communication &
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“The
primary human reality is persons in conversation.” (Rom Harre, 1983) CONTACT INFORMATION Elizabeth
A. Dickinson Communication & Journalism Dept MSC 03 2240 Albuquerque,
NM 87131
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ACADEMIC PROFILE In Communication Studies, my research interests generally combine communication and culture and environmental communication. From interpretive and critical perspectives, I study cultures, nature, discourses, consumption, power, and social change. I am specifically interested in human conceptualizations, perceptions, consumption, and discourses of nature and the environment, including problematic discourse and conflict. Some questions that drive my research are: - How do humans construct knowledge and meaning about nature? - How are perceptions of nature framed and influenced by cultural identities and positionalities? - How and why do humans “consume” nature? - How do power, systems, histories, and institutionalism influence environmental issues? Most importantly, how can these power structures be challenged? - In situations of conflict, how and why do power and cultural positionality enable marginalization? - How does media influence and mediate how we feel and talk about nature? - How do humans (re)form concepts of space and place as they relate to cultures and nature? Other research interests are gender, various social justice/social change issues, and popular culture. At UNM, I recently finished my coursework and am studying for my comprehensive exams (scheduled for August 2008). I am working on various research projects and will teach Intercultural Communication (undergraduate level) and Teaching the Basic Course (graduate level) in fall 2008. In the past I have taught courses in fundamentals, public speaking, business and professional com, intercultural com, interpersonal com, persuasion, nonverbal, and conflict. PROJECTS I am working
on several projects in - please see all working papers and projects here. BACKGROUND I was born and raised in southern California and after earning a BA from CSUSB in 1996 in Organizational Communication, I completed my MA from New Mexico State University in 1998 with an emphasis in Intercultural Communication and Social Change. I then taught English in Aomori, Japan for two years with the JET Program and worked as a university instructor in Communication in Beijing, China for two semesters through the University of Colorado Denver’s ICB program at China Agricultural University. Prior to joining the UNM Communication and Journalism Department as a PhD student in fall 2006, I was an instructor in Communication Studies for three years in Miami Florida at Florida International University and Miami-Dade College. |
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a little help from my Boo) Send
e-mail to: edickins@unm.edu Modified:
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