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Recent books from UNM C&J faculty

Glenda R. Balas
Patricia O. Covarrubias
Karen A. Foss
Bob Gassaway
Miguel Gandert

Dirk C. Gibson
Judith Hendry
Dennis Herrick
Stephen W. Littlejohn

Pamela Lutgen-Sandvik Richard Schaefer
Jan Schuetz
Gill Woodall


    Associate professor Glenda R. Balas, the current chair of the C&J Department, is the author of Recovering a Public Vision for Public Television. The book investigates three important developments in the development of public media in the U.S. and explores how they restrict public broadcasting's institutional vision. The book's six-point plan proposes a reconstitution and rejuvenation of public broadcasting's mission so it can advance into the twenty-first century as a leader in public speech.
      Originally published in 2003 by Rowman & Littlefield, the book can be found at Amazon.com, and as well as at barnesandnoble.com.

    Culture, Communication and Cooperation: Interpersonal Relations and Pronominal Address in a Mexican Organization was written by communication associate professor Patricia O. Covarrubias. It is based on an ethnographic study of 550 workers in a Mexican industrial organization in Veracruz.
      Originally published in 2002, it was re-issued in paperback in 2005. It can be found at Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, and it can be seen at barnesandnoble.com.

     The first compilation of about 300 theories in the communication academic field was published in 2009, edited by C&J Regents Professor Karen A. Foss and her husband, Stephen W. Littlejohn, who is also on faculty at C&J. Titled the Encyclopedia of Communication Theory, nearly 200 communication scholars provided entries for the books, including several other C&J faculty members
     It is available from Sage Publications and also from barnesand noble.com and amazon.com.

      Foss also edited Readings in Feminist Rhetorical Theory along with her sister Sonja K. Foss of the University of Colorado, and Cindy L. Griffin of Colorado State University. It features the writings of nine influential feminist theorists: Cheris Kramarae, bell hooks, Gloria Anzaldua, Mary Daly, Starhawk, Paula Gunn Allen, Trinh T. Minh-ha, Sally Miller Gearhart and Sonia Johnson.     
      The book is intended as a companion volume to Feminist Theoretical Theories published by Foss, Foss and Griffin in 1999.
      It can be seen at amazon.com or at barnesandnoble.com.
With her husband, Stephen W. Littlejohn, Dr. Foss is co-author of the 8th edition of Theories of Human Communication.
     
Thomson/Wadsworth features the book on its site. It also can be found at amazon.com and barnesandnoble.com. It is considered the seminal text in the field of communication.



    Journalism professor Miguel Gandert is the co-author with Enrique R. Lamidrid of the award-winning book Hermanitos Comanchitos: Indo-Hispano Rituals of Captivity and Redemption.
    Through its text and photographs, the book explores one of the great shared festivals of the Pueblo and Hispano communities, known as Los Comanches. Hermanitos Comanchitos won the 2004 Chicago Folklore Prize and it also won a Border Regional Library Association Book Award. Available in hardbound or paperback, it includes a CD with performances of festival songs.
    The book can be found at University of New Mexico Press, and it can be seen at barnesandnoble.com or at amazon.com.
    Gandert also took the photographs and co-authored Nuevo México: Rituals of an Indo-Hispano Homeland. It conveys the colorful and enduring mestizo culture in the upper Rio Grande corridor with Indo-Hispanos performing rituals and dances rooted in the syncretism of garb and gods of the Old and New Spains.
    The book can be found at at barnesandnoble.com or at amazon.com.


      C&J professor emeritus Bob Gassaway's 2007 book, Dirty Work, was co-edited with Shirley K. Drew and Melanie Mills, both of Bowling Green University.
    The book illuminates the experiences of people who are not only doing the work that most of us would rather avoid, but who are socially defined and often stigmatized by that work, regardless of how valuable their work is to society.
    Published by Baylor University Press, Dirty Work can be seen at amazon.com and at barnesandnoble.com.


    Associate professor Dirk C. Gibson has produced a third book on serial murderers, this one titled Serial Killing for Profit: Multiple Murder for Money.
    In his 2009 book, Dr. Gibson focuses on serial killers motivated by monetary gain, which includes one-quarter of cases classified as serial murders.
    Serial Killing for Profit can be seen at amazon.com and it also can be seen at barnesand noble.com.
    In his second book in the series, Serial Murder and Media Circuses, Dr. Gibson presents and analyzes the role of communication—rhetoric, journalism and public relations—in the highly charged and emotional atmosphere of serial murders, and he points to the troubling downside of mass press coverage of these horrific crimes.
    The book can be found at Greenwood Publishing Group, and it can be seen at amazon.com or at barnesandnoble.com.
    His first book in the series, Clues from Killers: Serial Murder and Crime Scene Messages, was released in 2004 by Praeger Publishers.
    The first book describes the rhetorical behavior of serial murderers. Based on a sample of 500 serial killers, Clues from Killers includes chapters on the Mad Butcher of Cleveland, Jack the Ripper, the Black Dahlia Avenger, and Zodiac.
    Clues from Killers can be found at Greenwood Publishing Group, and it can be seen at amazon.com or at barnesandnoble.com.






      C&J part-time instructor Tony Hatch’s book Tinder Box, The Iroquois Theatre Disaster 1903, published by Academy Chicago Publishers in 2003 as hardcover, was released in paperback in Fall 2011. The account, based on original research begun in 1962, focuses on a tragedy that occurred in America’s newest playhouse, advertised as being “absolutely fireproof,” which claimed over 600 lives. The Chicago Tribune calls the book “An important and relevant story...it succeeds in placing the reader back in time, exposing immense tragedy, blatant corruption and terrible irresponsibility.” And from The American Library Association “Booklist”: “A painful, but superbly written work about a wholly unnecessary tragedy.”
      Tinder Box, The Iroquois Theatre Disaster 1903 can be seen at amazon.com


      Communication and the Natural World, by lecturer Judith Hendry, was published in 2010 by Strata Pub Co. Dr. Hendry's book explores the many ways in which our communication about the natural world profoundly affects how we perceive and interact with it. It discusses the complex and dramatic environmental issues that pervade our relationship with nature today. And it shows, clearly and vividly, how cultural, philosophical, commercial, mass-mediated, and popular discourse shape and are shaped by our responses to those issues.
     Communication and the Natural World can be seen at amazon.com


      Media Management in the Age of Giants, by retired C&J journalism lecturer and former newspaper publisher Dennis Herrick, is a primer on how to manage a media company in an industry dominated by conglomerates.
      The book has a companion website.
      Lecturer Emeritus Herrick's book blends both theoretical foundations and practical application of management practices. It examines the current media industry in an age when all the rules seem to be changing because of the new phenomena of digital technology, publicly traded media conglomerates, and changing media values and tastes of the public. An updated second edition of the book will be published in July 2012 by University of New Mexico Press.
      Media Management in the Age of Giants (first edition) can be seen at amazon.com.


           Stephen Littlejohn publishes general works in communication, particularly in the areas of communication theory and conflict. Two recent communication theory works include the two-volume Encyclopedia of Communication Theory published in 2009 by Sage and Theories of Human Communication, 10th edition, published in 2010 by Waveland Press, both written with Karen Foss.
     With Kathy Domenici (now Isaacson), Stephen recently wrote Communication, Conflict, and the Management of Difference published by Waveland in 2007 and Facework: Bridging Theory and Practice, published by Sage in 2006.


      Associate professor Pamela Lutgen-Sandvik, a well-known expert on workplace bullying, published a book in 2009 titled Destructive Organizational Communication: Processes, Consequences & Constructive Ways of Organizing.
      Dr. Lutgen-Sandvik is an editor of the new volume with Beverly Davenpo Sypher.
      Destructive workplace issues such as bullying, racism, stress and harassment are examined by several communication scholars.
      The book is available from barnesandnoble.com and from amazon.com.


      Journalism associate professor Richard Schaefer is the author of the department's first online textbook, titled Introduction to Media Writing. It is for aspiring journalists and nonfiction writers, and it's the text for C&J 171: Introduction to Writing. The online book includes interactive exercises, and its contents can be shaped to support a nonfiction writing course structure.
      The online book was published by Great River Technologies.


      Communication professor Janice Shuetz produced two books in the 2006-07 academic year.
      Dr. Schuetz was one of two editors for the volume, Perspectives on Argumentation: Essays in Honor of Wayne Brockriede. She also was the author of Communicating the Law: Lessons from Landmark Legal Cases.
      Dr. Schuetz is the author of several books. Perspectives on Argumentation is a compilation of essays by several communication scholars. Her co-editor is Dr. Robert Trapp of Willamette University. It can be found at barnesandnoble.com or at amazon.com. Communicating the Law examines communication perspectives of several high-profile American legal cases. It can be found at barnesandnoble.com or at amazon.com.
     Another recent book by Dr.
Schuetz is Episodes in the Rhetoric of Government-Indian Relations. That book can be viewed at the Greenwood Publishing Group site. The book also can be found at amazon.com and at barnesandnoble.com.


      Communication professor Gill Woodall is the coauthor with Judee K. Burgoon and David B. Buller of Nonverbal Communication: The Unspoken Dialogue. The book was issued in hardbound in 1988 and re-issued in paperback in 1994.
      The book can be seen at barnesandnoble.com and at amazon.com.