University of New Mexico
Department of Communication & Journalism
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John Condon, Ph.D.
 Ph.D., Northwestern University, 1964.
 canyon400@yahoo.com
Regents' Professor & Professor Emeritus 
Communication 

An internationally known scholar in intercultural communication, Dr. Condon will again teach graduate seminars beginning in 2012 after several years in retirement. The University of New Mexico named him "Outstanding Teacher" among all graduate professors in the college, and later awarded him the lifetime title of Regents' Professor.

Prior to joining the C&J faculty at UNM, Prof. Condon was on the faculty at Northwestern University (Evanston, IL) and International Christian University (ICU), near Tokyo. Condon began college at Mexico City College (now the Univ. of the Americas), and received his undergraduate degree from Northwestern, an M.A. in Language Arts from San Francisco State, and his Ph.D. from Northwestern Univ. where he was then invited to join the faculty.

Regarded as one of the founders of Intercultural Communication studies, Prof. Condon helped shape that field through is teaching in the U.S. and in 20 years of teaching abroad at schools chiefly in Mexico, Tanzania, and in Japan. He is currently a guest professor at the Univ. of the Pacific, and at Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University (APU) in Japan. Condon was a founding faculty member of the Summer Institute for Intercultural Communication, beginning in 1976 at Stanford University, and now at Reed College in Portland, OR, collaborating with C&J colleagues, past and present -- Miguel Gandert, Nagesh Rao, and Richard Harris.

At UNM, Prof. Condon worked closely with Everett Rogers to launch the Ph.D. program centered on intercultural communication studies. He offered the first Ph.D. seminar in intercultural communication (with Prof. Gandert) emphasizing experiential learning and field studies in New Mexico, visits to the U.S.-Mexico border, and in Mexico. A leading proponent of learning outside of the classroom, Condon has offered field studies seminars in NM and abroad for many years that have attracted students and scholars from many countries. In 2012 he will host a seminar in northern New Mexico for APU students.

Publications:

Dr. Condon is the author of 18 books, with publications in seven languages. His Semantics and Communication remains in print after 40 years. His Introduction to Intercultural Communication (with F. Yousef) is considered the first major textbook in the field, and one that influenced books for a generation. A revised edition of With Respect to the Japanese, now co-authored with C&J Ph.D. Tomoko Masumoto, subtitled Going to Work in Japan, was published in January, 2011. At present Dr. Condon is completing three books, including one about the radical work of his life-long friend, the late E.T. Hall. A collection of Condon's writings on intercultural communication, Things Which Seem to Exist but Don't and Things Which Seem Not to Exist but Do, is expected at the end of 2012. An extensive review of Dr. Condon's life and work will be published early in 2012 in a special edition of The International Journal of Intercultural Communication.

Personal:

"Jack" Condon lives in Jemez Springs, New Mexico, in a home he designed -- he is passionate about architecture, design, and sensitivity to place and space. He wishes that C&J grad students can appreciate and learn from New Mexico's extraordinary history of intercultural relations, the maintenance of cultural identity, and the evolution of culture, identity, and expression that is internationally recognized in the intercultural communication field, and that is omnipresent and enduring.



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