Elizabeth Dickinson, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Communication, Kenan-Flagler Business School, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill Adjunct Instructor in Education and Oceanography, Nova Southeastern University Home | Research | CV | FOR STUDENTS | AWARDS | Misc
CONTACT INFORMATION Dr. Elizabeth Dickinson Assistant Professor Communication Area Kenan-Flagler Business School McColl Building UNC-Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, NC 27599 Adjunct Instructor Fischler School of Education Oceanographic Center Nova Southeastern University Virtual eadickins@gmail.com www.unm.edu/~edickins The trouble with the maples (and they’re quite convinced they're right) They say the oaks are just too lofty And they grab up all the light But the oaks can’t help their feelings If they like the way they’re made And they wonder why the maples Can’t be happy in their shade? “The Trees” by Rush	PROFILE I am an Assistant Professor in Communication in the Kenan-Flagler Business School at UNC-CH, where I teach in the communication area. My research focuses on communication, culture, environmental communication, and ecocultural sustainability. At Nova Southeastern University, I teach M.S.-level online social science courses in the Environmental Education and Oceanography programs. In 2010, I earned my Ph.D. in Communication from the Department of Communication at the University of New Mexico. RESEARCH AREAS Ecocultural/Environmental Communication Eco-theory and philosophy; environmental education; environmental consumerism; space, place, and landscape; ecocultural dialectics; epistemologies of science, politics, and economics; environmental conflict; state and national parks and forests; environmental justice; ecofeminism Culture and Communication Intercultural communication; critical theories of culture; gender; how cultural ideologies are produced, consumed, performed, and resisted through communication Approaches and Methods Qualitative, rhetorical, and critical; textual analysis, participant observation, interviewing, rhetorical criticism, ethnography, critical methods SAMPLE PUBLICATIONS Dickinson, E. (forthcoming). The misdiagnosis: Rethinking “nature-deficit disorder.” Environmental Communication: A Journal of Nature and Culture. Milstein, T., & Dickinson, E. (forthcoming). Gynocentric greenwashing: The discursive gendering of nature. Communication, Culture & Critique. McKinnon, S., Dickinson, E., Chavez, K., & Carr, J. (forthcoming). Kiva.org, person-to person lending, and the conditions of intercultural contact. Howard Journal of Communications. Dickinson, E. (2012). (Re)appropriating the petroglyphs: Commercial representations of a cultural landscape. Journal of Consumer Culture, 12(2), 1-20. Dickinson, E., Foss, K. A., & Chen, Y.-W. (2012). Disrupting polarization in discourses of terrorism, the environment, and race: The generative possibilities of dialectical innovation. International Journal of Humanities and Social Science, 2(14). Dickinson, E. (2012). Addressing environmental racism through storytelling: Toward an environmental justice narrative framework. Communication, Culture & Critique, 5(1), 57-74. Lutgen-Sandvik, P., Dickinson, E., & Foss, K. A. (2012). Painting, priming, peeling, and polishing: Constructing and deconstructing the woman-bullying-woman identity at work. In S. Fox, & T. R. Lituchy (Eds.), Gender and the dysfunctional workplace (pp. 61-77). Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd. Dickinson, E. (2011). Displaced in nature: The cultural production of (non-)place in place-based forest conservation pedagogy. Environmental Communication: A Journal of Nature and Culture, 5(3), 300-319. * 1st Place Top Paper in Environmental Communication, WSCA, 2011 Milstein, T., Anguiano, C., Sandoval, J., Chen, Y.-W., & Dickinson, E. (2011). Communicating a “new” environmental vernacular: A sense of relations-in-place. Communication Monographs, 78(4), 486-519. Dickinson, E. (2009). The Montana meth project: Applying Burke’s dramatistic pentad to a persuasive anti-drug media campaign. Communication Teacher, 23(3), 126-131. For all publications, working papers, and projects, click here. BACKGROUND I was born and raised in Southern California. After earning a B.A. in Organizational Communication from California State University San Bernardino, I completed my M.A. from New Mexico State University with an emphasis in Intercultural Communication and Social Change. I taught English in Aomori, Japan for two years through the JET Program before moving to Los Angeles where I worked in marketing. I taught communication in Beijing through the University of Colorado Denver’s ICB program at China Agricultural University. I worked at a nonprofit in San Diego before moving to Miami where I was a communication instructor at Florida International University and Miami-Dade College. I completed my Ph.D. at the University of New Mexico in 2010 and, before coming to UNC, I spent a year teaching at Salem College in Winston-Salem, NC. I have experience in academic, nonprofit, business, and intercultural settings.
“The primary human reality is persons in conversation.”� (Ron Harre, 1983)		Website developed and maintained by Elizabeth Dickinson Send e-mail to: eadickins@gmail.com Modified: Summer 2012