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

 

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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

 

 

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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)

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