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Nicolas Bencherki, University at Albany, State University of New York

I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication at the University at Albany, State University of New York. After completing a joint PhD in Communication at the Université de Montréal and in Sociology of Action at Sciences Po Paris, I spent time as a postdoctoral fellow, first at the Center for the Sociology…

Jessica Robles, Loughborough University

I am a currently a lecturer in the Department of Social Psychology at Loughborough University. I received my PhD from the University of Colorado at Boulder. Since graduating I taught for a couple years at the University of New Hampshire before coming to Seattle. What LSI pieces of writing have inspirational to you as a…

Brion van Over, Manchester Community College

I am currently an Assistant Professor in the department of communication at Manchester Community College in Manchester, CT. I finished my PhD in May 2012 at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. While attending UMass I worked most closely with Dr. Donal Carbaugh, my advisor and chair of my dissertation committee, as well as Dr….

Hsin-I Sydney Yueh, Northeastern State University

I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at Northeastern State University. I received my PhD from the University of Iowa in 2012. My advisor was Kristine Muñoz. What LSI pieces of writing have inspirational to you as a researcher? I switched my research focus from media to language and culture in…

Mark Ward, University of Huston-Victoria

The following is a synopsis of an interview (conducted by Todd Sandel) with Mark in June, 2012, while attending the “Ethnography of Communication: Ways Forward” Conference, in Omaha, Nebraska at Creighton University. To listen to the audio of this interview click the play button below. Can you tell me a little about yourself? Where…

Patricia O. Covarrubias, University of New Mexico

The following is a synopsis of an interview (conducted by Todd Sandel) with Saila in June, 2012, while attending the “Ethnography of Communication: Ways Forward” Conference, in Omaha, Nebraska at Creighton University. To listen to the audio of this interview click the play button below. Can you tell me a little about yourself? Where…

Saila Poutiainen, University of Helsinki, Finland

Gonen Dori-Hacohen, University of Massachusetts Amherst

The following is a synopsis of an interview (conducted by Todd Sandel) with Gonen in June, 2012, while attending the “Ethnography of Communication: Ways Forward” Conference, in Omaha, Nebraska at Creighton University. To listen to the audio of this interview click the play button below. Can you tell me a little about yourself? Where…

Daniel Chornet, Saint Louis University, Madrid

http://danielchornet.weebly.com/ The following is a synopsis of an interview (conducted by Todd Sandel) with Daniel in June, 2012, while attending the “Ethnography of Communication: Ways Forward” Conference, in Omaha, Nebraska at Creighton University. To listen to the audio of this interview click here: Daniel Chornet interview (mp3) Where did you receive your degree? I studied…

Alena L. Vasilyeva, Minsk State Linguistic University, Belarus

What one piece of writing was most inspirational to you as an LSI researcher? It’s quite a challenge to single out only one inspirational piece of writing out of many outstanding ones. At different moments of my career as an LSI researcher, the ideas of Bakhtin, Sacks, Goffman, Jacobs and Jackson, just to name a…