COURSES
I teach graduate and undergraduate courses in (a) communication and conflict, (b) communication theory, and (c) miscommunication and problematic talk.

ACTIVITIES
I write long scientific monographs that deal with communicative difficulty, problematic interaction, and conflict. In 1994, I wrote the first scholarly book on the subject of Problematic Communication. In 1997 I wrote the first scholarly book on the subject of Miscommunication. I have spent the last five years writing a third scholarly book on the subject of The Reality of Everyday Life: Misunderstanding Other People. In 1999 I wrote a major essay dealing with problems in dealing with Linguistic Constructions in Violence, Peace, & Conflict.

DEGREES

• PhD. - University of Minnesota, 1967
  
• M.A. - Speech Communication, University of Minnesota, 1964
  
• B.A. - Speech Communication, Bethel College, 1964
  

MAJOR HONORS/AWARDS

• InTime Multimedia Research Grant, University of Wisconsin. July, 2001
  
• Risa Palm Memorial Dissertation Research Grant. March, 2000.
  
• Don Yoder Prize for the Best Article in Folk Belief and Religious Folklife. American Folklore Society. October, 1998. ("Apocalypse in your In-Box: End-Times Communication on the Internet," 1997).
  
• Title VI Language Fellowship for the Study of Quechua. University of California at Los Angeles. June, 1995.
  

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
In addition to the work in progress or already published, I wrote Communication: The Study of Human Interaction in 1972. I editted several volumes, Basic Readings in Communication Theory, Advances in Communication Theory and Foundations of Communication Theory (with Kenneth Sereno). I also designed the Addison-Wesley series in communication research (four volumes).