RESEARCH

PUBLICATIONS IN PEER-REVIEWED JOURNALS

Witteborn, S. (in press). Testimonio and spaces of risk: A forced migrant perspective. Cultural Studies. (http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09502386.2011.587881#preview)

Witteborn, S. (2011). Constructing the forced migrant and the politics of space and place-making. Journal of Communication, 61, 1142–1160.

Brock, D.M., Mauksch, L., Witteborn, S., Hummel, J., Nagasawa, P., and Robins, L.S. Effectiveness of intensive physician training in upfront agenda setting (2011). Journal of General Internal Medicine, 26, 1317-23.

Witteborn, S., (2011). Discursive grouping in a virtual forum: Dialogue, difference, and the “Intercultural”. Journal of International and Intercultural Communication. Special Issue, 4, 2, 109-126.

Robins, L., Witteborn, S., Miner, L., Mauksch, L., Edwards, K., & Brock, D. (2011). Identifying transparency in physician communication. Patient Education and Counseling, 83, 73-79.

Witteborn, S. (2010). The role of transnational NGOs in promoting Global Citizenship and globalizing communication practices. Language and Intercultural Communication 10, 4, 358-372.

Witteborn, S. & Sprain, L. (2009). Grouping processes in a public meeting from an ethnography of communication and cultural discourse analysis perspective. International Journal of Public Participation, 3(2), 14-35. (lead article)

Qiu, J. L., & Witteborn, S. (2008). Interview with D. Ray Heisey. Chinese Journal of Communication, 1, 131-137.

Witteborn, S. (2008). Identity mobilization practices of refugees: The case of Iraqis in the United States and the War in Iraq. Journal of International and Intercultural Communication, 1, 202-220.

Witteborn, S. (June 2008). Caught in-between: Iraqi refugees in the U.S. tell their stories. Communication Currents. Online magazine of the National Communication Association.

Witteborn, S. (2007a). The situated expression of Arab collective identities in the United States. Journal of Communication, 57, 556-575.

Witteborn, S. (2007b). The expression of Palestinian identity in narratives about personal experiences: Implications for the study of narrative, identity, and social interaction. Research on Language and Social Interaction, 40, 145-170.

Witteborn, S. (2004). Of being an Arab woman before and after September 11: The enactment of communal identities in talk. The Howard Journal of Communications, 15, 83-98.

Witteborn, S. (2003). Communicative competence revisited: An emic approach to studying intercultural communicative competence. Journal of Intercultural Communication Research, 32, 3, 187-203.

BOOKS

Stewart, J., Zediker. K., & Witteborn, S. (2005). Together: Communicating interpersonally (6th ed.). New York: Oxford Press.

BOOK CHAPTERS

Witteborn, S. (2011). Gendering cyberspace: Transnational mappings and Uyghur diasporic politics. In R. S. Hegde (Ed.), Circuits of visibility: Gender and transnational media cultures (pp. 268-283). New York: NYU Press.

Stewart, J., Zediker, K., & Witteborn, S. (2005). Constructing identities. In J. Stewart (Ed.), Bridges not walls: A book about interpersonal communication (9th ed., pp. 64-76). McGraw-Hill College Publishers.

Stewart, J., Zediker, K., & Witteborn, S. (2005). Empathic and dialogic listening. In J. Stewart (Ed.), Bridges not walls: A book about interpersonal communication (9th ed., pp. 219-237). McGraw-Hill College Publishers.

Stewart, J., Zediker, K., & Witteborn, S. (2005). Deception, betrayal, and aggression. In J. Stewart (Ed.), Bridges not walls: A book about interpersonal communication (9th ed., pp. 405-416). McGraw-Hill College Publishers.

COMPETITIVE RESEARCH GRANTS

GRF (General Research Fund Hong Kong, 2010/2012) Space and Place-Making: The Role of Media and Information and Communication Technologies in Forced Migrants?Lives
(HKD 424,638)

GRF (General Research Fund Hong Kong, 2008/2010) Mobilizing diasporic identities: The case of Uyghurs in the United States and in Germany (Project ID: CUHK 2120316)
(HKD 492,220)

Direct Grant 2008/2010, The Chinese University of Hong Kong Mobilizing refugee identities: The case of Uyghurs in Germany (Project ID: 2020931)
(HKD 78,000)

Direct Grant 2006/2007, The Chinese University of Hong Kong Muslim communities in China: The discourse on terrorism and the construction of Muslim collective identity (Project ID: 2020851)
(HKD 80,000)

Thematic Grant 2006, Collaboration with Political Science faculty, CUHK, Ways of communicating key messages: An analysis of face-to-face communication and media strategies used by transnational NGO’s operating in Xinjiang/China (Project ID: 2020883)
(HKD 39,650)

Lee Hysan Foundation Research Grant 2005/2006, United College, CUHK Muslim communities in Hong Kong: The communicative construction of local and global Muslim identity
(HKD 27,500)

HONORS AND AWARDS

Exemplary Teaching Award
Faculty of Social Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (2009)

Outstanding Dissertation Award: National Communication Association, International and Intercultural Communication Division (2006)

Commencement Speaker: Graduation, Department of Communication, University of Washington (June 2005)

NCA Doctoral Honors Seminar in "Culture and Communication," University of New Mexico, NM (2004)

NCA Doctoral Honors Seminar (2003) Top three paper in "Culture and Communication," Bowling Green State University, Toledo, OH

Department of Communication Nominee for the David Bonderman Travel Fellowship (2004)

Fellow of the Institute on the Public Humanities and the Woodrow Wilson Foundation: Simpson Center for the Humanities, University of Washington (September 2003)

Graduate School Fund for Excellence and Innovation, Travel Award to IALIC in Lancaster, UK (2003)

Certificate of recognition for participation in the NCA initiative "National preparing future faculty, " NCA Convention, New Orleans (2002)

Travel Award for WSCA 2001, NCA 2002, NCA 2003

Conference Presentation Award 2001-2002, Department of Speech Communication, University of Washington

Postgraduate Fellowship from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) to study at the University of Washington, Department of Speech Communication (8/1999-6/2000)

Fellowship from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) to study at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Department of Speech Communication (8/94 - 5/95)

INVITED TALKS

CUHK, General Education, MGE 5401 “Introduction to Globalization”
Title: Globalization and forced migration (April 9, 2010)

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, College of Media
Title: Theorizing forced migration in Communication Studies: A space/place perspective (April 30, 2009)

Shanghai International Studies University, Shanghai Lecture: Developments in intercultural communication studies (December 2007)

Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong-Korea Communication Conference Speaker on transnational identities (April 2007)

Lectures at the University of Leipzig and Technical University of Dresden/Germany about Global communication and Hong Kong media (June 2006)

CUHK, School of Journalism and Communication, Series on Communication, culture and society (Spring 2006)

University of Washington, Seattle, WA, Dpt. of Linguistics Colloquium: Communicative strategies for the expression of collective identities (Spring 2004)

Seattle Center, Seattle, WA, Lecture about Arab Americans in the Pacific Northwest during Arab Festival (Fall 2003)

University of Washington, Dpt. of Communication, Lecture and discussion in SPCMU 478, Intercultural Communication: Development of intercultural sensitivity (Winter 2001, 2002)

University of Washington, Dpt. of Communication, Lecture and discussion in SPCMU 400, Culture and Communication: Speech codes in American and German business negotiations (Winter 2001)

Graduate Student Colloquium, University of Washington (Winter 2001, Winter 2002)

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

Extensive field research experiences in China, United States, & Germany

Department of Medical Education and Biomedical Informatics, UW (2003 to 2005)
Title: Effects of Establishing Focus in the Medical Interview
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (intervention study)
Grant number: R01 HS-13172
Responsibilities: Discourse analyst to examine the adoption of focus interview formats by physicians after training; explore transparency strategies used by primary care physicians in medical interviews

Department of Speech Communication, UW (Summer 2001)
Responsibilities: Bibliography about decision-making and political deliberation

Department of Speech Communication, UW (Summer 2000)
Responsibilities: Content analysis of international cyberspace dialogues about cultural identities

Department of Linguistics, University of Mannheim, Germany (Spring to Summer 1998)
Responsibilities: Design of an evaluation system for selecting students for the combined English-Business Program

Department of Organizational Management, University of Mannheim, Germany (Spring 1996 to Spring 1997)
Responsibilities: Assistance in a project that examined the gendered use of new communication technologies