Dr. Donal Carbaugh

Communication, social interaction, and culture; communication theory; interpersonal and (inter) cultural communication; ethnography of communication.

Education

Ph.D., University of Washington, 1984
M.A., University of Montana, 1980
B.S., Manchester College, 1977

Background

Donal Carbaugh is Professor of Communication, Chair of the International Studies Council (2004-present), and past Co-Chair of the Five College Committee on Native American Indian Studies (2003-2004). In 2007-2008, he was Distinguished Fulbright Professor and Bicentennial Chair of American Studies at the University of Helsinki, Finland. He has been Chair of both the International Communication Association's Language and Social Interaction Division, and the National Communication Association's International and Intercultural Communication Division. In 1992, he was elected Visiting Senior Member at Linacre College, Oxford University, England, which is a lifetime appointment. He has held academic appointments at the University of Pittsburgh, the University of Helsinki, the Turku School of Economics in Finland, and at other universities in the United States, Europe, and Asia.

His general interests focus upon cultural philosophies of communication, and more specifically, the ways culturally distinctive practices get woven into international and intercultural interactions. His studies focus upon Native American, popular American, Russian, and Finnish communication practices, with special attention to the relationship between language use, culture, spirit, and nature.

He currently serves on more than twenty editorial boards of national and international journals. His published research has appeared in many major academic journals, in several countries including Finland, Germany, Italy, and Russia, in several languages. His most recent book, "Cultures in Conversation", was designated the Outstanding Book of the Year by the International and Intercultural Communication Division of the National Communication Association. His first book, "Talking American: Cultural Discourses on DONAHUE", was identified as "a favorite book of the past 25 years" in Contemporary Sociology by former president of the American Sociological Association, William Gamson. His edited volume, "Cultural Communication and Intercultural Contact", received the National Communication Association's Award for Distinguished Scholarship in International and Intercultural Communication. His other books include "Narrative and Identity: Studies in Autobiography", "Self and Culture" (edited with Jens Brockmeier), and "Situating Selves: The Communication of Social Identity in American Scenes". Commentary on his work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Indian Country Today, Psychology Today (several times and includes a January 2007 article about Finnishness), Vapaa Sana (North America's largest Finnish newspaper), the Finnish American Reporter, the Moscow Times, The Times of India, and Gentleman's Quarterly among other outlets.

He is on the roster of Senior Fulbright Specialists, and was in the Fall of 2005 elected into the Communication Hall of Fame at the University of Washington. In 2007, he was a finalist for the University of Massachusetts Distinguished Teaching Award, the highest award for teaching at the university. In 1999, he was selected one of two "Great Teachers" by Wake Forest University for its program in Globalization and Diversity. In 1995, he was one of five scholars in communication to speak at the Smithsonian Institution's Campus on the Mall program. In 1990, he was one of two communication scholars in the United States to be named "Outstanding Professor" by the National Speakers Association, an award recognizing excellence in teaching and research. Recipient of a Hewlett Fellowship for Teaching, Fulbright Fellowships, an Advanced Institute of the Humanities Fellowship, several grants, and a consultant for the United States Congress, he has enjoyed lecturing at the United Nations (in New York and Geneva), at various embassies and other places across the United States, Europe, and Asia. Read more about Dr. Donal Carbaugh...

Select Publications

A partial list of full articles and book chapters in pdf is available through the faculty Scholarworks site.

Articles

Donal Carbaugh (2007) Six Basic Principles in the Communication of Identities: The special case of discourses and illness., Communication & Medicine, vol.1, no.2, pp. 111-115

Donal Carbaugh (2007) From Cognitive Dichotomies to Cultural Discourses: Hofstede, Fougere and Moulettes in Conversation, Journal of Multicultural Discourses, Vol.2, No.1

Donal Carbaugh, Michael Berry, and Marjatta Nurmikari-Berry (2006) Coding Personhood Through Cultural Terms and Practices: Silence and Quietude as a Finnish "Natural Way of Being", Journal of Language and Social Psychology, vol. 25, no. 3, pp. 1-18.

Donal Carbaugh and Lisa Rudnick (2006) "Which Place, What Story? Cultural Discourses at the Border of the Blackfeet Reservation and Glacier National Park", Great Plains Quarterly, Summer 2006: 167-184.

Book Chapters

Donal Carbaugh, David Boromisza-Habashi, and Xinmei Ge (2006) Dialogue in Cross-cultural Perspective: Deciphering Communication Codes, From the book entitled: Aspects of Intercultural Dialogue: Theory, Research, Applications. N. Aalto & E. Reuter (eds.), Koln, Germany : Saxa Verlag, 2006, pp. 27-46.

Donal Carbaugh (2005) Silence and Third-Party Introductions: An American and Finnish Dialogue (with Saila Poutiainen) , From the book entitled: Cultures in Conversation / Donal Carbaugh, Mawwah, N.J. : Lawrence Erlbaum, Chapter 3, pp. 27-38.

Donal Carbaugh (2002) Some Distinctive Features of U.S. American Conversation, From the book entitled: The changing conversation in America : lectures from the Smithsonian / William F. Eadie, Paul E. Nelson, editors., Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, Chapter 4, pp. 61-75.

Donal Carbaugh (1996) Decisions and Conflicting Selves: Dramatic Depictions of a Natural Environment, From the book entitled: Situating Selves: The Communication of Social Identities in American Scenes / Donal Carbaugh., Albany, N.Y. : State University of New York Press, Chapter 9, pp. 157-176.

Donal Carbaugh (1996) Dueling Identities: In Search of Common Political Ground, From the book entitled: Situating Selves: The Communication of Social Scenes / Donal Carbaugh., Albany, N.Y. : State University of New York Press, Chapter 10, pp. 177-190.