Donal Carbaugh

Research interest in the ethnography of communication, communication codes, and cultural discourse analysis. Areal interests currently include Blackfeet, Finnish, and USian practices. Focal concerns are environmental communication and intercultural communication.

PhD, University of Washington

MA, University of Montana

BA, Manchester University

Culture and Social Interaction

Undergraduate: Intercultural Communication, Communication and Nature, Cultural Codes in Communication, Field Research; Graduate: Qualitative Methods, Ethnography of Communication, Cultural Discourse Analysis, Intercultural Communication, Environmental Communication

Communication in Cars (with Brion van Over, Elizabeth Molina-Markham, Sunny Lie and Ute Winter). Berlin: Degruyter. 2020.

Reporting cultures on Sixty Minutes: Missing the Finnish Line in an American Broadcast (with Michael Berry). Routledge. 2017.

The Handbook of Communication in Cross-cultural Perspective. ICA Handbook Series. Routledge. 2017

Cultures in Conversation, Lawrence Erlbaum and Associates. Designated Outstanding Book of the Year by the International and Intercultural Communication Division of the National Communication Association, 2006.

Distinctive Qualities in Communication Research (with Patrice Buzzanell). Routledge, 2010.

Narrative and Identity (with Jens Brockmeier). J.J. Benjamins.

Situating selves: The communication of social identity in American scenes. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press.

Cultural Communication and Intercultural Contact. Lawrence Erlbaum and Associates. Designated Outstanding Book of the Year by the International and Intercultural Communication Division of the National Communication Association.

Talking American: Cultural Discourses on DONAHUE. Norwwod, NJ: Ablex.

Currently from General Motors on theory, methodology and field studies in the US and China concerning cultural variability in uses of car technology.

Exploring cultural variability in discourses about dialogue; cultural discourses in communication systems in automobiles in field studies in the US and China with General Motors; investigating how communication mediates relations between people and nature; cultural variability in spiritual narratives; how cultures are active in televised reporting; comparative analyses of Australian and USian communication practices.