Advising
My approach to advising graduate students, especially on their dissertations
and master’s theses, is that I demand methodological rigor; only supervise
work which falls into my areas of methodological expertise; and generally only
support work that is based on direct observation and the recording of real-life
interaction (no experiments, little emphasis on quantitative methods). ButI
generally support my advisees in doing their own, independent work: I do not
assign dissertation and thesis topics. A sense of community, solidarity, and
mutual support among my advisees matters a great deal to me.
Current Ph.D. students (in order of seniority)
Juanita Handy-Bosma, who is writing a dissertation on embodied, non-linguistic,
intercultural processes of instruction on how to use the Soroban, the Japanese
abacus.
Jeong-Yeon Kim, who is at work on her dissertation on interaction and
language use among non-native graduate instructors and U.S. undergraduate students
in engineering classes and labs.
Kate Henning, whose dissertation is a study of the structures and functions
of “voicings”, i.e. of the embodiment and imitation of persons and
characters in conversations, especially in the context of narrative.
Tomoko Ikeda, whose research agenda is the ethnography and micro-ethnography
of intercultural communication.
Siri Mehus, who is particularrly interested in the interactional production
and management of “micro-power” and status in workplace communication.
Kris Markman, who is passionate about the study of on-line interaction,
for examplke in virtual teams, as an embodied process (and has been on Jeopardy).
Sae Oshima, who is presently finishing up her master’s thesis on
symbolic uses of material objects in face-to-face interaction and modern art
(and is my assistant in matters relating to the International Society for Gesture
Studies).
Kathleen Feyh, who has a background in Slavic linguistics and is particularly
interested in combining linguistic analysis (language typology, cognitive linguistics)
and conversation analysis, and also has a strong interest in gender.
Former disciples include
Li-Li Chin, now associate professor of Communication, Taiwan
Curtis LeBaron (co-supervisor Robert Hopper), assistant professor, Marriott
School of Business, Brigham Young University
Andrea Golato (co-supervisor Maria Egbert), assistant professor, Dept.
of German, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Carmen-Taleghani--Nikazm, assistant professor, Dept. of German, University
of Kansas, Lawrence
Grit Liebscher (co-supervisor Mark Southern), assistant professor, Dept.
of German, Waterloo University, Canada
Izumi Funayama, assistant professor, Dept. of Communication, Kumamoto University,
Kumamoto, Japa