• Ph.D. in Communication, Penn State University, 1989
• M.A. in Communication, San Francisco State University, 1985
• B.A. in Communication, Cal State University-Stanislaus, 1982

TEACHING
I teach the classes that are in the "organizational communication" emphasis. Some of the courses I teach include:

• Spch 201: Business and Professional Speaking
• Spch 408: Communication Theory
• Spch 441g: Interpersonal Communication
• Spch 452g: Conflict Management
• Spch 453g: Organizational Communication
• Spch 630: Seminar in Organizational Communication

RESEARCH
My line of research focuses on management communication. I am particularly interested in making real world applications of organizational theories. Some recent publications are listed here.

• Business and Professional Communication: Plans, Processes, and Performance with Nancy J. Legge, Allyn and Bacon, 2000. 
• “'Everybody Identifies with Smokey the Bear’: Employee Responses to Newsletter Identification Inducements at the U.S. Forest Service,” with Connie Bullis.  Management Communication Quarterly, 12, February 1999. 

• “Bank Teller Organizational Assimilation in a System of Contradictory Practices.”  Management Communication Quarterly, 9, 191-218, 1995.

• “Shared Meaning as a Sales Inducement Strategy: Bank Teller Responses to Frames, Reinforcements, and Quotas.”  The Journal of Business Communication, 30, 133-160, 1993. 

• “Can You Make an Argument Without Being in an Argument?"  A Relational Approach to the Study of Interactional Argument, with Nancy J. Legge.  Journal of the Northwest Communication Association, 21, 1-19, 1993. 

• Facilitator: Portneuf Valley Community Advisory Panel, a group of community citizens and activists sponsored by the FMC Corporation and the J. R. Simplot Company, 1995-present.  The group is a vehicle through which FMC and Simplot receive input from the community on important human health, financial, and environmental issues.
• Workshop Leader: “Complex Communication: Making Complicated Scientific, Technical, or Risk Information Clear to Lay Audiences.”  Four hour workshop for employees of the Idaho Division of Environmental Quality, September 1999.
• Guest Opinion: “Scientists not ones to decide acceptable risk:  Idaho State Journal, November 4th, 1999, p. A4.
• Participant and Paper Presenter: Risk Communication: Strategies for Developing Understanding with Non-Technical Audiences, with John Gribas.  Proceedings from the Intermountain Conference on the Environment, Idaho Falls, Idaho, March 1998.

• Director for the Speech 201 Course.
• Oversee implementation of the Ifft Grant for Speech Technology Lab.

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