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Two Alumni Win Research Awards

Posted: Monday, 10.09.06

The International and Intercultural Division of the National Communication Association has announced its awards for outstanding scholarship for 2005. Two Communication alumni were the recipients of these awards.

Saskia Witteborn: PhD, 2005

Dr. Witteborn received the outstanding dissertation award for "Collective identities of people of Arab descent: an analysis of the situated expression of ethnic, panethnic, national, and religious identifications." The reviewers unanimously praised the dissertation for its contribution to the field of intercultural communication, especially "the theoretical backing, the rigor of research, and the nuances the dissertation provides of convergent and divergent aspects of identities, their rules, and how they are invoked." Saskia is a member of the faculty of the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Donal Carbaugh: PhD, 1984

Dr. Carbaugh, a Professor at the University of Massachusetts, won the Division's award for the outstanding scholarly book in intercultural communication for his "Cultures in Conversation" (2005). Carbaugh is a member of the UW Department of Communication Hall of Fame and was a featured speaker in our Ways of Speaking lecture series, in the spring of 2006.

The National Communication Association is the oldest and largest scholarly society for the study of communication. It is a member of the American Council of Learned Societies and is the principal institutional agent in the communication discipline for disciplinary coordination with the National Science Foundation and the National Research Council.