Kathleen Glenister Roberts, Ph.D.

• Associate Professor

Awards and Honors

(2008) National Communication Association Book of the Year, International and Intercultural Communication Division, 2008.

(2005) Top Paper Award, Eastern Communication Association.

(2005) Pennsylvania Communication Association Harvey Kelly Award for Excellence in Teaching.

(2005) National Endowment for the Humanities Grant.

(2004) Presidential Scholarship Award, Duquesne University

(2003-04) Order of Omega Teaching Excellence Award.

(2001) Eva Kagan-Kans Memorial Paper Prize.

(1999) Richard M. Dorson Paper Prize.

Professional Offices

Regional Level

Eastern Communication Association Committee of Scholars, 2007-2008

State Level

Pennsylvania Communication Association President, 2006-2007

Pennsylvania Communication Association Vice President, 2005-2006

Publications

Book

Alterity and Narrative:  Stories and the Negoitation of Western Identities.  Albany:  State University of New York Press, 2007 (Winner of National Communication Association Book of the Year, International and Intercultural Division, 2008).

Edited Book

Communication Ethics:  Between Cosmopolitanism and Provinciality.  With Ronald C. Arnett.  New York:  Peter Lang, 2008.

Book Chapters

Cosmopolitanism.  In Ronald L. Jackson II et. al. (eds.), Encyclopedia of Identity.  Thousand Oaks, CA:  Sage Publications (2010).

First Nations.  In Ronald L. Jackson II et. al. (eds.), Encyclopedia of Identity. Thousand Oaks, CA:  Sage Publications (2010).

Identity Uncertainty.  In Ronald L. Jackson II et. al. (eds.), Encyclopedia of Identity.  Thousand Oaks, CA:  Sage Publications (2010).

War at Home and Abroad:  Perspectives on Masculinity in Native American Communities.  In Murali Balaji (ed.), Culturing Manhood & Masculinities.  Oxford:  Oxford University Press (in press).

Dialogic Ethics, Cosmopolitanism, and Intercultural Communication:  Globalization Matters.  In Kathleen Glenister Roberts and Ronald C. Arnett (eds.), Communication Ethics:  Between Cosmopolitanism and Provinciality.  New York:  Peter Lang, 2008.

Articles

Partnering with the Business School:  The Business and Professional Communication Course.  With Ronald C. Arnett, Amanda Grace McKendree, and Janie Harden Fritz.  Business Communication Quarterly 71:346-350 (2008).

Service, Ethnography, and the Leap of Faith:  A Catholic Spiritan Perspective on Service Learning.  Catholic Education:  A Journal of Inquiry and Practice 12(1):96-116 (2008).

Visual Argument in Intercultural Contexts:  Perspectives on Folk/Traditional Art.  Argumentation and Advocacy 43(3):152-163 (2007).

Exercises in Rhetorical Form:  Teaching Public Relations from a Praxis Perspective.  PRism:  Public Relations Journal 4 (1). http://praxis.massey.ac.nz/prism_on-line_journ.html (2006).

Service Learning in a New Key:   Communicative Praxis for Community Engagement.  With Janie Harden Fritz.  Pennsylvania Communication Annual 2006.

Persuasion in the School of Business:   A Construction of a Basic Course in Business and Professional Communication.  With Ronald C. Arnett, Amanda Grace McKendree, and Janie Harden Fritz.  Teaching Ideas in the Basic Communication Course (2006).