Curriculum Vitae (Abbreviated)

Stuart J. Sigman, PhD
Office of Academic Affairs, Naropa University
2130 Arapahoe Avenue, Boulder, CO 80302
sjsigman@naropa.edu

Education

Areas of Academic Specialization

• Interpersonal and organizational communication
• Social communication theory
• Communication media and symbol systems
• Qualitative research (conversation analysis, ethnography)

Non-Degree Study

Shambhala Institute for Authentic Leadership, Halifax, Nova Scotia, June 2005

Management Development Program, Harvard Institutes for Higher Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education, Cambridge, MA, June 2002

Workshop on Major Fundraising for Deans, Council for Advancement and Support of Education, Cambridge, MA, April 2000

Deans Seminar, Council of Colleges of Arts and Sciences, Williamsburg, VA, June 1999

Visiting Post-Doctoral Scholar, Department of Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles, Fall 1990

Core Faculty Fellow, Western New York Geriatric Education Center, State University of New York at Buffalo, 1985 to 1986

Current Affiliation

Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of the Faculty
Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies
Naropa University
Summer 2006 to Present

Previous Appointments

Founding Dean
School of Communication
Emerson College
Winter 1998 to Summer 2006

Core Professor, The Graduate School
The Union Institute and University
1994 to 2003

Associate Professor, Department of Communication
(Secondary Appointment: Dept. of Linguistics and Cognitive Science)
State University of New York at Albany
1987 to 1997

Assistant Professor, Department of Communication
State University of New York at Buffalo
1984 to 1987

Assistant Professor, Department of Speech Communication
Pennsylvania State University
1982 to 1984

Awards and Honors

Grant, for the creation of a residential fellowship program and distinguished speaker series, Frederick P. Lenz Foundation for American Buddhism, 2008 to 2011

Fulbright Senior Specialist (Accepted to Candidate Status), J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board and Council for International Exchange of Scholars, 2003 to 2008

Grant, for creation of the Center for Diversity in the Communication Industries, funded by the Balfour Foundation, Fleet Bank National Trustee, 2003 to 2006 award period

Grant, “Public Communication and Media Project,” funded by The Massachusetts Campus Compact, initial funding: 2001; renewal: 2002, 2003

Fulbright Institutional Award, Council for International Exchange, 1999 (foreign scholar visiting position eventually filled with alternative funding)

Grant, for research on “shift behavior,” funded by The Union Institute, 1997 to 1998

Grant, for development of New York State Center for Culture and Communication, funded by the State Education Department and New York State Assembly Special Grants Program, designated for the 1993-1994 academic year

Corporate Sponsorship, Communication Affiliates Program, from several government agencies and corporations (U.S. Postal Service, Prentice-Hall, McGraw-Hill), 1992 to 1994

ECA Scholar, Eastern Communication Association Committee of Scholars, designated for the 1993-1994 academic year

Development Grant, for support of the conference “Latest Ideas in Communication and How to Teach These,” Research Foundation of SUNY, Summer 1993

Affirmative Action Grant, for sponsorship of conference with Central Connecticut State University and Howard University, Office of the President and Office of Affirmative Action, SUNY-Albany, Spring 1993

Development Grant, for editorial support of the journal Research on Language and Social Interaction, Office of the Vice President for Research and Graduate Studies, SUNY-Albany, 1987 to 1989 initial award period; grant extended through 1994

Development Grant, for support of the conference “Communication across Research Contexts,” Office of the Vice President for Research and Graduate Studies, SUNY-Albany, February 1990

Grant, Faculty Research Award Program, SUNY-Albany, 1989 to 1990 award period

Grant, Julian Park Publication Fund, SUNY-Buffalo, 1986 to 1987 award period

Research Grant (Principal Investigator), Gerontology Center, Institute for the Study of Human Development, Pennsylvania State University, funded by The Green Island Foundation, December 1982 to May 1983 award period

Study/Travel Grant, NATO Advanced Study Institute on Methods of Nonverbal Communication Research, September 1979

Phi Beta Kappa, elected May 1976

Professional/Community Activities and Service

Editorial Service

Editorial Board Member, Explorations in Media Ecology, 2005 to 2007

Editorial Board Member, Communication Quarterly, 1999 to 2001; 2003 to 2005

Guest Reviewer, American Management Review, Spring 2002

Guest Reviewer, Journal of Applied Communication, Fall 2000

Manuscript Consultant, Communication Yearbook 19, September 1994

Manuscript Consultant, SUNY Press, June and July 1994

Manuscript Consultant, University of Tennessee Press, May 1993

Manuscript Consultant, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, March 1993, August 1994

Editorial Board Member, Communication Reports, 1990 to 1993

Editorial Board Member, Communication Theory, 1989 to 1999

Associate Editor, Research on Language and Social Interaction, 1988 to 1995; Founding Editor, 1987

Referee, Journal of Language and Social Psychology, June 1992

Editorial Board Member, Critical Studies in Mass Communication, 1989 to 1992

Service to Professional Organizations

Chair, Language and Social Interaction Division, National Communication Association, 2001 to 2003

Member, Task Force on Outcomes Assessment “Audit” Procedures, New England Association of Schools and Colleges, 1999 to 2000

Co-chair, Task Force on Primary Questions, with Kathy Kellermann, Speech and Language Sciences Division, Speech Communication Association, 1988 to 1989

Information Coordinator/Secretary, Speech and Language Sciences Division, Speech Communication Association, 1986 to 1988

Service to Community Organizations

Member, Board of Directors, Creative Workplace Learning, Watertown, MA, Summer 2005 to 2006

Vice President, Board of Directors, Cornell Cooperative Extension Schenectady County, 1997; elected Member in 1996

Member, Advisory Board, Health Education Services Network, New York State Education Department, 1991 to 1992

Consultancies

Program Evaluator, Deree College School of Communications, American College of Greece, Athens, February 2002

Project Director, marketing and focus group research conducted on behalf of Research Communications Ltd., Dedham, Massachusetts, at four sites in Capital Region, New York, May 1993, October 1995

Consultant, communication evaluations of judges, New York State Judicial Seminars, sponsored by Unified Court System Office of Management Support, held in Rochester, New York, July 1990; Amherst, New York, July 1985

Instructor, workshop on “Improving Communication and Teamwork,” sponsored by the Lake Area Health Education Center, Veterans Administration Medical Center, Erie, Pennsylvania; held in two locations (Erie; Batavia, New York), April and May 1986

Workshop Leader, seminars and workshops on “Communication Skills for HealthCare Professionals” and “Handling Complaints: A Program for HealthCare Professionals,” sponsored by The Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, held in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, October 1984; Hershey, Pennsylvania, October 1985

Workshop Leader, seminar and workshop on “Communicating with the Elderly,” sponsored by The Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, held in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, October 1983, December 1983, May 1984

Research and Publications

Books

Sigman, Stuart J. (ed.). The Consequentiality of Communication. Hillsdale, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1995.

Sigman, Stuart J. A Perspective on Social Communication. Lexington, Massachusetts: Lexington Books, 1987.

[Chapter 1 excerpted and reprinted as: “Social Communication.” In John Corner and Jeremy Hawthorn (eds.), Communication Studies: An Introductory Reader (3rd edition). London: Edward Arnold, 1989, pp. 139–147.]

Edited Monographs and Instructional Texts

Sigman, Stuart J. (ed.). Introduction to Human Communication: Behavior, Codes and Social Action. Needham Heights, Mass.: Ginn Press/Simon & Schuster, 1992.

Sigman, Stuart J. (ed.). “Multichannel Communication Codes.” (Special Issue in Two Parts) Research on Language and Social Interaction, vols. 20–21 (1987). Introductory editorial essay: “Introduction: Multichannel Communication Codes,” pp. ii–iv.

Winkin, Yves and Sigman, Stuart J. (eds.). “The Ethnography of Communication Twenty Years Later.” (Special Issue) Papers in Linguistics: International Journal of Human Communication, vol. 17, no. 1 (1984). Introductory editorial essay: “The Ethnography of Communication: Twenty Years Later,” pp. 1–5.

Book Series

Series Co-Editor, founded monograph series with Wendy Leeds-Hurwitz, “Everyday Communication: Case Studies of Behavior in Context,” Lawrence Erlbaum Associates (Mahwah, NJ); nine published titles:

• Mara Adelman & Lawrence Frey. The Fragile Community: Living Together with AIDS. (1996).

• Wayne A. Beach. Conversations about Illness: Family Preoccupations with Bulimia. (1996).  

• Ian Hutchby. Confrontation Talk: Arguments, Asymmetries, and Power on Talk Radio. (1996).

• Tamar Katriel. Performing the Past. (1997).

• Martha L. Komter, Dilemmas in the Courtroom: A Study of Violent Crimes in the Netherland. (1998).

• Koenraad Kuiper. Smooth Talkers: The Linguistic Performance of Auctioneers and Sportscasters. (1996).

• Casey Man Kong Lum. In Search of a Voice: Karaoke and the Construction of Identity in Chinese America. (1996).  

• Isabella Paoletti. Being an Older Woman: A Study in the Social Construction of Identity. (1997).  

• Lourdes Torres. Puerto Rican Discourse: A Sociolinguistic Study of a New York Suburb. (1997).

Articles and Chapters

Leeds-Hurwitz, Wendy and Sigman, Stuart J. “The Penn Tradition.” In Wendy Leeds-Hurwitz (ed.), Contributions to the Study of Language and Social Interaction. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press, in press.

Sigman, Stuart J. “A Matter of Time: The Case for Ethnographies of Communication.” In Judith S. Trent (ed.), Communication: Views from the Helm for the 21^st Century. Boston: Allyn & Bacon, 1998, pp. 354–358.

Kendon, Adam and Sigman, Stuart J. “Ray L. Birdwhistell (1918–1994).” Semiotica, vol. 112, nos. 1–2 (1996), 231–261.

Sigman, Stuart J. “Order and Continuity in Human Relationships: A Social Communication Approach to Defining ‘Relationship’.” In Wendy Leeds-Hurwitz (ed.), Social Approaches to Communication. New York: Guilford Press, 1995, pp. 188–200.

[Revised and expanded version appears as: “Relationships and Communication: A Social Communication and Strongly Consequential View.” In Richard L. Conville and L. Edna Rogers (eds.), The Meaning of “Relationship” in Interpersonal Communication. New York: Praeger, 1998, pp. 47–67.]

Sigman, Stuart J. “Question: Evidence of What? Answer: Communication,” Western Journal of Communication, vol. 59, no. 1 (1995), 79–84.

Sigman, Stuart J. “Règles de Communication.” In Lucien Sfez (ed.), Dictionnaire Critique de la Communication, vol. 2. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1993, pp. 463–465.

Parker, Sarah and Sigman, Stuart J. “Rôle, statut et communication.” In Lucien Sfez (ed.), Dictionnaire Critique de la Communication, vol. 2. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1993, pp. 478–479.

Sigman, Stuart J. “Do Social Approaches to Interpersonal Communication Constitute a Contribution to Communication Theory?” Communication Theory, vol. 2, no. 4 (1992), 347–356.

Payne, Mary Elizabeth and Sigman, Stuart J. “International Studies on Aging: A Cultural Communication Approach.” In Devorah Lieberman and Mel Gurtov (eds.), Revealing the World: An Interdisciplinary Reader for International Studies. Dubuque, Iowa: Kendall-Hunt, 1992, pp. 211–243.

Sigman, Stuart J. “Handling the Discontinuous Aspects of Continuous Social Relationships: Toward Research on the Persistence of Social Forms,” Communication Theory, vol. 1, no. 2 (1991), 106–127.

Sigman, Stuart J. “Descriptive Responsibility and Cultural Critique,” Research on Language and Social Interaction, vol. 23 (1990), 283–291.

Sigman, Stuart J. “Toward an Integration of Diverse Communication Contexts: Commentary on the Chapter by Fry, Alexander, and Fry.” In James A. Anderson (ed.), Communication Yearbook 13. Newbury Park, California: Sage, 1990, pp. 554–563.

Sigman, Stuart J. and Donnellon, Anne. “Discourse Rehearsal: Interaction Simulating Interaction.” In David Crookall and Danny Saunders (eds.), Communication and Simulation: From Two Fields to One Theme. London: Multilingual Matters, 1988, pp. 69–81.

Sigman, Stuart J., Sullivan, Sheila J., and Wendell, Marcley. “Conversation: Data Acquisition and Analysis.” In Charles H. Tardy (ed.), A Handbook for the Study of Human Communication: Methods and Instruments for Observing, Measuring, and Assessing Communication Processes. Norwood, New Jersey: Ablex, 1988, pp. 163–192.

Sigman, Stuart J. “The Application of Ethnographic Methods to Communications Research: A Case Study with Discussion.” In Sari Thomas (ed.), Culture and Communication: Methodology, Behavior, Artifacts and Institutions. Norwood, New Jersey: Ablex, 1987, pp. 50–64.

Sigman, Stuart J. “La Méthodologie Kinésique: Portée et Limite,” Les Cahiers de Psychologie Sociale, no. 29 (1986), 7–10.

Sigman, Stuart J. “Adjustment to the Nursing Home as a Social Interactional Accomplishment,” Journal of Applied Communication Research, vol. 14, no. 1 (1986), 37–58.

Sigman, Stuart J. “The Applicability of the Concept of Recruitment to the Communications Study of a Nursing Home: An Ethnographic Case Study,” International Journal of Aging and Human Development, vol. 22, no. 3 (1985/86), 215–233.

Sigman, Stuart J. and Fry, Donald L. “Differential Ideology and Language Use: Readers’ Reconstructions and Descriptions of News Events,” Critical Studies in Mass Communication, vol. 2, no. 4 (1985), 307–322.

[Reprinted in: Michael Gurevitch and Mark R. Levy (eds.), Mass Communication Review Yearbook, vol. 6. Newbury Park, California: Sage, 1987, pp. 501–516.]

Sigman, Stuart J. “Conversational Behavior in Two Health Care Institutions for the Elderly,” International Journal of Aging and Human Development, vol. 21, no. 2 (1985), 137–154.

Sigman, Stuart J. “Some Common Mistakes Students Make When Learning Discourse Analysis,” Communication Education, vol. 34, no. 2 (1985), 119–127.

Fry, Donald L. and Sigman, Stuart J. “Newspaper Language and Readers’ Perceptions of News Events,” Newspaper Research Journal, vol. 5, no. 3 (1984), 1–11.

Sigman, Stuart J. “Communication Ethnography and Communication Theory: Some Technical Notes,” Papers in Linguistics: International Journal of Human Communication, vol. 17, no. 1 (1984), 33–42.

Sigman, Stuart J. “Talk and Interaction Strategy in a Task-Oriented Group,” Small Group Behavior, vol. 15, no. 1 (1984), 33–51.

Sigman, Stuart J. “Some Multiple Constraints Placed on Conversational Topics.” In Robert T. Craig and Karen Tracy (eds.), Conversational Coherence: Form, Structure, and Strategy. Beverly Hills, California: Sage, 1983, pp. 174–195.

Sigman, Stuart J. “Some Notes on Conversational Fission,” Working Papers in Sociolinguistics, no. 91. Austin: Southwest Educational Development Laboratory, 1981.

Sigman, Stuart J. “‘Qui A Donné l’Ordre de Larguer la Bombe Atomique?’: Une Relation Ethnographique des Règles de Conversation dans un Établissement Gériatrique.” In Yves Winkin (ed.), La Nouvelle Communication. Paris: Éditions du Seuil, 1981, pp. 256–266.

Sigman, Stuart J. “On Communication Rules from a Social Perspective,” Human Communication Research, vol. 7, no. 1 (1980), 37–51.

Sigman, Stuart J. “The Neglected Situation Revisited,” Et Cetera, vol. 36, no. 1 (1979), 85–93.

Dissertation/Thesis

Sigman, Stuart J. Some Communicational Aspects of Patient Placement and Careers in Two Nursing Homes. Unpublished doctoral dissertation, University of Pennsylvania, 1982.

Sigman, Stuart J. The Social Patterning of Conversational Topics: A Nursing Home Example. Unpublished master’s thesis, University of Pennsylvania, 1979.

List of published review essays and conference presentations available upon request.