Globalizing Intercultural Communication: A Reader

Kathryn Sorrells (PhD, University of New Mexico, 1999) is professor of communication studies at California State University, Northridge. Kathryn's diverse research interests include globalization and intercultural communication, the commodification of culture, intercultural conflict, social justice, and global movements for justice and peace. Kathryn is author of the book Intercultural Communication: Globalization and Social Justice (2nd edition, SAGE Publications, 2016), which explores intercultural communication in the context of globalization, highlighting the significance of history, power, and global institutions on intercultural communication. Kathryn has published numerous articles and book chapters on globalization and social justice, the commodification of culture, intercultural praxis, and intercultural training in the global context in journals and volumes such as The Handbook of Critical Intercultural Communication and The Routledge Handbook of Intercultural Communication. Kathryn is cofounder of Civil Discourse & Social Change at California State University, Northridge, an initiative that seeks to engender critical consciousness, academic engagement, and advocacy to create a more equitable and socially just campus, community, and world. She has received numerous awards for founding and directing the Communicating Common Ground Project, an innovative community action research project that guided students in developing creative alternatives to intercultural and interethnic conflict. Kathryn has a passion for researching and teaching about culture, gender, race, and social justice with people of all ages and in a variety of educational settings. She combines critical, cultural studies and postcolonial perspectives in her research and teaching, balancing both political and aesthetic dimensions. Sachi Sekimoto (PhD, University of New Mexico, 2011) is assistant professor of communication studies at Minnesota State University, Mankato. Her research focuses on theorizing and critiquing the materiality of culture, identity, ideology, and power through critical and phenomenological perspectives. Her scholarly work has appeared in Journal of International and Intercultural Communication and Communication Quarterly, in which she developed alternative ways of theorizing identity by focusing on the phenomenological significance of spatial, temporal, and embodied experiences in intercultural and transnational contexts. She is currently writing about and researching the cultural politics of the senses, examining the social and embodied construction of sensory experiences as a source of meaning, knowledge, and production/reproduction of power. She teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in intercultural communication, gender and communication, communication theory, critical pedagogy, and courses related to cultural studies and globalization.