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WILLIAM K. RAWLINS
PERSONAL INFORMATION
Home Address: 17097 Blackwood Road
Shade, OH 45776
Telephone 740.696.0414
Office Address: School of Communication Studies
Lasher Hall 215
OhioUniversity
Athens, OH 45701
Telephone: 740.593.4823
Email:
EDUCATION
Ph.D. 1981 Temple University, Department of Speech
Dissertation: Friendship as a Communicative Achievement: A Theory and an Interpretive Analysis of Verbal Reports
M.A. 1981 Temple University, Department of Speech
B.A. 1975 University of Delaware, Departments of Communication and History, Cum Laude
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
2003-present Stocker Professor, School of Communication Studies,
Ohio University
1993-2003 Professor, Department of Communication, Purdue University
1988-1993 Associate Professor, Department of Communication, Purdue University
1981-1988 Assistant Professor, Department of Speech Communication, The Pennsylvania State University
1979-1980 Instructor, Department of Communication, University of Delaware
1978-1979 Research Assistant, Department of Speech, Temple University
1975-1978 Graduate Teaching Assistant, Department of Speech,
Temple University
ADMINISTRATIVE APPOINTMENTS
1995-2001 Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Communication,
Purdue University.
1990-1995 Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of
Communication, Purdue University.
AWARDS AND HONORS
Research
2015 Scholar Award for Excellence in Communication Ethics Education for the
Mind, Heart, and Spirit, Department of Communication and Rhetorical Studies,
Duquesne University, April 2015.
2013 Julia T. Wood Teacher/Scholar Award. Pennsylvania Communication
Association, Erie, PA, October 2013.
The Compass of Friendship: Narratives, Identities, and Dialogues. (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2009).
*Received the Gerald R. Miller Book Award for 2012 from the Interpersonal Communication Division of the National Communication Association.
*Received the 2009 David R. Maines Narrative Research Award from the Carl Couch Center for Social and Internet Research.
Theory That Has Left A Legacy Award: “The Dialectical Perspective.”
Communication Theory Interest Group, Central States Communication Association, Milwaukee, April 2002.
Courtesy Appointment, Professor, Department of Psychological Sciences, Purdue University, 2001-2002; 2002-2003.
Friendship Matters: Communication, Dialectics, and the Life Course. (Hawthorne, NY: Aldine de Gruyter, 1992).
*Selected as an Outstanding Academic Book for 1993 by the editors of Choice, the book review journal of the American Library Association.
*Received the Gerald R. Miller Book Award for 1994 from the Interpersonal and Small Group Interaction Division of the Speech Communication Association.
Speech Communication Association of Pennsylvania Emerging Scholar Award, 1983.
Teaching
Outstanding Faculty Teacher Award, 2012-2013. School of Communication Studies, Scripps College of Communication, Ohio University.
Outstanding Faculty Teacher Award, 2010-2011. School of Communication Studies, Scripps College of Communication, Ohio University.
Outstanding Faculty Mentor Award, 2010-2011. School of Communication Studies, Scripps College of Communication, Ohio University.
School of Liberal Arts Educational Excellence Award, 2002-2003. School of Liberal Arts, Purdue University.
W. Charles Redding Award for Excellence in Teaching, 2002-2003. Department of Communication, Purdue University.
School of Liberal Arts Departmental Educational Excellence Award, 2000-2001. School of Liberal Arts, Purdue University.
W. Charles Redding Award for Excellence in Teaching, 2000-2001. Department of Communication, Purdue University.
W. Charles Redding Award for Excellence in Teaching, 1996-1997. Department of Communication, Purdue University.
W. Charles Redding Award for Excellence in Teaching, 1995-1996. Department of Communication, Purdue University.
W. Charles Redding Award for Excellence in Teaching, 1994-1995, Department of Communication, Purdue University.
Candidate, Purdue University Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award, School of Liberal Arts, 1995-1996, 2002-2003.
Nominee, Purdue University Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award, Department of Communication, 2002-2003, 1996-1997, 1995-1996, 1994-1995.
Selected as A Favorite Honors Professor for Fall 1993 by Purdue University's School of Liberal Arts Honors Council.
Supervisor and Instructor for the Pennsylvania State University's College of Liberal Arts Honors Seminar, 1983-84. A two-semester sequence entitled: "Friendship: Its Varieties, Tensions and Functions."
PUBLICATIONS
Books
The Compass of Friendship: Narratives, Identities, and Dialogues. (Thousand Oaks, CA:
Sage, 2009).
*Received the Gerald R. Miller Book Award for 2012 from the Interpersonal
Communication Division of the National Communication Association.
*Received the 2009 David R. Maines Narrative Research Award from the Carl Couch
Center for Social and Internet Research.
Friendship Matters: Communication, Dialectics, and the Life Course. (Hawthorne, NY:
Aldine de Gruyter, 1992).
*Selected as an Outstanding Academic Book for 1993 by the editors of Choice.
*Received the Gerald R. Miller Book Award for 1994 from the Interpersonal and Small Group Interaction Division of the Speech Communication Association.
It has been reviewed in Ageing and Society, Choice, Communication Quarterly, Communication Theory, Contemporary Psychology, Contemporary Sociology, Journal of Marriage and the Family, Symbolic Interaction, The Quarterly Journal of Speech, and The Southern Communication Journal.
Journal Special Issue
Rawlins, William K. Guest Editor, Special Section, “Celebrating Arthur P. Bochner’s Life Work,” American Communication Journal (http://www.acjournal.org/) 7, 2004.
Rawlins, William K. Guest Editor, “Theorizing the Public and the Private,” Communication Theory 8, 369-475, 1998.
Articles and Book Chapters
Rawlins, William K. “Continued Openings: A Renewed Invitation to Reflect on Critical Qualitative Research.” Departures in Critical Qualitative Research, 3, 4, Winter 2014, pp. 439–442.
Rawlins, William K. “Performance Giving Life to Life.” Text and Performance Quarterly, 34, 4, October 2014, pp. 378–381.
Monsour, Mike, and Rawlins, William K. “Transitional Identities and Postmodern Cross-Gender Friendships: An Exploratory Investigation,” Women & Language, 37, 11-39, 2014. (Lead Article)
Rawlins, William K. “Brimming Moments: Rhythm, Will, Readiness, and Grace.” Departures in Critical Qualitative Research, 3, 1, Spring 2014, pp. 76–88.
Ellingson, Laura L., & Rawlins, William K. "Ethnography in Health Communication Research," in Research Methods in Health Communication: Principles and Applications, ed. Bryan B. Whaley(New York, NY: Routledge), 57-77, 2014.
Rawlins, William K. “Sample.” Liminalities: A Journal of Performance Studies (http://liminalities.net/9-3/sample.html) 9, 3 2013. [“Sample” is a 17-minute, multi-genre, multi-format performance piece written, composed, and performed as an author, reader, singer, and guitarist by William K. Rawlins. It is published in Vimeo form, accompanied by an “Artist Statement: Framing ‘Sample’”, and a script, each rendered in written form.]
Rawlins, William K., & Russell, Laura D. "Friendship, Positive Being-with-Others, and the Edifying Practices of Storytelling and Dialogue," in Positive Psychology of Love, eds. Mahzad Hojjat& Duncan Cramer (Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press), 30-43, 2013.
Rawlins, William K. “Towards an Opening,” Qualitative Communication Research, 1, 143-152, 2012.
Medved, Caryn E., and Rawlins, William K. “At-Home Fathers and Breadwinning Mothers: Variations in Constructing Work and Family Lives,” Women & Language, 34, 9-39, 2011. (Lead Article)
Reprinted in The Gendered Society Reader - Fifth Edition, eds. Michael
Kimmel & Amy Aronson (Oxford: Oxford University Press), 2013.
Harter, Lynn M., & Rawlins, William K. "The Worlding of Possibilities in a Collaborative Art Studio: Organizing Embodied Differences with Aesthetic and Dialogic Sensibilities," in Reframing Difference in Organizational Studies: Research, Pedagogy, Practice, ed. Dennis K. Mumby(Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage), 267-289, 2011.
Rawlins, William K. “G. H. Mead’s Intimations of Dialogue and Narrative in Social Becoming with Others,” Studies in Symbolic Interaction, 35, 357-364, 2010.
Rawlins, William K. “Narrative Medicine and the Stories of Friends,” Journal of
Applied Communication Research, 37, (2), 167-173, 2009.
Harter, Lynn M., Leeman, Mark, Norander, Stephanie, Young, Stephanie L., &
Rawlins, William K. “The Intermingling of Aesthetic Sensibilities and
Instrumental Rationalities in a Collaborative Arts Studio,” Management
Communication Quarterly, 21, (4), 423-453, 2008. (Lead Article)
Rawlins, William K. “Friendship and Peer Relations,” International Encyclopedia
of Communication. Blackwell Publishing and International Communication
Association: Malden, MA, 1902-1906, 2008.
Rawlins, William K. “Friendship and Communication,” International Encyclopedia
of Communication, Vol. V. Blackwell Publishing and International
Communication Association: Malden, MA, 1898-1902, 2008.
Rawlins, William K. “Living Scholarship: A Field Report,” Communication
Methods and Measures, 1 (1), 55-63, 2007.
Rawlins, William K. “Bateson, Gregory,” The Blackwell Encyclopedia of
Sociology. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 247-250, 2007
Rawlins, William K. “Friendship: Interpersonal Aspects,” The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 1788-1791, 2007.
Rawlins, William K., and Rawlins, Sandy P. “Advising as Friendship,” NACADA Journal, 25, 10-19, 2005. (Lead Article)
Rawlins, William K. “Our Family’s Physician,” in Narratives, Health, and Healing:
Communication Theory, Research, and Practice, eds. Lynn Harter, Phyllis Japp,
& Christina Beck (Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates), 197-216, 2005.
*Babrow, Austin, *Kline, Kim, & *Rawlins, William K. “Narrating Problems and Problematizing Narratives: Linking Problematic Integration and Narrative Theory in Telling Stories About Our Health,” in Narratives, Health, and Healing: Communication Theory, Research, and Practice, eds. Lynn Harter, Phyllis Japp, & Christina Beck (Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates), 31-52, 2005.
*Gillespie, Andrew, *Olsson, Mats, and *Rawlins, William K. “US/Swedish
Summer School in Sustainable Natural Resource Management and Intercultural
Communication: Lessons Learned and Future Directions.” Providing our Graduates with a Global perspective through Real and Virtual Student Exchange, Proceedings of the Interuniversity Consortium for Agricultural and Related Sciences in Europe/ National Association of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges Conference, Vienna, April 2005, eds. Margarita Calderon-Peter & Simon B. Heath (Interuniversity Consortium for Agricultural and Related Sciences in Europe), 17-32, 2005.
Chawla, Devika., and Rawlins, William K. “Enabling Reflexivity in a Mentoring Relationship,” Qualitative Inquiry, 10, 963-978, 2004.
Rawlins, William K., “Celebrating Arthur P. Bochner’s Life Work: An
Introduction,” American Communication Journal, Volume 7, 2004 Issue,
http://www.acjournal.org/.
Rawlins, William K., “Art for Art’s Sake,” American Communication Journal,
Volume 7, 2004 Issue, http://www.acjournal.org/.
Rawlins, William K. “Teaching and Learning in a Spirit of Friendship,” Basic Communication Course Annual 16, 247-269, 2004.
Rawlins, William K. "Friendships in Later Life," in Handbook of Communication and Aging Research, 2nd Edition, eds. Jon F. Nussbaum and Justine Coupland (Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates), 273-299, 2004.
Rawlins, William K. “Hearing Voices/Learning Questions” in Expressions of Ethnography, ed. Robin P. Clair (Albany: State University of New York Press), 119-125, 2003.
Rawlins, William K. “Engaging Peter Hall’s Work Concerning Social Organization, Power, Policy, and Communication,” Studies in Symbolic Interaction, 26, 3-5, 2003.
Rawlins, William K. "Times, Places, and Social Spaces for Cross-Sex Friendship," in Women and Men Communicating: Challenges and Changes, 2nd Edition, eds. Laurie Arliss and Deborah Borisoff (Prospect Heights, Illinois: Waveland Press), 93-114, 2001.
Rawlins, William K. “Telling Stories of David R. Maines: An Admiring Friend’s Sampler,” Studies in Symbolic Interaction, 24, 41-50, 2001.
Rawlins, William K. “Teaching as a Mode of Friendship,” Communication Theory, 10, 5-26, 2000. (Lead Article)
Rawlins, William K. “Friendship,” in Encyclopedia of Human Emotions, eds. David Levinson, James Ponzetti, and Peter Jorgensen (New York: Macmillan Reference), 280-285, 1999.
Rawlins, William K. “Theorizing Public and Private Domains and Practices of Communication: Introductory Concerns,” Communication Theory, 8, 369-380, 1998.
Rawlins, William K. “Foreword,” in Life Online: Researching Real Experience in Virtual Space, by Annette N. Markham (Walnut Creek, CA: Altamira Press), 9-12, 1998.
Rawlins, William K. “From Ethnographic Occupations to Ethnographic Stances,” in Communication: Views from the Helm for the 21st Century, ed. Judith S. Trent. (Boston: Allyn and Bacon), 359-362, 1998.
Rawlins, William K. “Making Meanings with Friends,” in The Meaning of “Relationship” in Interpersonal Communication, eds. Richard L. Conville and Edna Rogers (Westport: Praeger Publishers), 149-169, 1998.
Rawlins, William K. “Writing About Friendship Matters: A Case Study in Dialectical and Dialogical Inquiry,” in Dialectical Approaches to Studying Personal Relationships, eds. Barbara Montgomery and Leslie Baxter (Mahway, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.), 63-81, 1998.
Gillespie, Andrew R.; Rawlins, William K.; Mills, Walter L.; Coppin, Pol R.; Olsson, Mats; Rosen, Kaj; Fries, Clas; Bäckström, Per-Ove; Agestam, Eric; and Magnusson, Tord “Teaching Across Cultures: A Model for International Education in the Natural Resources,” Journal of Forestry, 96, 20-24, 1998.
Rawlins, William K. “Teaching as Evidence of Learning,” Western Journal of Communication, 60, 188-193, 1996.
Rawlins, William K. "Friendships in Later Life," in Handbook of Communication and Aging Research, eds. Jon F. Nussbaum and Justine Coupland (Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates), 227-257, 1995.
Rawlins, William K. "Reflecting on (Cross-Sex) Friendship: De-Scripting the Drama," Personal Relationship Issues, 2, 1-3, 1994.
Rawlins, William K. "Being There and Growing Apart: Sustaining Friendships During Adulthood," in Communication and Relational Maintenance, eds. Daniel J. Canary and Laura Stafford (San Diego, CA: Academic Press), 273-292, 1994.
Rawlins, William K. "Communication in Cross-Sex Friendships," in Women and Men Communicating: Challenges and Changes, eds. Laurie Arliss and Deborah Borisoff (Fort Worth, Texas: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich), 51-70, 1992.
Legge, Nancy J., and Rawlins, William K. "Managing Disputes in Young Adult Friendships: Modes of Convenience, Cooperation, and Commitment," Western Journal of Speech Communication, 56, 226-247, 1992.
Rawlins, William K. "On Enacting Friendship and Interrogating Discourse," in Understanding Face-to-Face Interaction: Issues Linking Goals and Discourse, ed. Karen Tracy (Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates), 101-115, 1991.
Rawlins, William K. "Metaphorical Views of Interaction in Families of Origin and Future Families," Journal of Applied Communication Research 17, 52-70, 1989.
Rawlins, William K. "Cultural Double Agency and the Pursuit of Friendship," Cultural Dynamics 2, 28-40, 1989.
Rawlins, William K. "A Dialectical Analysis of the Tensions, Functions and Strategic Challenges of Communication in Young Adult Friendships," Communication Yearbook 12, ed. James A. Anderson (Newbury, CA: Sage), 157-189, 1989.
Rawlins, William K. "Rehearsing the Margins of Adulthood: The Communicative Management of Adolescent Friendships," in Life-Span Communication: Normative Issues, ed. Jon F. Nussbaum (New York: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates), 137-154, 1989.
Rawlins, William K. and Holl, Melissa. "Adolescents' Interactions with Parents and Friends: Dialectics of Temporal Perspective and Evaluation," Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 5, 27-46, 1988.
Rawlins, William K. and Holl, Melissa. "The Communicative Achievement of Friendship During Adolescence: Predicaments of Trust and Violation," Western Journal of Speech Communication, 51, 345-363, 1987.
Reprinted in Introduction to Human Communication: Behavior, Codes and Social Action, ed. Stuart J. Sigman (Needham Heights: Ginn Press), 229-239, 1992.
Rawlins, William K. "Gregory Bateson and the Composition of Human Communication," Research on Language and Social Interaction, 20, 53-77, 1987.
Rawlins, William K.; Leibowitz, Kenneth; and Bochner, Arthur P. "Affective and Instrumental Dimensions of Best, Equal, and Unequal Friendships," Central States Speech Journal, 37, 90-101, 1986.