Todd L. Sandel : Curriculum Vitae
CURRICULUM VITAE
TODD L. SANDEL
OFFICE
University of Macau
Department of Communication
Av. Padre Tomas Pereira
Taipa, Macao
Phone (US): (1) 405- 443-4272
Macao: (853) 8397-8984, Cell (853) 6239-9438
E-Mail: tlsandel@umac.mo
EDUCATION
Ph.D. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2000
Department of Speech Communication
A.M. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1998
Department of Speech Communication
M.A. Western Seminary, Portland, Oregon, 1991
Division of Intercultural Studies
B.A. WilliamsCollege, Williamstown, Massachusetts, 1986
Double Major: English & Classics
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2012 – Present Associate Professor, Department of Communication
University of Macau, Macao, SAR
2007 – 2011 Associate Professor, Department of Communication
The University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma
2007 – 2008 Fulbright Scholar to Taiwan, affiliated with National Chiao Tung
University, Hsinchu, Taiwan
2001 – 2007 Assistant Professor, Department of Communication
The University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma
2000 – 2001 Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Communication
The University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma
1998 – 2000 Research Assistant to Prof. Peggy Miller, Dept. of Speech Communication
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
1996 – 2000 Graduate Teaching Assistant, Department of Speech Communication
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
1991 – 1996 Lecturer, Department of English
Fu JenCatholicUniversity, Taipei, Taiwan
RESEARCH
Publications
Refereed Journal Articles
Sandel, T. L. (forthcoming-2014). Enacted Social Support and Cultural Practices Among Women and
Families Observing a Postpartum Rest in Taiwan. China Media Research.
Sandel, T. L. (forthcoming-2014). “Oh, I’m here!”: Social media’s impact on the cross-cultural
adaptation of students studying abroad. Journal of Intercultural Communication Research
Homsey, D., & Sandel, T. L. (2012). The code of food and tradition: Exploring a Lebanese
(American) speech code in practice in Flatland. Journal of Intercultural Communication Research, 41(1), 59-80.
Sandel, T. L. (2011). Is it just cultural?: Exploring (mis)perceptions of individual
and cultural differences of immigrants through marriage in contemporary Taiwan. China Media Research, 7(3), 43-55.
Sandel, T. L. (2010). Tales of the bitter and sweet: A study of a Taiwanese master story and transgression narratives as shared cross-generationally in Taiwanese families. Narrative Inquiry, 20(2), 325-348
Sandel, T. L., & Liang, C-H. (2010). Taiwan’s fifth ethnic group: A study of the acculturation and cultural fusion of women who have married into families in Taiwan. Journal of International and Intercultural Communication. 3(3), 249-275
Gries, P. H., Crowson, H. M., & Sandel, T. L. (2010). The Olympic effect on American attitudes towards China: beyond personality, ideology, and media exposure. Journal of Contemporary China, 19(64), 213-231.
Ivanov, B., Parker, K. A., Nicholas, C. L., & Sandel, T. L. (2010). Cohesiveness as ideoculture: An ethnography of a soccer team. The International Journal of the Arts in Society, 5 (3), 105-117.
Sandel, T., L., Cho, G.. E., Miller. P. J., & Wang, S. H. (2006). What it means to be a grandmother: A cross-cultural study of Taiwanese and Euro-American grandmothers’ beliefs. Journal of Family Communication, 6, 255-278.
Sandel, T. L., Liang, C. H., & Chao, W. Y. (2006) Language shift and language accommodation across family generations in Taiwan. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development 27, 126-147.
Cho, G. E., Sandel, T. L., Miller, P. J., Wang, S. (2005). What do grandmothers think about self-esteem? American and Taiwanese folk theories revisited. Social Development, 14, 701-721.
Sandel, T. L. (2004). Narrated relationships: Mothers-in-law and daughters-in-law justifying conflicts in Taiwan’s Chhan-chng. Research on Language and Social Interaction, 37, 365-398.
Sandel, T. L. (2003). Linguistic capital in Taiwan: The KMT’s Mandarin language policy and its perceived impact upon the language practices of bilingual Mandarin and Tai-gi speakers. Language in Society, 32 (4), 523-551.
Sandel, T. L. (2002) Kinship address: Socializing young children in Taiwan. Western Journal of Communication, 66, 257-280.
Miller, P. J., Wang, S. H., Sandel, T. L., & Cho, G. E. (2002). Self-esteem as folk theory: A comparison of European-American and Taiwanese mothers’ beliefs. Special Issue: “Parental ethnotheories: Cultural practice and normative development” in Parenting: Science and Practice, 2, 209-239.
Miller, P. J., Sandel, T. L., Liang, C. H., & Fung, H. (2001). Narrating transgressions in Longwood: The discourses, meanings, and paradoxes of an American socializing practice. Ethos, 29, 159-186.
Sandel, T. L. (1995). Changes in English Department student attitudes towards their role as learners. Fu Jen Studies: Literature and Linguistics, 28, 88-108.
Book Chapters
Sandel, T., L. Wong Lowe, A., Chao, W. Y. (2012). What does it mean to be Chinese?: Studying values as perceived by United States Chinese immigrants and their children. In S. Kulich, M. H. Prosser, & L. P. Weng (Eds.) Value frameworks at the theoretical crossroads of culture. Intercultural Research: Vol. 4 (pp. 529-558). Shanghai, China.
Miller, P. J., Sandel, T. L., Liang, C. H., & Fung, H. Narrating Transgressions in U.S. and Taiwan. (2008). R. A. LeVine & R. S. New (Eds.)Anthropology and Child Developmen:t A Cross Cultural Reader (pp. 198-212) . Wiley-Blackwell.
Invited Publications
Sandel, T. L. (forthcoming-2015). A Taiwanese conception of communication and its practice. In D. Carbaugh (Ed.) The Handbook of Communication in Cross-cultural Perspective. Taylor & Francis/Routledge.
Sandel, T. L. (forthcoming-2015). Dialects. In K. Tracy, C. Ilie, & T. L. Sandel (Eds.) International Encyclopedia of Language and Social Interaction. Wiley-Blackwell.
Sandel, T. L. (forthcoming-2015). RichPoints. In K. Tracy, C. Ilie, & T. L. Sandel (Eds.) International Encyclopedia of Language and Social Interaction. Wiley-Blackwell.
Sandel, T. L., (2009). Review of Bilingualism: A Social Approach by Monica Heller. Language in Society, 38 (1), 95-98.
Sandel, T. L. (2008). Intimate talk: Family and friends. In W. Donsbach (Ed.) The International Encyclopedia of Communication: Volume VI (pp. 2521-2524).Malden, MA: Blackwell.
Conference papers
Sandel, T. L. (2013, November). “Oh, I’m here!”: Social media’s impact on the cross-cultural
adaptation of students studying abroad. Paper presented at the International and Intercultural Division of the 99th Convention of the National Communication Association, WashingtonDC, USA.
Sandel, T. L. (2013, June). Leftover or Victorious?: Asian Women (and Men) Making Sense of
Marriageability in a Changing Context. Paper presented at the Language and Social Interaction Division of the 60th Annual Convention of the International Communication Association, London, UK.
Sandel, T. L. (2012, November). Enacted Social Support and Cultural Practices among Women and
Families Observing a Postpartum Rest in Taiwan. Paper presented at the Language and Social Interaction Division of the 98th Convention of the National Communication Association, Orlando, Florida, USA.
Sandel, T. L. (2012, June). Marriage as text: The motivations and definitions of marriage among Taiwan’s transnational families. Paper presented at the Ethnography of Communication: Ways Forward conference at CreightonUniversity, Omaha, Nebraska, USA.
Sandel, T. L. (2011, November). Is it just cultural?: Exploring (mis)perceptions of individual and cultural differences of immigrants through marriage in contemporary Taiwan. Paper presented at the Language and Social Interaction Division of the 97th Convention of the National Communication Association, New Orleans, LA.
Homsey, D. M., & Sandel, T. L. (2011, May). A multi-centered familial identity: Examining the principle of relational dialectics through the practices and perceptions of a Lebanese American Community. Paper presented at the International and Intercultural Division of the 59th Annual Convention of the International Communication Association, Boston, MA.
Sandel, T. L. (2010, November). To be or not to be a recognizable “foreign spouse”: An ethnomethodological study of the gendered presentation of a foreign or local self in Taiwan. Paper presented at the Language and Social Interaction Division of the 96th Convention of the National Communication Association, San Francisco, CA.
Sandel, T. L. & Liang, C. H. (2010, June). Marriage as text: Communicating and constructing identities in Taiwan’s transnational families. Paper presented at the Language and Social Interaction Division of the 58th Annual Convention of the International Communication Association, Singapore.
Sandel, T. L. (2009, November). Tales of the bitter and sweet: A Taiwanese master story and transgression narratives shared cross-generationally in families. Paper presented at the Family Communication Division of the 95th Convention of the National Communication Association, Chicago, IL.
Sandel, T. L. (2009, November). The “New Taiwanese”: Exploring the meaning of transnational and transborder families in Taiwan and greater China. Paper presented at the Association for Chinese Communication Studies at the 95th Convention of the National Communication Association, Chicago, IL.
Sandel, T. L. (2009, July). Taiwan’s “foreign brides”: A case study of the struggle for identity. Paper presented at the National Communication Association Summer Conference on Intercultural Dialogue, Istanbul, Turkey.
Sandel, T. L. (2009, May). “Don’t call us that, something, Waiji Xinniang”: A cultural and semiotic analysis of perceptions of the “foreign bride” phenomenon in Taiwan. Paper presented at the Language and Social Interaction Division of the 57th Annual Convention of the International Communication Association, Chicago, IL.
Sandel, T. L. (2008, November). Taiwan’s fifth ethnic group: A study of the acculturation of women who have married into Taiwanese families in Taiwan. Paper presented at the International and Intercultural Studies Division of the 94th Convention of the National Communication Association, San Diego, CA.
Sandel, T. L. (2008, November). Transnational Marriages in Taiwan. Paper presented at the Association for Chinese Communication Studies Division of the 94th Convention of the National Communication Association, San Diego, CA.
Sandel, T. L., Tsai, T. F., Liang, C. H., & Huang, D.D. (2007, November). Do you call this a fangyan?: Comparing language ideologies, linguistic capital, and linguistic categories in Taiwan and Xiamen, China. Paper presented at the Association for Chinese Communication Studies Division of the 93rd Convention of the National Communication Association, Chicago, Illinois.
Sandel, T. L., Tsai, T. F. (2007, June). Assessing Linguistic Capital in China’s Fujian Province. Paper presented at the Joint Conference in Sichuan, China Chinese Communication Studies: West China and Globalization, Chengdu, China.
Sandel, T. L., Liang, C. H. (2007, May). Communicating through stories: An analysis of classroom discourse in mother tongue classes in Central Taiwan. Paper presented at the Language and Social Interaction Division of the 55th Annual Convention of the International Communication Association, San Francisco, CA.
Sandel, T. L., Wong Lowe, A., Chao, W. Y., Meng, C. H., & Chang, H. W. (2006, November). Oscillating identity: A multi-generational study of acculturating Chinese Americans. Paper presented at the International and Intercultural Communication Division of the 92nd Convention of the National Communication Association, San Antonio, Texas.
Chao, W. Y., Sandel, T. L., & Liang, C. H. (2006, November). Mother tongue education in Taiwan: Exploring language attitudes and ideologies. Paper presented at the Association for Chinese Communication Studies Division of the 92nd Convention of the National Communication Association, San Antonio, Texas.
Sandel, T. L., Liang, C. H., Chao, W. Y., Chang, H. W. (2005, December). Storytelling as a Medium of Socialization in Mother Tongue Education: A Comparison of Classrooms in Taiwan and the United States. Paper presented at the Joint Conference in Xiamen, China: Chinese Communication Studies, Xiamen, Fujian Province, China.
Sandel, T. L., Cho, G.. E., Miller. P. J., & Wang, S. H. (2005, May). A cross-cultural study of grandmothers and their role among families in Taiwan and the United States. Paper presented at the Language and Social Interaction Division of the 55th Annual Convention of the International Communication Association, New York, New York.
Sandel, T. L., Wong Lowe, A., Croucher, S. M., Chao, W. Y. (2004, November). Language and identity: Exploring constructions of language and identity in Montréal, Taiwan, and Central Oklahoma. Paper presented at the Language and Social Interaction Division of the 90th Annual Convention of the National Communication Association, Chicago, Illinois.
Sandel, T. L. (2004, May). Speaking Chinese: Exploring parental and grandparental beliefs about Chinese language education in the United States. Paper presented at the Intercultural and Developmental Division of the 54th Annual Convention of the International Communication Association, New Orleans, Louisiana.
Sandel, T. L. (2004, May). Can Children Speak Tai-gi?: Exploring Language Shift and Language Accommodation among Three Family Generations in Rural and Urban Sites in Taiwan. Paper presented at the Third Biennial International Conference on Intercultural Research, Taipei, Taiwan.
Sandel, T. L. (2003, November). Narrated Relationships: Problem Stories Told by Mothers-in-law and Daughters-in-law in Taiwan’s Chhan-chng. Paper presented at the Language and Social Interaction Division of the 89th Annual Convention of the National Communication Association, Miami, Florida.
Sandel, T. L. (2003, November). When Grandma Talks to you, Do you Understand?: Exploring Parental Beliefs about Mother Tongue Education in Taiwan. Paper presented at the Association for Chinese Communication Studies Division of the 89th Annual Convention of the National Communication Association, Miami, Florida.
Sandel, T. L. (2003, May). Mother Tongue Education in Taiwan: Exploring Language Shift and Parental Language Ideologies. Paper presented at the Language and Social Interaction Division of the 53nd Annual Convention of the International Communication Association, San Diego, California.
Sandel, T. L. (2002, July). Narrative and the construction of personal and shared identity in Taiwan. Paper presented at the Language and Social Interaction Division of the 52nd Annual Convention of the International Communication Association, Seoul, Korea.
Sandel, T. L. (2001, November). Linguistic capital in Taiwan: The impact of the KMT’s Mandarin Language Policy on speaking practices and associated beliefs. Paper presented at the Association for Chinese Communication Scholars Division of the 87th Annual Convention of the National Communication Association, Atlanta, Georgia.
Miller, P. J., Wang, S. H., Sandel, T. L., Cho, G. E. (2001, November). Self-esteem as folk theory: A comparison of ethnographic interviews. Paper presented at the Language and Social Interaction Division of the 87th Annual Convention of the National Communication Association, Atlanta, Georgia.
Miller, P. J., Wang, S. H., Sandel, T. L., Cho, G. E. (2001, April). The meanings and discourses of self-esteem: Parental folk theories of childrearing in Taiwan and the US. Paper presented at the 2001 Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Sandel, T. L. (2000, November). Kinship address: Constructing a family identity in Taiwan. Paper presented at the 86th Annual Convention of the National Communication Association, Seattle, Washington.
Sandel, T. L. (1999, November). Exploring a Chinese rhetoric in Liu Xie’s Wen Xin Diao Long. Paper presented at the 85th Annual Convention of the National Communication Association, Chicago, Illinois.
Miller, P. J., Sandel, T. L., Liang, C. H., & Fung, H. (1999, November) Narrating American transgressions: The meanings and discourses of one American socializing practice. Paper presented at the 85th Annual Convention of the National Communication Association, Chicago, Illinois.
Sandel, T. L., Liang, C. H., Fung, H., & Miller, P. J. (1997, August). Storytelling across generations: Continuity and change in Taiwanese families. Paper presented at the second annual Conference on the History and Culture of Taiwan, Columbia University, New York, New York.
Sandel, T. L. (1995). From passive learner to active researcher: How far does the student have to go? Paper presented at the 12th Annual R.O.C. TEFL Conference, TunghaiUniversity, Taichung, Taiwan.
RESEARCH GRANTS AND AWARDS
Research Grants
Multi-Year Research Grant, University of Macau (160,000 MOP). “Marriage Migration: A Study of the Cultural and Communicative Impacts of Marriage Migration in Indonesia and Taiwan.” 2013-2014.
Start-up Research Grant, University of Macau (125,000 MOP). “Perceptions of Cross Border Marriages (Study One) and Social Media’s Impact on Study Abroad Experiences (Study Two).” 2012
Faculty Development Grant,University of Oklahoma, Institute for US-China Issues (3,000 USD). Grant to develop the course: “Communication in Contemporary Chinese Contexts.” Summer, 2009.
Fulbright Senior Scholar Grant “Transnational Families in Taiwan: Exploring issues of language, culture, and identity” Taiwan, affiliated with NationalChiaoTungUniversity, August 2007 to June 2008.
University of Oklahoma, College of Arts and Sciences, Information Technology Grant (2,000 USD). Grant for equipment to enhance instruction of COMM 3513, Intercultural Communication, 2005.
University of Oklahoma, College of Arts and Sciences, Information Technology Grant (17,860 USD). Grant for equipment to enhance instruction of COMM 2613, Public Speaking, 2003.
Chiang Ching-Kuo Foundation (50,000 USD), “Mother Tongue Preservation: Exploring Language, Identity, and Cultural Consciousness in Taiwan and the United States.” Two-year grant to study mother tongue education in Taiwan and the United States, 2002-2004.
University of Oklahoma Junior Faculty Research Grant (6,000 USD), “Mother Tongue Preservation: Exploring Language, Identity, and Cultural Consciousness in Taiwan.” Two-month grant to study the meanings parents and educators attach to Mother Tongue Education in Taiwan, Summer, 2002.
Taiwan-Illinois Consortium Exchange (2,000 USD plus airfare), Two-month grant for language study and research in Taiwan, summer of 1998.
Fu Jen University, S.V.D. Section (NT 40,000, USD=1,500), “Assessing changes in stereotypical attitudes of students studying Western Civilization and World Cultures.” Awarded 8/95.
Fu Jen University, S.V.D. Section (NT 30,000, USD=1,154), “Studying cultural factors which hinder the EFL student's ability to write the research paper.” Awarded 8/93.
Professional Awards
International Communication Association, Language and Social Interaction Division, Award for Top Three Paper, May, 2005.
National Communication Association, Language and Social Interaction Division, Award for Top Four Paper, November, 2001 & 2003.
National Communication Association, Language and Social Interaction Division, Award for Top Paper and Top Student Paper, November, 2000.
Fu Jen University, S.V.D. Section, (NT 10,000, USD=363), Recipient of the English Department’s Outstanding Teacher Award, 1995-96.
Teaching
Courses Taught at the University of Macau
Interpersonal Communication
Intercultural Communication
Organizational Communication
International & Intercultural Communication
Qualitative Research Methods
Courses Taught at The University of Oklahoma
Communication in Nonwestern Cultures
Communication Theories
Intercultural Communication
International Communication
Cross-Cultural Communication
Communication in Contemporary Chinese Contexts
Senior Capstone
Communication and Technology
Language Perspectives of Communication
Qualitative Research Methods
Advanced Qualitative Research Methods
Advising
Doctoral Dissertations:
University of Oklahoma
Stephen Croucher, Spring 2006
Amy Post-McCorkle, Spring 2009
Anna Wong Lowe, Fall 2009
David Duty, Fall 2009
Satoko Izumi, Spring 2010
Master’s Theses:
University of Macau
Li QiQi, Spring 2013
University of Oklahoma
Anna Wong Lowe, Spring 2003
Dini Massad, Fall 2004
Gerald Breen, Spring 2005
M. Vince Falsarella, Spring 2005
Wen-Yu Chao, Spring 2005
SERVICE
Discipline
Membership in Professional Organizations
National Communication Association
Vice Chair Elect of Language and Social Interaction Division, 2009-2010
Vice Chair and Program Planner of the Language and Social Interaction Division, 2010-2011
Chair of the Language and Social Interaction Division, 2011-2012
Immediate Past Chair of the Language and Social Interaction Division, 2012-2013
NCA Legislative Assembly Member, 2011-2012
NCA Nominating Committee Member, 2013
Association for Chinese Communication Studies, (Unit affiliated with NCA)
Research Chair 2003-04, Vice President 2005-06, President 2006-07, Program Planner 2006-07 and 2007-08.
International Communication Association
Secretary of Language and Social Interaction Division, 2009-2012
Academic Activities
Association for Chinese Communication Studies
Research Chair for NCA 2003, 2002-2003
Vice President 2005-2006
President 2006-2007
Program Planner for NCA 2007, 2008
Co-Planner for ACCS sponsored Conference at SichuanUniversity,
Chengdu, China, 2007
Language and Social Interaction Division of ICA
Paper Reviewer for ICA Convention, 2004-2012
Language and Social Interaction Division of NCA
Paper Reviewer for NCA Convention, 2005-2013
Association for Chinese Communication Studies (NCA affiliate)
Paper Reviewer for NCA Convention, 2004-2006, 2009, 2010
National Communication Association
Paper Reviewer for NCA Summer Conference, 2009
Associate Editor with Karen Tracy and Cornelia Ilie
International Encyclopedia of Language and Social Interaction. ICA/Wiley-Blackwell, 2012-2015
Editorial Board Member
Journal of Intercultural Communication Research
Journal of International and Intercultural Communication
Speaker & Gavel
Reviewer for Refereed Journals
Research on Language and Social Interaction
Reviewer for papers, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2008
Language Policy
Reviewer for papers, 2007
Language in Society
Reviewer for papers, 2005, 2008
Western Journal of Communication
Reviewer for papers, 2004
International Journal of Intercultural Relations
Reviewer for papers, 2006
Journal of Pragmatics
Reviewer for papers, 2006
Electronic Journal of Communication
Reviewer for papers, 2008
Journal of Computer Mediated Communication
Reviewer for papers, 2009
University
University of Macau
Member of the Ethics Panel, 2012 - present
MA Programme Coordinator, January – August, 2013
Communication Department Five-Year Review: Chief Writer and Editor, August 2012-May 2013
University of Oklahoma
Vice Chair of the Institutional Review Board, 2011
Faculty Senate, 2010-2011
Institutional Review Board, 2010-2011
Member of Committee A, 2009-2011
Qualitative Research Curriculum Committee, 2002-2003, 2005-2006, 2006-2007
Undergraduate Curriculum Committee, 2001-2002, 2003-2004, 2004-2005, 2006-2007, 2008-2009
Technology Committee, 2003-2007
Faculty Adviser to Tau Kappa Omega, 2002 to 2007
Jon R. Withrow Scholarship Committee Member, 2004, 2005
Fulbright Scholarship Reviewer, 2003
Affiliate Faculty Member, School of International and Area Studies, 2003 to present
Member, Planning Committee for the East Asia Symposium, 2006
Affiliate Faculty Member, US-China Institute, 2006 to present
Undergraduate Assessment, 2009
Task Force to Assess Departmental Communication Department Budget and Vision, 2009