Wendy Leeds-Hurwitz

 Professor

University of Wisconsin-Parkside
Kenosha,WI

Office: Communication Arts 245
Phone: 262-595-2252
E-Mail Address: wendy.leeds-hurwitz@uwp.edu

Courses Spring 2008:
Comm 107, Communication and the Human Condition, MWF 10:00-10:50
Comm 211, Communication Theory, MW 2:00-3:15
Comm 440, Communication Codes, MWF 11:00-11:50

Office Hours:
Monday 1-2, 3:30-4:30
Wednesday, 1-2, 3:30-4:30
and by appointment

Current or Recent Courses

• COMM 107: Communication and the Human Condition
• COMM 209: Communication Research Methods
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• COMM 211: Communication Theory
• COMM 310: Communication in Everyday Life
• COMM 330: Communication and Socialization
• COMM 440: Communication Codes
• COMM 495: Senior Seminar

Background Information
Wendy Leeds-Hurwitz earned her B.A. from the State University of New York at Binghamton, and her M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania. She joined UW-Parkside as an Assistant Professor in 1982, becoming Associate Professor in 1988 and Professor in 1995. She won the Stella C. Gray Excellence in Teaching Award in 1995, the Club Advisor of the Year award in 2002, and the Excellence in Research and Creative Activity award in 2003. She advises the UWP chapter of Lambda Pi Eta, the national communication honor society, and the Parkside Communication Alumni Association. She was a UW-System Teaching Fellow in 1986-87 and a fellow at the Center for Twentieth Century Studies in 1990-91. She has been Chair of the Language and Social Interaction Division of the International Communication Association, and Chair of the Semiotics and Communication Division of the National Communication Association, and is currently Vice Chair of the International and Intercultural Communication Division of the National Communication Association.

Teaching and Research Specializations
Language and social interaction, ethnography of communication, intercultural communication, semiotics, communication theory, childhood socialization, and history of the disicpline.

Current Research Activities
Co-PI for Using Wikis in the College Classroom: What’s a Wiki and What can it do that I can’t do Already? a Conference Development Grant from the Office of Professional Instructional Development. The grant resulted in the creation of a wiki for the UWS, and a conference on April 13, 2007. (Co-PI was Doug Worsham, UW Madison).

Co-PI for Investigating Wikis in Courses and Cross-Campus Collaborations in the UWS, a Curricular Redesign Grant from the UW System Learning Technology Development Council investigating the use of wikis as a pedagogical tool. (Co-PIs are Jakob Iversen at UW Oshkosh and Nancy Chick at UW College Barron County).

Editor of the forthcoming book, The Social History of Language and Social Interaction Research (to appear in 2008).

Co-editor of the forthcoming book, Socially Constructing Communication (to appear in 2008).

Book series editor, "Social Approaches to Interaction" and "Social Construction in Practice," both for Hampton Press.

Major Publications

Communication in Everyday Life:
A Social Interpretation

(1989, Ablex)

Semiotics and Communication:
Signs, Codes, Cultures

(1993, Lawrence Erlbaum)

Social Approaches to the Study of Communication

(1995, Guilford)

Wedding as Text:
Communicating Cultural Identities through Ritual

(2002, Lawrence Erlbaum)

Rolling in Ditches with Shamans:
Jaime de Angulo and the Professionalization
of American Anthropology

(2004, University of Nebraska)

From Generation to Generation:
Maintaining Cultural Identity over Time

(2005, Hampton Press)

Department research page in library
National Communication Association
International Communication Association
Graduate programs