Andrew Smith, PhD

Andrew R. Smith (PhD, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, 1990) is Professor of Communication in the Department of Business, Economics, and Communication at PennWest University—Edinboro.

He is former Graduate Program Head of the Master of Arts in Communication Studies Program and served, for the 1998-99 academic year, as Senior Fulbright Fellow in Communication and Culture at the Faculty of Letters, Rabat University in Morocco, and as Fulbright Specialist to Morocco during the Summer of 2011. He is a Fellow of the International Communicology Institute, and a member of the Research Group on Language, Culture & Society, Center for Doctoral Studies, Rabat University. He has edited and contributed to three books: Radical Conflict: Violence, Intractability and Communication; Communicology for the Human Sciences; and Recovering Pragmatism's Voice: The Classical Tradition, Rorty, and the Philosophy of Communication. He has published dozens of journal articles, book chapters, and monographs in national and international publications, including Communication Theory, Human Rights Quarterly, Cultural Critique, The Russian Journal of Communication, Human Studies, and Text and Performance Quarterly. He serves as associate editor and reviewer for these and other scholarly publications.

His research interests include the problem of communication in authoritarian regimes, intractable conflict, and the bio-politics of surveillance practices. He teaches courses in intercultural communication, freedom of speech, civil discourse, language and thought, and managing conflict. His novel, Not So Academic Affairs, is forthcoming. His curriculum vitae and list of selected publications are available at https://andrewrsmith.academia.edu/.