Andrew Smith, PhD

Dr. Andrew R. Smith (PhD, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, 1990) is Professor of Communication in the Department of Business, Economics, and Communication at Pennsyvanlia Western University, and former Graduate Program Head of the Master of Arts in Communication Studies Program. He 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, University Mohammed V, Rabat. 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, Text and Performance Quarterly, and Mohammed V University Press. He serves as associate editor and reviewer for these and other 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, Language and Thought, and Conflict, Power & Communication. Selected publications can be found at https://andrewrsmith.academia.edu/. He also has recently completed a novel entitled “Not So Academic Affairs” (forthcoming; see www.notsoacademicaffairs.com).