Research
Interests:
Intercultural
communication; Latino/a communication studies; rhetorical
criticism
Recent
and Reoccurring Courses:
Communication
and Culture; Humanistic Methods; Philosophical Foundations
of Communication Studies
Biography:
Dr.
Alberto González has taught a variety of undergraduate
and graduate courses, including Intercultural Communication
and Humanistic Research Methods.
He
has published five books and numerous research articles
in the areas of intercultural communication, Latino/a
communication studies and popular music as communication.
One book, Our Voices: Essays in Ethnicity, Culture and
Communication, has been adopted for use at over 200 colleges
and universities in the U.S.
In
2006, Dr. Gonzalez served as program planner for the International
and Intercultural Communication Division of the National
Communication Association. In 2007, he became Chair of
the Division.
Selected
Publications:
Jo
Beth González, Rosalinda Cantu, Alberto González,
"Staging Whiteness: Possibilities for Resistance
and Revelation in a High School Production of Simply
Maria, or, The American Dream." In L.M. Cooks
and J.S. Simpson, Eds., Whiteness, Pedagogy, Performance:
Dis/Placing Race. Landham MD: Lexington Books/Rowman
& Littlefield. In press.
Alberto
González and Amy Heuman. "The Latin Grammys
and the ALMAs: Awards Programs, Cultural Epideictic, and
Intercultural Pedagogy." Journal of Latinos and
Education, 2(2003): 47-57.
Alberto
González and JoBeth Gonzalez, "The Color Problem
in Sillyville: Negotiating White Identity in One Popular
Kid-Vid." Communication Quarterly, 50(2002),
410-421.
Awards
and Honors:
Dr.
González's (with Jo Beth Gonzalez and Rosalinda
Cantu) most recent award was the Outstanding Research
Award presented in 2005 by the American Alliance for Theatre
& Education.
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