University of Wisconsin-Parkside

Emeritus, Communication

Professor Emerita

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Wendy Leeds-Hurwitz is Director, Center for Intercultural Dialogue (Washington, DC). She 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 the University of Wisconsin-Parkside as an Assistant Professor in 1982, becoming Associate Professor in 1988, Professor in 1995, and Professor Emerita in 2010. She won the Stella C. Gray Excellence in Teaching Award in 1995, and the Excellence in Research and Creative Activity award in 2003. She was a University of Wisconsin System Teaching Fellow in 1986-87, a fellow at the Center for Twentieth Century Studies in 1990-91, a Fellow at the Collegium de Lyon (an Institute for Advanced Studies in France) in 2009, chercheur invité (Invited Scholar) at the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon in France in 2010-11, and at the Institut Français de l’Éducation in France in 2011. She has been Chair of the Language and Social Interaction Division of the International Communication Association, as well as the Semiotics and Communication Division, and also the International and Intercultural Communication Division of the National Communication Association.

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