Professor of Communication Group & Organizational Communication 5804 Ellison Hall Cynthia StohlCynthia Stohl (PhD, Purdue, 1982) has been a member of the Department of Communication since January 2002. Prior to joining the UCSB faculty she was the Margaret Church Distinguished Professor and Head of the Department of Communication at Purdue University. Professor Stohl’s work connects several areas in organizational and group studies. She is concerned with the relationships among internal and external communication processes as they are manifest in global collaborations. Her early research focused upon communication networks and issues of quality in global manufacturing groups and has extended to exploring the changing communication partnerships amongst workers, management, communities, and civic and multinational organizations. Her most recent work addresses a diversity of network and collective action organizations in the global context including a focus on new communication technologies and terrorist organizations. Building upon the “bona fide group perspective” she developed with Dr. Linda Putnam in the early 1990’s, Professor Stohl spent three years on a National Science Foundation Grant extending this approach to the study of collaborative engineering teams. She is now a Co-PI on a National Science Foundation Grant titled “ Technological Change and Collective Association: Changing Relationships Among Technology, Organizations, Society, and the Citizenry.” Professor Stohl has been the featured speaker at universities and international conferences throughout the United States, Europe, and New Zealand. Her research and teaching in organizational communication have been recognized for excellence by university and national associations. The recipient of several top paper awards (most recently in 2005), her book Organizational Communication: Connectedness in Action won the 1995 NCA Organizational Communication Division’s Best book award. In 1998 and 2001 she also received the division’s best article awards. The recipient of several outstanding teaching awards, her excellence was most recently recognized in 2006 when she became one of UCSB's "Primo Professors." |