Professor of Communication Organizational Communication Linda PutnamLinda L. Putnam joined the Department of Communication at Santa Barbara in August 2007 after serving as a Regent's Professor and as the George T. and Gladys H. Abell Professor of Communication at Texas A&M University. At Texas A&M, she was also Department Head (1993-1998) and Director of the Program on Conflict and Dispute Resolution in the Bush School of Government and Public Service (1998-2003). Prior to her appointment at Texas A&M, Dr. Putnam was a faculty member in the Department of Communication at Purdue University (1977-1993). She received her Ph.D. in Communication from the University of Minnesota in 1977 and her M.A. from the University of Wisconsin in 1968. Her research focuses on negotiation and conflict management in organizations, discourse studies in organizations, and gender and negotiation. Her early research centered on communication strategies and tactics in teacher's bargaining. Using a discourse lens, this early work also examined arguments, narratives, and rituals in labor negotiations. Her research on gender applied a feminist lens to rethinking organizational theories and traditional bargaining and her discourse work in organizations highlighted the contradictions and dialectics that emerged in formal negotiations and organizational communication. Dr. Putnam's recent research analyzes conflict framing in multiparty environmental disputes, especially in the ways that different stakeholders make sense of complex, seemingly intractable conflicts. To fund this endeavor, she has received grants from the National Science Foundation, the Environmental Protection Agency, and the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. She has presented keynote and invited addresses in Brazil, Denmark, Mexico, Germany, the Netherlands, Korea, and Australia and served as an external reviewer for communication programs in the U.S., Europe, and Australia. Dr. Putnam is a Fellow of the International Communication Association, a Distinguished Scholar of the National Communication Association, and the 2005 recipient of the Steven H. Chaffee Career Productivity Award from the International Communication Association--the highest awards for lifetime scholarly achievement. She also received the Charles H. Woolbert Award for Original and Innovative Research from the Speech Communication Association in 1993 and the Best Article Award from the International Communication Association in 2005. She is a past president of three professional societies--the International Communication Association, the International Association for Conflict Management, and the Council of Communication Associations. She was elected an at-large member of the Academy of Management Board of Governors and has served as the Chair of the Organizational Communication divisions for the National Communication Association and the International Communication Association. Her professional service also includes being Associate Editor for Human Relations (2001-2006) and Organization (2001-2007), membership on editorial boards for eight journals, co-editor of four handbooks, and guest editor (or co-editor) of six special issues. Dr. Putnam teaches courses on communication and conflict management, negotiation, gender and organizations, qualitative methods, and discourse analysis in organizations. She has won teaching awards, including the AMOCO and college level awards at Texas A&M University and Purdue University. |