Professor of Communication Co-Director, Graduate Program in Management Practice Organizational Communication Group Communication Management and Innovation Contact information: Telephone: 805 893-8695 David R. SeiboldDave Seibold joined the Department of Communication as a Professor in 1990, and served as Department Chair from 1998-2004. Since 2000 he also has been Director of UCSB’s interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Management Practice, a part of the Technology Management Program in the College of Engineering. Formerly he was a faculty member at Purdue University (1975-1976) and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (1976-1990), having earned a B.A. at Iona College (Summa Cum Laude), an M.A. at the University of Michigan, and a Ph.D. at Michigan State University. Dave has been a distinguished visiting professor and lectured at more than two dozen universities worldwide, and he has received several teaching honors including campus teaching excellence and professional society teaching awards. Dave has published more than 100 research papers, and delivered more than 200 conference papers and scholarly presentations, in four areas that represent his continuing research interests: communication and interpersonal influence (persuasion, compliance-gaining, motivation), group communication (structuration of decision making, argument and influence processes, facilitation of meetings, problem-solving techniques), organizational communication (participation structures and processes, temporality in workgroups, communication technologies, innovation and organizational change, management and strategic communication), and applied communication (bridging theory and practice, organizational development, evaluation of health communication programs). Recipient of more than a dozen “top paper” awards at conferences, his published research has been recognized by the National Communication Association with Golden Anniversary Monograph Awards in 1976, 1981, and 1986, and the Charles Woolbert Research Award in 1989 for research that has stood the test of time. He also was the 1999 recipient of the Gerald M. Phillips Award for Distinguished Applied Communication Scholarship. In 2004 Davewas named a Distinguished Scholar by the National Communication Association, its highest award for a lifetime of scholarly achievement. A past editor of the Journal of Applied Communication Research (1997-1999), Dave has been member of the editorial boards of 13 Communication journals (under 24 different editors) since 1978, has reviewed for numerous other journals including Administrative Science Quarterly, Journal of Language and Social Psychology, Human Relations, and Academy of Management Review, and for commercial publishers. A former chair of the International Communication Association’s Interpersonal Communication Division (1986-1988), chair of the National Communication Association’s Interpersonal and Small Group Division (1996-1997), most recently he served as chair of the Organizational Communication Division (1998-2000) of the International Communication Association. Since 1975 Dave has been a paper reader and panel respondent on 42 occasions in those three divisions, and twice in the NCA’s Applied Communication Division. In 2006 he received the Fredric M. Jablin Outstanding Member Award from Division 4 of the International Communication Association. A life member of the ICA, NCA, and WSCA, he has been a member of external review teams for doctoral program, and has served as an external referee for more than 50 personnel cases at 32 universities in the United States and abroad. Over the past thirty years, Dave also has consulted or provided pro bono assistance to more than 75 business, government, and health organization at 125 sites, and worked with more than 3500 participants, as executive development consultant and coach, facilitator, trainer, process consultant, or program evaluator. |