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Faculty Profile

Amardo Rodriguez Laura J. and L. Douglas Meredith Professor Coordinator, CRS Graduate Studies Ph.D., Howard University 109 Sims Hall Building V (315) 443-5142 Email: rodrigu@syr.edu

Courses Taught

Research Interests
Dr. Rodriguez’s research and teaching interests revolve around three questions: (a) How can communication theory speak better to what being human means? (b) How can communication theory offer new vistas of what being human means? And (c) How can communication theory make for a world with less misery and suffering? He forwards an emergent understanding of communication that foregrounds moral, existential, and spiritual assumptions, and explores the potentiality of this emergent understanding of communication to expand our notions of democracy and community.

Expertise
Communication theory, post-colonial theory, dialogue and mediation, and emerging organizational models.  

Awards and Honors
College Faculty Award, Syracuse University, 2004.
Meredith Excellence in Teaching Award, Syracuse Univeristy, 2006.

Scholarly Publications

Books:
Rodriguez, A. (2007). Diversity: Mestizos, Latinos and the Promise of Possiblities. CA: Floricanto Press.

Rodriguez, A. (2005). Communication, space, and design: The integral relation between communication and design. Lanham, MD: Hamilton Books.

Rodriguez, A., Hall, M., & Keane-Dawes, J. (2004). Embodying the Postcolonial life: Immigrant Stories of Resistance . New York: Prometheus/Humanity Books.

Rodriguez, A. (2003).  Diversity as Liberation (II).  Introducing a new understanding of diversity.  Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press.

Rodriguez, A. (2001).  On Matters of Liberation (I): The case against hierarchy.  Cresskill, N. J.: Hampton Press.

Rodriguez, A. (Ed.) (2001).  Essays on communication and spirituality: Contributions to a new discourse about communication.  Lanham, MD: UPA.

Rodriguez, A. (2007). Predicaments, Dilemmas, and the Challenge of Knowledge. Howard Journal of Communication, 18 , 1-12.

Rodriguez, A. (2006). A story from somewhere: Cathedrals, Communication, and the search for possibility. International and Intercultural Communication Annual, XXIX, 4-21.

Holling, M., & Rodriguez, A. (2006). Navigating our way through the gates. Journal of Latinos and Education, 5(1), 49-64.

Morris, C., & Rodriguez, A. (2005). Towards an existential model of trust. Peace Review: A Journal of Social Justice, 17:95-102 .

Rodriguez, A. (2003/2004). Searching for new models of identity in Spanglish. Journal of Intergroup Relations, 30 , 8-22.

Rodriguez, A. (2005). Searching for Paulo Friere: Classnotes for my students. Radical Pedagogy, 6 (2).

Rodriguez, A. (2004). Keepers of the stories. E/ Journal of Sociology.
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Rodriguez, A. (2002).  Culture to culturing: Re-imaging our understanding of intercultural relations.  Journal of Intercultural Communication, 5. http://www.immi.se/intercultural/

Rodriguez, A. (2002). The heuristic promise of the narrative paradigm for intergroup relations.  Journal of Intergroup Relations, 29, 52-69.

Rodriguez, A. (2002). Redefining our understanding of narrative. The Qualitative Report, 7 (1). http://www.nova.edu/ssss/QR/QR7-1/rodriguez.html

Rodriguez, A. (2001). On the origin of language: Implications for ethics, politics, and theology. Journal of Religion & Society, 3.

Chawla, D., & Rodriguez, A (2001). Emancipatory pedagogy as insurgency. Radical Pedagogy: 3, 2 http://www.icaap.org/iuicode?2.3.2.7] 

Rodriguez, A. (2001). The implications of physical fragmentation and class balkanization on being human.  Journal of Rural Community Psychology, E4 (1).

 Rodriguez, A. (2000). Can groups be liberating: Forging a different path to look at group life. Journal of Radical Organizational Theory, 6.

Rodriguez, A.*, & Clair, R. P. (1999). Graffiti as communication: Exploring the discursive tensions of anonymous texts. Southern Communication Journal, 65, 1-15.

Book Chapters:
Rodriguez, A. (2006). Social justice and the challenge for communication studies. In Omar Swartz (Ed.), Social Justice and Communication Scholarship. Mahweh, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

Rodriguez, A.(Forthcoming).  On the ideology and politics of language.  In Jennifer Keane Dawes (Ed.), Dear Jamaica: Essays on Post-colonialism.

Rodriguez, A.(2005).  Grafitti.  In James T. Sears (Ed.), Youth, Education, and Sexualities : An International Encyclopedia Volume One: A-J (pp 379-382). Westport, CT: Greenwood Press.

Rodriguez, A. (2003). Sense-making artifacts on the margins of cultural spaces. In Robin Clair (Ed.), Expressions of ethnography (pp. 231-242). New York: State University of New York Press

Nicotera, A. M., Rodriguez, A., Hall, M, & Jackson, R. L. (1995). A history of the study of communication and conflict. In A. M. Nicotera (Ed.), Conflict and organizations: Communicative Processes (pp. 17-44). Albany, NY: SUNY Press.