Service
SERVICE INTERESTS:
I am interested in approaching my service as a way to practice my commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion within and beyond the discipline(s), the department, and the university. Ultimately, I intend to perform my research and teaching interests i service.
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE:
Textbooks:
Reviewer:
An introduction to intercultural communication (8th ed). Fred E. Jandt. (2016)
Book Proposals & Manuscripts:
Advisory Board
Lexington Press, Critical Futures Series (2023-current)
Reviewer:
Palgrave Macmillan Publishing (2020)
Peter Lang Publishing (2019; 2022)
Routledge (2022)
Routledge - Handbook Monograph Program (2017)
Routledge - Media, Cultural, and Communication Studies Series (2021; 2023)
Rowman & Littlefield (2020)
Rutgers University Press (2020; 2023)
University of Michigan Press (2022)
University of Pittsburgh Press (2024)
Book Competitions:
Reviewer:
Peter Lang, Emerging Scholars Competition in Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies (2022)
Academic Journals and Book Chapters:
Associate Editor:
Howard Journal of Communications, Ed. Chuka Onwumechili (2023-Current)
Journal of International and Intercultural Communication, Ed. Bernadette Marie Calafell (2021-2023)
Journal of Intercultural Communication Research, Ed. Jason Wrench (2019-2023)
Editorial Board:
Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies, Ed. Robin Boylorn (2021-Current)
Communication Monographs, Ed. Srividya Ramasubramanian (2022-Current)
Howard Journal of Communications, Ed. Chuka Onwumechili (2015-Current)
Journal of Applied Communication, Ed. Mohan Dutta (2021-2023); Ed. Heather Zoller (2024-Current)
Journal of Intercultural Communication Research, Ed. Stephan Croucher (2013-2017); Ed. Jason Wrench (2018-2023)
Journal of International and Intercultural Communication, Ed. Mahuya Pal (2024-current)
QED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking, Eds. Charles Morris III & Thomas K. Nakayama (2013-Current)
Quarterly Journal of Speech, Ed. Stacey Sowards (2022-current)
Queer Studies in Media and Popular Culture, Eds. Bruce Drushel & Kylo-Patrick Hart (2021-Current)
The Journal of Popular Culture Studies (Special Issue: Mediating Autoethnography: Connecting the Personal and the Popular), Eds. Jimme Manning & Tony Adams (2015)
Western Journal of Communication, Ed. Bill Eadie (2013); Eds. Casey R. Schmitt & Lisa Silvestri (2024-2026)
Women & Language, Ed. Leland Spencer (2018-2021); Ed. Siobhan E. Smith-Jones (2022-Current)
Women Studies in Communication, Ed. Marissa Doshi (2022-current)
Ad Hoc Journal Reviewer:
African Identities (2020)
ASAP/Journal (2020)
Culture, Health, and Sexuality (2022)
Cultural Studies (2019)
Communication, Culture, and Critique (2010; 2011; 2013; 2023)
Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies (2019)
Communication Quarterly (2016; 2017; 2018; 2022)
Communication Theory (2016)
Critical Sociology (2015)
Critical Studies in Media Communication (2020; 2021; 2023; 2024)
Current Sociology (2022)
Departures in Critical Qualitative Research (2016; 2019; 2020)
East Asian Journal of Popular Culture (2023)
Fat Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Body Weight and Society (2021)
Feminist Media Studies (2021)
Frontiers in Communication (2021)
Gender Issues (2024)
Howard Journal of Communications (2011; 2012; 2014)
International Journal of Communication (2017; 2020; 2021; 2023; 2024)
International Journal of Cultural Studies (2021; 2024)
International Journal of Intercultural Relations (2019; 2024)
Journal of Applied Communication (2020)
Journal of Asian Pacific Communication (2020)
Journal of Communication (2017)
Journal of Communication Inquiry (2014; 2015; 2016; 2018; 2021; 2022; 2023)
Journal of GLBTQ Family Studies (2017)
Journal of Homosexuality (2015; 2016; 2017; 2018)
Journal of Intercultural Communication (2013)
Journal of Intercultural Communication Research (2012; 2013; 2015; 2016; 2017)
Journal of International and Intercultural Communication (2017; 2020)
Journal of Lesbian Studies (2019)
Journal of Men’s Studies (2010; 2021; 2022)
Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development (2019; 2020)
Journal of Social and Personal Relationships (2020; 2021; 2022; 2023)
Language and Intercultural Communication (2021)
Management Communication Quarterly (2020)
Men and Masculinities (2016; 2017; 2020; 2021; 2022; 2023; 2024)
Poetics: Journal of Empirical Research on Culture, the Media and the Arts (2021)
Psychology & Sexuality (2021; 2023; 2024)
Review of Communication (2019)
SEXUALITIES (2024)
Sexuality & Culture (2013; 2014; 2015; 2016; 2017; 2019; 2020; 2021; 2022; 2023; 2024)
Sexuality Research and Social Policy (2022)
Settler Colonial Studies (2019)
Social Identities: Journal for the Study of Race, Nation, and Culture (2023)
Sociological Forum (2023)
Social Media and Society (2023)
The Communication Review (2019; 2023)
Transforming Anthropology (2022)
Western Journal of Communication (2012; 2014; 2017; 2018; 2020; 2021)
Women & Language (2018)
Book Chapter Reviewer:
Contemporary Studies of Sexuality & Communication, Eds. Jimme Manning & Carey Noland (2015)
Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Communication, Ed. John Oetzel (2016)
Encyclopedia of Intergroup Communication, Ed. Jake Harwood (2016)
Encyclopedia of Queer Studies and Communication, Ed. Issac West (2019; 2021)
Promotion and Tenure Reviews:
External Reviewer:
Pace University – Associate Professor w/ Tenure (2021)
Queen’s University – Assistant Professor for Tenure Track Renewal (2022)
Suffolk University – Associate Professor w/ Tenure (2023)
University of Maine – Associate Professor w/ Tenure (2022)
International Communication Association (ICA):
Administration:
Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Access (IDEA) Committee
• Co-Chair (2023-2026)
Strategic Plan Task Force
• Member (2023-2024)
LGBTQ Studies Interest Group
• Co-Chair (2020-2023)
Manuscript/Panel Proposal Reviewer:
Ethnicity and Race in Communication (2016; 2020; 2021; 2022; 2023; 2024)
Intercultural Communication (2016; 2017; 2018; 2019; 2020; 2021; 2022; 2023; 2024)
LGBTQ Studies (2016; 2017; 2018; 2019; 2020; 2023; 2024)
Popular Media and Culture (2021; 2022)
Theme Session (2016)
National Communication Association (NCA):
Administration:
Research Council
• Member (2020-2022)
Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Access Strategic Plan Task Force
• Member (2021)
Security Task Force
• Member (2020)
Miller Dissertation Award Selection Committee
• Member (2021)
Legislative Assembly
• Representative of International and Intercultural Communication (2019; 2020; 2021)
• Representative of GLBTQ Communication Studies Division (2017; 2018; 2019)
• Representative of Asian/Pacific American Caucus (2015)
• Representative of Asian/Pacific American Communication Studies Division (2014)
Nominating Committee
• Member (2016)
Asian/Pacific American Communication Studies Division & Caucus
• Best Dissertation Award Committee Member (2021; 2022)
• Award Committee Member (2019)
• Immediate Past Chair (2016)
• Chair (2015)
• Vice-Chair (2014)
• Vice-Chair Elect (2013)
• 2nd Vice-Chair Elect (2012)
• Nomination Committee Member (2011)
• Secretary (2010; 2011)
• Doctoral Student Representative (2009)
Critical and Cultural Studies Division
• Scholar-Activist Award Committee Member (2018)
• Best Dissertation of Year Award Committee Member (2015)
Ethnography Division
• Nomination Committee Member (2019)
GLBTQ Communication Studies Division
• Immediate Past Chair (2019)
• Chair (2018)
• Vice-Chair (2017)
• Vice-Chair Elect (2016)
• Awards Committee Chair (2018)
• Year of Monograph Committee Member (2017)
• Year of Book Award Committee Member (2015; 2016)
International and Intercultural Communication Division
• Chair (2021)
• Vice-Chair (2020)
• Vice-Chair Elect (2019)
• Distinguished Scholarship Awards Nomination Committee Member (2015)
• Nomination Committee Member (2013)
Preconference
• Program Planner (2020)
Manuscript/Panel Proposal Reviewer:
African American Communication and Culture Division (2015; 2023)
Asian/Pacific American Communication Studies Division (2009; 2010; 2012; 2013; 2015; 2018; 2019; 2021; 2022; 2023; 2024)
Asian/Pacific Americans Caucus Group (2009; 2010; 2012; 2013; 2020; 2021; 2023; 2024)
Critical/Cultural Studies (2016; 2017; 2018; 2019; 2020; 2021; 2022; 2023; 2024)
Caucus on LGBTQ Concerns Group (2009; 2021; 2023)
Ethnography Division (2021)
GLBTQ Communication Studies Division (2009; 2010; 2012; 2013; 2014; 2015; 2016; 2018; 2019; 2021; 2022; 2023; 2024)
Intercultural and International Communication Division (2009; 2012; 2013; 2015; 2017; 2018; 2019; 2021; 2022; 2023; 2024)
Research in Progress Roundtables (2024)
Rhetorical and Communication Theory Division (2018; 2022; 2023)
Western States Communication Association (WSCA):
Administration:
Presidency
• Immediate Past President (2025-2026)
• President (2024-2025)
• President-Elect/Conference Program planner (2023-2024)
• First Vice-President (2022-2023)
Second Vice-President (2019-2020)
One-year position to plan and program the Undergraduate Scholars Research Conference (USRC) and to assist any other executive council matters.
Distinguish Teaching Award Selection Committee
• Member (2018; 2019)
Legislative Assembly
• Elected Member at Large (2015; 2016)
Nominating Committee
• Member (2016)
Intercultural Communication Interest Group
• Program Planner & Chair (2016)
• Vice-Chair (2015)
Manuscript/Panel Proposal Reviewer:
Communication, Identities, and Difference (2019; 2020; 2022; 2023)
Communication Theory and Research Interest Group (2017)
Intercultural Communication Interest Group (2014; 2015; 2017; 2018; 2019; 2020; 2022; 2023)
Interpersonal Communication Interest Group (2016)
Media Studies Interest Group (2017)
Performance Studies Interest Group (2014; 2018)
Undergraduate scholars Research Conference (2017; 2019; 2022)
Eastern Communication Association (ECA):
Administration:
ECA President Committee of Scholars (2014)
Intercultural Communication Interest Group:
• Representative to Communication Quarterly (2014-2016)
• Program Planner & Chair (2013)
• Vice-Chair (2012)
Manuscript/Panel Proposal Reviewer:
Intercultural Communication Interest Group (2012; 2013; 2014; 2015; 2016)
Interpretation and Performance Studies Interest Group (2013)
Voice of Diversity Interest Group (2013)
Organization for the Study of Communication, Language, and Gender (OSCLG)
Administration:
Creative Expression Award Committee
• Member (2020)
UNIVERSITY SERVICE:
College of Arts and Science, University of New Mexico
• Tenure and Promotion Committee Chair (2021-2022)
• Tenure and Promotion Committee (2020-2021; 2023-2024)
• Retention Committee (2018-2019)
Department of Art: Studio, History, Education
• First Year Reviews Committee (2024)
Department of Communication & Journalism, University of New Mexico:
• 2025 Western States Communication Association’s Local Host Committee (2023-Current)
• Full Professor Promotion Committee (2023-2024)
• Executive Committee (2021-2022)
• Workload Policy Committee (2021-2022)
• Ph.D. Admission Committee (2020-2021; 2023-2024)
• Community Engagement Scholarship Task Force (2019-2020)
• Visiting Scholars Program Committee (2019-current)
• Hiring Committee Chair, Assistant Professor in Culture and Communication (2018-2019)
• Assessment Task Committee (2017-2018)
• Hiring Committee, Lecturer III in Communication, (2017)
• International Exchange Program Committee (2016-2017)
• Graduate Students Awards Selection Committee Chair (2015-2016)
• MA Admission Committee (2014-2015)
• Graduate Students Awards Committee (2014-2015)
• Undergraduate Course Coordinator
COMM 2120-Interpersonal Communication (2022-Current)
COMM 2140-Small Group Communication (2022-2023)
CJ 314-Intercultural Communication (2017-2019)
CJ 323-Nonverbal Communication (2015-2016; 2018-2019)
CJ 326-Gender and Communication (2013-2018; 2020-Current)
CJ 469-Multiculturalims, Gender, and Media (2020-2022)
• Scholarship and Awards Committee (2015-2016; 2021-2022)
• Undergraduate Curriculum Committee (2015-2016)
• Colloquium Committee
Chair (2013-2014; 2018-2019)
Member (2023-2024)
• NCA/WSCA Departmental News Coordinator (2013-2014; 2015-2016)
• NCA Party Location Finding Committee (2013)
• International Exchange Program Initial Coordinator (2013)
• Hospitality Committee Chair (2012-2013)
• Website and Social Media Committee (2012-2013; 2019-2020)
Division for Equity and Inclusion
• Diversity Council Curriculum Committee (2021-current)
Faculty Senate
• Research Allocate Committee (RAC) (2021-2023)
Office of Graduate Studies
• The Glenda Lewis Critical Race Scholars Award Committee (2020; 2021)
Student Organization:
• Faculty Advisor, Japanese American Student Association for Civil Liberties (2015- Current)
• Faculty Committee Member, Asian Pacific American Culture Center (2020-Current)
Undergraduate Research Opportunity Conference (UROC)
• Moderator (2023)