Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Essays completed or in-progress: >Michelle: Paris in the 1970s >Metropolitan Diary: Geography Lesson >Covid Goes to College >London Report: “The Poles recklessly attacked” >London Report: Mind the Gap >A. J. Liebling and I ________________________________________________ Recent conferences/guest lectures: >Accepted presentation: "Overtourism: Can We Take The 'Over' Out Of Tourism?" 11th international conference on Tourism & Leisure Studies, Department of Tourism Management, University of Patras, Patras, Greece, June 2026. >Guest lecture: "Sustainable Tourism, Is It Possible?" Department of Hospitality and Tourism Management, International College of Sustainability Studies, Srinakharinwirot University, Bangkok, Thailand, February 2026. >Conference presentation: "Adapting to Global Change - Overtourism: Can We Take The 'Over' Out Of Tourism?" 11th annual AIB-CEE conference, Bratislava University of Economics and Management/Bratislava University of Economics and Business, Bratislava, Slovak Republic, September 2025. >Guest lecture/seminar: "Consumer Behavior and Social Impact - Overtourism: Can We Take The 'Over' Out Of Tourism?" Hospitality and Tourism Management Program, Graduate School of Business, Assumption University, Bangkok, Thailand, February 2025. >Conference presentation: "Travel and Tourism: Selling a Dream (and Reinforcing Images). Can Place Branding Ameliorate Overtourism?" 8th Annual International Place Branding Association (IPBA) conference, Chulalongkorn University Business School, Bangkok, Thailand, October 2024.
Intercultural Communication Immigration: Communication, Culture & Conflict Communication, Travel & Tourism Introduction to Global Studies Public Speaking/Presentation Strategies
(NOTE: Dates listed above are intermittent, not continuous) Visiting Lecturer in Speech-Communication at the ITM/Indiana University Cooperative Program in Malaysia, 1991. In 1993-94, Visiting Professor at Ho Chi Minh City University of Education, Vietnam, one of the first Americans to teach full-time at a Vietnamese university since 1975; offered upper-division undergraduate courses for the English Department in American Studies, American Language and Culture, Public Speaking, and Communication for a Market Economy. In 1999-2000, Assistant Professor in the International Studies Department of Minnesota State University, Akita, Japan, teaching communication fundamentals and Advanced Intercultural Communication. For 2006-07, on leave delivering M.A. graduate courses, including Cross-Cultural Management, at Norton University, Phnom Penh, Cambodia.