Ahmet Atay (Ph.D. Southern Illinois University- Carbondale) is Associate Professor of Communication at the College of Wooster. His research revolves around media studies and critical intercultural communication. He is the author of Globalization’s Impact on Identity Formation: Queer Diasporic Males in Cyberspace (2015) and the co-editor of 10 books. Alberto González (PhD, The Ohio State University) is Distinguished University Professor in the School of Media and Communication at Bowling Green State University. He is a co-editor of The Rhetorical Legacy of Wangari Maathai: Planting the Future (2018) and Our Voices: Essays in Culture, Ethnicity, and Communication, 6th Edition (2016).

• Introduction: Intercultural Studies within Central States1. Intercultural Communication: Taking Stock of the Domain2. Interiority as Epistemology: Situating Myself in the Central States Communication Association3. Intercultural Communication Scholarship in the U.S. Heartland4. A Methodological Nomad and an Accidental Scholar5. Intercultural Communication and the Central States Region6. Crossing Paths: Intercultural Collaborations7. Rethinking “Difficult” Conversations in Communication Instruction From an Intercultural Lens: Pedagogical Strategies for “SWAP-ping” the Communication Classroom 8. Identifying Dominant Group Communication Strategies: A Phenomenological Study9. A Feminist Postsocialist Approach to the Intercultural Communication of Rape at the ICTY10. Can Detroiters Dream Again? The Imagined Dialectics of Urban Decline in Anthony Bourdain’s Parts Unknown—Detroit 11. Sensemaking in Turbulent Contexts: African Student Leadership in a Postcolonial Context

Ahmet Atay (Ph.D. Southern Illinois University- Carbondale) is Associate Professor of Communication at the College of Wooster. His research revolves around media studies and critical intercultural communication. He is the author of Globalization’s Impact on Identity Formation: Queer Diasporic Males in Cyberspace (2015) and the co-editor of 10 books. Alberto González (PhD, The Ohio State University) is Distinguished University Professor in the School of Media and Communication at Bowling Green State University. He is a co-editor of The Rhetorical Legacy of Wangari Maathai: Planting the Future (2018) and Our Voices: Essays in Culture, Ethnicity, and Communication, 6th Edition (2016).

• Introduction: Intercultural Studies within Central States1. Intercultural Communication: Taking Stock of the Domain2. Interiority as Epistemology: Situating Myself in the Central States Communication Association3. Intercultural Communication Scholarship in the U.S. Heartland4. A Methodological Nomad and an Accidental Scholar5. Intercultural Communication and the Central States Region6. Crossing Paths: Intercultural Collaborations7. Rethinking “Difficult” Conversations in Communication Instruction From an Intercultural Lens: Pedagogical Strategies for “SWAP-ping” the Communication Classroom 8. Identifying Dominant Group Communication Strategies: A Phenomenological Study9. A Feminist Postsocialist Approach to the Intercultural Communication of Rape at the ICTY10. Can Detroiters Dream Again? The Imagined Dialectics of Urban Decline in Anthony Bourdain’s Parts Unknown—Detroit 11. Sensemaking in Turbulent Contexts: African Student Leadership in a Postcolonial Context

Ahmet Atay (Ph.D. Southern Illinois University- Carbondale) is Associate Professor of Communication at the College of Wooster. His research revolves around media studies and critical intercultural communication. He is the author of Globalization’s Impact on Identity Formation: Queer Diasporic Males in Cyberspace (2015) and the co-editor of 10 books. Alberto González (PhD, The Ohio State University) is Distinguished University Professor in the School of Media and Communication at Bowling Green State University. He is a co-editor of The Rhetorical Legacy of Wangari Maathai: Planting the Future (2018) and Our Voices: Essays in Culture, Ethnicity, and Communication, 6th Edition (2016).

• Introduction: Intercultural Studies within Central States1. Intercultural Communication: Taking Stock of the Domain2. Interiority as Epistemology: Situating Myself in the Central States Communication Association3. Intercultural Communication Scholarship in the U.S. Heartland4. A Methodological Nomad and an Accidental Scholar5. Intercultural Communication and the Central States Region6. Crossing Paths: Intercultural Collaborations7. Rethinking “Difficult” Conversations in Communication Instruction From an Intercultural Lens: Pedagogical Strategies for “SWAP-ping” the Communication Classroom 8. Identifying Dominant Group Communication Strategies: A Phenomenological Study9. A Feminist Postsocialist Approach to the Intercultural Communication of Rape at the ICTY10. Can Detroiters Dream Again? The Imagined Dialectics of Urban Decline in Anthony Bourdain’s Parts Unknown—Detroit 11. Sensemaking in Turbulent Contexts: African Student Leadership in a Postcolonial Context