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Information on Sexual Harassment
Present Position
Associate Professor, Department of Communication Arts and Sciences
Penn State University, Brandywine Campus
25 Yearsley Mill Road
Media, PA 19063
Phone: (610) 892-1428
Fax: (610) 892-1357
e-mail: njw@psu.edu
EDUCATION
1986
Ph.D., Speech Communication, The Pennsylvania State University. Dissertation: Critique of Major Data Gathering Techniques in Communication Research.
1982
M.A., Speech Communication, The Penn State University. Thesis: An Investigation of Power/Status and Talk in the State College Weaver’s Guild
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
1985 - present
Associate Professor, Department of Speech Communication and Women’s Studies, Pennsylvania State University, Brandywine
PUBLICATIONS
2004
Nancy Wyatt, “We Who Believe in Freedom: Music in Social Change,” Electronic Journal of Communication, 14.
2001
Nancy Wyatt, “Foregrounding Feminist Theory in Group Communication Research,” in New Directions in Communication Research, (Ed. Lawrence Frey). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
1999
Nancy Wyatt. “Listening Empowers Voice: Using Small Group Process to Facilitate Social and Political Change: Lessons from the Highlander Folk School,” in The Voice of the Voiceless, (Ed. Edith Slembek), St. Ingbert: Röhrig Universitätsverlag. pp. 49-59.
1996
Joan Korenman and Nancy Wyatt, "Group Dynamics on an E-Mail Forum,” in Computer-Mediated Communication: Linguistic, Social and Cross-Cultural Perspectives, (Ed. Susan Herring), Amsterdam: John Benjamins. pp. 225-242.
1993
Nancy Wyatt. "Organizing and Relating: Small Group Communication from a Feminist Perspective," in Transforming Visions: Feminist Critiques in Speech Communication, (Ed. S. P. Bowen and N. Wyatt) NJ: Hampton Press. pp. 51-86.
1990
Nancy Wyatt. "Studying Performance Behavior with Observations and Interviews," in Teaching How to Work in Groups (Ed. G. M. Phillips). Norwood, NJ: Ablex Publishing Corporation, 1990. pp. 225-243.
1988
Nancy Wyatt, "Shared Leadership in the Weavers Guild," refereed chapter in Women Communicating, (Ed. A. Taylor and B. Bate), Norwood, NJ: Ablex Publishing, Inc., p. 147-175.
1988
Nancy Wyatt and Gerald M. Phillips, Studying Organizational Communication: A Case Study of the Farmers Home Administration. Norwood, NJ: Ablex Publishing, Inc.
1987
Carol A., Roach and Nancy Wyatt, Successful Listening. New York: Harper & Row, Publishers.
WEBPAGE
1995 - present
Information on Sexual Harassment, http://www.de2.psu.edu/harassment/
CONFERENCES
2004
Presenter, “International Teaching Experience as a Challenge to Taken-for-Granted Theory: Moving Forward to More Universal Theories by Looking Back at Amer-ocentric Assumptions,” National Communication Association, Chicago, IL, November 11.
2003
Participant, “Difference as the Foundation for Teaching Gender and Communication,” Roundtable, National Communicating Association, Miami Beach, FL, November 22.
2002
Presenter, Community Based Grass Roots Organizing,” Eighth International Interdisciplinary Congress on Women, Kampala, Uganda,
Presenter, “Communicating in Action: Engaging Students in Real-World Activities in a Variety of Courses,” National Communication Association, New Orleans, LA, November 22
Seminar Convener, “Music in Activism for Social Justice,” National Communication Association, New Orleans, LA November 23.
2001
Presenter, “Foregrounding Feminist Theory in Group Communication Research,” National Communication Association, Atlanta, GA, November 8, 2001.
2001
Poster Session, “Acting for Social Change: Group Centered Leadership,” National Communication Association, Atlanta, GA, November 8, 2001.
2001 Presenter, “Women’s Groups, Women’s Leadership,” International Communication Association, Washington, D.C., May 26, 2001.
2001
Presenter, “Group Processes in Women’s Activism,” Popular Culture Association, Philadelphia, PA, April 12, 2001.
2000
Participant, International Coalition Against Sexual Harassment 9th Annual Conference, “Sexual Harassment In A Global Context,” Washington D.C. August 10-11th, 2000
2000
Participant, “We Who Believe in Freedom Cannot Rest: Ella J. Baker (“Miss Baker”) and the Birth of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee,” Shaw University, April 13-16, 2000
1999
Presenter, “First Class Computer Conferencing,” Summer Conference on Technology, National Communication Association, Washington, D. C., July 23, 1999
1999 Presenter, “Communication and Contradiction as Modes of Discovery: Feminist Standpoint Theory,” International Communication Association, San Francisco, May 31, 1999
GRANTS AND FELLOWHSIPS
2003
Fulbright Senior Specialist Travel Grant to Ghana, $2,000 July-August
2000 - 2003
Jane E. Cooper Memorial Fellowship, $8000/year
2000
Undergraduate Research Stipend, $5000
1996
Project Empower II, PSU, $7,000
1995
Fund for the Improvement of Instruction, PSU, $400
1995
Project Empower, 1 course release time to develop an interactive CD on sexual harassment
1988
Pennsylvania Humanities Council, $979
DISSERTATIONS DIRECTED
1999
Wendy Snetsinger, How Parents Of Children With Cancer Learn To Become Effective Caregivers : A Grounded Theory Study. Pennsylvania State University.
1988
Robyn R. Weyand, An Application of the Wyatt and Phillips Communication Audit in an Academic Health Center. Pennsylvania State University.
Personal Information
Pennsylvania is my adopted state, the place where I have lived longest and feel most at home. I have traveled widely and lived at various times in Germany, Iran, and Malaysia. I collect handcrafts, especially handmade fabrics. Spinning thread and weaving cloth are my avocations. I'm also an avid gardener.