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Keith Berry
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BIOGRAPHY
Dr. Berry is a Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of South 51在线. His research and teaching examine relational communication, primarily the ways in which conversation partners creatively co-constitute, or jointly make and re-make, cultural identities within social interaction and relationships, including the interactions and bonds that comprise communities. His research uses qualitative methodologies and orientations (e.g., autoethnography, ethnographic fieldwork and interviewing, ethnomethodology) and the assumptions and practices of hermeneutic phenomenology underlie all of his work. Much of Dr. Berry鈥檚 research has investigated an array of applied communication contexts, including youth bullying and the role and impact of reflexivity in autoethnography and ethnography, more generally.
He is the co-author (with Joyce L. Hocker and William W. Wilmot) of Interpersonal Conflict, 11th ed. (McGraw Hill, 2022), the co-author (with Catherine M. Gillotti and Tony E. Adams) of Living Sexuality: Stories of LGBTQ Identities, Relationships, and Desires (Brill/Sense, 2020) and the solo-author of Bullied: Tales of Torment, Identity, and Youth (Routledge, 2016). Bullied has received several honors including the 2016 Best Book Award by the Ethnography Division of the National Communication Association (NCA), the 2017 Goodall/Trujillo It鈥檚 a Way of Life Award by the International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, and the 2017 Innovator Award from the Central States Communication Association鈥檚 Sexual Orientation & Gender Identity Caucus.
His other publications can be found in academic journals including Qualitative Inquiry, Journal of Applied Communication Research, Communication Education, and International Journal of Qualitative Methods, and in books such as the Cambridge Handbook of Identity, the Handbook of Autoethnography, and The Routledge Handbook of Communication and Bullying.
Dr. Berry is a past Co-Chair of NCA鈥檚 Anti-Bullying Task Force and past Chair of NCA鈥檚 Ethnography Division. He most recently served as the Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Communication, and currently serves as Associate Department Chair.
RESEARCH AREAS
Relational Communication, Culture, Identity, Bullying, Autoethnography, Reflexivity
RESEARCH clusters
Health Communication; Interpersonal and Relational Communication; Media, Culture, and Performance