Faculty

Tom Nakayama

Chair

Office Location: 101 Lake Hall
Office Phone: 617-373-5517
Email: t.nakayama@neu.edu

Office Hours:
Monday: 1:30-3:00
Thursday 1:30-3:00
By Appointment

Education:
PhD, University of Iowa

Honors and Awards:
Fulbright Scholar, Université de Mons-Hainaut, 1998
Visiting Libra Professor, University of Maine System, 1999
Ralph Cooley Award, National Communication Association, 1997
Charles Woolbert Award, National Communication Association, 2007
Elected Fellow, International Academy of Intercultural Research

Research Interests:
Tom Nakayama is Professor and Chair in the Department of Communication Studies at Northeastern University. He is currently editor of the Journal of International and Intercultural Communication. He is currently working on a co-edited book on critical intercultural communication. He is also working on a co-authored book on whiteness.

Publications:

• Janet K. Alberts, Thomas K. Nakayama & Judith N. Martin. Human Communication in Society. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall. 2007.
• Judith N. Martin and Thomas K. Nakayama. Experiencing Intercultural Communication. 3rd edition, New York: McGraw-Hill, 2007.
• Judith N. Martin and Thomas K. Nakayama. Intercultural Communication in Contexts. 3rd edition, New York: McGraw-Hill, 2004. 4th edition, New York: McGraw-Hill, 2007.
• Thomas K. Nakayama & Judith N. Martin. (2007). The "White Problem" in Intercultural Communication Research and Pedagogy. In Whiteness, Pedagogy, Performance: Dis/placing Race (pp. 111-137). Ed. Leda M. Cooks & Jennifer Simpson. Lanham MD: Lexington Books/Rowman & Littlefield.
• Judith N. Martin & Thomas K. Nakayama. (2006). Communication as raced. In Communication: Stances in Theory (pp. 75-83). Ed. G. Shepherd et al. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
• Lisa A. Flores, Dreama Moon & Thomas K. Nakayama. (2006). Dynamic rhetorics of race: California's Racial Privacy Initiative and the shifting grounds of racial politics. Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies, 3, 181-201.
• Dreama G. Moon & Thomas K. Nakayama. (2005). Strategic social identities and judgments: A murder in Appalachia. Howard Journal of Communications, 16, 87-107.
• Thomas K. Nakayama and Judith N. Martin, eds. Whiteness: The Social Communication of Identity. Newbury Park, CA: Sage, 1999.
• Thomas K. Nakayama, ed. Transforming Barbed Wire: The Incarceration of Japanese Americans in Arizona During World War II. Phoenix: Arizona Humanities Council, 1997.