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Steve Banks | Professor
Ph.D. | University of Southern California

Contact Information:
Office:  Student Health  219
Phone:  (208) 885-7796
Email:  sbanks@uidaho.edu

Office Hours:
 

Research Interests:   
Conflict, dissent and leadership
Communicating identities at life-transitions
Qualitative research methodology--narrative, (auto-)biography,
        fiction, phronesis as social science
Communication and critical gerontology

Classes Taught:
Advanced Dispute Management
Advanced Organizational Communication
Conflict Management
Intercultural Communication
International Business Communication
Nonverbal Communication
Organizational Communication
Principles of Public Relations
Public Relations Campaign Design
Public Relations Case Studies
Qualitative Research Methods

Selected Publications:
Banks, S. P. (2009). “Intergenerational ties across borders: Grandparenting narratives by expatriate retirees          living in Mexico.” Journal of Aging Studies, 23, 3.
Banks, S. P. (2008). Dissent and the failure of leadership. Cheltenham UK and Northampton MA: Edward                                 Elgar.
Banks, S. P. (2007).  “Writing as theory: A defense of fiction.”  In J. G. Knowles and A. R. Coles (eds.), Hand-
          book of the arts in qualitative research.  Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Banks, S. P. (2005). “Border promotion stories: Identity management among expatriate retirees in Mexico.”                               Storytelling, Self, Society, 2, 1, 32-47.
Banks, S. P.  (2004).  “Identity narratives of American and Canadian retirees living in Mexico.” Journal of                                  Cross-Cultural Gerontology, 17, 3, 148-168.
Banks, S.P. (2000). Multicultural Public Relations: A Social-Interpretive Approach. 2nd edition, Oxford:
          Blackwell. (1st edition 1995, Newbury Park, California: Sage).
Banks, S. P., and Banks, A. (2000). “Reading ‘The Critical Life’: Autoethnography as pedagogy.”
          Communication Education, 49, 3, 233-238.
Banks, S.P. (2000). “Five holiday letters: Fictions of fictions.” Qualitative Inquiry, 6, 3, 392-405.
Banks, S.P., Louie, E., and Einerson, M. (2000). Constructing personal identities in holiday letters: A
           grounded theory study. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 17, 3, 299-327.
Banks S. P. (with A. Banks) (Eds.) (1998). Fiction and Social Research: By Ice or Fire. Walnut Creek,
           California: AltaMira Press.