Laura Lengel
Associate Professor

School of Communication Studies

Bowling Green State University

Bowling Green, Ohio

Biography

Dr. Laura Lengel began her research on communication, culture, technology, international education, gender, and media representation when she was a Fulbright Scholar and American Institute of Maghreb Studies Fellow in Tunisia (1993-1994). She is an international and intercultural communication researcher and lecturer with professional experience spanning Europe, Asia, North Africa, the Mediterranean Middle East, and the Americas.

She, and her colleague Dr. Noemi Marin from Romania have recently been awarded a grant from the Institute of International Education to develop educational initiatives to promote peace and ease ethnic tension in Southeastern Europe, focusing on former Yugoslavia which has experienced numerous wars and conflicts in recent years.

She and Dr. Marin were also awarded the opportunity to present on this topic at the Institute of International Education's IIENetwork Research Symposium on "Challenges in Internationalizing Higher Education in Southeastern Europe: Policy and Practice." The Symposium, sponsored by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation in cooperation with the Center for Democracy and Reconciliation in Southeast Europe and the U.S. Educational Foundation in Greece, will be held on October 11-13, 2002 in Thessaloniki, Greece (only a select number of grant recipients were chosen to present at this symposium).

Her books, Computer Mediated Communication (Thurlow, Lengel and Tomic, forthcoming 2003), Culture and Technology in the New Europe: Civic Discourse in Transformation in Post-Communist Nations (Lengel, ed., 2000), Intercultural Communication and Creative Practice: Dance, Music and Women's Cultural Identity (Lengel, ed., in press, 2003), Empowering Stages: Women and Performance in Global Contexts (Lengel, ed., forthcoming), and articles, which have appeared in the UNESCO Encyclopedia of Life Support Sciences, Journal of Communication Inquiry, Convergence: The Journal of Research into New Media Technologies and Gender and History, address international and intercultural communication, the impact of information technology, and field research methodology.

Dr. Lengel is an Associate Professor in the School of Communication at Bowling Green State University, following seven years in the Department of Communication at Richmond American International University in London.

Although her Fulbright award was granted in the US and her citizenship is American, Dr. Lengel is an executive committee member of the British Fulbright Scholars Association (BFSA). She was recently invited by the Fulbright Commission in London to take part on the US Postgraduate Student Fulbright Selection Committee 2002/2003 as the BFSA representative.  She will present a paper at the Women in the Global Community: A Fulbright Conference Bridging Academia and Public Policy in Istanbul, Turkey, September 2002. She was recently awarded a grant to internationalize higher education in Southeastern Europe from the Institute of International Education, the organization which administered her Fulbright Grant.