This book presents different aspects of intercultural communication research as they connect to and intersect with sub-disciples such as media studies, communication education, international communication, rhetorical studies, and gender.

Introduction: Intercultural Studies within Central States1. Intercultural Communication: Taking Stock of the Domain2. Interiority as Epistemology: Situating Myself in the Central States Communication Association3. Intercultural Communication Scholarship in the U.S. Heartland4. A Methodological Nomad and an Accidental Scholar5. Intercultural Communication and the Central States Region6. Crossing Paths: Intercultural Collaborations7. Rethinking "Difficult" Conversations in Communication Instruction From an Intercultural Lens: Pedagogical Strategies for "SWAP-ping" the Communication Classroom 8. Identifying Dominant Group Communication Strategies: A Phenomenological Study9. A Feminist Postsocialist Approach to the Intercultural Communication of Rape at the ICTY10. Can Detroiters Dream Again? The Imagined Dialectics of Urban Decline in Anthony Bourdain's Parts Unknown-Detroit 11. Sensemaking in Turbulent Contexts: African Student Leadership in a Postcolonial Context