Dr. Young Yun Kim
Position: Professor
Education: Ph.D., Northwestern University, 1976
Email: youngkim@ou.edu
Phone: 405-325-1587
Office: Burton Hall Room 132
Office Hours: MW 12:50-1:20 and 4:20-4:50 |

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Classes Spring, 2013 semester:
COMM 3413: Interethnic Communication
COMM 3513: Intercultural Communication
Academic Interests: Intercultural Communication, Adaptation, and Transformation; Association and Dissociation in Interethnic Communication
Dr. Young Yun Kim is a professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Oklahoma, Norman. She completed a Ph.D. degree in communication from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. Prof. Kim teaches undergraduate and graduate courses and direct doctoral theses in the area of intercultural/interethnic/interracial communication as well as two graduate core courses, Introduction to Graduate Study and Historical Development of Communication Theory.
Prof. Kim has published over 100 book chapters and refereed articles in academic journals. As author or editor, she has produced 12 intercultural books including Becoming Intercultural (Sage, 2001) and Communicating with Strangers (4th ed., McGraw-Hill, 2003, with W. Gudykunst). She is a Fellow of the International Communication Association and President-Elect of the International Academy for Intercultural Research.
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Representative Publications:
Kim, Y., & McKay-Semmler, K. (in press). Social engagement and cross-cultural adaptation: An examination of direct- and mediated interpersonal communication activities of educated non-natives in the United States. International Journal of Intercultural Relations.
Kim, Y. (in press). The identity factor in intercultural conflict. In J. Oetzel & S. Ting-Toomey (Eds.), The handbook of conflict communication: Integrating theory, research, and practice (2nd ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Kim, Y. (2012). Being in concert: An explication of synchrony in intercultural communication. In T. J. Socha & M. Pitts (Eds.), The positive side of interpersonal communication (pp. 39-56). New York: Peter Lang.
Kim, Y. (2011). Beyond categories: Communication, adaptation, and Transformation. In J. Jackson (Ed.), Handbook of language and intercultural communication (pp. 229-243). New York: Routledge.
Kim, Y. (2010). Unum and pluribus: Ideological underpinnings of interethnic communication in the United States. In L. Samovar, R. Porter, & R. McDaniel (Eds.), Intercultural communication: A reader (13th ed., 208-222). Boston, MA: Wadsworth.
Kim, Y. (2009). The identity factor in intercultural competence. In Deardorff, D. K. (Ed.), The Sage Handbook of Intercultural Competence (pp. 53-65). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Kim, Y. (2008). Intercultural personhood: Globalization and a way of being. International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 32(4), 359-368.
Kim, Y. (2005). Association and dissociation: A contextual theory of interethnic communication. In W. Gudykunst (Ed.), Theorizing about intercultural communication (pp. 323-349). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Kim, Y. (2001). Becoming intercultural: An integrative theory of communication and cross-cultural adaptation. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.