Dr. Todd Sandel
Position: Associate Professor
Education: Ph.D., University of Illinois, 2000
Website: http://faculty-staff.ou.edu/S/Todd.L.Sandel-1/

Contact Information
email :	tlsandel@ou.edu
phone :	(405) 325 - 1809
office :	Burton 136
office hours :	MW 3:00-4:00 PM, W 9:00-10:00 AM

COMM 4713: Senior Capstone
-MW 1:30-2:45 pm
-Burton Hall, Rm 210

COMM 2003: Nonwestern Communication
-MWF 10:30-11:20 am
-Adams Hall 150

Academic Interests: Intercultural communication, language and social interaction, family communication, Taiwanese/Chinese studies.

His work has appeared in the following journals: Ethos, Western Journal of Communication, Language in Society, Parenting, Journal of Family communication, Social Development, Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, and Journal of Contemporary China. Recipient of two top paper awards for the Language and Social Interaction Division of the National Communication Association and one top paper award for the International Communication Association. He was president of the Association for Chinese Communication Studies from 2006-2007, and received a two-year research grant from the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation to study Mother Tongue Preservation in Taiwan and the US.

Most recently he was a Senior Fulbright Scholar to Taiwan and affiliated with National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan. For his Fulbright he studied the phenomenon of intercultural communication involving "cross-border" families whereby women from Southeast Asia and China have married Taiwanese men.

Department of Communication
University of Oklahoma
610 Elm Avenue, Room 130
Norman, OK 73019
(405)325-1809