Kenneth Liberman

Professor

Address: 833 PLC University of Oregon Eugene, OR 97403	Phone:	(541) 346-5008
	Fax:	(541) 346-5026
	Email:	liberman@uoregon.edu

Professor Liberman's book, Dialectical Practice in Tibetan Philosophical Culture, will be published in 2003 by Rowman and Littlefield. He has two more book in progress. In Spring 2004, he will be a Fulbright scholar in India, where he will lecture for six months at Pondicherry University. A translation of his essays on intercultural communication is in preparation. Professor Liberman has also received a Williams teaching award for Fall 2003.

Research Interests

practices of reasoning in non-Western societies
intercultural communication
cross cultural studies of self and identity
neocolonialism and the survival of indigenous cultures

Teaching Areas

ethnomethodology
race and ethnic relations
phenomenology and postmodernism

Courses Taught

SOC 335	Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis
SOC 435	Interaction and Social Order

Selected Books

2003 Dialectical Practice in Tibetan Philosophical Culture, An Ethnomethodological Inquiry into Formal Reasoning, Rowman and Littlefield.

1985 Understanding Interaction in Central Australia, London: Routledge.

Selected Articles

1999 "The Social Praxis of Communicating Meanings," Text 19, No. 1, pp. 57-72.

1999 "From Walkabout to Meditation: Craft and Ethics in Field Inquiry," Qualitative Inquiry 5, No. 1, pp. 47-63.

1996 "'Universal Reason' as a Local Organizational Method," Human Studies 19, pp. 289-301.

1995 "The Hermeneutics of Formal Analytics: The Case of Tibetan Philosophical Criticism," International Philosophical Quarterly 35, No. 2, pp. 129-40.

1994 "Asian Students' Perspectives on American University Education," International Journal of Intercultural Relations 18, pp. 173-92.

1994 "Knowing and Being," Human Studies 17, pp. 355-362.

1994 "A Natural History of Some Intercultural Collaboration," Research on Language and Social Interaction 28, No. 2, pp. 117-46.

Education

Ph.D. -- California, San Diego