Ripley Smith
Email: r-smith@bethel.edu
Job Titles
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Professor of Media Communication, Department Chair
Communication Studies , College of Arts and Sciences
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Smith has research interests in social networks and socio-cultural adjustment, trust development in partnerships across cultures and organizations, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), international crisis intervention processes, and prophetic rhetoric.
Started at Bethel
2008
Education
- University of Dubuque - B.A. in Speech Communication, 1986
- University of Minnesota - M.A. in Intercultural Communication, 1990
- University of Minnesota - Ph.D. in Intercultural Communication, 1996
Courses Taught
- Communication Technology & Society
- Group Communication
- Inquiry Seminar
- Intercultural Communication
- Media Communication
- Perspectives on Communication
- Storytelling
- Topics in Contemporary Communication (Graduate)
- Web Design
Hobbies and Interests
Landscape photography; Folk/classical guitar; woodworking; Studying ancient Israel, classical philosophy, and the early Christian church.
Favorite Book: For pure entertainment, anything by Grisham, Clancy, or Tolkien. For substance, The Passion of the Western Mind by Richard Tarnas or World on Fire by Amy Chua.
Favorite Religious Book (not including the Bible): So Send I You, by Oswald Chambers; Desiring God, by John Piper.
Research interests
Smith has research interests in social networks and socio-cultural adjustment, trust development in partnerships across cultures and organizations, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), international crisis intervention processes, and prophetic rhetoric.