Historical Intersections of Intercultural Studies (I)

Michael Steppat (Ph.D. from University of Münster, Germany) is Professor of Literature in English at the University of Bayreuth, Germany, and an international faculty member at Shanghai International Studies University. He has been a Fulbright scholar at the University of Texas (Austin) and professor at Arizona State University. He has received Fellowships from Amherst College and the John Kluge Center. Book publications include Honor, Face and Violence: Cross-Cultural Representations of Honor Cultures and Face Cultures and Literature and Interculturality (3 volumes).Steve J. Kulich (Ph.D. from Humboldt University of Berlin) is Distinguished Professor at Shanghai International Studies University, Founder/Co-Director of its Intercultural Institute, and has served as President of the International Academy of Intercultural Research (IAIR). Widely published, he co-edited the Vol. 36(6) Special Issue on Intercultural Pioneers for the International Journal of Intercultural Relations (2012) and is Founding Co-Editor of both the Intercultural Research topical volume series and the Journal for Intercultural Communication & Interactions Research (JICIR).

• Wim M. J. van Binsbergen: Volume Foreword – Michael Steppat and Steve J. Kulich: Tracing Developments of Intercultural Research and Practice – Part I: Conceptual and Thematic Developments 1: From Constructivism to Relational Traditions – Milton J. Bennett: A Brief History and Commentary on Constructivism in Intercultural Communication Theory – Valery Chirkov: Historical and Conceptual Roots of the Theory of Sociocultural Models – Valery Chirkov: A Synopsis of the Theory of Sociocultural Models and Its Application to Intercultural Relations Research (Chirkov, 2020, 2022) – Thomas K. Nakayama and Judith N. Martin: Whiteness Centered and Unnamed: History of Whiteness Theory in Intercultural Communication Research – Gesine Lenore Schiewer: Paradigms of Intercultural Communication: A Comparative Survey of Universal and Relational Traditions of Thought – Part II: Conceptual and Thematic Developments 2: From African Interactions to "Where We’re Going" – Wim M. J. van Binsbergen: The Shadow Play of Intercultural Interactions in Africa: A Historical Perspective – Keyan G. Tomaselli and Paul Z. Tembe: Intercultural Communication:　Concepts of Personhood and Community – Richard Harris: The Cultural Perception of Space: Expanding the Legacy of Edward T. Hall – Stephen M. Croucher: Intercultural Communication: Where We’ve Been, Where We’re Going, and Issues We Face ̶ Revisited – Part III: Cross-Cultural Encounter – Rolf Elberfeld: The Culture of Cultural Encounter – Clifford H. Clarke: Creating and Changing Corporate Cultures in Japanese and U.S. Subsidiaries – Part IV: Countries ‒ Nations ‒ Nation-States – Filipa Subtil, José Luís Garcia, and Wendy Leeds-Hurwitz: Media and Multiple Identities: Robert E. Park as Precursor to Intercultural Communication Theory and Research – Rongtian Tong: Nation-states, National Cultures, and Intercultural Communication: A Theoretical Inquiry – Notes on Contributors