Miriam Sobre, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Communication
Contact
- MS 4.01.61
- (210) 380-4047
- Miriam.Sobre@utsa.edu
- Curriculum Vitae
Bio
Dr. Miriam Shoshana Sobre is an Assistant Professor of Intercultural Communication at the University of Texas at San Antonio, where she conducts research and teaches about critical intercultural communication pedagogy; language, culture and communication, Jewish American identity; and diversity, equity and inclusion. Dr. Sobre has published two books, Cultivating cosmopolitanism for intercultural communication: Communicating as a global citizen (which won a National Communication Association top book award), and Never Forget: A Mosaic Study of Jewish Identities, Intersectionality, and Ashkenormativity, in US America. She has also published articles in the International Journal of Intercultural Relations, Intercultural Education, the Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, the Journal of Intercultural Communication, New Media + Society, and others. She is currently working on research on academic freedom as it pertains to DEI and the chilling effect of anti-DEI legislation on teachers and students in public higher education in San Antonio, Texas. She teaches classes including graduate level intercultural communication and qualitative methods, intro to intercultural communication, undergraduate research methods, and senior capstone - intercultural communication in the global workplace. Dr. Sobre lives in San Antonio, TX with her daughter and her mother (who is Professor Emeritus at UTSA in art history), their dog Grover and their cat Louie.
Teaching
- Theory and Practice of Social Interaction
Research Interests
- Intercultural Communication
- DEI in education
- Critical communication pedagogy
- Intersectionality of religious and cultural identities
- Qualitative methods
Degrees
- Ph.D. in Intercultural Communication, Arizona State University (2009)
- M.A. in Language and Culture, The University of Texas (2002)
- B.A. in English (Creative Writing emphasis), The University of Puget Sound (1999)
