Miriam Sobre, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Communication
Contact
- MS4.01.61
- 2103804047
- Miriam.Sobre@utsa.edu
- Curriculum Vitae
Bio
I was born and raised in San Antonio Texas, and am a second-generation UTSA faculty member. After attending university in Washington State and receiving my MA from University of Texas at Austin, I received my PhD in intercultural communication from Arizona State University in 2009. I then taught at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale for five years, followed by three years at Texas State University. I just published my second book, "Jewish-American Identity and Critical Intercultural Communication: Never Forget, Tikkun Olam, and Kindness to Strangers". I teach and research intercultural communication, cultural adaptation, refugees and migrants, academic freedom, critical communication pedagogy, de- and post-colonialism, and qualitative/critical methods. I am currently working on participatory action research around issues of academic freedom and faculty/student identities in the state of Texas. I live in San Antonio, with my daughter Sydney and my mom Judy, our cat Louie and our dog Grover.
Teaching
- Theory and Practice of Social Interaction
Research Interests
- Intercultural communication
- academic freedom
- qualitative methods
- critical pedagogy
- colonialism and its impacts
- refugees and migrants
Degrees
- PhD in Intercultural Communication, Arizona State University
- (2009) MA in Communication (Language and Culture)
- The University of Texas at Austin (2002) BA in English (Creative Writing)
- The University of Puget Sound (1999)
