An Introduction to Intercultural Communication: Identities in a Global Community

About Fred E. Jandt

Fred E. Jandt was born of second-generation German immigrants in the multicultural south-central region of Texas. After graduating from Texas Lutheran University and Stephen F. Austin State University he received his doctorate in communication from Bowling Green State University. He has taught and been a student of intercultural communication for more than 4 decades developing his experience through travel and international training and research projects. While professor of communication at The College at Brockport State University of New York his reputation as a teacher led to his appointment as SUNYs first director of faculty development. He has retired as professor and branch campus dean after having been named outstanding professor. He has also been a visiting professor at Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand. He has extensive experience in the areas of intercultural and international communication negotiation mediation and conflict management. He was one of the first scholars to introduce the study of conflict to the communication discipline with his text Conflict Resolution Through Communication (Harper & Row 1973). He has subsequently published many other titles in this area including the successful trade book Win-Win Negotiating: Turning Conflict Into Agreement (Wiley 1985) which has been translated into eight languages; a casebook on international conflict management Constructive Conflict Management: Asia-Pacific Cases (SAGE 1996) with Paul B. Pedersen; Conflict and Communication Third Edition (Cognella 2025); and Negotiation and Mediation (Cognella 2025). For several years he conducted the training workshop Managing Conflict Productively for major corporations and government agencies throughout the United States. Jandt continues to train volunteers who are learning to become mediators in the California justice system and served as an elected trustee of the Desert Community College District.