Eric Kramer

• COMM 4513 - International Communication
• COMM 5363 - Communication and Technology 

Mass Media, International, Intercultural. Author of seven books including Modern/Postmodern: Off the Beaten Path of Antimodernism, The Emerging Monoculture: Assimilation, and the "Model Minority" and several journal articles and award winning papers. I serve on the review and editorial boards and have reviewed for several journals including; The Harvard International Journal of Press/Politics, The Journal of Communication, Communication Studies, The Journal of Applied Communication, The Journal of Intercultural Communication, Journal of International and Intercultural Communication , International Journal of Intercultural Relations, The Howard Journal of Communications, and so forth. Currently, I am Senior Editor of Oxford University Press Encyclopedia of International Communication

I have directed over 30 doctoral dissertations and my former doctoral students now teach at many places including New York University, Rice University, The Kyoto University College of Medicine, University of Incheon, Incheon Korea, the University of Richmond, Virginia Commonwealth University, The International Christian University in Tokyo, California State University, Sacramento, The University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire, Brigham Young University, Hofstra University, University of Northern Iowa, Bowling Green University, The University of Central Florida, John Carroll University, Ohio University, Daegu University, Daegu Korea, and so forth. I am a Fellow in The Communicology Institute, and I am a founding director of the European Union Institute of Comparative Cultures.

Books:

Hsieh, E., & Kramer, E. M. (2021). Rethinking culture in health communication: Social interactions as intercultural encounters. Wiley.

艾瑞克•克來默 (Eric Kramer), 劉楊. (2015). 全球化語境下的跨文化傳播 [Cross-cultural Communication in the Contexts of Globalization].北京：清華大學. (Beijing, China: Tsinghua University Press).

Kramer, E. M., Adkins, G. L., Kim, S. H. & Miller, G. (2014). Environmental communication and the extinction vortex: Technology as denial of death. New York: Hampton Press.

Kramer, E. M., Callahan, L. C., & Zuckerman, S. D. (2012). Intercultural Communication & Global Integration. Dubuque, IA: Kendall Hunt.

Dalton, P., & Kramer, E. M. (2012). Coarseness in U.S. Public Communication. Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press.

Grace, J., & Kramer, E. M. (Eds.). (2013). Communication, comparative cultures, and civilizations (Vol. 3). New York: Hampton.

Kramer, E. M. (2003). The emerging monoculture: Assimilation and the “Model Minority”. Westport, CT: Praeger.

Kramer, E. M. (1997). Modern/Postmodern: Off the Beaten Path of Antimodernism. Westport, CT: Praeger.

Journal Articles:

Croucher, S. M. & Kramer, E. M. (in press). Cultural fusion theory: An alternative to acculturation. Journal of International and Intercultural Communication.

Kramer, E. M. (2016). Immigrant identity: Part I. Social Inquiry into Well-Being, 2(2), 1-11. http://dx.doi.org/10.13165/SIIW-16-2-2-01

Kramer, E. M. (2016). Immigrant identity: Part II. Social Inquiry into Well-Being, 2(2), 12-23. http://dx.doi.org/10.13165/SIIW-16-2-2-02

Hsieh, E., Bruscella, J. S., Zanin, A., & Kramer, E. M. (2016). “It’s not like you need to live 10 or 20 years”: Challenges to patient-centered care in gynecologic oncologist-patient interactions. Qualitative Health Research, 26, 1191-1202.

Book Chapters:

Hsieh, E. K., Kramer, E. M. (2019). Work as Health: Tensions in imposing work requirements to Medicaid recipients in the U.S. Community-based Health Interventions in an Institutional Context. Cham, Switzerland: Springer. (Published)

Bingham, C., & Kramer, E. (2016). “Neoliberalism and the Production of Enemies: The Commercial Logic of Yahoo! News, In V. Berdayes and J. Murphy, (Eds.), Neoliberalism, economic radicalism, and the normalization of violence (pp. 53-69). New York: Springer.

Kramer, E. M. (2019). Cultural Fusion Theory. In E. Kramer (Ed.), Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Communication: International/Global Communication. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press. DOI: 10.1093/acrefore/9780190228613.013.679 (22,000 words).

Kramer, E. M. & Hsieh, E. (2018). Gaze as embodied ethics: Homelessness, the Other, and humanity. In Dutta, M. and Zapata, D. (Eds.), Communicating for social change: Intersection of theory and praxis (p.33-62). Singapore: Palgrave-MacMillan.

Kramer, E. M. (2018). Cultural fusion theory. In S. Croucher and J. Caetano (Eds), The Routledge companion to migration, communication, and politics. (pp. 96-120). London: Routledge.

Kramer, E. M. (2013). Hermeneutics: The World as Conversation. In C. McIlwain (Ed.). Philosophy, method, and cultural criticism. (pp. 11-33). Cresskill, NJ: Hampton.

Kramer, E. M. (2013). Dimensional accrual and dissociation: An introduction. In J. Grace & E. M. Kramer (Eds.), Communication, comparative cultures, and civilizations (Vol. 3, pp. 123-184). New York: Hampton.

Articles:

Croucher, S. M. & Kramer, E. M. (2017). Cultural fusion theory: An alternative to acculturation. Journal of International and Intercultural Communication. 10(2), 97-114. https://doi.org/10.1080/17513057.2016.1229498

Hsieh, E. & Kramer, E. M. (2019). Work as health: Tensions in imposing work requirements to Medicaid recipients in the U.S. In Arxer, S. and Murphy J. W. (Eds.), Community-based Health Interventions in an Institutional Context (pp. 139-157). Springer.

Kramer, E. M. (2019). The West and the western. Ink & Letters, 8, 14-19.

Kramer, E. M. (2019). Cultural Fusion Theory. In J. F. Nussbaum (Ed.), Oxford research encyclopedia of communication. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190228613.013.679

Kramer, E. M. (2019). Cultural fusion: An alternative to assimilation. In S. Croucher, J. Caetano & E. Campbell (Eds.), The Routledge companion to migration, communication and politics (pp. 96-120). Routledge.

Hsieh, E. & Kramer, E. M. (2019). Work as health: Tensions in imposing work requirements to Medicaid recipients in the U.S. In Arxer, S. and Murphy J. W. (Eds.), Community-based Health Interventions in an Institutional Context (pp. 139-157). Springer.

Kramer, E. M. & Hsieh, E. (2019). Gaze as embodied ethics: Homelessness, the Other, and humanity. In M. J. Dutta, & D. B. Zapata (Eds.), Communicating for social change: Meaning, power, and resistance (pp. 33-62). Palgrave Macmillan.

Kramer, E. M. (2017). Cassirer as revolutionary Cassirer as revolutionary: Semiotics as embodied worldview: Appreciating the Other in ourselves (Special Issue: Ernst Cassirer on Communicology and Cultural Semiotics, ed. Richard L. Lanigan), The American Journal of Semiotics 33.3/4, 1-100.

Liu, Y., & Kramer, E. (in press). Cultural value discrepancies, strategic positioning and integrated identity: American migrants’ experiences of being the Other in mainland China. Journal of International and Intercultural Communication.

Liu, Y., & Kramer, E. (2018). Conceptualizing the Other in intercultural encounters: Review, formulation, and typology of the Other-identity. Howard Journal of Communications. https://doi.org/10.1080/10646175.2018.1532850