Todd L. Sandel, Ph.D

Todd Sandel is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Oklahoma, and past President of the Association for Chinese Communication Studies. His research interests include: Intercultural communication, language and social interaction, family communication, and Taiwanese/Chinese studies. His work has appeared in: Ethos, Western Journal of Communication, Language in Society, Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, Journal of Family Communication, Social Development, and Parenting. He is the recipient of four top paper awards from the Language and Social Interaction Divisions of the National Communication Association and International Communication Association, and of a two-year research grant from the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation to study Mother Tongue Preservation in Taiwan and the US.

Finally, he was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to study "Transnational Families" in Taiwan and was be affiliated with National Chiao-Tung University in Hsinchu, Taiwan. He lived in Taiwan from August, 2007 to June, 2008.