Jeff Kerssen-Griep PhD

About

Jeff Kerssen-Griep, PhD (1997, University of Washington; he/him), Professor, came to the University in 1998 from the University of Puget Sound. He teaches Intercultural, Interpersonal, and Instructional Communication courses, as well as Communication across Barriers, Intercultural Conflict Transformation, Communicating Science, and Transforming Small Group Communication.

His scholarship examines intercultural contact, cross-barriers instruction, and identity negotiations in the feedback interventions and other communication processes teachers navigate daily. His scholarship is published in Communication Education, Handbook of Communication Science, The Journal of Transformational Education, Communication Studies, Communication Research, Communication Teacher, and elsewhere. Findings help teachers shape interactions and circumstances that communicate clarity with dignity, forward equitable inclusion, and – not coincidentally – foster perceptions of credibility, clarity, mentorship, valued feedback, and responsively engaged learning environments.

UP’s faculty honored him as the University’s Outstanding Teacher in 2004 and its Outstanding Scholar in 2010. UP students named him ASUP Faculty Member of the Year in 2006, the same year his Western U.S. disciplinary colleagues gave him that organization’s Exemplary Teacher Award. 

Representative Scholarship

• Kerssen-Griep, J. (2022). Negotiating identities and mitigating face threats: Interculturally skilled instruction across barriers (pp. 203-224). In L. M. Chao & C. Wang (Eds.) Communicating Across Differences: Negotiating Identity, Privilege, and Marginalization in the 21st Century. San Diego, CA: Cognella Publishing.
•  Thompson, B., Rudick, C. K., Kerssen-Griep, J., & Golsan, K. (2018). Navigating instructional dialectics: empirical exploration of paradox in teaching. Communication Education, 67, 7-30. DOI: 10.1080/03634523.2017.1388527.
•  Kerssen-Griep, J., & Terry, C. L. (2016). Communicating instructional feedback: Definitions, explanations, principles, and questions. In P. L. Witt (Ed.), Handbooks of Communication Science: Vol. 16. Communication and Learning (pp. 287-318). Berlin, Germany: DeGruyter Mouton.
•  Kerssen-Griep, J., & Witt, P. L. (2015). Instructional feedback III: How do instructor facework tactics and immediacy cues interact to predict student perceptions of being mentored? Communication Education, 64,1-24. DOI: 10.1080/03634523.2014.978797.

 Education

• Doctor of Philosophy, University of Washington Seattle
• Master of Arts, University of Washington Seattle
• Bachelor of Arts, Concordia College Moorhead MN