Deborah J. Borisoff

About

Deborah J. Borisoff is a Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication at NYU Steinhardt. Her scholarly interests include gender and communication, conflict management, organizational communication, cross-cultural communication, and listening. She has coauthored or coedited ten published books, including titles such as The Power to Communicate: Gender Differences as Barriers, Conflict Management: A Communication Approach, Listening in Everyday Life, and Women and Men Communicating: Challenges and Changes. Professor Borisoff has been recognized as a Distinguished Research Fellow and a Distinguished Teaching Fellow by the Eastern Communication Association. She has also received NYU's Steinhardt School of Education Teaching Excellence Award and the university's Distinguished Teaching Medal in 2004.

Research topics

• Psychology
• Sociology
• Political science
• Social psychology
• Pedagogy

Selected publications

• Strategies for Effective Mentoring and for Being Effectively Mentored: A Focus on Research Institutions.

  Journal of International Crisis and Risk Communication Research · 1998-01-01 · 17 citations

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  This article focuses on the positive aspects of mentoring teachers within the field of communication. Department chairs ought to question the usefulness and effectiveness of this type of mentoring and consider strategies that will be helpful when new faculty are ultimately reviewed for promotion and tenure. The article examines the mentor's functions and indicate special concerns that may affect mentoring in academia. The paper argues that a formal mentoring process benefits the new hiree. The p…

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• Charting the Terrain of Interpersonal Communication and the Landscape of Social Interaction: Traditions, Challenges, and Trajectories

  Atlantic Journal of Communication · 2017-08-08 · 5 citations

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  An updated version of a chapter originally appearing in A Century of Transformation: Studies in Honor of the 100th Anniversary of the Eastern Communication Association, this piece examines the history and continued development of interpersonal communication. We begin by examining the progression of interpersonal communication from the 1920s through the 1980s. We then explore contemporary trends in interpersonal communication since the 1990s. Finally, we consider the challenges and future traject…

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• Wife, Inc: the business of marriage in the twenty-first century

  Feminist Media Studies · 2019-02-07

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  "Wife, Inc: the business of marriage in the twenty-first century." Feminist Media Studies, 19(2), pp. 304–305

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• The Rhetoric of Midwifery: Gender, Knowledge, and Power (review)

  Rhetoric and Public Affairs · 2002-03-01

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  A book on midwifery is not apt to attract the attention of communication educators. Yet in Mary M. Lay's capable hands, this seemingly benign topic serves as a conduit for how rhetoric functions in society to create a presumed knowledge, to shape attitudes, and to sustain embedded power differences within a particular culture.

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• Male Communication Problems in the Student Body.

  1997-11-01

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  This paper summarizes seven imparted about male sex traits and sex-role stereotypes that stem from extant research reflecting primarily a dual-culture perspective. The paper includes relevant research findings and insights from male students that suggest that some of the conclusions about men's communication should be revisited. The presumed truths are: (1) men listen for facts and not feelings; (2) women are presumed to be the intimacy experts; (3) male friendships are rooted in sharing activit…

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Frequent coauthors

• Robert J. Landy

  Reinhardt University

  4 shared

• Dan F. Hahn

  4 shared

• D. Hahn

  3 shared

• Michael Purdy

  Denver Health Medical Center

  3 shared

• David T. McMahan

  Missouri Western State University

  2 shared

• Diane Hahn

  2 shared

• Lisa Merrill

  2 shared

• L. Merrill

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Awards & honors

• Named Distinguished Research Fellow and Distinguished Teachi…
• Received New York University's Steinhardt School of Educatio…
• Awarded NYU's Distinguished Teaching Medal, 2004

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