Meina Liu

Assistant Professor, Department of Communication, University of Maryland

Skinner 2116
College Park, MD 20742-7635
301-405-8988

Meina Liu (Ph.D., Purdue University, 2006), Assistant Professor, specializes in organizational communication and intercultural communication. She has engaged in two lines of research: First, her current research seeks to investigate and explain (a) how cognitive and emotional factors influence the ways in which people negotiate, manage conflict, and provide emotional support in different organizational and relational contexts, and (b) how cultural and situational factors, such as nationality, gender, and role, complicate these processes. This line of research is primarily quantitative, involving the use of experiments, survey questionnaires, behavioral coding, and multivariate statistical analyses at both individual and dyadic levels. Second, her prior research investigates the dialectic relationships between macro-level organizing processes (e.g., ideology, organizational policies, and cultural values) and micro-level practices (e.g., leave-taking, work-family balance, and career choice) from a critical-interpretive perspective. This line of research is primarily qualitative, involving the use of interviews, textual analysis, and grounded theory techniques. Her research has been presented in national and international conferences and is published in such journals as Journal of Applied Communication Research, Communication Research, Journal of Business Communication, Human Relations, Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, and International and Intercultural Communication Annual. She has won a few research awards from national and international associations, including the Best Article Awards from NCA and OSCLG, and Top Paper Awards from NCA and ICA.