Rita A. Durant, Ph.D. Curriculum Vitae University of South Florida St. Petersburg rdurant@mail.usf.edu Kate Tiedemann College of Business 251-533-4418 (cell) Adjunct Management Education The University of Alabama, College of Commerce and Business Administration, Department of Management and Marketing, Ph.D. May 2002 in Management. GPA 4.0 The Langston T. Hawley Management Graduate Scholarship, Minnie C. Miles Human Resources Management Endowed Graduate Scholarship, Beta Gamma Sigma, Graduate Council Fellowship. Comer Foundation Graduate Fellowship. Dissertation (March 7, 2002). You Mean the World to Me: Story Telling and Leader Listening in Organizational Learning. Georgetown University, School of Foreign Service, Bachelor of Science in Foreign Service, 1976. Latin American Emphasis (BSFS). Cum Laude; Phi Beta Kappa Teaching Adjunct Instructor, Mitchell College of Business, University of South Alabama, Mobile, AL. (Fall, 2014). Online Instructor, College of Business, University of South Florida Sarasota-Manatee (Spring 2009 to 2013). Principles of Management, International Management. Online Instructor, College of Business, University of South Florida St. Petersburg (Fall 2007 to the present). Developed the first distance learning/online section of Principles of Management. Now offers International Management, Guided Research Studies, and Organizational Development. Visiting Assistant Professor, College of Business, University of South Florida Sarasota-Manatee, Spring 2011. Visiting Assistant Professor, College of Business, University of South Florida St. Petersburg, FL (2006-2007). Principles of Management; Organizational Behavior, Human Resource Management. Online Instructor, Transformative Leadership Master s Program, California Institute of Integral Studies (Spring 2007). Leadership, Complexity, and Emergence. Assistant Professor, Spring Hill College, Division of Business. Mobile, AL (2004-2006). Human Resource Management; Organizational Behavior (Undergraduate and MBA); Business Strategy and Policy; Principles of Management; Business Communication; Marketing Research. Rita A. Durant CV. p. 1
Visiting Assistant Professor, A.B. Freeman School of Business Tulane University, New Orleans, LA. (2003-2004). Managing People (MBA); Introduction to Human Resource Management, Undergraduate and Graduate. Instructor, The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Culverhouse College of Commerce and Business Administration, Department of Management and Marketing (2002-2003). Human Resource Management Graduate Teaching Assistant. The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Culverhouse College of Commerce and Business Administration, Department of Management and Marketing (2002-2003). Principles of Management; Leadership; Change Management ESL (English as a Second Language) Instructor, University of South Alabama (F 2010- present); The University of Alabama (Spring 2001); University of Florida, Gainesville (Fall 1979-Spring 1982); American Language Academy, Atchison, Kansas (Spring 1979); Academia Americana-Nicaraguense (1978); and The American School, Managua, Nicaragua (1978). Courses included Published Journal Articles Refereed 1. Kirk, D., & Durant, R. (2010). Crossing the Line: Framing Appropriate Responses in the Diversity Classroom. Journal of Management Education. Pedagogy 2. Durant, R. (2010). Leadership and Lace. ReVision Vol. 30, Issues 3 & 4. Discipline-Based Scholarship. 3. Kirk, D., & Durant, R. ( 2009). Hardening of the Categories: A Look at Why Diversity Training Programs Don't Work and What to Do About It. Regional Business Review Vol. 28. Downs, A., Durant, R., & Smith, W. (2008). Ante-Ethics: A Critical Approach to Ethics and Accounting. In Critical Theory and Business Ethics, David Boje, Editor. Information Age Publishing: Greenwich, CT. Taylor, K., Durant, R., & Boje, D. (2008). Telling the Story, Hearing the Story: Narrative Co- Construction and Crisis. American Communication Journal, Special Issue on Narrative and Crisis. (Empirical research methods article on the function of interviewer-respondent rapport on the details included in Hurricane Katrina evacuees stories.) (Refereed) Durant, R. (2007). Guest Editor Introduction to the Special Issue on Sensemaking, Relatedness, and Theater. Tamara: Journal for Critical Post Modern Organization Vol. 5, Issue 3, p. 6. Rita A. Durant CV. p. 2
Boje, D., & Durant, R. (2007). Free Story! Tamara: Journal for Critical Post Modern Organization Vol. 5, Issue 3, p. 19-37. (Refereed) Durant, R. (2007). Guest Editor Introduction to the Special Issue on Storytelling Among the Shadows. Tamara: Journal for Critical Post Modern Organization. Vol. 5, Issue 4, p. 107-108. Durant, R., Gardner, C., & Taylor, K. (2007). Indexical antenarratives as Invitational Rhetoric. Tamara: Journal for Critical Post Modern Organization Vol. 5, Issue 4, p. 174-182. (Refereed) Campbell, K. S., White, C., & Durant, R. (2007). Necessary Evils, (In)justice, and Rapport Management. The Journal of Business Communication Vol. 44, p. 161-185. (Refereed) Louart, P., Durant, R., Downs, A., & Besson, D. (2006). Introduction to Paradox and Organizational Change. Journal of Organizational Change Management Vol. 19; Issue 4, p. 1. Besson, D., Downs, A., Durant, R., & Roman, M. (2006). The Tobin tax and Newcomb's paradox: Financial markets viewed from the perspective of Michel Serres Journal of Organizational Change Management Vol. 19; Issue 4, p. 529-540. (Refereed) Bean, C. J., & Durant, R. (2005). Embodied Identities: Toward an Organizational Research Agenda in a Material World. Tamara: Journal for Critical Post Modern Organization Vol. 4, Issue 1, p. 102-124. (Refereed) Boje, D. M., Grace Ann Rosile, G. A., Durant, R. A., & Luhman, J. T. (2004). Enron Spectacles: A Critical Dramaturgical Analysis. Organization Studies Vol. 25, Issue 5, p. 751-774. (Refereed) Carr, A., Downs, A., & Durant, R. (2004). Emergent Strategy Development, Abduction, and Pragmatism: New Lessons for Corporations. Human Systems Management Vol. 23, Issue 2, p. 79-91. (Refereed) Durant, R. (2004). Book Review: Tempered Radicals: How People Use Difference to Inspire Change at Work by Debra E. Meyerson. Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press, 2001, Organizational Analysis, 12(1) 83-85. Downs, A., Durant, R., Carr, A. (2003). Emergent Strategy Development in Organizations. Emergence 5(2) 5-28. (Refereed) Durant, R., & Cashman, J. F., (2003). Theorizing Limits: An Exploration of Boundaries, Learning, and Emancipation. JOCM, 16(6) 650-665. (Refereed) Discipline-Based Scholarship. Rita A. Durant CV. p. 3
Durant, R. (2002). Synchronicity: A Post-Structuralist Guide to Creativity and Change. JOCM 15 (4) 490-501, Special Issue on Jung and Beyond. Downs, A., & Durant, R. (2002). Introduction to the Special Issue on Jung and Beyond. Journal of Organizational Change Management 15 (4). [Guest co-editor] Conference Proceedings Durant, R., Gardner, C., & Taylor, K. (April, 2006). Studies of Antenaratives in Expatriate Reflexive Sensemaking, Annual Review of Management and Organizational Inquiry. (CD). 16 th Conference of ScMOI, Washington, DC. Downs, Alexis, and Rita Durant (April, 2006). Death and Taxes: Nothing More Certain (A Critical Look at Tax Assistance Programs). 16 th Annual ScMOI, Washington, DC (CD). Downs, Alexis, Rita A. Durant, Terrence Krell, and Karen Taylor (2004, March). McMagic: What Is and Is Not. International Academy of Business Disciplines, San Antonio, TX, (Hardcopy). Proceedings. Durant, Rita A. (2003, November). A Discursive Conversation on Research Methods, Southern Management Association Annual Conference, Clearwater Beach, FL. (CD). Proceedings. Durant, Rita A. and James F. Cashman (2003, November). Diversity and Open Systems of Meanings. Southern Management Association Annual Conference, Clearwater Beach, FL. (CD). Proceedings. Durant, R. A., & Cashman, J. F. (2002). Theorizing Meaning, Relationships, and Power. Business Research Yearbook, Los Angeles, CA. Durant, R. (2000). You Mean Everything to Me: Collaboration, Learning, and Listening. Midwest Academy of Management Annual Conference, Chicago, IL. Presentations Durant, Downs, and Weakley (2013). Sweet Almond Milk: Maternal feeding as a nutrition source worldwide. Standing Conference on Management and Organization Inquiry, Alexandria, VA. (Peer-Reviewed) Durant, R., & Gardner, C. (2011). Expatriate Sensemaking in International Assignments. Standing Conference on Management and Organization Inquiry, Philadelphia, PA. (Peer-Reviewed) Durant, R., & Flory, M. (2010). Greek Myth of Echo and Narcissus in Organizational Scholarship. Standing Conference on Management and Organization Inquiry, Alexandria, VA. (Peer-Reviewed) Rita A. Durant CV. p. 4
Flory, M., & Durant, R. (2009). The Role of the Researcher and Reader in Storytelling. 19 th Standing Conference on Management and Organization Inquiry. Orlando, FL. (Peer- Reviewed) Durant, R., Downs, A., & Carrel, M. (2007). Lotteries and Hypothecated Taxation. 17 th Standing Conference on Management and Organization Inquiry. Las Vegas, NV. (Peer- Reviewed) Durant, R., Gardner, C., & Taylor, K. (April, 2006). Antenaratives in Expatriate Sensemaking, 16 th Standing Conference on Management and Organization Inquiry, Washington, DC. (Peer-Reviewed) Bean, C. J., & Durant, R. (2005, April). Embodied Identities: Toward an Organizational Research Agenda in a Material World Standing Conference on Management and Organization Inquiry. Philadelphia, PA. (Peer-Reviewed) Discipline-Based Scholarship. Durant, R., Campbell, K. S., Kiewitz, C., & White, C. (2004, August). Speech Acts as the Basis for Actionable Knowledge, Academy of Management, New Orleans, LA, Discipline- Based Scholarship. Durant, R., Campbell, K. S., White, C., & Kiewitz, C. (2004, August). Justice and Rapport Management: A Transformational Strategy for Building Trust. Academy of Management New Orleans, LA, Downs, A., & Durant, R. (2002, December). Strategy and Oracle: Holism, Interpretation, and Emergence. Managing the Complex IV, Conference on Complex Systems and the Management of Organizations. Fort Myers, FL, Durant, R. A., & Cashman, J. F. (2002). Theorizing Meaning, Relationships, and Power. Fourteenth Annual Conference of the International Academy of Business Disciplines. Los Angeles, CA, April 4-7. Durant, R. (2002). Networks and Lace: A Dramaturgical Counterpoint to My Unitary Self. AOM, Technology, and Nature. Denver, CO, August 11-14. Durant, R. (2001). Of Minds That Matter: An Introduction to Strategic Systems Thinking. Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Washington, DC. Durant, R. (2001). The Old George: A Poem. Academy of Management Washington, DC. Durant, R. (2000). Synchronicity, Creativity, and Meaningful Paradox. AOM Toronto. Durant, R. (2000). Personal Mission Statements: A Workshop. Organizational Behavior Teaching Conference, State University of West Georgia, Carrollton, GA. Durant, R. (2000). You Mean Everything to Me: Collaboration, Learning, and Listening. Rita A. Durant CV. p. 5
Midwest Academy of Management. March 30-April 1. Chicago, IL. Way, S. A., Miller, K. A., Durant, R., & Newberry, S. (2000). Disposition and its Effects on Perceptions of Justice. Industrial Relations Research Association, Boston, MA. Durant, R. (1999). A Diamond in the Rough: Managerial Listening as a Symbolic Act. Academy of Management, Chicago, IL. Durant, R. (1999). Coyote Dreams: Symbolic Thinking and Business Strategy. Workshop presented at the Organizational Behavior Teaching Conference, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM. Relevant Experience IEEE Journal on Professional Communication (2002-2003): Editorial Assistant. The University of Alabama, Culverhouse College of Commerce & Business Administration (2000-2001): Conducted focus groups for AACSB reaccredidation The University of Alabama, Office of Continuous Quality Improvement (1999): TQM survey. The University of Alabama Graduate School (1993-2003): Editor and Proofreader. Member, Reviewer, and/or Discussant: Journal of Management Education, Management Communication Quarterly, Career Development International, IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication, Journal of Organizational Change Management, Academy of Management Conference, Southern Management Association, Eastern Academy of Management, International Academy of Business Disciplines, SCMOI (Standing Conference for Management and Organization Inquiry). Rita A. Durant CV. p. 6