110 Newberry Hall, 541-322-3140,    
Email: ndollar@osucascades.edu

Fax: 541-383-7501

Fall 2009 Courses:

• COMM 321 (3 credits): Introduction to Communication Theory, TR 9:00-10:20
• COMM 412: The Grateful Dead, Deadheads, & Cultural Communication, TR 1:00-2:50

Winter 2010 Courses:

• COMM 322: Small Group Communication, TR 9:00-10:20
• COMM 418: Interpersonal Theory (WIC) & COMM 408: Community Dialogue Workshop , TR 1-3:20

Spring 2010 Courses:

• COMM 326: Intercultural Commuincation, TR 9-10:20
• COMM 427: Cultural Codes of Place, TR 1-2:20

Natalie Dollar, Associate Professor of Speech Communication, teaches upper division and graduate courses in intercultural and interpersonal communication, community dialogue, communication theory, youth communication outreach and group communication. Before coming to OSU-Cascades in 2002, she was a member of the Corvallis campus faculty (1993-2002) where she was named a College of Liberal Arts Master Teacher and awarded the College of Liberal Arts Dean Wilkins Faculty Development Award.

Natalie received her Bachelor of Arts in Communication from Mississippi State University, her Masters of Arts in Communication Theory from Arizona State University, and her doctorate in Cultural Communication from the University of Washington.

Natalie's scholarship focuses on identity, culture, and communication. She has published articles and book chapters on "houseless" and street-oriented youth, members of a musical speech community, and ethnographic approaches for studying group--cultural and intercultural--interaction. Her current research interests focus on dialogue as a means for co-constructing relationships among individuals or groups in conflict, teaching community dialogue, and negotiating identities in intracultural interactions.

In March of 2003, she founded The Community Dialogue Project (CDP) that provides educational opportunities for Central Oregonians interested in learning about dialogue as an intentional, distinct form of communication. Working with her OSU-Cascades students, she offers an annual Community Dialogue Workshop (CDW) as part of the CDP.

Selected Publications

Dollar, N.J.  (forthcoming).  A chronological account of Deadheads' cultural communication code.  In J. Tuedio & S. Spector (Eds.), The Grateful Dead in Concert: Esays on Live Improvisation.  McFarland Press.

Aden, R., Borchers, T.A., Buxbaum, A.G., Cronn-Mills, K., Davis, S., Dollar, N.J., Mitchell, I., & Ruggerio, A.A.  (forthcoming).  Communities of Cornhuskers: The generation of place through sports fans' rituals.  Qualitative Research Reports in Communication.

Dollar, N. J. (2007). 'Songs of our own': The Deadhead cultural communication code. In N. Meriwether (Ed.), All Graceful Instruments (pp. 176-195). Cambridge Scholars Press.

Dollar, N. J. (2006). Mapping the Deadhead social science trip. Dead Letters: Essays on the Grateful Dead Phenomenon, 3, 31-49.

Dollar, N. J. (2003). 'Sometimes you get shown the light': An ethnographer's meditation on boundaries, barriers and awareness. Dead Letters: Essays on the Grateful Dead Phenomenon, 2, 11-18.

Dollar, N. J., & Merrigan, G. (2002). An ethnographic approach for understanding group communication. In L. Frey (Ed.), New Directions in Group Communication Theory, Research, and Pedagogy (pp. 59-78). Newbury Park: Sage Press.

Dollar, N. J. (1999). Understanding "show" as a Deadhead speech event. In R. G. Weiner & D. D. Dodd (Eds.), Writings on the Grateful Dead (pp. 89-100). Westport, CT: Greenwood Press.

Dollar, N. J., & Zimmers, B. G. (1998). Social identity and communicative boundaries: An analysis of youth and young adult street speakers in a U. S. American community. Communication Research, 25 (6), 596-617.

Selected Presentations

Dollar, N. J. (2007, February). Community dialogue workshop as civil society: A preliminary analysis of "getting below the sound bite" to the betwixt and between. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Western States Communication Association, Seattle, WA.

Dollar, N. J. (2006, December). Creating places and spaces for community dialogue: An alternative to argument and debate when engaging controversial community issues. Cascades Research Roundtable, Bend, OR.

Dollar, N. J., Hopp, S., Edwards, M. L., & Becraft, D. (2005, April). Bridging the communication gap: Dialogue, the campus, and the local community. Paper presented at the Continuums of Service Annual Conference, Portland, OR.

Works in Progress

Dollar, N.J. "Getting below the sound bite" to the betwixt and between: One community's creation of a space for dialogue on the Iraq War.