Curtis Dale LeBaron

Associate Professor of Organizational Leadership & Strategy
Warren Jones Fellow
Organizational Leadership and Strategy, Department of

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Office: 586 TNRB
Phone: 801-422-6348
Email: lebaron@byu.edu
Expertise:
  • Organizational behavior
  • Organizational leadership and strategy
Research:
  • Strategy as practice
  • Organizational knowledge, innovation, learning, and practice
  • Identity work within organizations
  • Qualitative research methods: video-based ethnography; conversation and discourse analysis; context analysis; ethnography
Education:
  • PhD, University of Texas at Austin, 1998
  • MA, University of Utah, 1993
  • BA, Brigham Young University, 1989
Group Affiliations:
  • Organizational Behavior/Human Resources - Primary
  • Communication - Secondary
  • Strategy - Secondary
Selected Publications:
  • "Book Review. Joseph L. Badaracco Jr., Questions of Character: Illuminating the Heart of Leadership Through Literature. Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 2006, 221 pages. (p 335-337)," Human Resource Management Volume 42, Issue 2, Pages 335-337, Harvard Business School, Boston, April, 2009    
  • "Identity work during boundary moments: Managing positive identities through talk and embodied interaction.," Exploring positive identities and organizations: Building a theoretical and research foundation Routledge, New York, J. Dutton & L. Roberts, 2009    V I E W   A B S T R A C T
  • "Microethnography," The International Encyclopedia of Communication Blackwell, Cambridge, K. Tracy, 2008    V I E W   A B S T R A C T
  • ""What are We Missing?" Usability's Indexical Ground," Computer Supported Cooperative Work Volume 17, Issue 1, Pages 63-85, February, 2008    V I E W   A B S T R A C T
  • "Arguing and thinking errors," Discursive Research in Practice: New approaches to psychology and interaction Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, A. Hepburn and S. Wiggins, January, 2007    V I E W   A B S T R A C T
  • "Formulating the Triangle of Doom"," Gesture Volume 7, Issue 1, Pages 97-118, John Benjamins, January, 2007    V I E W   A B S T R A C T
  • "Microethnography," The Sage dictionary of social research methods Sage, Newbury Park, California, V. Jupp, July, 2006    
  • "The mystery of the missing referent: Objects, procedures, and the problem of the instruction follower," Computer Supported Cooperative Work ACM, New York, S. Greenberg & G. Mark, October, 2006    V I E W   A B S T R A C T
  • "Cultural identity among Mormons: A microethnographic study of Family Home Evening," From Generation to Generation: Maintaining Cultural Identity Over Time Hampton Press, Cresskill, NJ, Wendy Leeds-Hurwitz, January, 2006    V I E W   A B S T R A C T
  • "Multiple involvements within group interaction," Research on Language and Social Interaction Volume 39, Issue 1, Pages 41-80, January, 2006    V I E W   A B S T R A C T
  • "Considering the social and material surround: Toward microethnographic understandings of nonverbal behavior.," Volume The sourcebook of nonverbal measures: Going beyond words, Erlbaum, Mahwah, NJ, Valerie Manusov, March, 2005    V I E W   A B S T R A C T
  • "Studies in Language and Social Interaction," Edition 1st, Volume 1st, Erlbaum, Mahwah, NJ, Phillip Glenn, Curtis LeBaron, and Jenny Mandelbaum, December, 2003    V I E W   A B S T R A C T
  • "Gesture and the transparency of understanding," Edition 1st, Volume Studies in language and social interaction, Erlbaum, Mahwah, NJ, Phillip Glenn, Curtis LeBaron, and Jenny Mandelbaum, October, 2003    V I E W   A B S T R A C T
  • "An overview of language and social interaction research," Edition 1st, Volume Studies in language and social interaction, Erlbaum, Mahwah, NJ, Phillip Glenn, Curtis LeBaron, and Jenny Mandelbaum, October, 2003    V I E W   A B S T R A C T
  • "Reconsidering common ground: Clarks Contribution Theory in the OR," Volume ECSCW 2003: Proceedings of the Eighth European Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work., Kluwer Academic Publishing, Amsterdam, K. Kuutti, E. Karsten, G. Fitzpatrick, P. Dourish, & K. Schmidt, October, 2003    
  • "CD-ROM to accompany Journal of Communication, 52, 3," September, 2002    
  • "CD-ROM to accompany Cognition and Instruction, 20, 2," April, 2002    
  • "Technology does not exist independent of its use," Edition 1st, Volume Computer Supported Collaborative Learning II, Erlbaum, Mahwah, NJ, Rogers Hall, Timothy Koschmann, and N. Miyake, July, 2002    V I E W   A B S T R A C T
  • "Gesture and human understanding at work," Edition 1st, Volume Action, Gesture, and Meaning, Kyoritu, Japan, S. Kita and S. Hiro, April, 2002    V I E W   A B S T R A C T
  • "Body disclosures," Journal of Communication Volume 52, Issue 3, Pages 617-639, September, 2002    V I E W   A B S T R A C T
  • "Closing up closings: Showing the relevance of the social and material surround to the completion of an interaction," Journal of Communication Volume 52, Issue 3, Pages 542-565, September, 2002    V I E W   A B S T R A C T
  • "Research on the relationship between verbal and nonverbal communication: Emerging integrations," Journal of Communication Volume 52, Issue 3, Pages 499-521, September, 2002    V I E W   A B S T R A C T
  • "Learner articulation as interactional achievement: Studying the conversation of gestures," Cognition and Instruction Volume 20, Issue 2, Pages 249-282, April, 2002    V I E W   A B S T R A C T
  • "Dissecting common ground: Examining an instance of reference repair," Proceedings of the Twenty-Third Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society Pages 516-521, September, 2001    V I E W   A B S T R A C T
  • "Gesture, knowledge, and the world," Volume Language and Gesture, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, David McNeill, 2000    V I E W   A B S T R A C T
  • "How gender creeps into talk," Research on Language and Social Interaction Volume 31, Issue 1, Pages 59-74, January, 1998    V I E W   A B S T R A C T
  • "Space, surveillance, and interactional framing of participants’ experience during a police interrogation," Human Studies Volume 20, Pages 1-25, 1997    V I E W   A B S T R A C T
  • "Looking for Verbal Deception in Clarence Thomas’s Testimony," Volume The Lynching of Language: Gender, Politics, and Power in the Hill-Thomas Hearings, University of Illinois Press, Chicago, Sandra Ragan, Dianne Bystrom, Lynda Lee Kaid, Christina Beck, 1996    V I E W   A B S T R A C T
Experience:
   Teaching
  • Visiting Academic, Said Business School, Oxford Unviersity, 2008
  • Visiting Associate Professor, Ross Business School, University of Michigan, 2007
  • Associate Professor, Brigham Young University, 2004
  • Assistant Professor, Brigham Young University, 2001-2004
  • Assistant Professor, University of Colorado at Boulder, 1998-2001
  • Instructor, University of Colorado at Boulder, 1996-1998
  • Assistant Instructor, University of Texas at Austin, 1992-1996
  • Associate Instructor, University of Utah, 1991-1992
Awards:
  • Erasmus Mundus Scholarship , European Union, , 2010
  • Warren Jones Fellowship , Marriott School , 2009
  • Warren Jones Fellowship , Marriott School , 2008
  • Warren Jones Fellowship , Marriott School , 2007
  • Top Four Paper Award , National Communication Association (LSI Division) , 2007
  • Warren Jones Fellowship , Marriott School , 2006
  • Teacher of the Year , MBA students in Organizational Behavior & Human Resources , 2006
  • Outstanding Teaching Award , Marriott School , 2005
  • Warren Jones Fellowship , Marriott School , 2005
  • Research Grant , National Science Foundation (NSF), Division of Research, Evaluation, and Communication ($417,634) , 2002
  • Top Publication in 5 Years , National Communication Association, Language and Social Interaction Division , 2002
  • SOAR Award (campus-wide, student-voted award for teaching excellence) , University of Colorado at Boulder , 2001
  • Teaching Grant , Student Computing Initiative, University of Colorado at Boulder , 2000
  • Dissertation of the Year , National Communication Association, Language and Social Interaction Division , 1999
  • Teacher of the Year , Delta Gamma, University of Colorado at Boulder , 1999
  • Top Three Paper Award , Western States Communication Association, Language and Social Interaction Division , 1999
  • Teaching Grant , Student Computing Initiative, University of Colorado at Boulder , 1999
  • W. Gordon Whaley Fellowship , University of Texas at Austin , 1996
  • Top Paper Award , Speech Communication Association, Language and Social Interaction Division , 1995
  • Academic Achievement Award , University of Texas at Austin, Communication Studies , 1995
  • Shell Corporation Grant , University of Texas at Austin, College of Communication , 1995
  • Scholarly Merit Award , University of Texas at Austin, Communication Studies , 1995
  • Honor Society , Phi Kappa Phi , 1990
  • Honor Society , Phi Eta Sigma , 1990
  • Summa Cum Laude , Brigham Young University, College of Humanities , 1989
  • Valedictorian , Brigham Young University, College of Humanities , 1989
  • Orea B. Tanner Award , Brigham Young University, Department of English , 1988