Curriculum Vitae
Rita A. Durant, Ph.D.
University of South Florida St. Petersburg
[email protected] Kate Tiedemann College of Business251-533-4418 (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);
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. Discipline-Based Scholarship.
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)
Discipline-Based Scholarship.
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.
Boje, D., & Durant, R. (2007). Free Story! Tamara: Journal for Critical Post Modern Organization Vol. 5, Issue 3, p. 19-37. (Refereed) Discipline-Based Scholarship.
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. Discipline-Based Scholarship.
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) Discipline-Based Scholarship.
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)
Discipline-Based Scholarship.
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. Discipline-Based Scholarship.
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)
Discipline-Based Scholarship.
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) Discipline-Based Scholarship.
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) Discipline-Based Scholarship.
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) Discipline-Based Scholarship.
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) Discipline-Based Scholarship.
Durant, R., & Cashman, J. F., (2003). Theorizing Limits: An Exploration of Boundaries, Learning, and Emancipation. JOCM, 16(6) 650-665. (Refereed) Discipline-Based Scholarship.
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). 16th 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).” 16th
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. Discipline-Based Scholarship.
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. Discipline-Based Scholarship.
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) Discipline-Based Scholarship.
Durant, R., & Gardner, C. (2011). Expatriate Sensemaking in International Assignments. Standing Conference on Management and Organization Inquiry, Philadelphia, PA.
(Peer-Reviewed) Discipline-Based Scholarship.
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) Discipline-Based Scholarship.
Flory, M., & Durant, R. (2009). The Role of the Researcher and Reader in Storytelling. 19th Standing Conference on Management and Organization Inquiry. Orlando, FL. (Peer-Reviewed) Discipline-Based Scholarship.
Durant, R., Downs, A., & Carrel, M. (2007). “Lotteries and Hypothecated Taxation.” 17th
Standing Conference on Management and Organization Inquiry. Las Vegas, NV. (Peer-Reviewed) Discipline-Based Scholarship.
Durant, R., Gardner, C., & Taylor, K. (April, 2006). “Antenaratives in Expatriate Sensemaking,” 16th Standing Conference on Management and Organization Inquiry, Washington, DC.
(Peer-Reviewed) Discipline-Based Scholarship.
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, Discipline-Based Scholarship.
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, Discipline-Based Scholarship. 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
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).
