o Ph.D., Organizational Communication, Purdue University, 2006.
o M.A., Applied Linguistics, Tsinghua University, 2000.
o B.A., English, Beijing Language and Culture University, 1997.

o Theorizing and analyzing how emotion (e.g., anger and compassion) influences negotiation performance
o Investigating culture’s effects on the communication processes in a variety of contexts (e.g., negotiation, conflict management, and the seeking, provision, and reception of social support)
o Analyzing dyadic and group-level data in communication research
o Understanding the micro and macro organizing processes from a critical-interpretive perspective

o COMM 724, “Organizational Communication” (graduate level)
o COMM 482, “Intercultural Communication”
o COMM 425, “Negotiation and Conflict Management”
o COMM 424, “Organizational Communication”
o COMM 400, “Research Methods in Communication”

Publications

Liu, M. (in press). The intrapersonal and interpersonal influence of anger on negotiation performance: A cross-cultural investigation. Human Communication Research.

Mortenson, S., Burleson, B. R., Feng, B., & Liu., M. (minor revision). Cultural similarities and differences in seeking social support as a means of coping: A comparison of Americans and Chinese and an evaluation of the mediating effects of self-construal. Journal of International and Intercultural Communication.  

Meisenbach, R., Remke, R., Buzzanell, P. M., Liu, M., Bowers, V., Conn, C. (2008). They allowed: Pentadic mapping of women’s maternity leave discourse as organizational rhetoric. Communication Monographs, 75, 1-24.[lead article]

Buzzanell, P. M., & Liu, M. (2007). It's "give and take": Maternity leave as a conflict management process. Human Relations, 60， 463-495.

Buzzanell, P. M., Waymer, D., Tagle, M. P., & Liu, M. (2007). Different transitions into working motherhood: Discourses of Asian, Hispanic, and African American women. Journal of Family Communication, 7, 195-220.

Mortenson, S., Liu, M., Burleson, B. R., & Liu, Y. (2006). A fluency of feeling: Exploring cultural and individual differences (and similarities) related to skilled emotional support. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 37, 366-385.

Lucas, K., Liu, M., & Buzzanell, P. M. (2006). No limits careers: A critical examination of career discourse in the U.S. and China. In M. P. Orbe, B. J. Allen, & L. A. Flores (Eds.) International and Intercultural Communication Annual, 28,(pp. 217-242). Newsbury Park, CA: Sage.

Liu, M., & Buzzanell, P. M. (2006). When workplace pregnancy highlights difference: Openings for detrimental gender and supervisory relations. In J. H. Fritz & B. L. Omdahl (Eds.), Problematic relationships in the workplace (pp. 47-67). New York: Peter Lang.

Burleson, B. R., Liu, M., Liu, Y., & Mortenson, S. (2006). Chinese Evaluations of Emotional Support Skills, Goals, and Behaviors: An Assessment of Gender-related Similarities and Differences. Communication Research, 33, 38-63.

Buzzanell, P. M., & Liu, M. (2005). Struggling with maternity leave policies and practices: A poststructuralist feminist analysis of gendered organizing. Journal of Applied Communication Research, 33, 1-25.[lead article]

Buzzanell, P. M., Meisenbach, R., Remke, R., Liu, M., Bowers, V., Conn, C. (2005) Productive tensions of working motherhood: The good working mother: managerial women’s sensemaking and feelings about work-family issues. Communication Studies, 56, 261-185.

Liu, M., & Buzzanell, P. M. (2004). Negotiating maternity leave expectations: Perceived tensions between ethics of justice and care. Journal of Business Communication, 42, 323-349. [lead article]

Top Paper Award, Interpersonal Communication Division, International Communication Association (with Dr. Steve Wilson, May 2007)

Research Support Award, the General Research Board of the University of Maryland (March 2007)

Outstanding Scholarly Article Award, Applied Communication Division, National Communication Association (with Dr. Patrice Buzzanell, November 2006)

Outstanding Published Article Award, Organization for the Study of Culture, Language, and Gender (with Dr. Patrice Buzzanell, October, 2006)

Member of Sigma Xi, the Scientific Research Society, University of Maryland Chapter (May 2006)

Alan H. Monroe Graduate Scholar Award, Department of Communication, Purdue University (April 2005)

Purdue University Research Foundation Dissertation Grant, Purdue University (2004-2005)

Paper selected for presentation at the NCA Doctoral Honors Seminar, Albuquerque, New Mexico (July 2004)

Top Four Paper Award. Organizational Communication Division, National Communication Association (with Dr. Patrice Buzzanell, November 2003).

Purdue University Research Foundation Summer Grant, Purdue University (June 2002)

Guanghua Scholarship, First Prize, Tsinghua University (November, 1999)

Scholarships for Excellent Students, Beijing Language and Culture University (1995-1997)

Association for Chinese Communication Studies (ACCS)
Communication Institute for Online Scholarship (CIOS)
Central States Communication Association (CSCA)
Eastern Communication Association (ECA)
International Association of Conflict Management (IACM)
International Association for Chinese Management Research (IACMR)
International Communication Association (ICA)
National Communication Association (NCA)
Organization for the Study of Culture, Language, and Gender (OSCLG)