Spoma Jovanovic

Professor

Office: 108 Ferguson Building
Phone: 336-334-5297
E-mail: s_jovano@uncg.edu

Degrees

Ph.D., University of Denver
M.A., University of Denver
B.A., University of California, Los Angeles

Scholarly interests

Ethics, civic participation, community, organizational communication, and interpretive research methods

Courses taught

CST 200: Communication and Community, service-learning
CST 210: Communicating Ethically
CST 399: Communication Research Methods
CST 440: Reclaiming Democracy
CST 460: Speaking of Happiness
CST 605: Communicating Social Change
CST 612: Critical Pedagogy and Research

Recent research

Books

Jovanovic, S. (2012). Democracy, dialogue, and community action: Truth and
reconciliation in Greensboro. Fayetteville, AR: University of Arkansas Press.

Journal Articles

Carter, T. P., Jones, E. C., Sills, S., Jovanovic, S., Davis, R. & Murphy, A. (2011).
Social Capital and the Experience of Prejudice, Aggression and Discrimination among Immigrants, US-Born Minorities and Whites in Greensboro, NC. Sociation Today, 9 (2), www.ncsociology.org/sociationtoday/v92/outline18.htm.

Jovanovic, S., DeGooyer, D. & Reno, D. (2011). News talks: Critical service- learning for social change. Proteus: A Journal of Ideas, 27 (1), 7-21.

Jovanovic, S., Poulos, C. & LeGreco, M. (2010).Waiting for the bus: Awakening a social justice sensibility through communication activism. 2010 Carolina Communication Association Annual, 26, 1-17.

Bloch-Schulman, S. & Jovanovic, S. (2010). Who’s Afraid of Politics? On the Need to
Teach Political Engagement. Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, 14 (1), 83-100.

Jovanovic, S. (2008). Community as Ethical Expression: How Discourse Shapes a Vision of Hope. Bridges: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Theology, Philosophy, History, and Sciences, 15 (1/2), 135-157.

Jovanovic, S. & Wood, R.V.(2007). Dialectical interactions: Decoupling and
integrating ethics in ethics codes. Business Ethics Quarterly, 17 (2), 217-238.

Book Chapters

Jovanovic, S. & Wood, R. V. (2012). A more perfect union: Recovering ethics in public dialogue. In J. H. Fritz & S. A. Groom (Eds.), Communication ethics and crisis: Negotiating differences in public and private spheres, pp. 117-131.Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University.

Jovanovic, S. & Pitts, L. (2011). Social action, local and national. In K.Wehr (Ed.),
Green culture: An a to z guide, pp. 413-416. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Jovanovic, S. (2008) Mindful Speech (Ch. 13) in A. Weston’s A 21st Century Ethics
Toolbox, 2nd ed. New York: Oxford University Press.

Jovanovic, S., Steger, C., Symonds, S. & Nelson, D. (2007). Promoting deliberative democracy through dialogue: Communication contributions to a grassroots movement for truth, justice, and reconciliation. In L. R. Frey & K. M. Carragee (Eds.), Communication Activism pp. 53-94. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton.

Web Magazine Research Articles

Jovanovic, S. & Wood, R. V. (2008, October). Barack Obama’s call to restore ethics in politics. National Communication Association’s, Communication Currents, 3, 5. Available at www.communicationcurrents.com

Jovanovic, S. & Wood, R. V. (2006, November 16). Ethics in the city: How talk about
ethics leads to an ethical culture. National Communication Association’s
Communication Currents, 1, 1. Available at www.communicationcurrents.com

Book Reviews

Jovanovic, S. (2010). Race and Reconciliation: Redressing Wounds of Injustice (book
review). Argumentation and Advocacy, 46, 240-244.

Jovanovic, S. (2009). Transformative Communication Studies: Culture, Hierarchy and
the Human Condition (book review). Ethica: The newsletter of the National Communication Association’s Communication Ethics Division. Available at www.commethics.org

Recent Honors and Recognition

2013 TEDx Greensboro Speaker, A Conversation is the Starting Point

2013 Recipient, Gulf South Summit’s Outstanding Service-Learning Faculty Award

2012 Recipient, NC Campus Compact’s Robert L. Sigmon Service-Learning Award

2011 Top Four Paper Panel, Experiential Education Division, National Communication Association

Recent Grants & Contracts

The Waterhouse Family Institute for the Study of Communication and Society at Villanova University. The Discourse of Participatory Budgeting Organizing Efforts in Greensboro, North Carolina.

Greensboro News & Record. Increasing civic literacy and advocacy.

SynerG Next Generation Project Competition: Bus Benches of Artistic

City of Greensboro. A Strategic Study of the State of Human Relations in Greensboro: Uncovering Institutional Discrimination to Promote Equal Opportunity.

Supervised Student Research

Justin Dorazio
Patrick Sawyer
Ranata Reeder
Sarah Hollingsworth
Kimberly Yarbray
Crystal Edwards Olham
Amanda Szabo
Christopher Roberts
Mark Congdon
Dante Johnson
Ashley Livesay
Michael Bond
Lori Mackowski
Suzanna Fielders
Megan Morrissey
Christina Poteet
Armond Towns
Christina Valenta
Adria Shipp
Cynthia Dew
William Woody
Kathe Latham
Justin Valleau
Carol Steger
Benedetta Bozzo
Sarah Symonds
Donata Nelson

Service

Editor, Partnerships: A Journal of Service-Learning and Civic Engagement
UNCG Liaison, American Democracy Project
Chair, NCA’s Communication Ethics Division, 2009-2010
Faculty Leader, NCA’s Doctoral Honors Seminar: Communication as Engaged Scholarship
External Reviewer, Department of Philosophy, Elon University, 2012
UNCG QEP Steering Committee
UNCG Faculty Senate
Chancellor’s Advisory Committee for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion

Advocacy in Community Engagement Activities

Change in guidelines for bus bench design to allow for artistic installations that reflect the city’s identity and values (with Dudley High School & Action Greensboro’s synerG)
Change in policy for city bus shelter and bench guidelines that now allow for unrestricted placement on city-owned property (with Dudley High School).
Effort to launch city Participatory Budgeting process (with PB GSO and Fund for Democratic Communities).
Change in policy at Center City Park to allow for political speech (with Reclaiming Democracy faculty team).

Affiliations

American Association of Colleges and Universities
American Association of University Professors
American Civil Liberties Union, North Carolina
American Democracy Project
National Communication Association
Carolinas Communication Association
Southern States Communication Association