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 Explaining the influence of emotions on negotiation processes and outcomes at both individual and dyadic levels
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 Understanding the micro and macro organizing processes from a critical-interpretive perspective

o COMM 625, “Negotiation” (graduate-level)
o COMM 724, “Organizational Communication” (graduate-level)
o COMM 482, “Intercultural Communication”
o COMM 425, “Negotiation and Conflict Management”
o COMM 424, “Communication in Complex Organizations”
o COMM 400, “Research Methods in Communication”

Publications

Peer-reviewed Journal Articles

Liu, M. (under review). Same path, different experience: Culture's main and moderating effects on the links between causal attribution, emotion, and interaction goals in negotiation. Journal of Communication.

Liu, M., & Wilson, S. R. (under 2nd review). The influence of interaction goals on negotiation tactics and outcomes: A dyad-level analysis across two cultures. Communication Research. 

Liu, M., & Wang, C. (under 2nd review). Explaining the influence of anger and compassion on negotiators' interaction goals: An assessment of trust and distrust as two distinct mediators. Communication Research.

Mortenson, S., Burleson, B. R., Feng, B., & Liu., M. (2009). 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, 2, 208-239.

Liu, M. (2009). The intrapersonal and interpersonal influence of anger on negotiation performance: A cross-cultural investigation. Human Communication Research，35, 148-169.  

Meisenbach, R., Remke, R., Buzzanell, P. M., & Liu, M. (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.

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.

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.

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]

Invited Book Chapter

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.
　

Awards and Honors

Outstanding Published Article Award, Organization for the Study of Culture, Language, and Gender (with Rebecca Meisenbach, Royn Remke, & Patrice Buzzanell, October, 2009)

Top Paper Award, Intercultural Communication Division, International Communication Association (with Steve Mortenson and Brant Burleson, May 2009)

International Travel Fund, Office of International Programs, University of Maryland (May 2009)

Academic Visitor, Department of Management and Marketing, Hong Kong Polytechnic University (June 2009)

Top Paper Award, Interpersonal Communication Division, International Communication Association (with 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 Patrice Buzzanell, November 2006)

Outstanding Published Article Award, Organization for the Study of Culture, Language, and Gender (with 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)

Editorial Board

Communication Quarterly

Intercultural Communication Studies

Ad Hoc Reviews

Journal of Communication

Communication Monographs

Journal of Applied Communication Research

Management Communication Quarterly

International Journal of Conflict Management

Academic Links

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)