The Neolithic relief found in southeastern Turkey may illustrate humans' changing relationship with animals. (photo by K. Akdemir, courtesy Cambridge University Press) About 11,000 years ago, ...

Most people know George Lucas as the writer-director of the original Star Wars trilogy, as well as a producer of many films and series that make up the franchise’s extended universe. In recent years, ...

From who gets to vote to how people travel and where taxpayer dollars are funneled, politicians and urban planners wield maps ...

As a graduating doctoral candidate, I find myself facing many transitions ahead. At times like these, we often use a book metaphor: The Stanford chapter is coming to a close, and a new chapter is ...

Over the last couple of years, I've gotten more involved with collecting and sorting through multiple narratives to help businesses understand and deal with difficult problems. (Difficult, meaning the ...

All of us have felt like a misfit in our professional career from time to time. We’ve all lost a job or been told in one way or another that we aren’t good enough. When that happens, we have a clear ...

I hold University of Michigan Professor Karl Weick in high regard for his lifetime’s work on sensemaking. Put simply, sensemaking is the process of making sense of the social world around you. It goes ...

When communicating complex topics that often include scientific information, policy actors, scientists and other experts can more effectively communicate if they overtly embrace the idea that they are ...

I am a Narrative Inquiry researcher, meaning I collect people’s narratives and search for recurring themes in an effort to help people better understand their stories and the stories of others.

I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. —Robert Frost, 1874-1963, “The Road Not Taken” When individual teachers or entire schools are faced with the desire/need to ...

The corporate profile translations of multinational corporations (MNCs) in emerging economies such as China possess rich information for narrative analysis. Nevertheless, how the parts of a corporate ...