Carolyn Calloway-Thomas is an associate professor and director of the Preparing Future Faculty program in the Department of Communication and Culture at Indiana University. She is coauthor of "Intercultural Communication: A Text with Readings ("2007) and "Intercultural Communication: Roots and Routes" (1999), and coeditor of "Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Sermonic Power of Public Discourse "(1993). Her teaching and research areas are intercultural communication, public dialogue in America, civic engagement, pedagogy, and communication in black America. In 2007, Professor Calloway-Thomas