Warren, Clay 1946-

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WARREN, Clay 1946-

PERSONAL:

Born August 11, 1946, in Lexington Park, MD; son of Cassius Clay (a farmer and business person) and Dorothy (a homemaker; maiden name, Christiansen) Warren; married Gitte Kolind (an artist), May 1, 1985; children: Laura, Daniel Clay. Ethnicity: "Caucasian." Education: Attended Michigan State University, 1963; U.S. Naval Academy, B.S., 1968; University of Colorado at Boulder, M.A., 1973, Ph.D. (communications), 1976. Hobbies and other interests: Contemporary piano, creative writing, travel.

ADDRESSES:

Home—4703 Langdrum Lane, Chevy Chase, MD 20815. Office—Communication Program, George Washington University, 2130 H St. N.W., Suite 707, Washington, DC 20052; fax 202-994-4555. E-mail—[email protected].

CAREER:

University of Colorado at Boulder, instructor in communication, 1973-76; Institute for Shipboard Education, Laguna Hills, CA, assistant professor of communication on voyage around the world, 1977; University College of Cape Breton, Sydney, Nova Scotia, visiting assistant professor of communication, 1978; Shepherd College, Shepherdstown, WV, assistant professor of communication, 1978-79; University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, assistant professor of speech, 1979-82; International People's College, Elsinore, Denmark, senior lecturer in communication and psychology, 1982-84; University College of Cape Breton, associate professor of communication, 1984-90, Tompkins Institute for Human Values and Technology research fellow, 1987-89; George Washington University, Washington, DC, associate professor, 1990-91, Chauncey M. Depew Professor of Communication, 1991—, and department chair. M J Solutions, Inc., consulting associate, 1986-98; Warren Consulting, director, 1988—. Pepperdine University, adjunct faculty member, 1978-81; International Masonry Institute, member of core faculty of communication, 1997-99. American Council on Education, member of Military Installation Voluntary Education Review Project team, 1992—, national coordinator of College Credit Recommendation Service, 1996—. Military service: U.S. Navy, 1968-71; became lieutenant.

MEMBER:

North American Society of Adlerian Psychology, National Communication Association, Folk Education Association of America (member of executive council, Euro-North American Folk Education Resource Exchange Network, 1992—), American Association of University Professors.

AWARDS, HONORS:

Grants from Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, 1985, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990; Rudolf Dreikurs Memorial scholar in Chios, Greece, International Committee for Adlerian Summer Schools and Institutes, 1988; first prize in short-story category, Annual Atlantic Writing Competition, Writers' Federation of Nova Scotia, 1990, for "Soren Sorensen"; ACS Seminarian, Princeton University Academy of Consciousness Studies, 1994; grants from International Consciousness Research Laboratories, 1995, and Grundtvig Foundation, 1995, 1996, 1997; Direct Marketing Institute for Professors fellow, 1996; Morton T. Bender Award, George Washington University Center for Excellence and Teaching, 2000.

WRITINGS:

(Coauthor) Once upon an Island (musical play), first produced in Glace Bay, Nova Scotia, 1978.

Minnesota Megvar (novel), Mora/Kozmosz (Budapest, Hungary), 1986.

(Editor) Inner Visions, Outer Voices: An Anthology of Cape Breton Poetry, University College of Cape Breton Press (Sydney, Nova Scotia), 1988.

(Editor and contributor) Democracy Is Born in Conversations: Recreating N. F. S. Grundtvig for Lifelong Learners around the World, Circumstantial Productions Publishing (Nyack, NY), 1998.

Contributor to books, including M. Davis-Finck and T. Gilmore-Finck, editors, Viktor Frankl and Logotherapy: Everything to Gain, Institute of Logotherapy Press (Berkeley, CA), 1993; and T. J. Socha and G. Stamp, editors, Parents, Children, and Communication: Frontiers of Theory and Research, Lawrence Erlbaum (Hillsdale, NJ), 1995. Contributor to academic journals, including National Issues in Higher Education, Option: Journal of the Folk Education Association of America, Health Communication, Individual Psychology, Adult Education Quarterly, and East European Quarterly. Member of editorial board, Journal of Communication Therapy, 1988-91.

WORK IN PROGRESS:

Beds of Strange, a novel and film treatment.

SIDELIGHTS:

Clay Warren told CA: "A Scandinavian writer by the name of Knud Faldbakken once wrote, 'I refuse to be a mascot for others' misunderstandings of themselves.' This comment speaks to me. Life is full of misunderstandings. The writing I do, whether fiction or nonfiction, seeks to clarify the conditions of life."

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

ONLINE

George Washington University Web site,http://www.gwu.edu/ (December 15, 2003), "Clay Warren."

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