Selected Consulting Projects

Project: EcoMoto: Exploratory Research on Environmentally Friendly Design for Motorola (Class Project)
Client: Motorola
Date: 2005

Project: Making Mobile Experiences Meaningful (Class Project)
Client: Microsoft
Date: 2004

Project: Design of COPAA Website
Client: Consortium of Applied and Practicing Anthropology Programs (COPAA)
Date: 2004

Project: Travelers' Experiences with Concessions at the Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport (Class Project)
Client: Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport
Date: 2003

Project: Evaluation of the Exhibit "Latino Life in the United States" (Class Project)
Client: Field Museum and Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum, Chicago
Date: 2001

Project: Communication and Information Technologies for the Police Client: A large U.S.-based high technology company
Date: 1997

Project: Group Work – How Workplace Teams Use Their Spaces and Environment
Client: Steelcase
Date: 1996

Education

1996 Ph.D., Anthropology, Yale University

1989 M.Phil., Anthropology, Yale University

1987 B.A., Linguistics and Anthropology, University of California at Berkeley

Selected Publications

2007 Wasson, Christina.  Designing the First Online Master’s Program in Applied Anthropology. Practicing Anthropology 29(1):7-11.

2006 Wasson, Christina, ed. Making History at the Frontier:  Women Creating Careers as Practicing Anthropologists.  NAPA Bulletin 26.

2006 Wasson, Christina. "Being in Two Spaces at Once: Virtual Meetings and Their Representation." Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 16(1):103-130.

2004 Wasson, Christina. "Multitasking in Virtual Meetings."  Human Resource Planning 27(4):47-60.

2004 Wasson, Christina. "The Paradoxical Language of Enterprise." Critical Discourse Studies 1(2):175-199.

2004 Wasson, Christina.  "An Anthropological Eye on Theories of Organizational Irony." In The Ironic Organization: Epistemological Claims and Supporting Field Stories, ed. Ulla Johansson and Jill Woodilla. Malmö: Liber AB, 51-63.

2003 Wasson, Christina. "The Janus-Faced Power of Language in Organizations." In Communication in Organizations: Structures and Practices, ed. Andreas P. Müller and Alfred Kieser. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 21-46.

2002 Wasson, Christina. "Collaborative Work: Integrating the Roles of Ethnographers and Designers."  In Creating Breakthrough Ideas: the Collaboration of Anthropologists and Designers in the Product Development Industry, ed. Susan Squires and Bryan Byrne. Westport: Bergin & Garvey, 71-90.

2000 Wasson, Christina. "Caution and Consensus in American Business Meetings." Pragmatics 10(4):457-481.

2000 Wasson, Christina. "Ethnography in the Field of Design." Human Organization 59(4):377-388.

Selected Presentations

2006 “User-Driven Innovation as Competitive Advantage: The Value of Ethnography.”  Keynote speech presented at the Conference on User-Driven Innovation, organized by the Danish Ministry of Economic and Business Affairs.  June, Copenhagen, Denmark.

2004 “Virtual Teams: Best Practices and Next Practices.”  Invited presentation to the Human Resources Institute Annual Meeting. February, St. Petersburg.

2001 "The Janus-Faced Power of Language in Organizations." Keynote speech presented at the First International and Interdisciplinary Symposium on Communication within Organizations. March, Mannheim, Germany. 

2001 "The Spread of English in Corporate Europe." Paper presented at the Critical Management Studies Conference. July, Manchester, Great Britain.  Also presented at the University of Mannheim Business School. July 2002, Mannheim, Germany.

1999 "The Paradoxical Discourse of "Ownership." Invited paper presented at the International Conference on Language in Organizational Change and Transformation. May. Columbus, OH.