Todd L. Sandel

Todd Sandel, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Communication at the University of Macau, Macao SAR, China, and Editor of the Journal of International & Intercultural Communication. He has degrees from Williams College, Western Seminary, and the University of Illinois (PhD). Born in New York, he first went to Taiwan in 1987, and taught at Fu Jen Catholic University (1991-1996) and National Chiao Tung University (2007-2008), when he was a Fulbright Scholar. In the U.S. he taught at the University of Oklahoma from 2000 to 2011. Since moving to Macau, in addition to making trips to China, he has visited a number of countries in Southeast Asia, including Indonesia, Thailand, Bhutan, and, Vietnam. His first book, "Foreign Brides on Sale: Taiwanese Women's and Men's Cross Border Marriages in a Globalizing Asia," is based upon a year spent in Taiwan as a Fulbright scholar and research trips to a "marriage sending" community in Indonesia. In part autobiographical, the book is motivated by his desire to understand women and men who choose (or in some cases are forced) to leave family and friends and establish a spousal and family relationship with people in a foreign land. In other work Professor Sandel is interested in understanding how social media play a role in relationship development, as explored in the chapter "The Code of WeChat" in the book, "Communicating User Experience," edited by Trudy Milburn. Finally, he is associate editor of the "International Encyclopedia of Language and Social Interaction" and contributed two entries: "Dialects" and "Rich Points."