ABSTRACT
Communication scholar Wendy Leeds-Hurwitz describes how contemporary intercultural communication scholars can benefit from knowing the historical foundations of current scholarship:
Multiple strands of research have influenced what we study today and how we study it … Modern scholars can benefit from studying the past because it will help to reveal why we study what we do, and why we use the methods that we do … Knowing our own history permits decisions about whether some of our assumptions should perhaps be revised, or whether they still serve researchers well. If modern-day researchers continue to do in the present what our predecessors did in the past, it should at least be the result of a deliberate choice.
