About Culture Bump

Dr. Carol M. Archer is the Principal of Archer and Associates – a Cross Cultural Training Company - which uses real–life stories, humor and music to assist educators and business people in meeting the needs of their diverse populations.

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Carol Archer — consultant, trainer, researcher, writer and educator — is the author of Living with Strangers in the U.S.A: Communicating Beyond Culture, a book that grew out of her extensive research into inter–personal, intercultural communication as well as The Culture Bump Toolkit for Culture and Communication.

The originator of culture bump theory and methodology, she has a Doctorate in Education with a research focus on culture and urban studies. Carol worked in Algeria and has consulted with clients such as AT&T, Princeton University, Pecten/Shell Oil, Exxon and the World Trade Association with participants from around the world. She speaks Spanish and studied Arabic and French. In addition to teaching at the University of Houston’s Language & Culture Center for over 28 years, she taught ESL strategies and second language acquisition theory at the University of St. Thomas. She serves as a consultant to Auburn University's Program for Cultural Insight.  She formerly developed cultural orientation for refugees for the State of Texas. She has trained over 1,000 business people from the Middle East, Asia, Latin America as well as the USA.

Her other publications include Culture Bump and Beyond in Culture Bound: An Anthology, published by Cambridge University Press,  Managing a Multicultural Classroom in Learning Across Cultures, published by NAFSA and Culture Bump: An instructional process for cultural insight published in A Handbook of College and University Teaching: Global Perspectives published by Sage Publications. Dr. Archer served as cross–cultural consultant for the PBS series, "Images of America.”