David Sapp

David Alan Sapp, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor and Director of the Program in Professional Writing at Fairfield University in Connecticut. He is a workplace communication specialist with expertise in community-based and inter/transnational applications of communication theory and technology.

His scholarship on intercultural cooperation and critical reflection explores ongoing struggles of disenfranchised or marginalized populations, including civic development and environmental activists in Africa; college students in China accused of academic dishonesty; under-resourced business scholars & practitioners in Cuba; and Spanish-speaking migrant farm workers in the United States. Dr. Sapp’s work has appeared in scholarly journals including Reflections, Business Communication Quarterly, Journal of Business and Technical Communication, Intercom, Technical Communication Quarterly, Computers & Composition, College Teaching, and Journalism and Mass Communication Educator.

Recently, he co-taught an undergraduate seminar entitled “Baseball: The American Pastime in Words and Numbers.”