Randy Kluver

A. Randolph Kluver is the Associate Provost and Dean of the School of Global Studies and Partnerships, and Professor in the School of Media and Strategic Communication at Oklahoma State University. He also holds the Don and Cathey Humphreys Chair in Global Studies.

As the senior international officer for the University, Dr. Kluver's role is to develop, implement, and coordinate global educational partnerships and manage the universities global strategy. His responsibilities include oversight of the Study Abroad/National Student Exchange Office, the Wes Watkins Center for International Trade Development, International Students and Scholars, the English Language Institute, the China Programs Office, the OSU/UPAEP Liaison Office, the Fulbright Program, and the School of Global Studies graduate program.

Dr. Kluver has extensive international experience, having previously taught at Jiangxi Normal University (China), National University of Singapore, and Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. In 2017, he was a visiting fellow in the Department of Media and Communication at the University of Canterbury (New Zealand), and in 2012, was the recipient of a Fulbright Administrator’s Award in South Korea.

He has published widely in the fields of new media, Asian politics, the Internet in Asian societies, public diplomacy and international communication.

Education

• Ph.D. Annenberg School for Communication, 1993, University of Southern California
• M.A. Communication, 1990, California State University at Los Angeles
• B.A. Communication, 1986, University of Oklahoma

Area of Research Interest

Dr. Kluver was recently principal investigator on an analysis of global media coverage of the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election, which was published as the Global Media and Strategic Narratives of Contested Democracy: Chinese, Russian, and Arabic Media Narratives of the US Presidential Election(Routledge, 2019).

Additionally, he was the founder and Executive Director of the Singapore Internet Research Centre, located at Nanyang Technological University, and one of the principal investigators of the groundbreaking international analysis of the use of the Internet in elections around the world, The Internet and National Elections: a Comparative Study of Web Campaigning (Routledge, 2007).

Dr. Kluver received the Fallon-Marshall Award for outstanding research in the College of Liberal Arts at Texas A&M for his work on the geopolitics of new media. Dr. Kluver’s book Civic Discourse, Civil Society, and Chinese Communities won the Outstanding Book Award from the International and Intercultural Division of the National Communication Association in 2000. His essay “The Logic of New Media in International Relations” received the 2003 Walter Benjamin Award from the Media Ecology Association as the outstanding research article in media ecology. As a faculty member or administrator, he has served as principal investigator or co-principal investigator for approximately $10 million.

He continues to do research on media, new media, and geopolitics.